Yea, it’s the end of the world with Signal.
Having such a dependcy just exposes yet another way their story doesn’t add up, like dropping SMS support because of engineering costs. Apparently, SMS is so hard to do there are free SMS apps.
I can’t trust them at this point.
And how does E2E require a middleman?
More like it’s their store-and-forward servers. Why that’s on AWS, or more importantly not distributed with auto fail over is a major fail, as in “get fired” failure.
Ffs Signal went down with AWS??
Fossify calendar can do this, but it’s manual. So you’d have to change the color for the event by editing the event.
Neat idea though, to color events by attendee, though that would only work for a single person, which is why it’s by calendar - the thinking being a calendar can be for a given subject.
I have calendars for myself, for household stuff, shared calendars get a unique color, etc. It’s pretty easy to move events to another calendar in Fossify. Just open the event and touch Calendar (near the bottom) and select the appropriate calendar. Or choose the correct calendar when setting up the event.
I have calendars on multiple services (approx 10 calendars) - yahoo (I know, right?) Gmail, mailbox, etc, with more than one calendar on each service. Colors work fine with DavX and Fossify, even with Thunderbird on my laptop.
Yea, the visuals and style of game play are great, but the mechanics are a little bland today.
But as I think about it, the mechanics were a bit bland at the time - my 8 year old niece loved it.
Can you be more specific?
I first ran Proxmox on it (which ran fine, just overkill for my use-case).
Now it’s Windows server and anything I do on it is done in a VM via VMware Workstation (since it’s free). So the host os doesn’t see much change and any changes that break things can be rolled back via a VM snapshot. Proxmox ZFS would be better for this, but I don’t need it, yet.
You could run any Linux distro on it then use KVM for virtual machines and also docker for things like PiHole and Jellyfin.
There’s a million ways to skin a cat, though I like using VM’s so if I need to move a service I just copy the VM to a new box. Even my docker stuff is in a VM for just this reason.
I’ve run Proxmox on it, but it was overly complex and overkill for my use case.
Right now the host OS is Windows Server running VMware Workstation. Pihole runs in a VM (DietPi), which auto starts on reboot (as does my general purpose VM running Jellyfin). Fast setup, runs as my DC, VM’s as needed with enough performance (though not as much as I’d like for my virtualization goals).
Next box will be my own build since this one is limited on physical space and I have a couple old cases with plenty of room.
Such a fun game too.
There also was a free add-on/extension (something) called Jack that was a short game.
For me Quicksync converts videos anywhere from 4x to 10x faster than using the GPU.
For business, ECC is definitely required. I really don’t see it needed for home use.
I’ve never run it for home boxes - I’ve had a Windows domain at home since the 90’s using desktop hardware and it’s as stable as any SMB I’ve seen running on enterprise-grade hardware.
I’m using a 2019 Dell SFF OptiPlex.
With the current 8TB data drive, it idles at 18w, but being Intel can convert or transcode very quickly.
With the previous 2TB drive it idled at 12w, little more than a Pi but far more capable.
I run my PiHole on it plus Jellyfin, HandBrake, etc. It also has 4 VMs using VMware for some other stuff as needed (testing mostly).
Hard to beat the bang for buck, or per watt.
Others have mentioned SFF desktops.
My current server is an old Dell Optiplex SFF desktop. Idles at just under 20w, peaks at 80. Currently has an NVME boot drive, and an 8TB 3.5" drive.
Runs like a champ, easily serves Jellyfin video, with transcoding, while converting videos with handbrake (and with 2 other systems converting videos off that drive over the net).
Cost, internal space, options and power it’s hard to beat an SFF. If you don’t need internal space or conversion power, than a NUC can work (the lack of sufficient cooling limits it’s converting capabilities).
Two ways I like to get files to/from a mobile device: Syncthing (Möbius on iOS) or ResilioSync.
Resilio has a great feature, Selective Sync, that enables arbitrarily syncing files from a remote location. Nice for grabbing specific files when needed.
Unfortunately neither one handles any kind of reading status, they’re just file sync.
I kind of figured, because why wouldn’t you want that?
When you say sync, do you mean just the books, or reading status (what page you’re on?)
To any social media company?
What am I looking at here?
Well, TrueNAS is a RAID system, and pretty much any Linux distro can run ZFS.
I sync hundreds of gigs, (if not terabytes at this point) using Syncthing with errors on only one machine (it’s running on 6 devices, including a VM). And those errors are of my own doing, not random Syncthing errors.
It’s surprisingly robust these days, especially for a single-user notes.
I have an indexing job that runs on my server every 30 minutes, saving into a text file (it indexes my media folder, which is about 3TB of movies and TV shows).
Those text files sync to my phone when they’ve changed (so every 30 minutes). They’re always up to date when I open them.
My phone also has jobs to continually sync my photos to home, an ad-hoc folder to my laptop, and about 25 other folder pairs (including NeoBackup) that sync under different conditions, without fail.
I’m currently testing Cherrytree using Sourcherry on Android and it seems to work fine as a single-user solution with Syncthing.
so… Don’t be a dick
That should be your first rule! 😁
I just added a 30mm case fan to my SFF. I went with a compressor style given the space constraints and restrictions (they tend to draw more current because of the load).
It increased draw by <1 watt - it barely registers on the meter.
I don’t think fans really make much difference. My 120mm compressor is 4w on the label (which is peak load, like startup). It probably drops back to 1/2 W after startup. And that’s a huge fan in a compressor style, equivalent to a 200mm+ in a conventional fan.