I think they should consider the word “wages” instead.

Let’s be honest, this is compensation for skilled labour.

Yeah, that was me a couple years ago… I’d read some blogs, watched some yoochoobz and had data going from my NAS to Backblaze… encrypted…so… ok… is it restorable? No idea.

I think the main thing is for you to try doing a test restore of your data before you need to (and you already have a local backup anyway if your test goes wrong)

That will give you a better understanding of the whole process - they might be 100% reliable in storing data which is totally unusable by you because you’ve lost your decryption key, weren’t backing it up correctly, etc (for example).

This must’ve changed as I’ve shucked WD Elements / Book drives and they were normal drives…

So, you’re saying the actual harddrive has a USB chipset onboard and only a USB interface?

When did this start happening?

+1 for TiddlyWiki

I’ve been using it for years for a similar reason.

Each section (Tiddler) that you create in each wiki can be exported as a static HTML file, so if you have tables, etc, then formatting shouldn’t be lost.

I use Firefox with an addon that helps to save changes (not at the desk at the mo, so can’t check the name), but it works well.

… searches for “Futa” on company laptop…

I think others have covered the main points, but I found it hard going for 1 device (ie a Ras Pi, VM, etc), but then it was effortless when I wanted to add a 2nd (or more…), so at first pick the sensible uses, then consider ansible for that one-off device a little later…

I like a few specific utils (tmux, nmon, htop) on all my devices: ansible script

I want to update all the Ras Pis in the house: ansible script

You get the picture…

Yeah +1 for LLTV

Can Immich just leave my photos alone in their current location / folder structure, or does it take over and mangle it all up?

I’m fairly happy with my photo storage structure, but would like the features of Immich…

Originally the ability to find specific files by name - Joplin was storing with filenames in(I forget exactly) date or serial number…

But, more importantly it was the dynamic bi-directional links that you can just type and creates a new page, and that page shows all the references pointing to it.

I use this for work, so each day’s journal has meetings with subjects… go to that subject’s page and there are all the meetings I had.

I went from NC --> Joplin --> Logseq

(With syncthing)

I think others have generally caught this, but I wanted to simplify the point: the apps on your phone are not controlling your home, a computer is. If you don’t use Google’s, then you’ll need to provide one.

Hmm, I’m in a very similar situation… I think a few people use the calendar in Thunderbird for example, but I don’t use an email client.

What I’ve found that works well enough for me is the calendar in Vivaldi - I can see multiple calendars (ie other family members) Work, etc… so far it’s done me well.

Have a look at Serve The Home

(IMHO - more specifically their youtube channel)

They did a load of reviews “recently” (months ago) and I ended up buying a fanless / passively cooled box with multi-Gb NICs that is serving me well.

I came from MP3Tag and the closest Linux version I found is puddletag it’s litterally written to be the same.

I use it for some metadata editing that - in my case - I can’t seem to get Picard to do (might just need to RTFM a bit more)

This is a great explanation and probably the best one I’ve read… ever?

(Without referring to a 400 page Cisco book)

Of course, but IMHO it’s worth checking the alternatives first before requesting an “obvious” (but only to me) feature that someone spends hours of their free time working on…

I was orignally hoping that the built-in mute could be scheduled, so that might be a suggestion.

So far DnD appears to be the option for me, now that I’ve thought about it more (after reading these comments) rather than trying to pause ntfy, gotify, etc…

Hmm. Interesting, just from the face down point of view… kinda like the “hide the screen = do not disturb” pov.

Thanks

Hmm, thanks, that seems like a good starting point - I’d not explored that entire option! Thanks

If this gives you an idea for an alternative app I’d love to hear it.

I don’t have any direct experiences with kanban, but I ditched nc because I found that no-one used the web UI and it was just a complex file, calendar and contact sync. Replacing nc with syncthing and radicale made no impact to the users and saved me a whole heap of misery upgrading and maintaining nc. If those can support your kanban needs, then… just sayin’…