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[–] dan@upvote.au 61 points 3 days ago (8 children)

When are people going to realise that routing a huge chunk of the internet through one private company is a bad idea? The entire point of the internet is that it's a decentralized network of networks.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Try install a web server like Nginx. I think the Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, so sudo apt install nginx should work. Then hit the Pi's address (no port number needed) and it should show a default page.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 1 week ago

Phones sometimes will ignore your local DNS (if any) and still use whatever the vendor hardcoded.

For what it's worth, this is mostly for security reasons - they're using DNS-over-HTTPS so that the DNS requests are encrypted.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

If you're using the app on the phones, try the website instead?

Is it just Nextcloud having issues? Can you access other services on the Pi from the phones?

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Your ps output doesn't show systemd as running. The only output is the grep command itself.

[–] dan@upvote.au 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you want to play files over SMB, you can just open the SMB mount in the file explorer and double click it. On Windows you can mount it as a network drive (like V: for videos) so even non-technical users understand it. I don't understand how mpv is easier for that use case.

With systems like Jellyfin and Plex, you can (and should!) turn off transcoding when streaming at home. The only times you should enable transcoding are when:

  1. You're away from home on a slow internet connection (or your home internet has slow upload speed); or
  2. You're streaming to a less powerful device that can't handle the full bitrate of the video.

Transcoding is very useful, because otherwise you'd need multiple copies of the same movie to handle different environments. Transcoding can dynamically adjust the bitrate based on the connection speed.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'll have to try them the next time I'm in Australia.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The Aldi ones in the USA have the catchy name of "Aussie-style chocolate coated wafer cookies"

...which somehow isn't as bad as the name of the Trader Joe's ones: "Aussie-style chocolate creme sandwich cookies coated in chocolate"

They're both manufactured in the Netherlands.

Not quite as good as legit Tim Tams, but they're 85% of the way there at half the price of legit Tim Tams imported from Australia.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can find them at World Market, but like most of the food at World Market, it's overpriced. Some Target and Walmart stores have Tim Tams, or at least the ones where I am in Northern California. There's a Fijian grocery store near me that has a bunch of Aussie things too.

My wife and I usually just bring some back with us when we visit Australia. We're both Australian so we try to go back every so often to see friends and family.

[–] dan@upvote.au 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

Penguins are horrible. Not worth the calories.

I live in the USA now, and you can buy Tim Tams here, but Trader Joe's and Aldi both have store brand imitation Tim Tams too. Even those are better than Penguins. They're not exactly like Tim Tams, but they're pretty close.

[–] dan@upvote.au 71 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Omnilert later admitted the incident was a “false positive” but claimed the system “functioned as intended,” saying its purpose is to “prioritize safety and awareness through rapid human verification.”

What?? How is it prioritizing safety if it did exactly the opposite and created an unsafe environment (a bunch of US cops with guns pointed at teens)?

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 4 weeks ago

Sure, but there's Linux features that use TPM too, although you probably don't need them in a home environment.

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