Creat

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[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 hours ago

If you're using a keepass database, Keepass2Android can natively sync with many cloud options including self hosted and generic ones, even without specific "companion" apps. That's what I use. In my case, it's backed by my NextCloud, but it used to be Google drive before.

Just also sync the file on your PC, merging changes from different clients is part of the keepass database format and "just works".

Also VaultWarden works great if your can self host it, but I prefer keepass for a variety of features and integrations.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, they do need to clean up the installer a bit. It's also not quite turnkey for a Windows dual-boot.

Mind letting us know why or how? When I installed it almost a year ago on my desktop, I did install it as a dual boot option with no issues. Of course this doesn't mean there aren't issues I just didn't run into. I'm also not new to Linux and didn't pick a fully default install, if that makes a difference. So I could've probably fixed it if it did break, but it never gave me any issues.

The only thing that I dislike, and that could probably cause issues, is that for my installation the mount point for the efi/boot partition isn't specified in fstab using a uuid, but using the device name (which isn't fixed and can change with hardware changes). That is a very weird (and unnecessary) decision IMHO.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Forgejo was soft forked from Gitea after they went commercial and changed the license (I think). If there aren't any so far, expect pay walled features eventually.

Forgejo turned into a hard fork after communication issues between the teams. I haven't looked too deeply into it (as I don't really care about the fact that it's a hard fork now). This means while it used to be a drop-in replacement allowing you to go back and forth between the two, it's now an active conversion, I think.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

I'm reasonably sure there's an option in librewolf that will hide your timezone and just report it as +0, independent from what you actually use is the os.

It has a lot of fingerprint hardening either enabled by default or available as an option.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago

All normal PCs run CachyOS, includes gaming PCs, laptops and media PCs. All servers run some form of Debian (includes Proxmox) or a dedicated distro for their use (TRUE WAS, technically also Debian based).

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe look onto OwnCloud. That's the project NextCloud was forked from many years ago. It's very much still around and had a very different philosophy, a much more minimalistic approach with focus on stability. That's actually the reason the people behind NextCloud had to fork it, cause all their additional features (bloat) wasn't accepted upstream.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you want to lessen the barrier of entry to Arch, maybe try CachyOS. It's Arch based and very close to normal Arch, but has some conveniences. Might be worth a look. It's also got it's own CPU specific repositories (same content as Arch), giving even more performance.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

Appreciate the heads up. I'm reasonably sure I've already uninstalled it anyway, but I'll check tomorrow to make sure.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

You can secure boot most distros these days. It's not new either. Depends on who it what their anchor is, and if it's more limited than just secure boot being active.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why does Canadian tire even have 38 million accounts? That number seems really wild to me...

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

Compressing it with handbrake will probably not look worse. MPEG2 used in DVD is notoriously inefficient by today's standards. Depending on the codec selected, it'll be a fraction of the size with no visible differences.

Unless you mean to keep the DVD structure and playability in DVD players (including menus and everything), but I don't think handbrake can do that.

[–] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

If you just want file sync, the obvious option is SyncThing. It's established and highly regarded.

 

I've noticed for a while that when playing a linked video directly in the app, it doesn't respect the global auto-rotate setting of the screen. Only today did I notice that there's a "lock rotation" button at the top of the player, but unless I'm misunderstanding something, it seems to do the opposite of that it's showing: when I see the little lock it's unlocked, and then it's just the rotation icon it's actually locked. For context, my phone's rotation is always locked, but the video always rotates on me.

In general my suggestion for the behavior for playing video would be to rotate and lock it to the "correct" orientation for it's aspect ratio. It makes no sense to play a portrait video in landscape, neither does the other way around. Rotating the phone should probably still be able to flip it 180°.

 

The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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