I was hoping it would be rained out.

I have a tech illiterate mother in law who I switched to Zorin OS (an Ubuntu fork).

I installed a wireguard VPN client on her laptop and did drills over the course of 3 days to make sure that she understood how to connect. Anytime she needs help, I can tunnel through my wireguard server and log on with my own account - Heck, as long as she doesn’t change her password, I can log on as her as well.

That has made remote troubleshooting significantly easier as she is located about a a 23-hour drive away.

Okay, then I’m thinking your router/NAT maybe causing the problem. Typically, your ISP won’t block subdomains for dns, they may outright block Source NAT (SNAT), but if you could get through via the IP, you should be good to go.

An easy way to check is to visit a site like this and check for port 443: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/. You don’t need to be on the server that’s hosting your portfolio, just any thing that’s on the same network as your portfolio (something behind your external router)

Just to make sure.

1. When on your home network, doing nslookup (or similar), your fqdn resolves to your public IP
2. When on a hotspot, if you go to https://fqdn/ it does not connect (probably with the ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT that you mentioned below)
3. When on hotspot, if you to telnet to port 443 on 206.x.x.x, it connects

What happens if you, on the hotspot, try browsing to https://206.x.x.x? When you are on the same network as the portfolio, can you reach https://[internal ip]?

What I’m leaning towards is a router/firewall that may be causing some issues. To help with troubleshooting, does your website server have any local firewalls (for ubuntu that would typically be ufw, but it could be iptables or firewalld)?

Try this command from a terminal on the system from which you’re attempting to connect:

nslookup <yourfqdn>

It should come back with something like this:

~ ❯ nslookup stronk.bond
Server:         127.0.0.53
Address:        127.0.0.53#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   stronk.bond
Address: 172.67.174.80

If it says something like “can’t find” that means that your dns isn’t configured appropriately. Does your IP address start with 192.168, 10., or 172.? That would be a private IP address (something which isn’t accessible from the internet.

Oh! And where is everything - is your workstation/laptop on the same network as your portfolio? Is the portfolio on a different network? That could effect things as well.

What does your nginx config look like for ssl? It should specify a certificate and key file - that certificate subject needs to match your fully qualified domain name (fqdn). Certificate can have subject alternative names (SAN) for other names and even IP addresses.

For instance, you could have a single certificate for foo.bar with a SAN for just foo and an IP SAN for 192.168.1.30.

Certificates also need to be signed by a certificate authority (CA), and in order for your browser to visit https://foo.bar/ without a warning your browser must trust that CA.

If you did a self signed cert, this is most likely the problem you’re running into.

It’s important to know that your communication is still encrypted because of SSL, but since your browser doesn’t trust the CA (or the subject doesn’t match the FQDN) the browser will say it’s not secure.

Yep, it’s official. They released it to let everyone know of a super limited edition of More songs about buildings and food.

https://store.talkingheadsofficial.com/products/more-songs-about-buildings-and-food-super-deluxe-editionstore-exclusive-4lp-4-7

God that picture of Barron in the article. What fucking teenager goes into a hairstylist and says, “give me the Gordon gecko”?

Edit: deleting most of my comment because it’s a duplicate from the person who answered hours ago, leaving my indexers comment.

Something that you didn’t mention, but needs addressing - indexers. Yes, there are free indexers but they’re often capped at a certain number of grabs per day. Expect to pay for access to these as well - but some have lifetime memberships at a reasonable price. Get more than one and sabnzbd can prioritize by user-assigned weight. (By the way,these are typically what gets hit by content protection/LE). Indexers provide the nzb files that tell you download client where in the providers’ server to find the download bits/bytes.

The *arr stack works wonderfully with Usenet, I think if you go this route, you’ll be surprised how little you have to fall back to torrents.

I came here for the bicycle from scratch instructions.

How hard is it to get into welding if your day job has nothing to do with it? Are there like… classes or something? Is there a setup like an easy bake oven, but for welding?

My only experience with “heat up a thing until it flows, then use molten thing to join two parts” is some soldering of electronics.

Oh there’s definitely some elder gods involved with programming when I do it.

Yeah, well, about that. https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/24a966.html (note this is a preliminary injunction to allow Trump to fire democrat members of a Congressionally appointed bi-partision governing body - just like the Fed).

From the dissent:

The majority closes today’s order by stating, out of the blue, that it has no bearing on “the constitutionality of for-cause removal protections” for members of the Federal Reserve Board or Open Market Committee. Ante, at 2. I am glad to hear it, and do not doubt the majority’s intention to avoid imperiling the Fed. But then, today’s order poses a puzzle. For the Federal Reserve’s independence rests on the same constitutional and analytic foundations as that of the NLRB, MSPB, FTC, FCC, and so on—which is to say it rests largely on Humphrey’s.

The whole opinion (PDF link) is worth reading, but basically SCOTUS just gave a green light to fire independent board members without cause. The Fed absolutely is in danger, even if the majority of the court thinks that for some magical reason the same legal basis that allows the termination of National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) doesn’t apply.

There’s a great podcast, Main Justice that goes into this better than I possibly can.

Not trying to be difficult, but that’s what get-member is for - it’ll dump all the properties for a given object.

I get it - it’s way different from bash - speaking as someone who has been using Linux since Debian Hamm. Side note, net installers over dialup really sucked.

I was originally forced to use powershell when I joined up with a virtualization team for work and they used PowerCLI.

It was bonkers how easy it was to get reproducible scripts bundled up for the more junior engineers.

The idea with powershell isn’t to be a text parser - so grep doesn’t really work. When you pass things through pipes, it’s a full object with multiple properties, and those you can filter with either simple expressions like select-object [-property] or with more complex expressions: https://4sysops.com/archives/add-a-calculated-property-with-select-object-in-powershell/

We were visiting for about a week and I think it took three separate days, about 20 minutes each day before she felt comfortable doing the VPN stuff herself.

It was definitely painful, but if you’re patient, it’s doable.

Good luck with whichever option you choose!

Speaking as someone who has recently taken on a far-remote (e.g. about 22 hour drive away) support for a MIL, the best thing you could do is set up a VPN.

1. It works both ways (typically) so you can easily remote in to their system when they’re on the VPN for updates/troubleshooting
2. it minimizes the hardware “on-site” at their location
3. Depending on your VPN client, it can have an easy to use GUI, further lowering the barrier if your remote person is tech-inept

For me, I’m still on Plex with a very old lifetime account with my MIL using a dedicated user account - that access is over the Internet. The VPN is to provide access to Overseerr so that she can do things like request specific movies/TV shows without having to email/call.

It’s not perfect - one day I woke up to 26 seasons of “Into the Country”, but it works fairly well.

I sat down with her one day while visiting about a year or so ago and walked her through connecting to the VPN, then getting to the hosted site, then disconnecting from the VPN - basically running drills and making her take notes until she felt she could do it by herself.

It’s typically stylized mRemoteNG.

No, see, if we just give it all the energy, burn our skies and boil our oceans to make AI better, then it’ll for sure tell us how to unfuck everything.

/S

I get what you’re saying, but the problem is that AI seems to need way more hand holding and double checking before it can be considered ready for deployment.

I’ve used copilot for Ansible/Terraform code and 40-50% of the time it’s just… wrong. It looks right, but it won’t actually function.

For easy, entry programs it’s fine, but I wouldn’t (and don’t) let it near complex projects.