my wife and i use owntracks for address now. it’s a pretty easy setup, bit can be expended at will. the confusing part at the beginning is just that there is no actual “owntracks server”.

what you do is: set up a mqtt server, of you don’t have one already (e.g. mosquitto) and install the owntracks app on the devices.

isn’t json already a human readable format? ;) ok, jokes aside. to parse a file interactively, like i need to extract some information now, i use Julia, because I’m working with it anyway. that’s of course not very practical for automation scripts. most convenient would be a language that is already incorporated in your setup. otherwise i usually end up with a bash script with some jq calls.

Yes, of course. Sorry, that was just my OCD peeking through :)

Just to clear it up. The video won’t be lossless, as the DVD is already in a lossy format (mpeg2), but the conversion from DVD to mkv won’t add anything more as it just copies the data without transcoding.

Neat, was working on this on and off for a while, but no time to read now.

I’m trying to set up the same at some point. How do you solve the changing IP address problem?

I’m using freeotp+ I don’t know if it’s any fancy, bit never had issues with it (I’m using it rather rarely)

You are right, how Amazon presents it is just a bit confusing and it takes a bit of digging to find the real seller.

I know, in getting old… ;)

I still see FP4 in the Fairphone store on Amazon, so can’t be to bad. Is like 200€ while the new one is north of 600€ (don’t remember the exact price). But yeah, looking into the used market might make sense. Ty

There are dozens of hardware issues with that phone. Really a shame

I’m using a stick FP 4 and am really happy about it, I just try to lock down the android bloat from time to time. My wife has a murena Teracube. After changing the launcher, she is really happy with the software, but the hardware is hot garbage, so she plans to get a new one soon.

Our idea was the FP4, because I have good experiences with it, you still get spare parts and it’s comparable cheap.

Do you know whether there was anywhere a bit jump in performance from FP4 to 5?

Due to bazzite,I checked out fedora silver blue for my work laptop. So far I’m happy.

I used to have Ubuntu everywhere, then changed to Debian for servers. Now that I’m using bazzite for my gaming rig, I really liked the idea and went to fedora silver blue on my work laptop. I’m the near future I want to re do my home lab, bit not sure yet what, unfortunately to many open questions concerning storage left.

I meant to ask already: what is the actual technical difference between mqtt and ntfy? For me it feels pretty similar technique, just one is used for push service and the other not. So it feels like reinventing the wheel. Maybe somebody here can enlighten me?

Some self hosted multi media libraries have comment or note functions

There are certainly some discussions with whatever high level considerations. But for ease of setup it is definitely a way.

Ah, and with a non-federation setup you can skip all the more finicky parts of the installation (DNS, .well-known, bla bla) or just a simple server that needs to be reachable by the client.

I recommend to read a tutorial of docker and docker compose. Then the setup of stuff like synapse is a few minutes task. (Non-federation is a simple option in the config file).

Afaik, Dockge is just a front end for docker compose. So simply tagging your build (preferably with someone systematic like “local/name of software”) and using that as image name should work. Or just using directly the build command of compose.