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You can look for a service that provides a mail security gateway, or host your own. My personal solution is mimedefang milter on sendmail which will blow away any canned solution you will find. But you have to know what you are doing with it.

There is barracuda, but they are $$. Another option is proxmox mail gateway. Not as fast as mimedefang, but it has a nice gui.

www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-mail-gateway/overview

What's a good phone now that doesn't force ads on me?

I’m using a Pixel 6 Pro right now, and I’m looking around to see if there are any good phones. However, I have heard that there are ads in the newer flagship phones (Samsung, Xiaomi). I am willing to spend around USD$750 on a new phone, but I just don’t want any crazy ads or preinstalled apps like Facebook. Are there...

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Dunno. I’m still rocking a OnePlus 7 pro with crdroid 10.2 (Android 14). Nice rom, no nonsense.

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I got tired of gpay breaking on crdroid. I just ended up getting a credit card that works with Garmin pay for my watch instead.

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If only.

Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs

Howdy. I wanted a central place for information surrounding smartphone keyboards since there have been some changes recently to a few of them. I hope to keep this post afloat over the long term so we can share experiences, information, news, etc to find the perfect smartphone keyboard for ourselves and help others do the same....

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Gboard in general. Tasker switches to unexpected for me when using juice ssh.

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My subscriptions actually got better. I’ve had more interaction in my various groups.

All and popular, however, are a dumpster fire.

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That’s fucking stupid.

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Despite now being owned by a marketing company, I always come back to nova.

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That’s what s/mime does. If it were as easy to get personal certs as it is to get server certs through letsencrypt, everyone could easily sign and encrypt mail.

I can certainly do it anyway, but you’d have to trust my self signed cert.

That said, it’s pretty rare to find relays these days that are not using tls for transport, so there’s that.

What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data?

What storage software could I run to have an archive of my personal files (a couple TB of photos) that doesn’t require I keep a full local copy of all the data? I like the idea of a simple and focused tool like Syncthing, but they seem to be angling towards replication....

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Borg. With rsync.net if you want to keep an off-site.

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Naemon and Graylog.

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I’ve been doing home automation for awhile now. Voice assistant is never anything I would consider. What problem does it solve that a button doesn’t do with less hassle?

Also, note automation. The whole point is for the house to do its thing with minimal interaction based on triggers and states. Everyone leaves? Turn off the lights, lock the doors, turn down the heat. TV comes on after dusk? Dim the living room lights if they are on. Going down the basement stairs? Turn on the lights. Cat just used the litter box? Turn on the hepa filter for a bit.

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Spot on.

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I have baseboard electric

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I push the ‘go to bed’ button on my phone.

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Let’s skip the AI and give thunderbird some love instead. Then again, it’s pretty feature complete as is. Just keep it up to date to keep running and secure.

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I’m confused at what problem this is trying to solve.

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The best ever

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Compare with tonight’s dumpster fire of club house dj crap.

I tried, I really did

I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I’ve mainly dealt with Windows. I’ve worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able...

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Bummer that it’s giving you such a hard time. On rdp: Linux/Linux doesn’t even need it. ssh to remote. Run gui app. It runs on remote and displays locally. Wayland is probably going to kill that though. Until it does, the X11 client / server model is pretty swank.

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Good!

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I just wish it had a built in way for normal users to share read/write individual lists and calendars. Afaik you have to kludge it together with symlinks.

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Duh, why didn’t I think of that? Brb, re-doing my shared grocery list.

But then again, any users would also then need multiple accounts for read/write share if you don’t want everyone seeing everyone else’s stuff.

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The for profit middlemen that provide no healthcare whatsoever need to be removed from the system entirely.

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And where is Melania? Not with you at your pep rallies and court dates… Fucking clown.

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Roundcube

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Projectivy + pihole or use adguard dns.

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Of course you can. Even on the cheap pucks from Walmart. I run projectivy on those and my shield.

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In the long ago if a site needed advertising it was a small banner at the top of the page, and often hosted by the site itself with gasp an actual relationship with the advertisers or sponsors.

How to use Synology Drive as a Google Drive alternative (www.androidpolice.com)

Google Drive is great for storing files in the cloud, accessing them when needed, and collaborating with a team. However, the internet isn’t always reliable and can cause issues when accessing files. In such cases, you need an offline solution, and Synology may have the best options. Synology has awesome NAS enclosures. Its...

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If I need something when I’m roaming about, my ssh bastion has the nas mounted.

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Yet streaming music has basically the same artists no matter which service you use. And Tidal integrates with Plex seamlessly with my own local collection. Worth the subscription for that.

Do that. (But they won’t)

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You can read things from all servers on the server you choose to connect with though. Bad analogy.

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Stop telling me what to do. Your post is exactly what you are complaining of. Those with the curiosity and aptitude will gravitate to the tech that serves their needs. Usually on their own, regardless of what anybody else tells them. How do you think Linux came to dominate Internet infrastructure in the first place.

Go preach elsewhere.

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Marketing ruined the Internet. This wasn’t a problem before the eternal September.

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Linode has been ok for me. I wouldn’t use their managed services. If you need that type of scale go to AWS.

One cool thing I experienced with linode yesterday is I could boot from one of their kernels instead of my own grub kernel. I had a bad update on alma9 and this made recovery much easier without having to rebuild the node.

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play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.… is an easy install

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Settings -> Projectivy Launcher Settings -> General -> Override current launcher

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If you interacted with an ATM in the 90’s - 2000’s it was likely running OS/2. It was superior to windows, but lost in the end. Many of the concepts of the workplace shell were ahead of other DEs even today. KDE initiallly borrowed a lot from the wps.

Sanity check - is rsyncing to a remote computer that has zfs snapshotting an okay way to back things up?

I currently have two computers, one that has a big zfs raidz pool that I currently back everything up to. Right now, on my local computer I use rsnapshot to do snapshot backups via rsync to the remote zfs pool. I know I’m wasting a ton of space because I have snapshotting in the rsync backup, and then the zfs pool is...

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That is rsync.net’s entire business model.

I still rclone my Borg repos there instead of relying on snapshots though.

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It works the same either way. Borg does a lot of different backups on my home network. I also have more than just Borg backups that I want off-site, so an rclone of everything from that nas share once after everything else is done makes more sense than duplicating Borg everywhere. The rclone’d stuff can be used directly just like if it was put there by Borg itself.

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Dns caching

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There was nothing that came of that because they were let off the hook with a slap on the wrist when Republicans took over the government.

Is it dumb to connect yourself to a car's grounding point

To start off: I was explaining to my friend that I don’t have a grounding point in my house (plumbing is PVC, outlets are gcfi protected only, not allowed to drive a grounding rod into the ground, etc…) and that I’ve just been handling sensitive electronics with just luck and preparation (humidity, moisturizer, no...

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In a car, my understanding is that it is to dissipate energy into the car frame vs catching wires on fire.

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Yes, yes you are.

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Moving our naemon/thruk/pnp instance to omd. I need to figure out how to manage it with ansible and add our own authentication. Otherwise I hope it is easier to maintain.

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Ding Ding Ding!

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Instead of veam there’s also www.proxmox.com/en/…/overview

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I thought I was just weird.

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