Lots of good advice here, 1st thing I’d advise… speak to your ISP.

You’ll probably need to do some of the other advice here, but then you’ll know the options and if there’s a cost… no point renting a VPS and having to set that up if a static IP is cheaper, and maybe the ISP can tell you that you’re on a /29 and will only have a few IPs to give to the API team…

True, although some are good differentiators, like CISSP.

But, for CEH, it felt like doing a CCNA from 1982

Good point on the branding, I think most of the fees are.going to the marketing dept. not the course content dept.

Yep, partially we see the certs as just differentiators between us and “the others” for our customers.

In reality, we don’t even do half the things needed to get the certs (take CCNA for example… IPv6 still isn’t in use for our customers)

Too many things to do… hence responding to a Wednesday post on Thursday.

Cyber Security burnout is definitely real… I just don’t think I’m there yet…?

Sorry for your loss.

There’s not much that the pixels you’re reading can do, but know that there’s friendly strangers out there.

My partner’s a councellor, so I can just pass on the knowledge that it’s completely natural to have all sorts of emotions, like guilt, anger, sadness about inanimate objects, etc. and it’s all ok.

Yeah, I have 3 Ruckus APs scattered around the house and the devices are on their own SSID which I’ve VLANd off and blocked from the internet… until it’s time to do updates.

The Zeros are in far corners of the house to get a better idea of which location people are with the Bluetooth detection, but in the end I just had to throttle their bandwidth (in the Zeros) and they seem more stable now… hopefully won’t impact you, so it’s just an FYI 🙂

Nice. Did you have to sell a house to afford the parts?

I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…

I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…

So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.

Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better

Ah… nice

Sound proofed… wow… does that also mean heat can’t escape?

Hmmm, ok, I’ll try it again…

And the touchscreen 👍🏻

Playing around with it today, I’ve found Moode works fine…except for the 3.5" touchscreen… it literally turns off the power to the screen (which is showing a CLI login prompt) when I enable the WebUI.

Notneven heard of konstakang, so I’ll check it out.

Nice.

I’ve had a lot of problems with Pi Zero W(2?) falling off the wifi.

Not sure if it’s because I’m using them for bluetooth presence detection, so they’re scanning all day… but it’s put me right off using them for something like music.

YMMV

Yeah, I installed it again yesterday…

Seems really unintuitive after the initial setup steps (which do a good job of walking you through the initial setup), so I did bork it up once.

I think the hardest point for me is that it’s based on Tiny Core Linux, so I can’t install anything else (ie even tmux), so I’m having issues with getting the touchscreen working.

I’ll try Moode today…

Ooh, good point about Home Assistant / Music Assistant… I hadn’t considered that.

I have HA running the house, and really, I just didn’t see the point of Music Assistant when it first came out… maybe worth re-visiting. Not looked to see if that can stream remotely, but I guess it’s possible …

Kindof, if I understand correctly, that’s part of piCorePlayer:

https://docs.picoreplayer.org/components/

TBH, when I tried piCorePlayer a few years ago, it felt like a bunch of things duct-taped together, so I don’t really know which bits were which… maybe I’ll try lyrion separately…

Fuuuukkkk…

Longer uptime than you’d been alive!

I just hope you’ve got backups 🙂

Seriously though, we found an old Dell server at work that hadn’t been rebooted for years.

We knew that it was fine whilst it was running, but the stress of a reboot would finish it off with all those POST fan speed tests, RAID array tests, etc.

We took as much data off it that we thought might be relevant and rebooted it.

1 drive failed immediately. 1 fan must’ve had all the dust as that blew out a cloud during the fullspeed test.

A few days later more drives started failing and it just gradually died.

It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time. 🥲

Nice.

Would this work well as a volume controller?

We’ve got a complex setup and when guests come, they need something simple I can throw at them…