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mbirth,

Also: SpotNet (with e.g. SpotWeb as a client)

mbirth,

What you suggest sounds a lot like the “Briefcase” that was in Windows 9x. I don’t know of something similar, especially not something integrated into Linux.

The easiest way might be to setup SyncThing to share all of your different folders and then subscribe to those you need on your laptop. Just be aware that if you delete a file on your laptop it will also be deleted on your desktop on the next sync. Unsubscribe from the folder first before freeing up the disk space.

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Well, it works fine to find relatives. But it’s sad if you then find out those relatives have absolutely no idea of their heritage so you won’t find out how you’re connected.

But it’s nice to upload the data to Promethease and see what kind of diseases may await you in the future.

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I believe it’s often because nobody does their own website anymore but instead uses managed services, e.g. Medium. Or bits of information, that would’ve been worth a blog post some while ago, end up on sites like StackOverflow, Reddit, etc… And once these services want to monetise these contents, they usually start with limiting public access.

And OTOH TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts are doing everything they can to further limit people’s attention spans and get them addicted to those services. So the people capable of and/or interested in producing proper “content” are dwindling, too.

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This! Wipr on phone and Mac. Pi-Hole in my home network.

And for annoyances there’s also Consent-O-Matic and SponsorBlock installed.

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Especially gas-powered as they can then rev them all the time, raising the annoyance to completely new levels.

How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?

Hello, I’m relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I’m now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I’m exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I’ve noticed that prices vary based on the specific...

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Apart from the SMR vs. CMR, if your NAS will run 24/7 you need to make sure to use 24/7 capable drives or find a way to flash a 24/7-specific firmware/setting to a consumer drive. Normal consumer drives (e.g. WD Green) tend to have a lot of energy saving features, e.g. they park the drive heads after a few seconds of inactivity. This isn’t a problem with normal use as an external drive that only gets connected once in a while. But in a 24/7 NAS the drive will wake up lots of times and park again, wake up, park again … and these cycles kill the drive pretty fast.

truenas.com/…/hacking-wd-greens-and-reds-with-wdi…

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I think that already happened and was called “The Fappening”. You can still find it with Google.

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It’s a shame these never took off. I’d love for my various USB drives to have displays that show their labels and maybe even contents.

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Same here. Like “Cold! Look elsewhere…” 🤣

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What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware? Also, they could be made so that there’s a simple API (like a serial device exposed via USB) and apps for Win/macOS/Linux to update the label. But I guess the demand was never there.

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Put your SSD into this case and enjoy proper CD/DVD/BluRay emulation, multiple VHDs and much more.

EDIT: Not an ad, @Okus . Just the only case that has all these features. And it’s no affiliate link, so I don’t even get anything if somebody clicks on it.

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Check out the Victorinox @work series - so you can have your USB and screwdrivers always with you.

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You could’ve just looked at Greg’s Wikipedia entry.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

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Money. It’s much better if you can sell the same thing over and over again.

Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction

Hey hello, self-hosting noob here. I just want to know if anyone would know a good way to host my writing. Something akin to those webcomic sites, except for writing. Multiple stories with their own “sections” (?) and a chapter selection for each. Maybe a home page or profile page to just briefly detail myself or whatever, I...

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Sounds like GitHub Pages.

Apart from that, I like GRAV for small website projects. It works completely without a database (or in other words: it uses the filesystem as the database that it basically is) and backups/restores are simple copying everything to the right place.

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Apart from all the online tools there are also offline website builders like blocs (macOS/iPad - but there are similar tools for Windows as well) that let you design your website and will spit out the files you then just need to upload to any provider of your liking. It’s basically a WYSIWYG static site generator.

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In a previous job we had a tool where you could export data to PDFs using JasperSoft. There’s JasperSoft Studio to design these reports. It’s basically drag&drop of the different types of boxes and fields onto your virtual page, give them the right names and the application will then fill in these boxes and fields and generate your PDF.

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The template design is basically no code, IIRC. (But still complex.) Not sure about the code to use that template, though.

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What’s the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

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Rather use dd_rescue as it’ll retry if it encounters any reading issue.

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This! My 32” 4K display is great for the screen estate. I’ve learned I can work much better with one large display than with 2-3 separate 1080p/1200p displays.

But on my 40” TV I couldn’t care less about it being “only” 1080p. That’s more than enough.

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Maybe they delete enough code to be able to give us a third “theme”.

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I’ve started on EE PAYG at £15 per 30 days(!) (because I didn’t want to hold back with using data when out and about) and 2 months later got a call from them and they offered me a post-paid contract at a great price. I’m now paying £12.70 pcm for the same plus the benefits from being in a contract.

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YaCy?

There’s also another SearX-like one called websurfx - albeit still in its early days.

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