I have a huge messy folder on my server packed with hundreds of recipes in plain text, rtf, PDF, and other formats. Can this tool automagically import and organize all of them?

I don't know why anyone would pay that instead of using Jellyfin. I've had my server up for years now and it works great.

I remember reading a lot this past year about Mozilla fretting about their market share and trying to figure out how to grow their user base. Did I hallucinate that? Cuz their actions lately appear to be driving users away. Are they taking notes from Google or is there some other MBA making these brilliant changes?

Agreed. Tried NextDoor years ago and found it was primarily a venue for busybodies, nosy neighbors and HOAs to complain and nag people about nonsense. I love the idea of an app like this, but hate the people who use it the most.

Happens all the time in construction. Especially bank financed builds or anytime an investment bank is involved in any way. It is in their interest to delay payment as long as possible because the longer that money is in the investment, the more interest they make. Yes it is that greedy and petty.

Yup. My pixel arrived 2 weeks ago. Just loaded Graphene last week. Haven't even put the sim card in it yet. FFS

Old builder dude here. IMO, copper is the best you could ask for. I assume you have it under pressure already and you have inspected it thoroughly. I wouldn't pay any attention to surface oxidation. I would pay attention to any freeze damage, porosity or poor soldering. If it needs some repair, now is the time to do it. But I absolutely would not tear it out unless most of it is damaged beyond repair.

I think it's also pushing subscription based cloud services. To me, the SD card slot is a convenient backup target when away from home. It fits my 3-2-1 backup strategy. Without it, more people will consider backing up to paid cloud services, like how Apple does it.

For the record, I hate this trend. Hands off my sd slot and my 3.5mm jack. But I also want GrapheneOS or something similar. Can't have it all...

Great read! I wonder what his perspective is now. That article was written in August 2024 and a lot has happened since then. For example, I cannot fathom the agreement to Sundar's latest pay package. Another example of failing up the corporate ladder.

Also, it feels like competition with China was an overlooked wildcard in his argument. It would not surprise me if the bubble continues to grow just to try and beat China.

To expand on this, I have witnessed small, indie channels have their content copied, processed through AI so it is stripped of audio, watermarks and re-edited. Then it is posted as a new video. When it is reported as a fake, or pirated copy, or not original content, Google then puts the burden of proof on the small indie channel that originally created the content, often requiring them to lawyer up and file a legal complaint, before they will take any action to remove the AI slop. It is fucking absurd. It would only take a real person about 60 seconds to compare the content and dates to determine who is the theif.

The irony of him wearing a Pink Floyd shirt is totally lost on him. Reminds me of Paul Ryan using RATM during his campaign.

I find it odd that the author didn't mention secureblue at all. I wonder why they didn't consider that option?

Bummer!!! Sucks for all of us. But I understand the dev wanting to move on with his life. Hope someone takes the reins! I would if I had those skills. DivestOS is such a great project. I was literally about to buy a new phone specifically to run DivestOS.

I have not personally experienced any issues with hardware transcoding. My server is an old Dell Optiplex and I use clients on Linux, Android, Roku and Shield.

Yes you are correct about remote access and if that was a priority for me, I would happily learn that part instead of paying for Plex.

I've had similar experiences moving to Linux on various machines. I don't yet understand the pattern. Why do some distros work better on some machines than others?

I have an original MS Surface Pro. Ubuntu works best on it, imo.

I have a 10 year old Asus laptop that has all kinds of seemingly random issues - currently on Mint but about to migrate to OpenSuse.

I have a 4 year old Dell laptop and it likes Garuda the best.

Go figure.

I love Ventoy for this reason. I can try 8 different distros till I find one that works best on a particular machine.

This could have been a really interesting article. Like, what was the property ownership structure while the monks were there? Were there efforts to conserve the property or make it public lands? If so, what happened? How did it come to pass that this evil rich prick now owns it?

But no, none of that is addressed. Assuming the author is a real person, they did a terrible job. But after reading this trash, you could easily convince me it is AI slop.

Second this. In the spirit of a 3-2-1 backup scenario, I also like to keep a copy on SpiderOak or Proton Drive and that works well for me. Encrypted cloud storage is my recommendation. And store your key file someplace apart from the database.

THIS. I feel this. If I could super-upvote, I would. The same argument is deployed towards anyone voting 3rd party. The argument that ranked choice voting is the solution to a lot of problems, is valid. But we are never going to get that either so long as we keep diligently voting for the less evil between two parties. Seems like "never" is the answer to the question of when a lot of imperative, necessary, vital change is going to happen.

Given this dynamic, I can understand how anyone who has been paying attention, becomes disillusioned with our system and votes immorally just to encourage some change, even if it's making things worse. I don't condone it, but I see it happening and I can understand why

Since Windows ME, a system update was always a risk. You never know when some BS like this might happen. It taught me at a young age to turn off automatic updates and only update when necessary and ready to do some troubleshooting.

A lot of us noobs haven't learned how to do this yet. It is unfortunately, not part of most distros Intro guide