Man, at 55 I will be still running ironman’s… Hopefully. And trails. Let’s keep arthritis for the 70’s, shall we?

Well, only “real” modems… Those amazing piece of crap that offloaded hardware to the windows driver where… Questionable.

And they started appearing around windows 95/98.

Ah, Linux from scratch…

Also, hardware was… Harder back then, on Linux (mostly modems).

Beside that, software wise there was less stuff on Linux than today, so you had to check carefully you had what you needed.

But I was already a Linux user, and a linux-only user at that.

I honestly like them. Those that “stay open”, of course… They just stay out of the way, never get lost, and works pretty nice.

At first I disliked them, but quickly found out they are actually… Very practical. Even not considering the “green” twist, why didn’t we adopted them before?

Last few years we have been booking vacations when we have big race events, to put 1 and 1 together and save money. So 1 year in advance (that’s when ironmans registrations opens up).

Back when we where only traveling, usually from Feb/march for august. Go get best deals and low tickets.

We need to teach people, like in school, the basics of nutrition.

That will go a long way.

Agreed and big thumbs up for Gentoo. Our distro never gets enough love!

I want to go directly to the source, i mean, if i want to resolve, for example www.polito.it, i want to ask “it”, then “polito.it”… This is what Unbound should be doing.

Instead, i can resolve it:

server /etc # dig it @127.0.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.16.48 <<>> it @127.0.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59860
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;it.                            IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
it.                     3194    IN      SOA     dns.nic.it. hostmaster.nic.it. 2024062114 10800 900 604800 3600

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 21 14:50:06 CEST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 86

Instead i cannot resolve polito.it:

server /etc # dig polito.it @127.0.0.1

; <<>> DiG 9.16.48 <<>> polito.it @127.0.0.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 60832
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;polito.it.                     IN      A

;; Query time: 1180 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 21 14:50:40 CEST 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 38

Nothing appears in the logs. It resolve fine using 8.8.8.8 as upstream DNS.

I have followed this guide, but still no way. “it” is resolved, but “polito.it” does not resolve, for example.

Some notes: Don’t use GPU to reencode you will lose quality.

Don’t worry for long encoding times, specially if the objective is long term storage.

Power consumption might be significant. I run mine what the sun shine and my photovoltaic picks up the tab.

And go AV1, open source and seems pretty committed to by the big players. Much more than h265.