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TedZanzibar

@ TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

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  • GrapheneOS duress PIN could land a man in prison

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  • Maybe somebody's asked this already but how come, in this day and age, there isn't a way to snapshot your entire phone into some sort of encrypted blob for storage in a location of your choice? You could wipe your phone and setup a throwaway profile with some basic apps before traveling, and then restore the snapshot once safely through customs.

    Border issues aside, it would be very handy to be able to snapshot a phone like that anyway...

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • I feel bad for laughing so hard at this. Bravo.

  • What is the best email server you use?

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  • Same. It's incredibly bare bones and you have to supply your own domain, but the pricing structure makes a lot of sense and they offer some cool stuff that no other provider does, like wildcard subdomain support.

  • People who are staying on Plex, have you tried Jellyfin? What about it do you not prefer? (real question)

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  • I tried Jellyfin once about a year ago and it was... OK I guess? Certainly nowhere near as polished as the rabid fan base would have me believe, and there was something in my library that it flat out refused to play.

    If I didn't already have a lifetime Plex Pass, and it was just me hosting my own media for a user count of one, then sure, I'd use it. But none of those things are true. I need something that "just works" and Plex fits that bill.

    Like most people here, I bought a lifetime pass when it was $75 and it's paid for itself over and over again in the time since. I honestly think I've had more than $750 worth of value from my purchase. Sure they've made some odd decisions recently, but until they start actively taking away functionality or rescind existing lifetime subs then I will continue to use it.

    Meanwhile, not to belittle you personally, but the fact that every thread that mentions Plex in any way, good or bad, is guaranteed to be dominated by people circle-jerking over their beloved Jellyfin has put me completely off the project, to the point that I've had to add the word to my blocklist. Obviously that's not working too well or I wouldn't have seen this post!

  • What's that video game boss you've never been able to beat, or took you the longest to beat?

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  • Not a boss per se, but the first Marauder fight in Doom Eternal made me rage quit for a good 6 months.

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  • August 1999. The last total solar eclipse visible from the UK was 72 years ago, and the next one would be 91 years later. Young Ted woke up to a gloriously sunny day. This would be it!

    An hour before the event we drove out to a nice remote viewing spot with minimal obstructions for miles around. 30 minutes to go, the clouds rolled in. Thick, blanket cloud from horizon to horizon. The eclipse happened. From under the cloud it got a bit darker and the birds had a bit of a freak out but it was otherwise a non-event. We drove back home, disappointed.

    30 minutes later the clouds cleared and the rest of the day was as glorious as the morning had been. 27 years later I'm still bitter about it. Seattle's got nothing on us!

  • Even if it has mint frosting!

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  • Especially if it has mint frosting.

  • Fun

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  • Tell that to Michel Lotito who, allegedly, ate an entire Cessna 150.

  • NAS decision paralysis

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  • Synology walked back their requirement of using their own branded drives.

    First I've heard of this but you're right.

    It's really interesting how far I had to scroll down the search results to find it, as the top page or so of hits are from April when they added the restriction in the first place.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Vivaldi is Chromium based, that's like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.

    There are plenty of Firefox forks that will be actively removing the AI crap. Waterfox, Pale Moon, Librewolf, Zen, Floorp to name a few. And these will all continue to support Manifest v2 and therefore adblockers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on_Firefox

  • Do you feel sad about the fact that you'll probably die within 100 years (or less) and you (well... that's most of us tbh) can't do much to leave a significant positive legacy?

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  • I'm kinda sad that I probably* won't get to see how this story ends. Do we make it as a species? Do we end up in the Star Trek utopia, or do we wipe ourselves out with our own hubris? But I'm not sad of afraid of dying itself. My legacy will be doing right by my kids and hopefully setting them up to live better lives than I did, and I'm OK with that.

    *If I do live long enough to see us wipe ourselves out that will be pretty shit, ngl.

  • Strange things are afoot at Terok Nor

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  • You might be a king or a little street sweeper but sooner or later you dance with the reaper.

  • What's the main device to hammer in a nail?

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  • Yes this! It was so obvious what was going on behind the scenes yet the contestants would merrily show their hand every time.

  • PC Master Race @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    First desktop PC in 15 years. Help me feel good about buying a Dell!

  • Long-lasting trauma not included

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  • I feel like this is the wrong way around. It should say that five lights are included but show pictures of four.

  • What is the most controversial TV finale?

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  • Controversial as in it ruined an otherwise great show? Dexter.

  • jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy

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  • It's more like £150/year, but it's charged every 3 years. Still very expensive compared to .com for sure!

  • jotty·page - Checklists & Notes made it easy

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  • This looks really good and I'm enthused with how responsive you're being, will definitely give it a try.

    It is a bit of a shame you didn't call it Jott as jo.tt is available as a domain, but then the tt TLD is pretty expensive so maybe not!

  • What are you all using for a 2FA token manager?

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  • It's niche but I like to point it out whenever I get the opportunity: if your workplace uses Bitwarden Enterprise, every licensed user gets a free family plan that can be linked to any account. I haven't personally paid for BW for years.

  • Why do our away missions always end up in caves?

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  • Caves with suspiciously flat floors, too.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    Recommendations for running VMs on a headless server?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    TedZanzibar @feddit.uk

    How safe is self-hosting a public website behind Cloudflare?