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wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

I'm trying to figure this out myself. I've gone from Google Photos -> iCloud -> testing out Unraid + PhotoPrism + NextCloud. That is, point PhotoPrism's import folder to the NextCloud photos folder. Both hosted on Unraid. And then on my iPhone, have the photos automatically uploaded. Only issue so far is I don't see an auto-detect and import option in PhotoPrism so I have to manually click 'import'.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: NotePlan 3 – Native (Mac/iOS) note-taking based on local Markdown files

I feel the same way.

To be clear: I understand why subscriptions work well for developers. As a consumer, I'm finding I have an enormous amount of subscriptions and it becomes harder and harder to justify an additional $1/month, $5/month, etc. for an app.

Maybe that means I'll be more selective in what I buy, which doesn't hurt. But it does lead to a "well that's a bummer" when I find a cool app I'd be willing to pay an up-front fee for, but realize it's subscription.

Right now I'm using Obsidian, which has been awesome, but it doesn't have a native UI feel to me.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant

This is basically happening for me now. Bought a house and a ton of gadgets to tinker with, with a dream of having the ultimate smart home.

Heavily underestimated the time sink it is and how often things break. But it definitely scratches and itch.

I’ve learned so much about circuit boards, electricity, and soldering in the past few weeks I think it’s well worth it, even if the smart home dream itself might never materialize.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: IoT Unravelled Part 1: It's a Mess but Then There's Home Assistant

I have a completely ludicrous amount of IOT devices, some with flashed open source firmware, on their own VLAN (UniFi setup) so I at least have a false sense of some security. I’m talking my washer, dryer, vacuum, thermostat, lights, home NAS, door locks, alarm system, garage door openers, AV system, Ring doorbell, Google Homes, smart outlets, contact sensors on every door and window, RPi Zeros in three rooms for presence detection, motion sensors in every room, among others. I even bought a Geiger counter to eventually hook up.

I’ve always had a dream of living like the Jetsons and Home Assistant is an awesome way of building it out. However.... it seems destined to be an always-beta something-isn’t-working-right project. Right now, my lights turn off when I open my windows instead of flash briefly. Google Home doesn’t connect to several devices, and it lets me know every time I ask it to do something.

The reality is I don’t have time for this, but I’d be lying if I said it isn’t a whole lot of fun to solder some Alitove addressable LED strips to my NodeMCU and have them turn on with Christmas animations along with Christmas music, but only when it’s below 50 degrees outside and both me and my fiancé are home. Just kidding, that’s not setup yet - still trying to figure out why my bedroom lights turn off 10 seconds after the living room lights, when only the living room light Lutron dimmer switch was pressed.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Facebook Container for Firefox

I stay with Firefox for a lot of reasons, but the main one is this - I am so used to TreeStyleTabs I can't imagine going with anything else. Do any other browsers support something similar?

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; the Value Proposition of a VPN

I thought a lot of people use VPNs specifically to avoid DMCA requests? From what I understand, it works extremely well in those cases and I imagine that most VPN use-cases stem from region check bypassing and DMCA request avoidance (but I could be wrong).

In all seriousness, what would be the best way of increasing both anonymity and privacy online? Not from nation-states, but hackers/data breaches/ad-tech/local law enforcement?

It's an interesting but frustrating topic. It seems like every potential solution has some major caveat that someone will invariably point out as making the solution useless.

For example, I am wanting to export all of my data from my social media (texts, posts, location data from Google, etc) for posterity and then delete the accounts. But I also want to keep it safe and secure. So I use VeraCrypt containers. But then what if my Kinesis keyboard has some firmware embedded reading my passwords? Now I'm screwed. And if I backup online with Backblaze, and use their E2E encryption but one day they change their software so that it records the password when typing it in. It almost feels helpless.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Google Drive – How do I stop others from sharing files with me?

This move frustrated me to no end. Makes backing up my Google Photos that much more of a PITA because you have to use Takeout, which isn't straightforward - if you have a large library, you manually have to download 50+ zip files and "auto download" extensions don't seem to work with the Takeout interface last time I tried.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Apparent absence of covid transmission at hair salon with face covering policy

I'm not saying this is right, but I can imagine a few folk who probably have been going out or taking trips etc. and don't want to get tested because they fear their name being exposed somewhere with the public shaming to follow if they were to test positive.

Again, not saying it's right or that it's not selfish, but I can totally see that reasoning behind a large percentage of these folk refusing to get tested.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: The world is drinking less coffee while office workers stay home

I drink a single cup of coffee a day (used to drink two), but love the flavor and taste that I considered drinking decaf the rest of the day. Never got around to doing it, but possible one resolution to this issue. Although decaf still has some caffeine, so I can’t really drink it too late in the day.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Dealing with Insomnia

Really good point - there was a bunch of other restrictions/lifestyle changes that probably helped contribute. I think the main one was going from two cups of coffee (morning, and then afternoon) to one cup (morning) really helped me.

Also the recommendation that if I couldn’t fall asleep within 15-ish minutes, to get out of bed and do something until I’m tired again instead of lay there and “try” to sleep.

_flbt | 5 years ago | on: UtahFS: Encrypted File Storage

Love the idea of this. I've tried to use something similar (at least in function), called Cryptomator. However, Cryptomator would always choke on larger files or directories with thousands of items (e.g. my Google Photos gallery). Will be interested to see if this or another solution is what I'm looking for.

wakkaflokka | 5 years ago | on: Sublime Merge 2

This is going to sound pretty shallow, but as powerful as Dbeaver is, I can't stand how it looks. I'm using DataGrip solely because of the large amount of themes available.
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