Simple file copying is easy and smart.

What do you do about databases? I’m guessing you are running some containers that have a database, like paperless and many others.

🤷 They probably think they have a good reason for it.

Well, backups aren’t important at all,until you need them. Like insurance - you’re screwed if you don’t have any when trouble strikes.

How do you host Obsidian? Last time I checked, it only ran as a local install, so the “hosted” version was just a virtual machine running a local copy. Is it still that?

Correct. It refuses to run without https. That is by design.

Forgejo is a fork from gitea that is made for us. Forgejo is the new gitea.

There was some licensing or something, some kind of disagreement I don’t recall. Forgejo is the one that is still free and open source.

And don’t think that you can just back up using a file-copy process. These things have databases that also need to be backed up. It’s not as simple as it first seems.

Source: been selfhosting for an embarrassingly long time without any backup!

In my experience, firefly is not aimed at household or personal finance. It is very obviously made by and for accountants.

Actual Budget is much more approachable for the normal home user, and very similar to the successful YNAB.

You’re a good dad. Not just because you helped your son, but even more so because he already had the confidence of knowing he can ask you a question like that.

Keep on doing what you’re doing. You’re a good dad.

“Engineers” a.k.a. uneducated cubicle slaves

Interesting points, thank you.

Today I wanted to block everything with facebook and Instagram, it looks like I am hand-editing a config file to do so. And it applies to the entire network; AGH has no concept of user groups. Am I missing something really obvious?

Can I please ask why you prefer Adguard over Pihole?

The sd card in my raspberry 3b recently died, and my pihole with it. I am now using Adguard but not sure it’s working well for me, consider going back. What’s the winning argument for you?

Pull a copper wire from one ground to the other?

4-ply toilet paper.

DGT GTD is an old Android app for task tracking. It is ugly and incredibly useful. Lives entirely in the phone, no cloud subscription, no paid plans, nothing.

I have used it forever. There is no good alternative.

The current app “Chaos Control” is a close contender, but pricey and cloud connected.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dg.gtd.android.lite

Having a spare battery in the bag, and just switch them over mid-day? Glorious. Would love to see that again.

It’s freedom to be able to bring extra batteries and not need a charger for days.

Fair point. The simplest answer is thrt any other business cannot possibly be as evil as meta, so even worst case is a net win.

Sheep don’t know they are being slaughtered. We’re the digital 1% and we can’t make the sheep wake up.

I use Beeper which shows me a unified view of whatsapp and Signal and others. whatsapp itself has zero permissions on my phone. I hate that I need to have it at all but Europe is deep into that. Sigh.

Please do get started, sir!