MentalEdge

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I didn't tho.

You're confusing my homelab with my dads OMV NAS that is running kopia as its only non-standard service because I wanted to use it as my off-site target.

I wasn't presenting OMV as the solution to all of OPs examples, I literally just commented to point out "hey this is kinda like hexos but foss".

To which you responded "lol no, there is no comparison". Which is both untrue, and a rude way to go about saying anything.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

I don't use docker via a GUI. And I don't run docker at all on the NAS running OMV.

My backup solution is Kopia. Two servers, each running an instance that backs up local storage to the other.

OP isn't talking about a full homelab. If all you need is a home VPN and some network storage via SMB, OMV is fine.

For my homelab, OMV would be clunky af. For the NAS at my dad's end, it's ideal.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

For a free foss alternative, look at OMV (OpenMediaVault).

Most of what a user might need is fairly simple to set up in the webUI, and if you know what you are doing, you can still go into the underlying debian system and do whatever you like.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

Looks like in plasma 5 you need to mess with .desktop files placed in ~/.local/share/templates/

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

It's not a dotfolder. It has to be "Templates" not ".Templates".

Hence my follow-up on how to hide it.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

If you'd like to hide the Templates folder, you can create a file called ".hidden" in your home directory.

In it, simply write "Templates".

This way the folder becomes hidden, without changing its name to add a period.

You can add additional lines with more file and foldernames, so you can keep your home directory tidy for normal use, even if stuff relies on a file or folder there not having a period in the name.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 4w ago

To add more file creation options, you use a Templates folder.

Just create a folder named "Templates" in your home directory. Then use rnote to save an empty rnote file in that directory.

Your right click menu to create new files should now get an option to "create" rnote files (which are really just copies of the file in the Templates folder).

You can add whatever types of files you want in Templates, and they don't have to be empty.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

Ratchet mechanism of enshittification: click

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

The Finals works on linux, doesn't it?

The ARC Raiders playtests also ran.

Are they adding AC or is already in there?

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

I don't think it's an instancing problem.

It's not like reddit doesn't have duplicate communities for some things. People set out to do the same thing. It happens, and that's fine.

Sometimes they find each other, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they combine their efforts, sometimes they compete.

Same as individual posts. The good rises and grows, the bad is forgotten and disappears.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

Yes. That's what I said.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

If anything, this change serves to inhibit loot box gambling by cutting the possibility of hitting a real money jackpot.

Oh, I didn't think of that. With the smaller difference betwen the most expensive and least expensive items, gambling gets less random in terms of return.

That's an improvement, though I still think the whole systems should be taken out.

That there is a "counter strike skins investment 'industry'" is utterly insane.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

I agree.

But it's important to note that just because it flies under the radar of most people, doesn't mean it isn't an absolutely deplorable system that exploits the difficult to control tendencies of vulnerable people.

It's evil, and while it's "only a little bit of evil" compared to most similar system, there is no amount of evil that is ok.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

It's not even ducttape.

It's that paper masking tape that falls apart if you sneeze on it.

MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

It depends on the kid.

I'm one of three adult kids that our still-working parents have.

As someone who has accepted a lot of support from them, I feel extremely motivated to do something useful with that support.

But others might be inclined to freeload, and use that support to put off developing as a person. I think I'm a little guilty of that myself, but even in retrospect it's hard to say whether that stuff was a well-needed break, or just lazyness.

That said, I've kept track of every cent my parents have floated for me, and I've started slowly reducing the number as I'm making enough to sometimes pay for things in their stead.

Obviously the passage of time has changed the value of the currency, and I'm sure my parents don't care whether I "pay them back" as they never considered their support a loan. But it matters to me, and keeping the idea in my head that I have to pay them back, kept me from thinking of their support as "free money" since I always planned on returning it some day.

I also do pay rent. But it's essentially symbolic. It's an agreed upon arrangement, there to remind me that living space isn't free. It's not as though my mom would actually evict me if I genuinely couldn't afford a payment, and if I did get hit with some surprise expense, I know my parents would immediately offer to share the burden.

Basically, we're simulating what life would be like for me without them, but with the security of knowing that they're there for me if needed.

But I also know people my age, where giving them money would be little more valuable than setting it on fire. People who are able to accept charity without it instilling any kind of motivation or inspiration.

Another thing to be careful of, is that financially supporting an adult might make them feel indebted in ways that make them lead miserable lives. If my parents had supported me with the expectation I become a doctor of any kind, combined with my depression, it may well have killed me.

My student years made me miserable, and it took me a long while to recover. But I was lucky enough to have parents that didn't have carreer dreams for me. They only put pressure on to motivate me, when I expressed interest of my own, first.

So I think to a massive extent it's between each parent and kid. Even my siblings don't have identical arrangements with my parents.

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MentalEdge @sopuli.xyz 1mo ago

If this is you, here's a tip.

Don't go through your past emails one by one.

Go by sender, and put that sender in search. You probably have hundreds or even thousands of mails you can delete in huge chunks because you'll have tons of mail from sources you can instantly determine won't have ever sent you anything important. Make sure to unsub/block each sender as you go.

That then just leaves you with the actually important stuff, and your incoming volume will have massively decreased. The whole thing is often doable in a day.