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(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Joined November 12, 2022

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#Nature #Photography #3dPrinting #Tinkering

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All original media posted is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot · Jun 30, 2026

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot

(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Replying to @jimmyb@selfhosted.cafe

@jimmyb@selfhosted.cafe Hahaha, that's the toot that put netbird on my radar. I knew of it from a while back but was amazed to see what it's grown into, at the minute it looks like that is what I'll be going with. Probably on a hetzner VPS in P2P mode with my services I host.

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot · Jun 30, 2026

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot

(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Hey #homelab & #selfhost crowd, my setup is stable enough and has worked for years but it's probably not the most secure and I'm thinking about moving away from a local reverse proxy for the services I want to expose and going with a #pangolin or #netbird setup for all my home network anywhere needs. Has anyone made the switch, which one did you go with and was there any pitfalls?

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot · May 09, 2026

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot

(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Replying to @petealexharris@mastodon.scot

@petealexharris@mastodon.scot Yeah, I was braced for a bad day but slept well last night when the final count was in.

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot · Apr 28, 2026

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot

(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Replying to @welshpixie@mastodon.art

@welshpixie@mastodon.art Yeah I wouldn't bother with the big tank one, they tend to degrade faster than normal inkjets and the other two is basically is you want a bigger standard paper slot or not. You'll not have any issues with either on a up to date linux system, you can either use the provided linux drivers, brother make them for both debian based (.deb) and red hat based (.rpm) systems or use airprint, I always just go airprint as it works fine and cuts out most upsell crap printer drivers do.

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot · Apr 28, 2026

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@sp4rkr4t@mastodon.scot

(he/him) Crieff, nature, photography, tech. Oh and trying to find ways to pay the bills and hopefully not burn the planet while dealing with chronic illness. #NoBots

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Replying to @welshpixie@mastodon.art

@welshpixie@mastodon.art Brother is definitely the way to go, color laser is probably not a good fit for your needs but they do make a rather spanky colour inkjet that even does A3, the mfc-j5740dw. If you don't need A3 the next model down will save a bunch of cash and is the DCP-J1360DW, they can all do duplex and all use airprint so no drivers needed on a modern linux system.

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