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I’m interested in all of these replies because I have a preview edition coming in the mail. I’m tired of Google listening to everything despite claiming not to.

Each instance admin can check a box to require email. It reduces spam accounts and reduces work for admins because users can perform password resets themselves.

I may have gotten sucked into the .ml user’s what-about-ism, but I started off by just trying to point out the flaw in their logic.

System, personal choice, whatever – it doesn’t really matter because .ml user is trying to spin facts to support their agenda. I don’t know what their agenda is other than just being contentious.

Ah, so you do understand there’s a difference in why someone would chose one type of transportation over another.

I think your logic is flawed. The discussion is about a specific form of transportation. By your own logic, you should be suggesting that people fly everywhere.

I have lots of temp/humidity sensors. I use them to control heating zones instead of the traditional thermostats.

I’ve become a big fan of the Adafruit BME680, but it’s pricey compared to other sensors. But, you get temp, humidity, pressure, etc. Very accurate, too.

The sensors are connected to D1 Mini boards. The dry contact switches I use are in a 4 switch device from Sonoff (4CH Pro, I think).

I prefer Tasmota to ESP Home, but it’s personal preference.

You could easily control your own contactors instead of using a Sonoff device if you want.

Their opinion is valid.

I haven’t heard of v3, I’ll have to check it out.

Depending on the group using it, you can apply for a Community plan to enable mobile push notifications. I do wish Zulip would use UnifiedPush or something like that, or even allow your own ntfy setup, but I’m placated by the Community plan.

Zulip paywalls mobile notifications, but you can apply for a Community subscription which is free, and includes mobile notifications.

IRC is too difficult for normal people to figure out. Normals don’t know how to /join, /nick, and all that other stuff. People want a username and password, because that’s a standard thing that everyone knows.

Even Matrix is too complicated for most people.

IRC serves a purpose, but judging by the success of Discord there’s obviously something lacking from IRC.

Yeah… I hesitated to hit “submit”, but figured the courts would rule in our favor because courts have a good sense of humor!

They are also very noisy, so a basement location might not be enough to suppress the humming and yelling from reaching your living areas.

I guess I see your point, but at the same time I don’t.

Tiny yes, but IMO getting the attention of computer gamers needs to be the next step if a Linux flavor is going to become a household name.

Even if it’s “SteamOS” that becomes the household name instead of “Linux” that’s still good overall. Maybe it’ll turn into how people used to say they had “Droid” smartphones, not Android.

I went to maga.place and it’s so edgy! Some 13 year old is having a good laugh at their own jokes.

I know it’s brand new, but as of right now it seems like a waste of time to even talk about it.

Could be a different story a week from now, but until then who cares.

Ah, maybe the max was 20GB for zip. I’d just do the max available for zip.

Do it again, but select 50GB chunks. This will produce fewer files.

Use immich-go to do the importing.

I’ve never had to restore a backup (yet), but to me this is the best feature of Restic.

I used Duplicati for a while (I think it was Duplicati, not Duplicacy) and although the backups seemed to work, I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

Restic is a slight chore to get set up with the environmental variables, figuring out which directories to “–ignore”, etc… but man once it’s set up it’s just great.

I’m not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It’s command line only. I think there’s a tool to make it a GUI but I haven’t tried it. They have a Docker image available but it’s weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it’s done. I love Docker but that didn’t quite work for me.

I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.

Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.

When it’s time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.

Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.