I've learned my lessons when I got my lifetime deals that scammed me:

* archhosting -- lasted 2 years before it folded

* zoolz -- changed their mind 3 years after their lifetime deal, and forced everyone to go to their paid plan.

I bought Pixelmator nearly a decade ago for my Mac, when I needed a decent image/photo editor. I hope they make Pixelmator free, as mac definitely needs a good default image editor that is more advanced than Preview.

I bought the first version but skipped out on the last one. I think they'll go the way of Final Cut Pro with this.

The only wiki in Fandom I actually go to is the Vim Tips Wiki (https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Vim_Tips_Wiki). But how did Vim get in a Fandom in the first place? I hate going to Vim Wiki, even though they have good tips not found anywhere, due to all the things that were mentioned in the article. 50-70% of screen real-estate is filled with ads or distractions. I hope that vim will get its own wiki instead.

> But how did Vim get in a Fandom in the first place?

It was created back when Fandom was Wikia, back when it was a good place to host a wiki

Check out BreezeWiki (https://breezewiki.com/). It lets you view any fandom wiki with a much better UI. The Indie Wiki Buddy extension also lets you automatically redirect fandom to BreezeWiki (https://getindie.wiki/)

I recommend [librenms/librenms: Community-based GPL-licensed network monitoring system](https://github.com/librenms/librenms), which is Open source and free.

...and good, too.

In the default mode, all you have to do for configuration is tell it the names or IPs of things to monitor and an SNMP community string. It scans for every tree that it understands, and will rescan occasionally.

Does that mean that it has a library of devices so that it knows what SNMP stuff from them means? (I barely know how SNMP works).

Yes. That's called SNMP MIBs, and LibreNMS has a lot of the standard/well known device MIBs to parse out the details.

https://docs.librenms.org/Support/FAQ/#how-does-librenms-use...

Cool thanks

I'm waiting for next year, when the prices for old (intel 6th gen and below) mini-pc are expected to plummet, due to Windows 10 becoming obsolete. It would be sad to see them becoming e-waste, but hopefully some of us will grab them as they make great linux-based home servers.

Also, I have bought a lot of mini-pc and those with Intel 6th gen CPU seems to offer the best bang for bucks, at least for my needs. (I don't really need powerful system, since I"m mostly using them for dedicated obs streaming or light video encoding or homeassistant).

I think HN readers are missing the point. It's not about the money, or opportunity to (or lack of) make living off a blue collar job today.

Here's what I got from reading this article. No job is beneath me. I once scoffed at an opportunity to work at a supermarket when I was between employment. But looking back, maybe I should have. I believe strongly that everyone should work at least once in their lifetime to work at menial/low-level job. I think working at menial jobs like in retail when I was young helped me a lot, even though I didn't realize it at that moment. By working at minimum wage jobs at restaurant, retail, etc..., I've learned to respect others, no matter what they do for living, like a janitor or truck driver or a fastfood worker.

Also there is something about physical labor and working with your bare hands that makes me feel so alive and fulfilled.Perhaps, I am wired and built to work on physical things. Even as an old guy, since I started fixing physical things like broken toilet, or making physical things, even if it's just assembling Ikea furnitures, or tinkering with hardware, I feel more well and alive compared to when I'd been working as a dev. Maybe that is why some of high-level tech workers leave their high-paying career to work at a farm or become a truck driver.

Closed source binary firmware? No thanks. I probably would not deploy it for a server with sensitive data, but if it was really really cheap, it might be ok for air-gapped system for testing servers, but other than that, I'm not sure.

Shouldn't be hard to make opensource one. CSI capture under Linux is fairly simple with v4l2 API, SG2002 SoC has HW accelerated JPEG codec, and that's exposed as mem2mem v4l2 API too, usually. USB HID gadget emulation is fairly easy under Linux, too, via /dev/hidg# device. It's basically just shuffling some buffers around in userspace in video->net direction, and translating between browser input events and HID in the other direction.

It's probably 2-4 weekends worth of work for someone who already worked with all of this in the past to combine it together and add a basic web interface. (Assumming they will use sophgo's Linux kernel branch and will not try to mainline kernel support, first)

"CSI capture under Linux is fairly simple with v4l2 API" but there have no v4l2 support. I'm the maker of NanoKVM, we also want use PiKVM/openBMC, but bsp sdk don't support V4L2, most IPC SOC SDK use something like MPP API, not V4L2 API. We have to build software from scratch，it takes about 2~3month. Also other community developers have get NanoKVM samples 3month ago to port PiKVM, but still not finished(seems will finished few month later). We want make it as a serious product, not a protype tool. 80% function will finished in 20% time, but rest 20% function/bug need 80% time.

> but bsp sdk don't support V4L2 .... use something like MPP API

Well that sucks then. I hoped it's in similar state like Rockchip, where the required things already work over V4L2 API (in both BSP and upstream).

But that just means that Linux upstreaming will have to come first. I personally don't see why anyone would want to waste time with some random vendor's media API and its quirks when it will get replaced by v4l2 in the future.

To me 20/80 also means that I need 20% of the features of a serious product and prototype is often enough, as long as it's reliable. :)

The main reason I didn't use Authy was that it requested phone number when signing up, and it didn't make any sense to me why they'd need it. Since then, I've been using 2FAS, since there's no personal data that can be leaked.

It's because most of us are curious individuals. I had a lot of interests: coding, playing musical instruments, cars, woodworking, embedded systems, audio/video engineering, etc, but I had to pare it down to just a few after having had several bouts of burnouts. I'd recommend trying 200 interests at a shallow level, and eventually you'll find some of them are more interesting than others. And then start to focus on the few that you really want to pursue, or those that actually move the needle of your ultimate goals in life. I'd recommend the book "The One Thing".

I also have similar data structure for dotfiles... I've been using ~/bin, ~/dotfiles, ~/data, ~/enc (for encrypted files), etc. However, for projects and documents, I use Johnny Decimal system (https://johnnydecimal.com), which works perfectly for my use case. It helps me reduce the decision fatigue of deciding what to name the folder and filenames.