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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • …what support? They barely reply any queries people post in their google groups. If you go there you’ll see most people will try to reach them either due to servers down (the main issue at hand) or login issues which never get fixed (the longest standing issue, better create a different new subdomain) from what I’ve seen. I’ve also tried repeatedly to reach them regarding changing the token access, but with no luck. It’s a free service so I can’t complain, but the only support you actually will get is from other users, and for some scenarios that’s not quite enough.

    EDIT: Oh wow right after posting this I just saw they actually replied regarding the SSO/tokens issue most people have (SSO failed due to the reddit snafu, you end up with just the token and no chance to do any further changes to your account again). This has been an ongoing issue for over two years, I just saw they finally replied (I think for the first time) a couple of weeks ago.



  • Does it matter?

    No, it does not change, but why is this something of concern? The problem is duckdns DOES NOT REPLY providing DNS replies, not to my own servers, but to people outside looking for my servers by typing their address. Duck fails to provide a response to those queries, and users get timeouts. I can frequently replicate this with either dig or nslookup, from different machines, either inside my network or at random connections.

    I managed today to run certbot to register 2 new subdomains that yesterday consistently failed with a long timeout during THE WHOLE DAY. Today the same certbot command on the same server ran straight at the first attempt.

    So…yeah. Unreliable.



















  • Sometimes…and sometimes they have rather good UI. But usually it gets pretty messed up when translated. I’ve found the network speed to be pretty decent for image transfer, even at the inefficient MJPEG format they’re currently using right now. They said they’re working on better encoding. Today I found that the remote keyboard/mouse work on certain desktops, but sometimes stops on text mode or when on BIOS. And then you continue booting, and it works again. Not sure what’s going on with the hardware identifier they’re using…

    So…yeah, once they fix the keyboard/mouse issue, and add the function to remotely load ISOs (not only the ones on its own storage), it’s going to be golden. Since it has SSH, I think in theory you should be able to upload the ISOs remotely using SFTP or similar, but I haven´t tested just yet.


  • Posted on their github. All they have is a Chinese forum. And the wiki is…rough at the moment. Chinese only (not a problem with a translation extension) and a lot of “Todo” sections there. Basically the UI right now has no configuration options, besides “checking for updates” which didn’t tell you which version you’re in anyway. While I was testing I saw the check for updates had a blue dot, so I guess it did manage to reach their servers, and after checking and installing an update…seems that menu had a slight improvement, and now it does say current running version. But that’s it.

    But there’s no denying the huge potential for this tiny device. It’s way cheaper and smaller, and consumes way less power. The physical limitations I can see is the NIC is only 10/100 (no gigabit connection), and no wifi. Everything else is software, which I reckon they’ll be working on.