Showroom7561

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Brilliant! That worked!

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was one of the rare times I installed a firmware update without waiting. They even sent an email telling me how urgent it was to get my NAS patched.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To that note, anyone have any idea how to get Hyper Backup to stop telling me that my backups are "partial" because Video Station is no longer found? It's not even on the list of apps, but tells me that it's been disabled as an option to back up because it's not available. Annoying!

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this new version fix the issue where it ends up capturing "choose your country", cookie popups, and generally something NOT intended?

I was having problems like that all the time, so I had to uninstall it.

Compared to something like the FF extension "SingleFile", I wish Linkwarden worked better :(

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

I've been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You'll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

The number one thing that most of these don't do well for me is the connection with banks.

A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn't a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn't support the banks and credit cards i use.

So... I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it's really not.

Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn't terrible.

I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn't be a make-or-break thing.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that's the way tech companies want us to live. I'm not being sarcastic, either.

There's a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This is the type of announcement you'd expect to hear on April 1st. 🤔

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 weeks ago

I dont know if any specific model will be the right answer, but Qualcomm has their Snapdragon event going on right now, and many of the advancements they are touting are specifically for local AI processing.

So, computing power will improve significantly over the next few years, with AI being the largest benefactor.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

They will choose to stop if it doesn't make them money. 😀

But yes, not allowing them to do this in the first place would be a very reasonable thing to fight for.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Floccus is actually just a sync tool, it can also sync with Linkwarden in the latest version.

No way! I just uninstalled Linkwarden because it wasn't working well on too many websites (i.e. it would capture cookie popups or "choose your country" rather than the page I wanted).

Glad to see some cool updates and integration, though.

 

In my persistence to fit Linux in my life, I'm curious if some "must have" Windows software will work better if I just ran a Windows VM within Linux.

None of the software I need to work is needed to work continuously. They are basically programs that I fire up when needed, for a few minutes, then exited.

Wine will install them, but not run them, so I'm hoping a VM is the answer as I'm not interested in dual-booting to run a few Windows programs occasionally.

 

I'll start by saying that I really love Tube Archivist. It works flawlessly in doing what it does (archiving YouTube videos), and the UI and UX are great.

However, no matter what browser I use (Edge, FF, Opera, Samsung mobile, FF mobile, etc...), I run into issues where the video will play, but the interface freezes... I can't do anything on the screen until I refresh.

I don't have it set to any strange codecs, so videos are in vp9. But I also tried a few different codecs to see if the quality/size could be better optimized, and had the same issues with freezing UI then.

If I run the videos through Jellyfin, they work fine. It's only through the TA web interface where things lock up.

Is this normal? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this working better?

 

I've tried a few jellyfin plugins that are supposed to sync metadata and thumbnails from tube archivist, but it's just not working right.

I can see some thumbnails, but then the titles are just random gibberish. Or the titles somewhat work, but no thumbnails.

Any secret I'm missing?

Both are running in docker containers on a synology nas.

 

So, I've had a Raspberry Pi 4 sitting brand new in a box for a few years, and decided to install BirdNetPi on it yesterday.

It's working like a champ, but because BirdNetPi needed a legacy version of Raspian, it's got old software on it.

Is there any way to update the software (i.e. RealVNC) without updating the OS? There is no built-in software updater, and I seem to very easily break Linux every time I make an attempt to use it. LOL

 

Any time saved by ordering online and picking up the order has vanished chasing customer support people to fix something that would have taken a few seconds through their website.

 

Went to order some cat treats and saw that I could get a 25% discount when I sign up for Amazon's subscribe feature.

So I clicked on it and the total in my cart didn't reflect a 25% discount.

When I went back to see what was up, I noticed that the discount went down to 5%.

Unclicking the box will show a 25% discount again...

UPDATE: A commenter mentioned that the text reads "up to 25%", so I went to a different item, added it to my cart and got:

But clicking on that checkbox also brings it back down to 5%.

 

Is this new, or have online accounts never offered the ability to update your email address easily?

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