ArduiNo thanks

they really had to pick the same name as a popular tv show? this isnt going to be confusing at all. why not just go with dark mirror or something similar?

if they do backtrack on this then its too late for me cos the damage is already done. ive got myself some new hardware already i wont be buying anything from them again. i wish them the best of luck though

putting a "backdoor" in secure software is the equivalent of taking a safe and installing a cat flap on the back of it

or if every company in europe that uses MS office stuff donated a few euro every year

they must have cleaned their couches recently

that button placement looks pretty bad. the 3 switches are right where you would be grabbing the phone. the power button looks like its on the opposite side to the volume button so when you go to change the volume (with one hand) youre likely to press the power button by accident.

ive been eyeing up netbird but havnt got around to trying it yet. its fully open source at least, and theyre based in germany is anyone cares about that

yea never liked the term much either.

while we're venting, self-hosting isnt a great term either. it should just be 'hosting' and the 'self' part should be self explanatory because it would be madness to have someone else host it for you!

remote-hosting still has some uses in some cases of course :)

theyre fairly similar as far as i can tell. they both use gnome-terminal so you wouldnt notice any difference there.

mint seems more like a windows 7 style desktop, as in its more compact and meant to be used with a keyboard and mouse. zorin is more like windows 11 where there is more space around everything, which is ideal if you are also using a touchscreen some of the time

im definitely more of a zorin fan anyway. i have it installed on 2 computers, and i have mint on an old computer that i never use, just cos

after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

ive been using floccus for a few years now and no complaints

i havnt tried syncing tabs but i think its an option. what i do have is a one-way sync job for the tabs in each browser so i at least have a backup of them, and each browser has its own file, but i would imagine if you tried to sync the same file between multiple devices it would just get very messy at some point

he was driving by a movie set where they were filmin midgets and got distracted

no. ive skimmed through maybe 2 things overall but thats about it. i use too many apps to be able to audit them all and i dont have the proper skills to audit code anyway, and even if i did i would still have to re-audit after every update or every few years. its just not worth the effort

youre taking a chance whether you use closed or open source software, at least with open source there is the option to look through things yourself, and with a popular project theres going to be a bigger chance of others looking through it

back to the good old days when "self-hosting" wasnt even a term because of course you would be hosting it yourself!

me: "it makes separate networks seem like they are joined together into a single network"

elderly relative: "like a tv network?"

"bypass charging" is becoming a bit more popular now. you see it on some android gaming tablets where it bypasses the battery once a cable is plugged in, which makes sense considering how quickly the battery would run down on those. i think i saw the recent google pixel devices having this feature as well so many it will just be a thing on all phones eventually

i havnt tried it but librera on android has a sync option that uses google drive

https://librera.mobi/...

i think it only does highlighting in pdfs though.

for other things like epubs, you can select text and then bookmark it, you can add in your own notes to the text, but they are mainly used for navigation. when you add a bookmark first, the text is visually highlighted but it goes away as soon as you scroll and i dont know if theres a setting to keep it highlighted

Love/Hate, made in Ireland, 5 seasons, crime drama, gangland type story based in Dublin.

i watched it when it aired but that was 25 years ago so im not sure how it holds up these days. i vaguely remember it being decent enough at the start and then getting better as the seasons went on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAqpPe6m5Y

if it seems daunting, which it is!, maybe it would be a good piont to ask yourself if you really need to run a server and these self hosted web apps in the first place. i did for about 10 years but i realised at some point i didnt need half of it.

if youre planning on having multiple users or want to share one of the services (like real time editing of files or passwords etc) then thats where self hosted stuff makes sense to me, but if not then syncthing can do a lot without needing any complicated setup

keepass is a good example. or note taking apps like jopin or obsidian where the data is store in plain text and where you can choose where the data is stored works great with syncthing

for about a year before i did any self hosted stuff i was running only syncthing on my laptop and phone without any server so its do-able and you can get started right now and worry about getting a server later.

tailscale is a huge help as well and is very easy to setup. say you repurpose an old laptop as a server for now and install whatever services on it, jellyfin for example, you will only be able to access that when you are on your home network but not when you are away, and thats where tailscale comes in. as long as its installed on each device you should be able to connect to your apps/services from anywhere.

basically you can start small and then over the coming months and years as you learn more you will get more confident about moving onto more complicated setups