Most containers default to UTC, and depending what you’re running, that may be fine.

I only mount /etc/timezone / /etc/localtime if I’m running a container where it needs to be on the same timezone as the host (DB containers, anything where I want the logs in local time, etc). Not all containers use the TZ env var, so bind mounting the timezone files from the host is a guaranteed way to sync them.

I signed the pledge to not ever federate with them, and unlike the DARE pledges they made us sign in school, I’m taking this one seriously.

I always do some level of RAID. If for no other reason, I’m not out of commission if a disk fails. When you’re working with multi TB, restoring from a backup can take a while. If rapid recovery from a disk failure is not a high priority for you, then you could probably do without RAID.

Either way, make sure you test your backups occasionally.

Another way to put it: With RAID, a disk failure is like your Check Engine light coming on. You can still drive, but you should address the problem as soon as you can. Without RAID, it’s like your engine has seized up and you have to tow it for repair and are without your car until it’s fixed.

Thanks for the additional insight.

A coffee maker, I’d just return. But a dishwasher, refrigerator, oven, etc would be a huge hassle I’d want to avoid. I think my best bet, like you said, is to just look for one that has absolutely no mention of w-fi or “smart”.

The thing is I knew that but didn’t catch it. Fixed!

I like Joplin. Works offline and syncs with my Nextcloud.

Does Tesseract start off with an initial set of pre-built categories?

No, but I’ve wanted to do something like that (similar to what PieFed does). Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. Unfortunately, there’s no API support for that in Lemmy, so the instance admins would have to manually populate it.

Tesseract seems not intuitive to me … learning curve

You’re not wrong. Side effect of having so many features and making UI compromises so everything that works on desktop works on mobile (without a dedicated ‘mobile’ mode) lol.

As I keep adding stuff, the menus get unwieldy so I have to come up with new ways to expose the features. Lately, I’ve settled on interactive modals which has cut the number of menus (and menu items) down considerably. On the other hand, I have practically no user guide docs, only admin/setup docs, so that is something I can work on to hopefully make it more approachable.

That’s a big, honking “no” from me.

It’d be one thing if the “smart” features were there but only supplemented the basic functionality. It’s another entirely for those basic features to require an internet connection.

Out of curiosity, did the product description indicate the internet connection was required? I’m soon to be replacing some appliances and want to know what to look out for (besides all mentions of “wifi” or “smart”).

I use Tesseract. The filtering is a little more granular but works similarly.

It also lets you put communities in groups. So, for example, I have all my “Science” communities in a group, and if I want to share an article that’s science-y, I can look at the communities in the science group to get an idea of which one would be most appropriate. The community details are accessible from there as well.

When I subscribe to a new community, I typically add it to a group so I don’t have to go back and do it later.

Example Flow: I know the link I want to share is science-related, so I click into my “Sciences” group.

I see “Earth, Environment, and Geosciences” which seems appropriate, so I click it to see the community details.

After confirming it’s an appropriate community, I click back and then select “Create post”

I just use a UI that lets me live-filter my community subscription list and click ‘create post’ from there. This just seems like looking for a reason to shove “AI” into Lemmy.

It’s not immediately apparently exactly which removed comment in the modlog triggered this post, but one of your last comments told another user they deserved to be lynched because they disagreed with you about…lynching. Then you called them idiots for not “getting it”.

If you smell removed everywhere, instead of crying “what about?!”, maybe check your shoe.

Probably nothing this time b/c people are jerks and kept overwriting what I was trying to draw in the little tiny space that was left after some people decided to use 1/3 of the canvas each for their giant-ass flags. And when I finally got something on there, someone ran their stupid nyan cat through it. So, why bother?

I’m done with Canvas until people can be more considerate and less greedy.

What’s the benefit of rspamd over SA? I’ve used SA since I first setup my mail stack years ago, and it’s been great. Cron jobs run nightly to train based on the contents of all the mailboxes’ .spam folders, so it’s only gotten better with time.

Not judging, just curious.

That’s okay, too.

For me, I only let people I know use them (friends and family) with the exception of my Lemmy instance, of course (and even that’s not wide open to the world).

I’d be running these for myself whether anyone else used them or not. Unless I’m hosting for hundreds of people, the cost to run these services is the same as it is just for myself. Granted, I don’t have people gaming the system trying to backup their entire PCs to their email inbox or Nextcloud, but that’s where the trust factor (and storage quotas) comes in.

As far as being responsible for all that goes, again, the small audience of people I know personally lets me explain that it’s all “best effort”. That said, I do take my own backups and high availability seriously and they benefit from that.

How exactly are “communities offering services” a different thing than “hosted software”?

It’s a lot easier to ask Matt down the street to customize or add a feature than it is to ask Google, FB, etc.

Case in point: I’ve run my own email server since 2013 or so. I’ve got friends and family that use it. One of my friends asked if there was any way to setup rules to filter emails and such. I was like “yep” and added on Sieve to Dovecot and setup the webmail (Roundcube at the time) with the Sieve plugin.

Granted, that’s a pretty basic feature that pretty much all commercial email providers offer, but the point is someone asked for it and I made it happen for them.

I’ve self hosted long before the privacy/subscription nightmare of modern cloud/SaaS platforms was a thing. I do it because I enjoy it (and at the time I got started, I had crap internet so having good local services like offline Wikipedia was important).

Not everyone has to self-host. I run lots of services, mostly for myself, but friends and family who don’t know a kernel driver from a school bus driver also use them. So the expectation that everyone self host is and always has been “pie in the sky”. And that’s okay.

Privacy regulations are all fine and dandy, but even with the strictest ones in place, you still do not own or control your data. You’re still subscribing to services instead of owning software. You can’t extend, modify, or customize hosted software. Self hosting FOSS applications addresses all of those.

So rather than expect everyone to self-host, we should be working towards communities offering services to one another, pooling resources, and letting those interoperate with each other.

To make fun of an old moral panic in the 90s: “It’s 11pm. Do you know where your data is?” Yep, it’s down the street in Matt’s house.

I don’t use the desktop app, but the mobile app has a setting for what to do with the original file:

1. Keep in original folder
2. Move to app folder
3. Deleted

I have different sync folders setup differently depending on use case, but I typically use option #1 as my “default”.

Maybe when you setup the sync folder, you set it to delete the local files?

Also, is the OneDrive folder a “real” folder or virtual one? I’ve only used Google Drive for things like that, and the local folder just holds a skeleton of the contents and pulls from the network on-demand. It…does not play well with other sync utilities or even copying through robocopy.

Reddit is dead to me and blocked in my router, so I’m good sharing knowledge and cool stuff here.

Matrix also is close to checking all the boxes, but it wasnt clear how it works on mobile (Element seemed like the mobile app that was recommended).

I run Matrix, and it’s pretty great. Though I would recommend Schildichat over Element for the mobile app. I had all kinds of issues with Element Mobile somehow screwing up the E2EE keys for my other sessions. Nothing seemed to fix it except removing my account from it completely. Switched to Schildichat and haven’t had that issue since.