EonNShadow

joined 2 years ago
[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I use Plex for audiobooks and TV shows primarily.

The fact that you can't (or at least can't easily) scan library files from Plexamp is utterly insane to me. Especially after they made audio libraries completely unavailable on the regular Plex app.

I'll probably switch to Audiobookshelf or something else down the line.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by EonNShadow@pawb.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I'd like to get a dashcam, but unfortunately my phone isn't one that has an SD card slot.

I'm going on a road trip soon and would like to pick up a dash cam for it as I've had issues in the past.

I'm looking to see if you guys have any cleaner (as in more automated, less fiddly post-setup) solutions than just using an SD Card reader on the phone to manually upload the data to a NAS via VPN

Thanks in advance! I'm definitely more of a tech person than a car person so any help would be appreciated.

Edit: you all seem to be making the same point, I'm coming at this from the wrong POV. I'm worried about vendor lock-in and being reliant on whatever service the vendor wants to use instead of just handling the data myself. But it seems like it shouldn't be too much of a problem. Thanks for all your answers!

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 14 points 2 months ago (14 children)

My job doesn't allow me to use a jailbroken/rooted device

So if/when this goes through I'll be switching to iOS.

Given the choice between two closed platforms, I'll pick the one that ostensibly says they're privacy focused instead of the one actively enshittifying their product.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Maybe it thought you were asking for states that contain the letter D? In which case it missed Idaho, Nevada, Maryland, Rhode Island (with two) and both Dakotas

So yea it did pretty poorly either way lmao

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Like the other commenter said - people recommend them for peace of mind so you don't have to think about knowing a password for the 2653rd account you set up once and are never using again. It's the next best thing to just remembering complex passwords.

I've used Dashlane for years, personally, but I know people here will immediately shut that down for not being FOSS. Bitwarden is FOSS but requires some technical setup and has no redundancy.

Don't get me wrong, I love self-hosting as much as the rest of us but I'm not trusting my server from 2013 with all my passwords to everything.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 points 6 months ago

I was in a similar situation, but as the boyfriend at the time

I'd driven 1.5hr away to see my then girlfriend at college. We went out for groceries and were just pulling into her campus, making a left on a yellow when a cyclist went straight on a yellow. She flipped over the hood of my car and broke her collarbone.

I'd almost come to a complete stop when the actual collision happened but was still on the hook for the fines and license points for failing to yield.

The girl I hit didn't press charges or anything. And as far as I'm aware she's doing ok.

Despite the trauma, I kept driving out of necessity, I had to get 80+ miles home somehow and I definitely wasn't going to Uber from there.

Now we got married, and we both have long commutes for our jobs (in opposite directions unfortunately, we just moved to a more central spot for it) and our jobs require travel between multiple locations throughout the day.

Quitting driving would've kept us from job opportunities that allow us to have the lifestyle we live today.

I don't think you're overreacting, but imo you shouldn't let something like that define your adult life. Accidents happen, and this was probably the best-cass scenario in your case.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 3 points 6 months ago

Linus? That you?

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 56 points 7 months ago (4 children)

'Scheme' has that connotation in the US, yeah.

I know publications outside the US use it in a much more neutral manner, but it's funny to us.

[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"learned some things like Linux, command line, docker, and networking/pfsense" "I don't consider myself technical"

Don't sell yourself short, I work in IT and have colleagues on our helpdesk who would struggle endlessly with those concepts.

I hereby dub you a tech person, like it or not, those skills can and do pay the bills.