I have done a similar thing in the past, but to flash firmware onto any device with a certain USB descriptor that gets plugged in. It was a mess of USB hubs and cables, but it worked.

What I did was write a udev rule that checks for the vendor and product id of a newly plugged in device and calls a script when there’s a match. The script then performs the flashing and logs the output.

In your case:

1. dd the source USB to a file (make sure the partition you’re dding is smalled than any target drive
2. Udev rule according to your needs (all the same product or different drives?)
3. Script that dds the file you created earlier back to the newly plugged in drive.

Edit. Did this on a rpi3

This looks promising, but I can’t get it to work.

Wireguard, even though they explicitly mention it in their tutorials, doesn’t have an allow/block list for me, so I can’t allow the proxy network bridge. Curious those settings are gone. Too bad!

Thanks, but not an option.

Much obliged.

I agree, it’s a good solution. Just not worth the downsides for my situation currently.

Really? How does that work? Maybe it’s time to look into Tailscale after all…

Thanks for the ideas. I’ll consider it, although my use case doesn’t really warrant carrying a router around.

Having strong opinions is what Graphene does. 😅

And they do seem to be an authority on all things security, so most of the time I like that about them.

Thanks for the link. I am on Graphene, and if a fellow poster in here is correct that doesn’t help. Bummer.

Dang, also on Graphene…

here’s a thread with official Graphene voices saying it won’t happen (and why)

Right, thanks.

“authentication is not security,” can you elaborate on that?

Your statement doesn’t really overlap with my understanding of security, as “just access” seems critically relevant to how secure user data is, for example. Am I missing something?

EU servers might be worth something to some people, depending on where they are in the world. And while 190% is indeed “way more expensive”, relatively speaking, it’s still “well under” your goal of EUR 2 per month.

I’ve read good things about migadu. Haven’t used it myself.

No harm in giving it a try, but I personally wouldn’t bother with a selfhosted solution for it. Especially if you’re not sure it will work out.

Well, paint me green and call me a pickle. More power to you if it works. 😊

Tangent, unsolicited:

Music lessons over video call, that has to be a real pain. I can’t find it now, but there’s an Adam Neely video where he talks about why online recording sessions can’t work, as transmission latency works against the immediacy needed to play music together. He said it better than I can.

Except if your idea is to play in turns, but then capturing the thing you want to show… Can’t you find another teacher closer to you?

Installing the Jellyfin add on into kodi takes a few minutes. Nothing much to consider, just try it and see if that changes anything.

I have a similar setup (rpi with OSMC, media hosted on file server) and prefer using Jellyfin as the source for all clients, as it keeps track of watched status across everything. It’s not perfect, but better than without Jellyfin.

According to Varoufakis, Europe missed the bus on cloud capital (=big cloud platforms like amazon, meta, twitter,…) and the race is currently playing out between US and China.

It’s going to be powerful by every imperial, too.