Notices by Jeff Geerling (geerlingguy@mastodon.social), page 3

A private self-hosted VPN is a superpower #homelab

Product announcements need a 'Skip AI section' button like the 'Skip Intro' button on streaming platforms.

This is an IP KVM. Would you like to know more?

@vkc definitely; they are an essential part of the Internet on so many levels!

@luisfcorreia - Matt Mullenweg took over maintainership of a popular plugin today without the consent of the plugin maintainers: https://twitter.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049

I didn't have the rapid demise of Wordpress on my 2024 bingo card.

St. Louis, MO close to the city lights, still see the #aurora

After being published on my channel for over two years, YouTube put a strike on my channel for my video showing people how to set up Jellyfin on their NAS, for promoting "dangerous or harmful content".

Video was posted here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkY1vTpCJY) and had nothing about bypassing DRM, stealing content, or bypassing subscription services (other than a call to stop using Netflix, Disney+, etc. because they keep jacking up rates while providing less quality).

A Discord is not a substitute for a website. Or a support forum. Or an issue queue.

Or really pretty much anything besides maybe IRC or Matrix if you're not worried about the openness of the chat platform.

I tore down the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Dev Kit—the CoPilot+'est of CoPilot+ PCs. All the gory details on my blog: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-dev-kit-windows-teardown-2024

Update: The CEO of Elecrow responded to my email about the unauthorized voice cloning early this morning.

I will be posting a video with more details and my reaction either tomorrow or Wednesday, but here's a snippet of the email.

They stole my voice with AI

Elecrow—an electronics company that makes Pi and ESP accessories—used an AI voice for multiple tutorial series which sounds _almost exactly_ like me.

I never consented to have my voice used to promote Elecrow's products.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMofZIT9FcQ

"I'M DOING MY PART!" 🫡

Saving the 900 MHz band for @meshtastic and other hobby uses. You can too! https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bname%5D=24-240

I found my ancient MacBook Air (2010 model) in a storage box. Apple doesn't support it... but can it run modern Linux? As it turns out, yes—here's how I resurrected it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0v5s1nEZk

Welp, if the FBI recommends an ad-blocker, who am I to argue? https://ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221 (h/t HN)

Pi-hole is my weapon of choice, here's how I set it up: https://github.com/geerlingguy/internet-pi

What happens when you touch a Pickle to an AM radio tower? https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/what-happens-when-you-touch-pickle-am-radio-tower

Successful deployment earlier this week, videos on pause for a couple weeks so I can help the other kids get to and fro and prep meals while my wife recovers!

(Though might wrap up the latest Geerling Engineering video since it's 95% done!)

@AU it's an annoying side effect of showing off some of these products—most of these companies aren't prepped with thousands of units at launch... many finally catch up though, just takes a month or 12 :/

RISC-V is going mainstream: see how the Milk-V Jupiter Mini ITX board runs as a normal desktop PC, with Ubuntu, Bianbu, and Fedora Linux! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxtFctEsHy0

@nitpicking @vkc Microsoft has taken dark patterns to a whole new level: black hole patterns!