Interesting, that’s too bad. Seems like it’s not an uncommon occurrence for Hetzner.

Kiwix is a self hostable option for this, and you can get other content databases as well, like wikiHow, iFixit, and Khan Academy.

The downloads are much faster than two weeks too.

I heard about the Light Phone recently and I think it’s a decent bridge between the old brick phones and modern smartphones. It has navigation and music functionality that a brick phone wouldn’t, but doesn’t have all the rest of the attention thieving bloat of a smartphone.

It would be nice to have music streaming capability and alternative messaging apps (Signal) and perhaps a web browser, though.

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I blame the moon for not being blue more often.

Yes, but the alternative is far worse. I present America as Exhibit A.

I’ve got mine on a subdomain through a Cloudflare tunnel that points to my local nginx proxy manager (with wildcard SSL certs) then to immich. You can do access control through Cloudflare as well. Quite low risk in my opinion as long as you protect it properly.

Looks like that one isn’t maintained. That page links to this one instead.

Right, I just mean the general public really doesn’t seem to care about these types of things, unfortunately, and sale of things like consoles and other proprietary systems is an indicator of that.

Everyone’s been brainwashed conditioned to think that having no control of their devices is just the way it has to be.

Who would buy a flagship gaming-pc without the admin-pwd and without being allowed to change the os?

Is that not exactly what a gaming console is?

It works great with usenet, detects albums you have and looks for those you don’t, with a decent UI for managing.

Doesn’t Lidarr do a similar thing? Not sure if it operates the same if you don’t have the arr part of it going.

Sad to see the news about tteck. His scripts really helped me get off the ground on my own self hosting journey.

This is quite important with Immich. They’re good at documenting their breaking changes, just gotta make sure you check the changelog before updating. Also best to avoid auto updating with Watchtower or similar to avoid surprises.

It really made the most sense for me. Essentially long term rent a car and when the term is up, either technology has progressed to where the features of a new model are vastly superior, so give it back to the dealership, or there is still limited supply (I’m in a small EV market in Canada) and tech is more or less the same, then I buy it out.

Seemed like a fairly significant reduction of risk in getting an EV and a win win either way.

I’m not sure if they’re available with UK plugs, but I’ve got a pack of Thirdreality Zigbee plugs that monitor energy use and have a button on them to toggle power.

I’ve got them connected to Home Assistant. Two do a bit of climate control in a coldroom, the others are for occupancy lighting.

Oh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn’t helping anything, but don’t call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don’t doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.

I love it. It’s a 2023 model, so the new shape. It’s the vehicle of choice for nearly all trips we take over a '20 Subaru Outback. Charging is slowly expanding in the province so it’s becoming even easier to plan drives. Really the biggest frustration is our biggest city only has 50 kW fast charging.

Oh, I agree it won’t be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.

I’ve heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there’s likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it’s all one network open to everyone.

Also it’s a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because “it’s socialism”. It’s already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.

Anecdotal, but my personal experience with an Ioniq 5 in -28C increased the power consumption by about 50% over summer driving. My test was about 42 km, done with comfortable, driver-only cabin heat on a flat highway with no wind.

Average highway consumption is about 20 kWh/100km, that test was 29.3 kWh/100km.

Saying that, an EV is quite practical in Saskatchewan, Canada. Charging is finally getting to a point where that extreme winter range limitation is less of an issue. Having a second ICE vehicle does take the pressure off if one absolutely has to travel when it’s that cold out though.