That's what I use for cron-type things. Experience has been great. I also run it as a watchdog in my alertmanager container, so I am alerted if the alerts are broken.
Any tracker can be turned off if a thief manages to find it - but yeah a notification letting them know they need to look isn’t great.
I use an AirTag on my e-bike - there’s quite a few hidden mounts out there that look like normal rear reflectors or slot in between a water bottle cage and the bike frame. It’s also trivially easy to pop the AirTag open and remove the speaker so it can’t beep.
I bought my AirTags before there were any compatible third party options, but the non-Apple AirTags don’t have the UWB chip inside and don’t support the precision finding feature which would also make them more difficult to find.
I wonder a 3rd party tracker (using Find My network) could fool the iPhone somehow. Maybe if it does 1 minute on, 1 minute off, or something like that?
"It’s always DNS" is basically tongue-in-cheek expression, because DNS issues are so frequently the cause of weird outages.
Almost anything you do on the internet (or local network) depends on DNS functioning correctly. DNS can get complex quickly - multiple servers (caching/authoritative/recursive) and protocols = lots of opportunities for something to be misconfigured. Cached entries in particular can be a nightmare if something gets outdated - it takes time for an update to a DNS record to propagate to all the other DNS servers on the Internet. All kinds of other random services etc depend on DNS records being correct and DNS working. When there’s an issue it’s not always immediately apparent that a DNS problem is the root cause, leading to lots of time chasing your tail/tearing your hair out trying to figure out what the heck broke.
I'd be curious to know what the actual NAS performance is like (IOPS, latency, etc).
Looked into building a DIY NAS a few years ago, but decided to buy (a Synology DS1618+) instead. I'm sure I could've saved a few hundred rolling my own, but having purpose build hardware + commercially supported software is worth the cost if it's data that you care about (versus something like storage for 'linux iso files').
I actually had an issue a few months back where my storage pool suddenly degraded and went read only. Was able to send a full diagnostics/log dump to Synology, and their support engineers took over to diagnose the issue. If I rolled my own, I'd be the one spending hours either figuring it out myself while stressing about losing data, and/or rebuilding entirely from my offsite backup.
I built my own NAS (six drives in a Mini-ATX case) about three years ago. Creating a custom init system and immutable distro on it has been my primary hobby since, and I expect to be finished within another ~two years, by which point the drives will be reaching their life expectancies. On the plus side I'm pretty sure this is a me problem, and that anyone else would have stuck with Proxmox and had their siht together in 3-6 weeks-- but maybe that person would also be the type to prefer a Synology in the first place :p
I'd recommend both routes, but primarily synology unless you know you wanna geek out w/ it
You're probably thinking of Delicious Library (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/11/delicious-library/) - that was such a cool piece of Mac software. I think it worked with the CueCat, but you could also use your Mac's iSight camera as a barcode reader. Even had the satisfying "beep" when you scanned a barcode. Scanning a QR code with a smartphone camera is super commonplace now, but back in 2004 it felt so futuristic.
Agree that the Kasa app is great, but the QC on their hardware is lacking. I bought a four pack, and two of them just refuse to stay connected to my Unifi 6 Pro access points. After a day or two they drop connection and won't reconnect until you unplug/replug them. Timers, etc all stop working and they get stuck in whatever state they were in - even the button on the plug doesn't work.
Zigbee/Z-Wave plugs have been rock solid reliable.
You'd be surprised how popular they are. Certainly they're overpriced, but the noise cancellation/sound/build quality/etc is very good. They've also apparently become something of a celebrity "it" item: https://www.vogue.com/article/are-the-airpods-max-the-latest...
