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  • If you’re not getting 100% full strength signal, it is literally unwatchable.

    It depends… Sometimes it’s terrible, while other times even low signal strength is fine. I only get around 65% signal strength and 75% signal quality for one channel (ABC, I think?), and it still works fine with no stuttering.

    I use a HDHomeRun TV tuner, so I can place the antenna where I get the best signal, and the HDHomeRun transmits it over my LAN.




  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhere are you running your wireguard endpoint?
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    Both of those documents agree with me? RedHat are just using the terms “client” and “server” to make it easier for people to understand, but they explicitly say that all hosts are “peers”.

    Note that all hosts that participate in a WireGuard VPN are peers. This documentation uses the terms client to describe hosts that establish a connection and server to describe the host with the fixed hostname or IP address that the clients connect to and, optionally, route all traffic through this server.

    Everything else is a client of that server because they can’t independently do much else in this configuration.

    All you need to do is add an extra peer to the WireGuard config on any one of the “clients”, and it’s no longer just a client, and can connect directly to that peer without using the “server”.


  • dan@upvote.autoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWhere are you running your wireguard endpoint?
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    There’s no such thing as a client or server with Wireguard. All systems with Wireguard installed are “nodes”. Wireguard is peer-to-peer, not client-server.

    You can configure nftables rules to route through a particular node, but that doesn’t really make it a server. You could configure all nodes to allow routing traffic through them if you wanted to.

    If you run Wireguard on every device, you can configure a mesh VPN, where every device can directly reach any other device, without needing to route through an intermediary node. This is essentially what Tailscale does.


  • you can also do the exact same thing with any other HikVision camera too

    Most people that install security cameras don’t directly connect them to the internet like this. A company that’s installing them at scale should be aware of this.

    using default credentials

    Modern Hikvision and Dahua cameras don’t have a default password. They require you to set a strong password during initial setup.

    In general, a lot of electronics have moved away from generic default passwords, as many jurisdictions ban them now. Any modern device should either require you to set the password during initial setup, or have a randomly-generated password printed on a sticker under the device.

    The device you found was either a very old one, or one where the owner intentionally set a basic password.



  • /var holds log files

    Not just log files, but any variable/dynamic data used by packages installed on the system: caches, databases (like /var/lib/mysql for MySQL), Docker volumes, etc.

    Traditionally, /var and /home are parts of a Linux server that use the most disk space, which is why they used to almost always be separate partitions.

    Also /tmp is often a RAM disk (tmpfs mount) these days.




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    I was using LibreOffice Calc on my work PC with a Threadripper CPU, and somehow it still chugs at times. Scrolling was very laggy with larger spreadsheets for example. I ended up using Google Sheets instead, which is way more responsive for me. If it was for personal use, I’d probably try IronCalc.