• 11 Posts
  • 231 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 7th, 2023

help-circle














  • My idrive plan went from just over $100 to $250.

    I created another account, paid for another year at a promotional price, and then deleted my old account.

    I will eventually have to come up with a more sustainable cloud/off site backup now that i need more than just a few TB.

    Since this is really my “last resort” backup, I’m not too concerned, as anything that would require me to actually restore from this backup set would likely be catastrophic in a life-ending way.




  • We adopted a yellow-headed amazon (parrot) in his 40s. For months he was shy and kept to himself.

    One day, seemingly out of the blue, he began whistling songs, cat-calling, saying his name, asking for a cracker, etc. He had like an entire repertoire!

    Most unexpected, funniest thing that’s happened with any of our pets.

    Close second is a cat that would play fetch, like a dog!


  • FressRSS gave me a UI I was looking for on both mobile and desktop, and it “just works”.

    My only complaint, and I’m sure this isn’t a feature found anywhere, is that I wish you could actually delete an article, not just “archive it”. Some of the stuff that gets through on RSS is unfiltered NSFW crap, and I really would rather not have that on my home server!



  • For me, it’s screenshots.

    I can’t even count how many self-hosted or open source projects I’ve wanted to check out, and the project page is just text.

    If I don’t know exactly what I’m getting into in the first 10 seconds, I’m onto something else, especially when it’s something heavily based on UI/UX with frequent interaction.

    EDIT: Also, I’m a fan of docker apps to run off my Synology NAS, but it better come with step-by-step instructions, or I won’t bother. There are some good resources for detailed instructions for various self-hosted/NAS/docker related content, but it’s nice when a project actually has this in their documentation.



  • I’m saying this as someone who used Mint for years due to how it integrated with banks so easily.

    I’m currently using Money Manager EX, which is open source. I “self-host” the database file on my NAS, and simply open the file through MM EX’ Windows program.

    Since it’s just a simple database (encrypted, of course), it’s easy to back up.

    Now, I lost the ability to automatically sync with my bank. This was a blessing in disguise, since it forced me to go over each transaction carefully.

    Granted, Mint had me doing the same, but because I spent a lot of time removing duplicates and fixing errors in their sync system. LOL

    MM Ex has been very easy to use, and I don’t see a need to self-host the software itself.