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  • Should be fine, just don’t cheap out on the external drive / cable you will be using. And when you’re using something like smartctl you’ll know right away if SMART info is passing through your USB for proper testing.

    I’ve done a lot of these type of scans via USB drives, honestly the more annoying part is that some USB drives do wonky things like go into sleep mode within 1-5 minutes which will disrupt any sort of scanning you had going. So with USB drive scanning I usually implement something to keep the drive alive and awake e.g. a simple infinite loop script to write a file every x seconds, or if you’re on windows you can also use KeepAliveHD.


  • is there anything you would recommend?

    You’d need to donate via whatever means they accept donations, it’s not something you get to choose yourself. Unless you meant that you are going to keep contacting FOSS projects to ask them to set up new donation methods?

    Personally I donate via crypto or other means that they allow donations via credit card (Liberapay / Ko-Fi work well IMO) . No Paypal/Venmo since I can’t use those services - some FOSS projects I don’t donate at all if they only accept Paypal.


  • Not sure if it fits what you’re looking for but I usually use YUMI for multi boot situations, can’t recall it giving me any issues over the years. But I don’t do anything overly complex either.

    Never had the need to use Ventoy myself so can’t really give a good comparison but maybe others have used both & can give a better review.

    PS - For what it’s worth my basic toolkit is YUMI with https://www.system-rescue.org and https://www.memtest.org, that alone covers the vast majority of my diagnostics/rescue situations. But I’ve also added Windows 10 ISO onto the multi boot on occasion which could be useful for getting to a Windows prompt with Windows tools when needed - though I have a habit of keeping Windows on its own USB via https://rufus.ie




  • Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. https://file.pizza or similar.

    If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn’t have to worry about this).

    If you’re doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/





  • Just to be sure, did you download some strange version of the .iso from some non-official source? Or did you modify your Windows install in some way?

    And you’re definitely selecting to install Windows 10 Pro, not something else?

    I assumed you downloaded the generic .iso direct from Microsoft at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 like most people do. (you can use the browser trick to get the page to give you .iso download options e.g. in Chrome I just hit F12, set the dimensions to something mobile looking, hit F5 to refresh the page, then go ahead & download the .iso)

    The generic .iso is indeed a multi with the download option named “Windows 10 (multi-edition ISO)”, that itself doesn’t affect any of the steps above.

    Then just use Rufus or similar to create a bootable USB with it.




  • Hmm on the last few installs I’ve done (both Win 10 and 11) I just lead the installation to believe I’ll be doing a corporate/domain install & it always lets me create a normal user/password after that. Not necessary to unplug any ethernet/internet or anything of the sort.

    It’s always worked for me both at work and at home.

    Just to be sure, I spun up a virtual machine to install Windows 10 22H2, here are the steps I went through:

    1. Boot into the Windows 10 installer, jump into the installer & run through all the initial install steps until we get to the OOBE (Windows 10 out-of-box-experience post installer)
    2. Select your Region, click Yes
    3. Select your Keyboard Layout, click Yes
    4. Skip Second Keyboard Layout (unless you want one)
    5. Let it keep going, it might restart (mine did)
    6. At the Account screen select Set Up For An Organization then click Next
    7. At the “Sign In With Microsoft” screen select “Domain join instead”
    8. At the “What name do you want to use?” screen enter your new Windows user account name and click Next
    9. At the Password screen enter a password for your Windows user account and click Next
    10. Re-enter your password and click Next
    11. Set up a security question/answer - Or do like I do & fake them all e.g. select a security question then enter random gibberish alphanumeric text - and click Next
    12. (do the same for all 3 security questions)
    13. Select your Privacy settings then click Accept
    14. Accept or skip any customizations you want (I usually Skip)
    15. For Cortana you can click “Not Now” or “Accept” up to you

    Done! You now installed Windows 10 Pro without a Microsoft Account.


  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPiracy@lemmy.mlRarbg is back up
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    10 months ago

    Misleading, rarbg.to still has the same shutdown message. The owners of rarbg would still have access to their own domain - if they intend to update it with any news they could.

    Any other pretend rarbg domain is going to be some copycat site trying to coast on the rarbg brand. Just like the copycat KAT sites that are around now, KAT itself is long gone too.


  • and opened port 587 in my router

    Agreed with the other comment, you definitely don’t need or want to do that on your end. Note that your self hosted instance is trying to establish an outgoing connection with a random port to port 587 at wherever your hosted email is e.g. yourdockeripaddress:randomport --> mydomain.com.au:587

    I don’t have Bitwarden self hosted so can’t offer much advice on a solution but…

    I’ve also tried to connect with my gmail but no luck. When I try to verify my email I just get “An unhandled server error has occurred”

    This makes me think there’s something off with your environment, or the Bitwarden instance itself. Is there a way for you to verify that you can actually use those SMTP servers outside of Bitwarden? This sounds silly but in the past I’ve done a test installation of an email client with ability to connect to 3rd party SMTP servers e.g. Thunderbird just to verify my own internet connection can actually initiate an SMTP connection to an external server. You want to at least rule out that the hosted email server isn’t blocking you and/or have some over-active firewall on your end blocking things.

    This is all in the absence of more verbose logging (not sure if Docker or Bitwarden can give you that, something worth checking).


  • However, the server doesn’t have the best power consumption, so I’d like to use WoL to remotely turn it on.

    When you say remotely you mean over the internet, right? Or did you mean remotely within the same LAN e.g. from your living room or wherever.

    By default WOL doesn’t work over the internet AFAIK. The wikipedia page mentions it a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Subnet_directed_broadcasts

    Like others said you may be able to get that going with a VPN or anything VPN-like that allows broadcasts between connected systems. Or if your motherboard supports IPMI / IMM you should be able to connect to the system & perform power functions that way.

    In my case my motherboard doesn’t have those sort of management functions so in the end I settled on logging into my router remotely & initiated WOL through there. That could be another option for you if your network router is capable of sending WOL packets to the LAN.

    However, the server doesn’t have the best power consumption, so I’d like to use WoL to remotely turn it on.