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barcaxavi

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  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • I do agree that it's pretty cool that HA can be used for free, but if you like something and use it regularly please find ways to contribute.

  • Needs inspiration, please share your phone/tablet dashboard

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  • I believe playing with visibility would be the easiest way

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  • This is the first time I'm exploring this, but I think you're wrong.

    On Mastodon you can:

    So post visibility is not something you set per profile, but per post. But you have an effective tool to decide who you let in AND remove on the way.

  • A Travel Media Server?

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  • Yeah, I was also wondering about the transcoding. And thanks for the power draw comment, great to know. Sounds manageable.

  • A Travel Media Server?

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  • I still think you should give this one a try. Unless, you're goal is not like having an actual solution, but doing this project as a hobby, and throwing some money at it. Which is also fine, I've done the same before.

    Testing one or two of these media severs will cost you some hours of your time. Anything other will take much more time, effort and money.

  • A Travel Media Server?

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  • Peripherals are one thing, handling concurrent streams, transcoding... is another one.

    So in theory, a Pi can be kept alive with a power bank, but OP is expecting (as I understood) multiple hours of streaming (with "local" only access) , which includes the above tasks for multiple concurrent streams. How big of a power bank we're talking about and how long will it last?

  • A Travel Media Server?

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  • As others already wrote, I would go with the Plex server at home and using the "Download" feature to have some content available offline for the times you don't have internet. You can actually set a limit for the size of the download library and individually set video and audio quality for the files.

    Seen raspberry pi mentioned some times, I don't have one, so maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there would be an easy way to power it up on a train for example.

  • Haptic: A new local-first, privacy-focused and open-source home for your markdown notes

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  • Can confirm, seen it live. As soon as LogSeq was open on both devices it threw an error.

  • Shrimp pasta (with an excessive amount of parmesan cheese)

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  • Are there any google docs proxies, like how Piped is a YouTube proxy?

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  • I'm not familiar with such solutions, but I wouldn't get your hopes high, as Google Docs is not a collection of publicly available files (like YouTube), rather files closed behind different accesses.

    Based on this, depending on how a file is shared with you, you could be asked to authenticate yourself somehow. Without the deeper understanding of your situation, I can only think of one solution: downloading these files with manipulating the links, like this for example (if they are public): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9045392/getting-the-download-link-for-a-public-google-docs-file?rq=1

    If they are not public, I think you still have the chance to do this, but I can't see any steps around authenticating with Google in their own site. And then download the file.

  • I think I found a way to slowly get rid of WhatsApp

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  • Just check what privileges these apps ask for when you're installing them. They could get infinitely more data then "just" the ones tied to the conversations.

    So once again my point is that, if their app is not touching my phone, that's one bullet dodged.

  • I think I found a way to slowly get rid of WhatsApp

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  • Not sure if you haven't read my comment, or just didn't get the jist of it: the point is that you can use the service without installing their crappy app.

  • I think I found a way to slowly get rid of WhatsApp

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  • Not the solution you looking for as I feel, but I leave it here for others to discover: With a home server and proper technical knowledge you can use WhatsApp via Matrix: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/whatsapp/

    This is something I discovered way before, when I was trying to ditch Facebook Messenger. I felt like there's absolutely no chance to convince everyone around me to use Signal, so even not having the app on the phone looked like an OK option.

  • No Man's Sky Worlds Part I Deep Dive

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  • Just glancing at the preview, I thought Chance Crawford is doing a Deep dive into a game :)

  • Do you think using GrapheneOS is useless if you plan on installing proprietary apps anyway?

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  • I'm mostly on board with this, but even with using only trusted, vetted... apps (which is already a huge challenge for some) I wouldn't go for sure that none of those are going rouge (as we saw before: some adv company buying a decent SW and making it a bloatware).

    Getting back to my first point: I just had a situation where I had to install Viber for example, and I can't stress enough how grateful I was for the Storage and Contact scopes features.

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    Help for $10

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  • Anyone selling this, please report it

  • Using Slack without local device invasiveness?

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  • I just keep it on my work profile with my other work related apps, so I'm sure it never touches my personal stuff.

  • What email client are you guys using?

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  • I'm using it on Windows at work and I was also surprised how often it just gets stuck. Deleting the database did help for some time, but then it came back every time I'm sending an email.

  • GBoard replacement?

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  • Gboard runs OK without any permissions, so if you don't find anything good enough, that still could be your solution. I tried many other options but haven't found a bilingual swipe keyboard as good as Gboard unfortunately. I just gave it network permission to download dictionaries, switched off all permissions, and it's running smooth since months now.