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zipkag , 6 months ago to selfhosted in What's your favorite note-taking application?

I tried so many, eventually landed on trilium. It’s not perfect by any means, but it ticks the most boxes for my needs

zipkag , 6 months ago to nostupidquestions in What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue?

This is probably not true. The concept of this phrase but referring to family is probably a modern confusion. There is no clear evidence it means it was really referencing ties to friends. Although I wish it did. Here’s some further reading from others also looking for a clearer reference.

…stackexchange.com/…/is-the-alleged-original-mean…

zipkag , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What's a word you've spent a long time not using right?

You are correct. -itis just means inflammation or infection, encephalon just means brain. You can have encephalitis caused by multiple things, viruses, bacteria, fungal, auto immune diseases and so forth

zipkag , 7 months ago to selfhosted in What to use as offsite backup?

I use backblaze B2. I use duplicity to create a local encrypted backup of daily and then monthly incremental backups that are stored on a separate hard drive as a local backup. I then sync that with backblaze every night. It’s worked like a treat. Gives me my primary data, a local backup on a separate drive and then an off-site backup. And actually my primary data and my local backups are both on ZFS raidz2 drives, so I can even have drives fail and be okay.

I used to use glacier, but the backblaze interface and uploading scripts were just so much easier to use, and the price was comparable if not maybe just slightly cheaper, I can’t remember exact. I think duplicity also has a front end, duplicati that some people use, but I’ve never used it.

zipkag , 7 months ago to piracy in I Know What You Download (via torrent)

Can you elaborate? Or tell me where I can read more, I did not know this

zipkag OP , 8 months ago to linux_gaming in Steam/play from computer to TV

Perfect, I’ll try it out. Sounds like no reason to get a steam link, and that what I have should work well enough

zipkag OP , 8 months ago to linux_gaming in Steam/play from computer to TV

This is a fascinating idea, I’ve used KVMs in the past, but never One like this with an extender to go a long way over cat. I’m going to do some research on this, this might be exactly what I was looking for in the future when I want to eventually have a server room that I can have all my PCs in one room and go to other areas of the house. Thanks

zipkag OP , 8 months ago to linux_gaming in Steam/play from computer to TV

Awesome, I’m going to look into this, thanks

zipkag , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Anybody using a local server for their "cloud"based thermostats?

I have the ecobee 3 lite and I try to keep it off the cloud and connect through home kit to home assistant. It is exceptionally unreliable and disconnects all the time. It’s the only home kit device I have, everything else is zigbee. I don’t know if it’s an ecobee issue or a home assistant issue or maybe a router issue. The only thing that’s helped some is occasionally letting it have access to the cloud and then it will reconnect to home kit and then I can disconnect it from the cloud and it will be good for any more from a few days to a month. I cannot recommend it because it has been so unreliable, and looking through online forums I’ve seen a lot of other people have similar issues with HomeKit and the ecobee. Eventually I want to switch to a purely zigbee device, as this is the only thing I have that even has Wi-Fi on my automation network.

I then control temperatures through a combination of home assistant, node red, and sensors through zigbee2mqtt.