Most phones are full disk encrypted. So they don’t need to zero out the whole disk… They just need to zero out the part of the disk that stores the encryption key. Once the encryption key is erased, the rest of the disk is essentially random noise.

• Andrew S. Tannenbaum

Very much this. My daughter was bottle fed, and almost like clockwork she would get hungry every 3 hours, at 12, 3, 6 and 9. My wife would feed and go to bed at midnight, and then I would stay up until 3 and feed there, then straight to bed. Then at 6 my wife would wake up and feed, and then finally at 9 in the morning I would wake up. Getting those 6 hours uninterrupted was invaluable.

I have a Raspberry Pi with a Wireguard VPN on it. So on my android phone, I connect to the Wireguard VPN, and then I use this app to trigger the WakeOnLan:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitklog.wolon

Why?

The ones in the kitchen will be set off by burnt food… Leading to people disabling the alarm anyway.

In your kitchen you can get heat sensitive fire alarms instead.

Holy shit… This is so incredibly out of touch… I can’t even…

The Basics That Blow Minds

Lol no… yt-dlp is a bit nifty, but everything else here is utterly expected of any media solution… Exactly zero minds were blown here…

No transcoding

Damn that sucks when the destination device isn’t capable of hardware decoding the media file, and too slow to software decode it… (also, you do know that you can just disable transcoding in Plex/Jellyfin, right?)

No server

SMB and NFS are both servers.

Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media

Jesus, are you directly exposing SMB and NFS to the Internet? NFS is entirely unencrypted, and SMB has super scary vulnerabilities regularly…

Zero server maintenance

I really hope you are patching the OS, to avoid vulnerabilities in SMB and NFS which you are exposing to the Internet…

Plays literally any codec without setup

Sure, provided the device supports hardware decoding the codec or is fast enough to software decode it…

Works offline/online seamlessly

So does both Jellyfin and Plex (plex needs a one liner config change, though, to be fair)

cross-platform

How about TVs? How about Mobile?

Or just… teach them? play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

My mom has needed to call me and be guided over the phone 100% of the times that she has needed to scan a document… How do you think teaching her to navigate a file structure in a terminal is going to go?

My daughter still needs us to spell out the cheat codes for her The Sims game… Do you think she’ll remember the terminal commands.

If I forced any of my friends and family to use the command line to play media, they would just watch something else from a streaming service that actually offers some User Experience… Or do something else entirely.

write a simple script or just… remember what you watched?

Dunno… That seems like a hassle when it’s a built in feature in Plex/Jellyfin

It’s literally a config file. If you can set up Jellyfin, you can handle this.

No… It’s a config file per device, and SMB/NFS mounts per device. Now you need to handle syncing that config file, and any other user of the server will need their own config files…

… And what about other features…

• How do you browse metadata for your movies and series? I often like to read a summary about a movie to know a bit about what to expect. I also like being able to search for an actor, and see the cover art.
• How do you group your movies with the extra features for that movie?
• How do you stream your media to your TV?
• How do you easily fetch subtitles for a movie that didn’t come with any subtitles?
• When you are away from home on a heavily bandwidth constrained connection, how do you watch your nice high-quality movies?

Back when I lived alone, attaching my media drive directly to my desktop computer made perfect sense, it was the only screen I owned that I wanted to watch anything on… And I didn’t need to share anything with anyone… And I could easily use mpv or vlc to watch anything I want…

But now that other people are in the mix, and I like the convenience of using whichever screen I’m currently near, a simple network share + mpv falls so far short it isn’t even funny.

Wouldn’t tea imply it’s some kind of plant leaves being steeped in water?

There’s a free demo 😉

(the first hit is free)

I used to be a software engineer, but moved into infrastructure instead, so I haven’t really been programming much for few years. But all the vibe coding I see around me is making me yearn for coding the old-school way. And I’ve been searching a bit for something to apply that drive to…

That’s awesome. I’ll definitely check it out later!

Nope. If you pick the Linux version on a desktop Linux it doesn’t even have a binary, so the game can’t launch. On normal Linux you have to pick the Proton version. The Linux binary only downloads on Steam Deck.

EDIT: This is no longer true. If you simply disable the compatibility modes, the native steam deck now downloads nicely on Linux, and it runs straight out of the box for me, and with much less stuttering

The problem is that they don’t have to prevent encryption at all…

Many governments are already recording and storing incredible amounts of your Internet traffic.

With this new legislation they want to require all companies, that offer some form of encrypted communication, to submit all the messages for scanning before they are encrypted. So they want to force Facebook and many others to actually intercept the messages before they get “end-to-end” encrypted, so they can get scanned by AI and other systems to look for CSAM.

Of course they can’t prevent encryption… Anyone can get some encryption software that doesn’t submit the messages to scanning before encrypting…

Now you as a person have the options of either using a platform that scans your messages, or finding something that actually offers privacy.

If the government then decides that they want to investigate you, then they just dig into their trove of intercepted messages. If you only used scanned services, then they can see all your messages and probably find something in them to prosecute you over. But if you used any encrypted services they don’t have access to, then they can just start prosecuting you for using encryption that they can’t spy on…

In either case you lose, and they gain the ability to practically put anyone they want behind bars.

And who knows who will wield these tools at a later point, and what they might decide should be illegal, which they can then immediately dig for in all their previously stored and scanned messages.

Pear Launcher has them but calls them “App Groups”. But as I said, the missing piece is to hide them from the main tab when they have been added to another tab

I feel the same. I like having my desktop with easy to reach commonly used apps, and a few widgets, such at a Google calendar widget and my keep notes. And I want all the things in the exact spot I put them, so I can build muscle memory to go where I want. The dock is not so necessary as long as I can have enough icons on the desktop. And then I want an app drawer, where I can divide it into tabs, one for regular apps and one for games.

The closest I could find are either:

Lawnchair launcher, but it’s missing the drawer tabs (it has folders though)

Pear Launcher, it has everything, but unfortunately it doesn’t remove the games from the main apps tab when I add them to a games tab…

Is there any reason you are not just calling your ISP and asking them to put their box into bridge mode and then setting your own router up behind it?

You control everything from the router and into your local network.

If you can’t trust your ISPs “modem” in bridge mode, then you also can’t trust the infrastructure beyond the modem, and in that case you would need to set up a privacy respecting VPN service directly on your router to encrypt the traffic your ISP sees.

Demineralized water is not conductive. All the dirt from the keyboard might make is slightly conductive again, but every time there has been a spill in a mechanical keyboard, I take it apart, and soak it in demineralized water, then when it has soaked for a while I rinse it in fresh demineralized water, and then let it dry. I have only lost one keyboard, and I have saved the rest of the keyboards numerous times.

Outer Wilds covered a lot of emotions for me. Wonder, excitement, sorrow, fear, relief, anger, frustration, calm, contemplativeness, despair, hope, terror, acceptance.

It’s my favorite game ever, and the less you know about it when you play it, the better.

Enjoy: https://youtu.be/Zh4ze5bWLcI

Also most more recent videos by this guy: https://youtube.com/@foldingideas

They were briefly, but that was reversed on 2024-08-01