dingdongitsabear

dingdongitsabear , 5 hours ago

someone needs to rewrite this, both the post here and the promo copy on the website, it's hella confusing and explains nada.

dingdongitsabear , 3 hours ago

OK, so what this purports to do is use your email server as chat platform. kinda intriguing, could have several use cases, don't know what it does with existing email or how the chat looks like in e.g. thunderbird...

unfortunately, after installing it and being unsuccessful about having it login to my IMAP account (works fine with thunderbird), I've given up.

so, the "onboarding" is less than stellar and the desktop app is electron, which I hate; haven't tried the android app.

dingdongitsabear , 14 days ago

I don't understand the fascination of other commenters with mini-PCs, as the mini-ness was mentioned nowhere in the OP.

any used and decomissioned old office PC, any i5/i7 is way more powerful than you'll need for that setup. you get everything you need right in the box and you can cram it full with cheap RAM and hard disks. you get to repurpose something that's useless as a desktop workstation and not buy more future e-waste.

yes, the mini-PCs and the Rpis are more power efficient, but the operating costs of a $30-50 PC don't come close to the price of buying one of these mini-things, not to mention - figuring out how to run large hard disks with it.

dingdongitsabear , 13 days ago

I have acknowledged that they're that, but that's not what OP asked for - they asked for a cheap setup (which the minis ain't) and they intend to run a servarr instance, which implies large storage and those are both difficult and not cheap to cram into said minis.

dingdongitsabear , 19 days ago

maybe there's some way to filter out the stepmothers with the stepfathers on the stepladders...?

dingdongitsabear , 1 month ago

kinda like trillian in the olden days... not sure all them proprietary services are gonna let 'em use their platforms though.

dingdongitsabear , 1 month ago

there's a significant portion of software provided only via the App Store with no independent download from the vendor available. granted, you can get most stuff with direct download and macports/brew but there is stuff out there that forces you to sign in.

telemetry that's baked in along with the global Apple network that you're involuntarily part of (that's how random airtags/find-my-shit work) should be deal breakers for anyone.

dingdongitsabear OP , 3 months ago

I'm really sorry for reiterating this, but what you wrote also implies that movies that weren't on any list will also be deleted (don't want that), along with the movies that were on a list and now aren't (do want that). do you have first-hand experience with this?