kurcatovium

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

I would like to thank admins and moderators of lemm.ee for bringing up this amazing community. I was one of many reddit refugees and got lucky to find lemm.ee. I'm not really active user, more of a lurker, and lemm.ee let me explore all the (im)possible instances I could think of. Can't explain the feeling, I'll miss it probably more than I admit, cause it left an impression in me that people can do good things from their hearts.

Was thinking of going to lemmy.zip like a lot of other folks, but will probably try piefed and/or mbin first. Main reason being the ideological opinions of lemmy developers...

Once again: thank you for all your hard work, I really do appreciate it, even though I was just a peasant lurker. Thank you a good luck in your future endeavors.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shocking new discovery: water is wet!

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

Classic Nintendo

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

https://prvnihore1.bandcamp.cz/ Not that they're well known here, but it's very well put together crazy comedy music show.

https://snet.bandcamp.cz/ Some old school metal, played by young guys. Promising.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Knowing it or not, the result is the same, isn't it?

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Up 'til 2022 or 2023 company I work for used Pentium 4 at POS PCs running ancient openSUSE. They would be still in service if it weren't for leaking/swollen caps on most motherboards. Pure power wasn't really there, but it was plenty enough to run that checkout software...

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You press F4 (I believe) in Dolphin and it spawns "tab" of Konsole pointing to current location inside Dolphin window.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

I use what's built in KDE - Spectacle: https://github.com/KDE/spectacle

Does everything I need.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

You can send to different machines then your kde connect one with localsend, e.g. wife's PC, kid's tablet, brother's phone, etc.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I tried logseq to manage my notes at work and it just didn't click with me.

I ended up using QOwnNotes https://www.qownnotes.org/ which might be not as polished, but it is very easy to start with. I don't need nor want cloud/sync, and since this ones notes are plain .md files in a folder, it's easy to back up (or edit) externally when needed. I like it for what it does.

[โ€“] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

I know Strawberry, because I use it too. It's a music player, forked from Clementine years ago. I find it the best for my use case, as it can handle library by tags, do folder view for separate locations, do tag editing, lyrics and art download, etc. Can highly recommend!

 

I don't know how to exactly describe what I'm after so I'll explain my intent. I'd like to record (write up) my dreams from the night as a first thing in the morning, every day. I'd want it to be recorded with date stamp and easily searchable. Something like calendar and or diary/journal combined. I can't figure out what I should be looking for. Simple calendar might do, but I'd have to start new event every morning and fill all the unneeded cells...

 

Hello, not sure how on-topic is this, but I'll ask anyway. Since I'm wrapping my head around this topic for long time to no avail.

I'm planning to buy NAS mostly to store my music, pictures and documents on my place. At the beginning I'd like to keep it simple so I don't plan to install billion things on it. I would definitely want to install adblocker like PiHole/AdGuard. I'm also eye-ing Tailscale for remote access (no public IP) and Jellyfin/Emby for music streaming at home. So apart from usual NFS/SMB file shares, let's say there are these three apps I'd like it to run at the beginning.

The NAS has to be as quiet as possible, so even thought it's more expensive, I'll have to go with SSD drives. Looking at prices two 2 TB (in mirror RAID) should be doable and should be enough space for me, at least for now. I'm no hoarder.

I have few other "must-haves":

  1. decently working companion app that automatically backups pictures from at least 2 android phones (my wife needs to deal with it and she's not really friends with tech stuff)
  2. possibility to upgrade storage other than just replacing drives for bigger ones
  3. simple, easy to use (both setup and "rescue") scheduled backups to external USB drive
  4. I knew I had something else but it completely slipped out of my head

That brings me to what's available. I almost pulled the trigger on Synology DS423+. It looks reasonable powerful, I can put 4 SATA SSDs and 2 M.2... that's what I thought. But it turned out it's not possible to use M.2 as storage with anything but Synology's own overpriced drives that aren't even available in my country. So, it's just four SATA drives, which is... "not great, not terrible" as some would say. What seems to be a big plus is the DSM. Everyone I know really praises it. Plus it seems to have very good reputation in terms of longevity of devices.

Then there is QNAP. Apparently their system QTS is not as polished as DSM, but everything needed should still be there. There's similarly priced, similarly equipped TS-462. It's just dual-core CPU, but has more RAM (not upgradeable though) and it seems it can accept M.2 as storage at least. As per internet research, the build quality is just as good as Synology.

And then there's Asustor, which I heard about years ago and then completely forgot they exist. Last week my friend mentioned this name, so I checked their offering too. Well, Nimbustor AS5402T looks absolutely the best on paper! Well, it only has two regular drives, because it's got FOUR M.2 slots! I assume it's because SATA is on decline, but M.2 SSDs are cheaper than SATA nowadays so it's actually better for me to have the numbers reversed. And it's cheapest on top of it. So where's the catch? I presume the ADM system is piece of shit. Right? Or is it build quality that's bad? Reliability? IDK.

Which of these three do you think would be the best for my needs? I'm more than open to other offerings and suggestions too! Thank you very much!

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