My state is on here but it’s not my district rep. But fuck them anyway.

Ente and Immich are great for photos, although Immich is meant to be self-hosted (not sure about Ente). I use mailbox.org + Thunderbird email client and both support pgp encryption for emails, it’s awesome and only cost 12€ a year for the light plan (2G). People like Tuta but it doesn’t support 3rd party mail clients like Thunderbird. Maybe Proton mail.

I have a drive bay attached to my network that I’ve been using as my “GDrive” but I need to do an actual off-site backup location… You can self host Nextcloud for storage. I think I’ll use backblaze as a backup for my immich photos, all the other shit means nothing to me if it blows up cause I’ll just redownload it. You could also just encrypt your files with Cryptomator and then upload the encrypted files to Gdrive.

Yeah, I honestly think that initial “Hey, don’t do this” talk is better in advance. I remember getting my ass whooped for saying “Fuck” as a kid when I literally didn’t know what the word meant and my parent put the video on in the first place.

Educate your kids on what isn’t allowed in the first place. If they do something bad that you didn’t tell them in advance, then explain why the action is bad, not to do it again, and that you will be checking/monitoring for that behavior. Then you can at least be fully justified in any future punishments because you gave a warning.

Punishments for initial mistakes and unknown wrongs just suck, and they kinda stick with you 🫤

I did do a scrub in the past when I had an issue with accidentally pulling the bay power cord a few months ago, but I genuinely forgot to run these weekly. I have no idea what trimming is…

You know, I literally just read about this in my textbook, but I’m trying to cram the last of my classwork for finals so I glossed over it.

Thanks for the reminder, time to set up that PIN…

Ungoogled Chromium my love. I’ve been using them for years now, both on Windows and Linux and I basically have no complaints.

For Android, if on Graphene you already have Vanadium! If not, Cromite is also pretty good since it has built in Ad-blocking.

I try to limit my Proton use to only their VPN, and after their comments I’m trying to decide between switching to AirVPN or doing my own VPN since I need portforwarding for torrenting. I switched from ProtonMail to Mailbox.org a while ago to not keep my eggs in one basket.

I think everyone highlighting the police is correct but also cherrypicking (for lack of a better statement). Like Tuta isn’t gonna go to jail for you either lol. All companies have to cooperate with the government in some form. I do agree that Proton should stop advertising like it won’t or that it’s failproof though. If they really cared, they would make guides on how to use their services in a way that gives little to no information to the police if demanded. And emphasizing that the email isn’t encrypted if the other user isn’t a ProtonMail account or using PGP.

I just went to ebay and goodwill for my tech stuff. Goodwill is a tad annoying though cause their online shop is literally only bids, so have fun watching the price shot up in the last few days.

Or set up a listenbrainz.org account to get weekly recommendation playlist, check the accounts of people who listen to similar artists, and click through those addictive spider web charts that show you a bunch of artists who are similar to the one you’re listening to.

There’s also Rate Your Music, which I don’t have an account at but it still seems pretty good.

Yeah, I’m pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don’t have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.

It’s privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?

Yeah, I got 4 used 2TB hard drives on Amazon back in early 2024 with a $100 gift card and still had a few bucks left over, and now I see that you basically can’t find a single 2TB drive lower than $70…

I wish I started my homelab sooner…

My takeout had everything, even random shit I should’ve deleted forever ago lol. I’d just check for the most important pics (weddings, vacations, etc.) that you would actually be devestated to lose. You can always wait a month or so before deleting to verify your media transferred fine.

Really weird, I’ve never had a takeout download limit or issue; does it fail on both .tgz and .zip versions? Maybe try just outright downloading a few batches of pics at a time and then uploading them to Immich.

Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.

Here’s the guide I followed.

Yeah, but at least it’ll all be outdated and nothing new is added. And hey, maybe in the future we could get laws that force them to delete anything older than a certain date. Would leaving them there be any better?

Anki + Yomitan is the goat. Download some dictionaries of your target language, load them into Yomitan, and now you can search words on any website with selectable text and instantly make a flashcard out of the word. Watching a video in browser? Use asbplayer to load subtitles onto the video/movie and select the text from that too. Wanna watch not in browser? Use mpvacious with mpv.

Find yourself a card format you like and some cute addons (I use Ankimon [Pokemon]) for Anki so you don’t fall into that “it looks so dull!” trap because the SRS system it uses is no joke. I have years old vocab on there that I still remember, and medical students aren’t joking when they say it saved them.

I just love this app so much.

Short 8 min video of actually reading the Privacy Policy:

https://youtu.be/RJR59AGsO10

Alright, I already transfered the pics to my Immich a month ago anyway, time to delete my shit outright…

I’m asking as a genuine question, where or how should people backup large datastores? Also what counts as too large? I’ve heard Backblaze doesn’t cover NAS so i wouldn’t be able to backup my 2TB zfs RAID, but like is that too much?

I want to do 3-2-1 for my homelab to preserve all pictures in my immich and the backups of my LXCs and VMs, but I’m just not sure how to go about it, and I was considering archives of those files + backblaze…

What I want to do is set up an Arrstack, and I know I need to put Docker and maybe Portainer? I have no experience with Docker though.

I used DockSTARTer and TraSH Guides to set up a docker instance running the arr stack in a Debian VM. I still should take the time to learn more about it though.

I also want to put some basic things I and others can access remotely like a shopping list program, photo backups, period tracker, and DnD software. But I’m very afraid of exposing the server to the internet and it being hacked or such. I know there’s something called Tailscale but I’m not sure if that’s what I need.

As of now, it’s pretty much just me accessing my services, but I did use Netbird (similar to Tailscale) to make a VPN to my home network for my friends to access my minecraft server. My setup is jank though, a shared account for all my friends while I have my own. I definitely need to just use another method to host stuff so no account login sharing is being done.

I picked Tailscale to avoid major provider login (Google) and I plan to selfhost it one day…