Posts by Telesphoreo

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  • Google Photos

    So basically Google Photos ended their unlimited free storage for all devices. I'm pretty sure it still applies to newer Pixels to an extent. However, Google is still offering unlimited original storage for the original Pixel phones. That used to be my daily driver and it still works. I'm wondering what's the best way to transfer all the photos from my current iPhone to my Pixel so I can back them up from the Pixel and still get unlimited storage. I know this works as I've done it many times with my DSLR and a USB C to SD Card reader but I have no idea what's the best way for an iPhone since they don't exactly come with external storage

  • 1.17

    Theoretically viaversion could be added for temporary support just for 1.17 clients and only that. the more versions you add the more exploits and weird bugs you open up. it might not even be worthwhile to add viaversion to the server as of now as I don't even think waterfall has a 1.17 version yet

  • What tier iMac should I get?

    @DragonSlayer2189#19719 Boot Camp does not work with the M1. I would recommend getting 512GB of storage rather than 256GB if you intend on keeping it a long time. 256GB might work if you're 100% reliant on external drives but I prefer to use the speed of the internal drive to my advantage. I will usually offload large projects when I am done with them rather than work on an external drive all the time. Same with 16GB of RAM. As Steven said, nothing can be upgraded on M1 machines. At a minimum, just get the one with 4 USB C ports, you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot if you don't

  • What tier iMac should I get?

    @Madea#19666 So are you interested in buying a M1 24 inch or the 27 inch Intel one? The only thing I can tell you is the M1 model that's $200 more has better thermals. That's the only actual advice since there's no other options besides RAM and storage

  • What tier iMac should I get?

    If you are getting the M1, you should get the one that's $200 more. The cheapest one has reduced thermals and has shown to not have as good performance. Also, with the M1 you cannot dual boot, you will have to use Parallels. I have a 16GB with 1TB storage MacBook Air. Highly recommend and that's handled all my needs very well

  • Should I keep pi hole on management vlan?

    So basically I have a pihole at hole for ad blocking. I also have a VPN setup on it that uses 10.66.66.1 (the wireguard local ip) for the DNS servers. So DNS is not port forwarded to the internet. I have pi hole configured to serve requests from anywhere, but since DNS nor the webserver can be accessed locally I don't think that's a problem. The only thing you can access from the outside is the VPN which then uses itself for DNS since they're on the same machine. Are there any security implications by doing it this way?

    Second question is should I have my pi get an IP on the management lan (the Ubiquiti default, where all of the access points and switches are) or the LAN for the network (10.1.0.0/24, where all the normal wifi devices connect)? I don't think there's really any different but what if someone scans it on the network? if it's on a different vlan then it doesn't show up in network scanners like Fing. But I'm wondering if that's an actual issue

    Also the last question is: is it possible to give my pi hole multiple IP addresses? Like for example you can access pi hole on 192.168.1.50 and that's where the DNS and webserver are. But what if I also wanted to use Unbound for DNS? I'm aware with Pi hole you can make Unbound use a different port (like 5335) and tell pi hole to use 127.0.0.1#5335 for DNS. But what about my normal phone or computer which doesn't let you specify a port? How could I make it for example that 192.168.1.100 is a valid DNS server with port 53 alongside 192.168.1.50 with pi hole. All I've seen are really complicated iptables rules but I really don't understand that or think it's what I'm looking for

  • Finally, a good printer

    @Alco_Rs11#19358 These are the two drivers I used

    The scan driver actually does come with the Scan app, my mistake. However, to my knowledge, Windows doesn't come with one built in and HP Smart is actual garbage so I guess it's good they included it for an average user.

    I also installed Event Manager (as above it lets you scan from the printer to the computer) and the Software Update tool to keep the drivers up to date (no, you do not have to install the software update tool)

    This is all that appears in the EPSON folder

    The reason there are two scans is because the old printer uses Scan and the new printer uses Scan 2.

    You can also turn off automatic updates entirely

    In total this is what I have for both Epson printers

  • Lost all 2FA stuff, advice?

    @StevenNL2000#18989 some of them never gave me backup codes (for example, JumpCloud). I did save the ones for OVH in my password manager but no such luck for NameCheap which is arguably really really important. I have no idea where they are now. I've clean installed Windows many times so I've probably lost them

  • Lost all 2FA stuff, advice?

    So much for security. Basically my phone was having a lot of issues so I decided to fully factory reset it. I forgot that 2FA stuff wouldn't transfer over. I was using Google Authenticator. I did make a backup, but it seems to be useless. All the backup does is queue a list of apps to download and doesn't even preserve any of the data. I tried restoring the backup and guess what? It didn't restore anything other than a list of apps to download. No old data from the apps is there and I don't even have photos that should've been backed up. Not worried about the photos as they were already backed up externally, but the 2FA tokens are a disaster. I was able to use SMS verification for a few services, but I'm totally locked out of a few. Is there any way I can salvage the backup I made of my iPhone before restoring it? I made one on my Mac and on my PC (two places to be safe). I might be able to open it in 3uTools maybe. Basically calling the God StevenNL2000 himself.

    Edit: I actually should note that even though the backup was on my phone I restored it on my iPad. I didn't want to accidentally update my phone because it's on a jailbreakable version. I doubt doing it on the phone itself would make a difference, it's just data for the exact same operating system on a different screen size