@triple But, if you leave them attached to the bicycle at home, then they will be there, unless you are forced to park your bicycle in an unsecure area at home?

@triple Might I suggest that you use lights that have quick release brackets? Leave the lights on the bike, then put them in your bag when you park it.

@cinnamon Thyme essential oil is a powerful antiseptic.

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#Trump

A word of caution: I used the #RaspberryPi OS Installer on Windows to upgrade, and although it is supposed to erase all data on the microSD card, it clearly does not, as when I rebooted the system, /etc/shadow had my old account in it, which password I could not remember.

This should not cause much of a problem, but it's not what's advertised. The Installer should, IMO, format the card before writing the OS image. It also somehow automatically assigned the hostname I gave to the travel pihole.

OK, finally, my Pi 3B is fully updated and reconfigured. I had a few things go wonky, like apparently not typing in the new root password correctly, so I had to boot into single-user mode and do it all over again, but it's now running the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS and Pi-hole.

I hadn't made any major changes to my blocklists since exporting the config when I built the travel Pi-hole last month, so I had the config all ready to import.

Next, I need to update the travel Pi-hole.

Not that the extra speed will really matter that much, it only runs Pi-hole, after all, so running on a 3B with WiFi only (the Ethernet port got taken out in a storm) on a U1 card isn't causing any delays. Really I want to replace the 3B, but it's a low priority item, since it's working just fine. I want to replace it with a 4B and also get a Pi 5 8GB just for tinkering.

OK, rather than buying a new microSD care and waiting for that to be delivered next week, I've shutdown the 3B, pulled the microSD card, changed my DHCP server to give out Quad9 for DNS so I can use my network, and I'm wiping the card and installing the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS (which just came out last week, so it will be newer than what is on my travel 4B Pi-hole).

I really should get a U3 card for the 3B, though. It's on a 16 GB U1 card, but the 3B can go faster than U1.

FML. I upgraded all teh packages on my Pi 3B, rebooted, and went to run "pihole -up", only to discover that Pi-hole no longer supports running on Raspbian 10 (buster). I would have sworn I was running Raspbian 11 (bullseye) on this machine. Now I have to do a complete overhaul of my main Pi-hole system, and I don't feel like it. What a PITA.

My travel Pi-hole system is the Pi 4B, definitely running Raspbian 12 (bookworm), because it's only two months old.

If only I had a spare microSD card...

At some point, I want to replace the Motorola cable modem/router with a plain cable modem unit, and I'll never buy another Motorola combination device again.

But I bought the Motorola 3.5 years ago because I needed to get out from under Comcast's outrageous $10/mo rental fee for their supplied modem/router. The government needs to make that kind of predatory pricing illegal.

Never rent a router from your ISP, it's a complete ripoff scheme.

Because I live in an old rented apartment building, I have no Ethernet cabling between upstairs (where my computers live) and downstairs (where my printers live, not enough power upstairs). My printers have no WiFi, so I am using an old WRT54GL running dd-wrt to bridge between downstairs and my primary WiFi router upstairs, then Ethernet from the WRT54GL to the printers. Add to that my travel WiFi router, and I have four WiFi routers to maintain, already (the WiFi on the Motorola is disabled).

I have a Motorola MG7540 combination cable modem/WiFi router, and that has to be one of the worst purchases I've ever made, because I didn't realize that Motorola gives Comcast 100% control over my router settings.

So, now I have to run a second WiFi router behind that one for my own privacy and security, and if I want to run an open wireless network, I have to get yet another WiFi router, instead of just opening up the Motorola one.

I'm already running too many routers, and don't want more.

Now that I'm home from after a few weeks on the road, I've finally got around to checking all my home network infrastructure and torrent server for software and firmware updates. All software on my NAS is updated, and my torrent server is now updated with the latest LibreOffice and Raspberry Pi OS packages. Now I have to upgrade my Pi 3B and Pi 4B Pi-hole servers.

I was thinking of opening my WiFi router as an openwireless.org router, but it turns out Motorola won't let me have an open network.

@fmhilton I'm just fine with the fediverse alternative, bookwyrm. No need for yet another "owned" company solution, no matter if it's a Black woman owned company.

We need to take care of the poor rich folks. They just need, "a little more".

𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲

Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as #FreeSoftware under a #FOSS licence? If it is public money, it should be public code as well!

🖥️ https://publiccode.eu/

📺 https://media.fsfe.org/w/7cH6EATpmPwaMsEZN8vfyj

@lilithsaintcrow But maybe don't write books about women who "fall in love" with their rapists?

"Rep. Mace’s claims that she supports protecting women and girls conflict with her public stance with her own colleagues accused of rape and assault. Rep. Mace has endorsed the nomination of her former House colleague Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, despite accusations that Gaetz had sex with underage girls ..." https://glaad.org/releases/glaad-statement-mace-mcbride-disinformation/

In case you haven't realized this yet, the men dressed in armor are never the champions of the plebiscite.