Brilliant! That worked!

This was one of the rare times I installed a firmware update without waiting. They even sent an email telling me how urgent it was to get my NAS patched.

To that note, anyone have any idea how to get Hyper Backup to stop telling me that my backups are “partial” because Video Station is no longer found? It’s not even on the list of apps, but tells me that it’s been disabled as an option to back up because it’s not available. Annoying!

I can vouch for Mailbox, too.

It’s also easy to get it set up on third part email clients.

Does this new version fix the issue where it ends up capturing “choose your country”, cookie popups, and generally something NOT intended?

I was having problems like that all the time, so I had to uninstall it.

Compared to something like the FF extension “SingleFile”, I wish Linkwarden worked better :(

And honeybees even often outcompete native pollinators, which is bad for biodiversity.

Of course, Texas has to incentivize this type of destruction:

"In Texas, the law qualifies people who own between five and 20 acres of land for tax breaks if they rear bees for five years. "

This is actually not a good thing.

For one, Honeybees disrupt the structure and functionality of plant-pollinator networks, and they are nowhere near the type of pollinator we actually need (i.e. native, wild pollinators that thrive outside artificial colonies created to benefit humans).

There’s no balance if we only increase populations of honeybees. “Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them.”

The article (the Yahoo one linked in the OP) does cover the detriments of these domestic bee colonies, but right at the end of the article…

The David Suzuki Foundation has a write-up on this topic, if anyone’s interested.

I’ve been very happy with FreshRSS (docker install) running on my Synology NAS.

You can run this right from Windows: https://jan.ai/

You’ll need a lot of RAM, and processing is decently fast, even on a basic laptop.

edit: holy hell. Grammar.

It makes me wonder how people can travel like one timezone over and not have crippling issues because of it.

It’s likely not the change with the DST that messes people, but the obsession with worrying about it that does.

The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks.

A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn’t a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn’t support the banks and credit cards i use.

So… I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it’s really not.

Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn’t terrible.

I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn’t be a make-or-break thing.

Rich coming from the party of voter suppression…

Just wait until everyone is forced to wear screens on their faces 24/7, because that’s the way tech companies want us to live. I’m not being sarcastic, either.

There’s a reason why so many people consciously choose to “disconnect” when they want a mental break. If we are no longer able to, how healthy do you think our society will be?

Argh. Was it always like that, or is this recent?

I do, but in reality, It doesn’t seem to matter what cyclists do or wear. If someone driving a car (or large SUV) isn’t paying attention, they won’t see you.

In countries where cycling is taken seriously, their lights are not bright (to meet standards) and you don’t see anyone in high-viz gear.

Blaming cyclists for something a motorist failed to do seems to be a uniquely North American thing. Even the way our news gets reported seems to always word things in a way that puts the cyclist (the victim) in the wrong.

What you describe is really common, and it uses “jaywalking” as a weapon to target minorities and those in low-income neighbourhoods.

On the podcast “The War on Cars”, this topic came up with examples showing how jaywalking becomes an excuse to target blacks.

The history of “jaywalking” is pretty interesting.

Basically, it’s a made-up thing designed to blame pedestrians for motorists being dangerous.

Kind of like when motorists “can’t see” cyclists while looking down at their phones, because it’s up to the cyclist to have on enough high-viz clothing, reflectors, bright lights, and a billboard saying “I’M HERE!!!”.

In most places, even when people think that jaywalking is illegal, it’s actually not.

That might be the difference! None of the houses on our street have them, so groceries get unloaded from the driveway, straight into the front door.

You’ve never seen your neighbors carrying groceries inside.

I’m going to assume that you either don’t have windows, or you don’t go outside.

I see multiple neighbours, multiple times a month, bringing groceries into their house.

Quite a few times this happens while I’m also outside, in passing.

But now I’m super curious how you don’t see your neighbours doing the same! 😂

I think one of the reasons why I stopped gaming as an adult, is because I realized that pretty much all the popular games are rigged to keep you going. The progression is artificial, and demotivates me to invest time in it.

Old games were basically: play them, and with the right skill you can complete the levels and finish. Simple, fun, and you didn’t have to return back to the game in 11h:23m:45sec in order to “unlock” anything, either. You turn it on when you want, then turn it off. You can return to it months or even years later and it makes no difference.

New games? Always moving the goal posts. You have to pay to level up quickly, but the next level just sets you up for another artificial grind. Spin a wheel or open a loot crate? Those are just programmed to give you exactly the items you need to keep going a little further. Seasons, timed events, social media integration… all the fun is sucked out.

Video games use quite a few of the same tactics that you’ll see in lotteries, casinos, and other “games of chance”.

Once you realize that, you can’t unsee it.