You might be better off with an LED panel. Something like this, which can run off an ac adapter.

But as the other commenter mentioned, if this is running unattended for 6-8 hours safety is a big consideration. Be aware of the heat these lights will generate and the safety of the electrical cords and connections you plan to use.

We need more details to recommended something to meet your needs.

1. What are you photographing? Is it a large object/scene, or a smaller object/scene?
2. How many hours on end do you expect the flash to run?
3. How much light do you need the flash to output? A lot? A little? Is this light meant to be the main light for the photo or is it supplemental?

Running a flash for hours on end flashing 1-2 times per second can quickly overheat a flash, which can lead to problems. The lower the flash output, the better it will handle that heat and the longer it will be able to run.

But with that being said, depending on how many hours and how much light you need you might be better off with ac powered LED light panels instead of a flash.

Game of Thrones’d

I’d encourage learning. The more you understand the better you can control your data and maintain your services. You don’t need to be an expert but I’d encourage working towards relying less on gpt.

wg-easy is what you want

DOWN:

I’m currently fighting with my OliveTin config file. I added a simple new config for a button action and ylthe whole thing just shit the bed. Now OliveTin won’t load at all. Even after removing the new config. Stupid yaml.

UP:

After reading the Jellyfin docs and their Hardware Encoder Quality section which states

Apple ≥ Intel ≥ Nvidia >>> AMD*

I decided to spin up a test server on the m1 mini that’s been sitting unused in my basement for a couple of months now to see if I can get better performance out of jellyfin on the m1 vs where it’s running currently, which is on an i7 Intel that’s going on 10ish years old now.

I also spun up baserow and directus containers to see which one I want to use for my database needs.

Audiobookshelf for sure. It handles audiobooks fabulously, and it also does handle ebooks.

I use it to manage my eBook library, but not as the reader. You can set up a “send to ereader” option to email the ebooks to your reader of choice. So I just shoot them off to my pocketbook ereader when I want to read one.

Easiest way would be to just add a sleep 15 command at the top of the script. Time how long it takes your wifi to come up, and adjust the sleep time with like a 2-3 second buffer in case it takes linger for some reason.

More exact would be to create a systemd service for your script that depends on network connectivity to execute.

Arch wiki is the documentation gold standard

Definitely. Why not use something off the shelf! That by itself would make it much more approachable

I’ve been on arch around a year now and also considered the jump to NixOS. I was actually dual booting it with arch for awhile and I found pretty quickly that the shit documentation was a huge turn off for me. I ended up nuking the nix partition and reclaiming it for arch.

Another for radicale. Been using it for years now. Its great.

I missed that news. So photomator is probably dead and going to be folded into photos.app.

Same here. luks encrypted drive in my work locker.

Right now I sneaker net it. I stash a luks encrypted drive in my locker at work and bring it home once a week or so to update the backup.

At some point I’m going to set up a RPI at a friend’s house, but that’s down the road a bit.

You could. I didn’t even think about it. I’m used to using dd, but clonezilla is a totally viable option here.

No worries! Happy to help, and the instructions will work with the HDD, just use the HDD/boot as the in. I shouldn’t have assumed the existing boot was an ssd. Good luck!!!

If you want to clone the existing system onto the new ssd, here’s the broad strokes of what you can do.

1. Get a usb stick and write your linux distro of choice to it. Doesn’t really matter which one, we’re just using this to clone the system drive to the new drive. You want the system drive to be totally inactive during the clone which is why you’ll do it from a live usb rather than with the system itself booted.
2. shut down the system
3. Install the new ssd. DO NOT REMOVE THE CURRENT SYSTEM/BOOT SSD. You should now have two ssds installed.
4. If you can’t install the second ssd, plug it in to usb via an enclosure
5. Boot from the live usb
6. open the terminal
7. run lsblk and note the /dev/sdX path of the system drive. Write it down.
8. From the same output, note the /dev/sdX path of the new ssd. Write it down.
9. Use the dd command to clone the system drive to the new ssd. The command will look like this:

`dd if=/dev/existingBootDrive of=/dev/newSSDDrive bs=8M status=progress oflag=direct’

This command will clone the exact data of the system drive to the new ssd. the if portion of the command stands for in file, as in the source of the data you want to clone. Make sure that is your existing boot drive. of is the out file, the destination of the clone. Make sure that is your new ssd.

When you do this, the new drive will appear to be the same size as the old drive. This is due to the cloning, but is easily resolved by resizing the partition(s). How you do this depends on the filesystem, so refer to this guide for resizing

10. Once you’ve resized the partition/disk, double check the partition UUIDs on the new ssd against what’s in /etc/fstab on the new disk. To do this, run blkid to get a list of all the partitions and their UUIDs. Note the UUIDs of the partitions on the new ssd.
11. To check /etc/fstab, you’ll have to mount the root (/) partition of the new drive somewhere in the live system. In the terminal you should already be in the home folder of the live system user. Make a new directory with mkdir. Call it whatever you want. So something like: mkdir newboot
12. run lsblk and make note of the root partition on the new ssd, then mount that to newboot (or whatever you called it) with sudo mount /dev/sdX newboot (where X is the actual device label for the root parition of the new drive`
13. open /etc/fstab with your terminal text editor of choice. Compare the UUIDs to the ones you noted. If they are the same, you’re golden (they should be the same, but I’ve also had them change on me. ymmv). If they are different, delete the old UUID and replace it with the new UUID for each respective partiiton
14. Shut down the system
15. Remove the old boot drive, and install the new boot drive in it’s place
16. Boot the system. If all goes well, you’ll boot right into tumbleweed as if nothing has changed except you’re running from your shiny new ssd
17. If it doesn’t boot, boot again from the live usb, and again check the UUIDs to make sure there were no mistakes
18. Keep the old SSD unmodified in case you need to revert back to it.

Gee. Look at the fucking cops protecting the oligarchs and their property instead of the rights of the people being illegally detained, deported, arrested, etc…

I don’t use AI at all. What you described is the principal reason. I also don’t like how these giant corpos are sucking up the entirety of human output to train these models without a care to the implications of it.