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If it starts fine, but performance drops off a cliff after a while, it might be a heat issue.
I ended up putting such a flaky drive in a bag and wrapping a flexible icepack around it.
Not a great solution, but kinda good enough to get some data off of it.

I use this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.orrs.deliveries

It can usually get the status of most courriers unless they’re actively hostile against API/scraping.
Worst case you can still track status manually, or open the webpage.
It doesn’t track payment, but I don’t usually have a tracking number before paying.
I think you could technically add your own custom status entry.
I keep them as active until shipped and verified after which I mark them as completed.

Works well enough for my needs.

Aye, most of that activity was generated through user error on my end.
Jet is legit, but got caught by the bot or something and then the manual unban didn’t work right… so I site-banned them again (from sjw) and unbanned them, to try to make it federate, it was a bit of a mess. Lemmy generates community bans with site bans, not sure why that didn’t undo with the unban.
Either way, totally my fault.

Seems the content in the screenshot was from !networking@sh.itjust.works.
They were indeed still banned from that community, but shouldn’t have been, I’ve unbanned them manually.
I’ll check the other communities too.

Gnupvoted

You can use an adapter just fine.
Or use a 5.5" drive caddy, that’s just a little drawer that slides in and out.
Real question is it you have enough SATA connectors available.

It’s a bit advanced, but I have a GPU in my server that doubles as a home theater / couch gaming thing. I PCI passthrough the GPU to a windows VM where I get near baremetal performamce.
It runs ontop of proxmox and has a bunch of containers and VMs for my other stuff.
Currently, the linux part is headless, as in I don’t need a screen for the linux stuff on there, but it’d be a matter of hooking up the onboards graphics to another monitor input.
I like the idea because unlike dualboot, it all runs at the same time.
My other desktop’s mobo has issues with vfio and iommu groups so I can’t really do this on that other machine, but for my next build, good iommu groups will be a deciding factor.
I’d love to have a similar setup for my desktop and just switch monitor inputs or KB/mouse USB switch between both.

Warrantied drives still fail, they just happen to ship you a replacement.

Commercial drive trashing solutions are basically a smaller, fancier version of the mechanism in a log splitter.
You could probably rig a sketchy drive wedge/bending thing with a pump jack rather easily.
Wear PPE.

The odds of someone taking a failed drive and transplanting the platters to a working drive is pretty low to begin with.

Me? I don’t have tons of drives to destroy, so I just unscrew the thing, get the platters out and smash those.

Your examples seem vaguely related to home automation, so maybe they’re already in Home Assistant.
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/

It has a bunch of sensors and media related integrations. You can also add custom REST API queries.

For me, Plex would often end up having audio drift lag and it was annoying as fuck. It’d start fine, then the lag would gradually increase until you changed encoding back and forth, then gradually increase again.
Jellyfin just works.
That was enough to get me to switch and not look back. I’m also rid of the bullshit plex login that I never cared for, and also of their push for whatever “recommended” stuff is supposed to be about.

Make sure you test this from outside your network and not simply by using the public IP, but from inside your LAN. Odds are your ISP modem doesn’t support NAT loopback (also known as NAT hairpin).

Speaking from experience?
That seems rough.

Buying your own domain.
You can then use whatever provider, or host your email service… but at least you don’t need to change addresses when switching anymore.

@EllaSpiggins@lemm.ee can probably help with the account on lemm.ee.

Or just make an account here on https://sh.itjust.works/ without messing up the email.

I think most instances’ admins are reacheable through Matrix.

Good luck
Peace

Good question, I’d guess it would be the closest to the center of whichever zone.
I haven’t tested them, but if they work, it’d be easier to use non circular zones than deal with multiple overlapping ones.

I get what you mean and yea I don’t think you can easily use groups for that.
Zones have a several things going on.
In no particular order:

1. A zone’s state is the number of people in it.
2. Zones can be used as enter/leave triggers in automations.
3. A person’s state becomes the name of the zone when they’re in them.

Making a mock entity for #1 is easy enough, a helper number thing whose state is the sum of the group members’ states.
The other stuff is more complicated.
#2… Might be easier to add the different zones as multiple triggers, which might be a pain to manage. But then, I assume you’d also want to ignore whenever someone moves between zones in that same group.
#3… idk, if it’s just for displaying purposes in that person’s “badge” thing, just use the same display name for all zones in group. If it’s for use in an automation, then you probably need to duplicate everything again.

Might be easier to implement polygonal zones than group normal ones.

I think nodered might already have that geofencing feature.

There’s a bit of discussion in here: https://github.com/home-assistant/architecture/discussions/1014

Yea, it’s not the first time I’ve seen this discussion either.
I don’t wanna seem like I’m not believing you or belittling your experience, I just find it weird that we (we, users, as a whole, not just you and I) have such wildly different experiences with it.

As is, I have a vastly better experience with my own nextcloud than with corporate’s onedrive, with more stuff on mine.

Wish I knew why it’s so inconsistent.
Even though my nextcloud experience is fine, I know plenty of people with the opposite.

Legit have had none of these issues.
I do get a notification once in a while if I modify a picture fast enough, like a quick crop and it’s still uploading. Like snap pic and edit within the same 5 seconds or so.
Basically just a: “there are multiple versions of the same file (which is true), which one do you wanna keep”.

Then again mine is running on a pretty beefy server which might hide issues rooted in performance.
I remember it being hell when I was running it on a RPi.

Yea only times I’ve had issues is if I run out of space allocated to the container that runs it.
I currently have 16GB of phone uploads and 540G overall, it works fine

Nextcloud’s instant upload feature?
Whenever I take a picture or screenshot it’s uploaded there.

Nextcloud might be overkill if that’s the only feature you need. I’ve never used the more involved stuff like chat or document editing, just sync.

What’s wrong about Battlefield 3?