amelore

@amelore@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite offline-first software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do get the appeal of things needing to work without internet, but it seems very broad as a category. People use webapps for things that used to be local, like Office 365 or Figma, or even searching in Google to do arithmetic, so the calculator app is offline first.

  On mobile I think a more reasonable example is offline maps, I use OSMand myself but recommend Organic Maps to less technical people.

  About offpunk, all browsers used to have that. Firefox still has the “work offline” option in the file menu. In offline mode you can go to any webpage that you visited while online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite offline-first software?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you explain what you mean by offline-first?

  Like if it’s internet stuff that still works when offline, most e-mail clients would count. I use KMail but they’re all pretty similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yunohost vs FreedomBox vs CasaOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so far, I think the recommended filesystem is ext4, or if you have multiple drives, ext4 on LVM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yunohost vs FreedomBox vs CasaOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using FreedomBox for years, overal I still like it. I don’t think Yunohost and CasaOS were around when I started, the alternatives were DIY from just a normal Linux distro, or NAS focused thing like OMV and trueNAS, both worse for what I wanted.

  It doesn’t have a lot of apps but still some you may want. Some configuration stuff is really nice, like it makes it beginner friendly to set up Pagekite, LetsEncrypt, a firewall, ssh keys, users and reverse proxy automatically configured for the apps it does have.

  Have configured some stuff outside of plinth anyway. Docker containers for apps it doesn’t have, configure apache to reverse proxy those too. I set up my storage in btrfs volumes from command line, but I think you could do it from the web interface too.

  If I were to start over, I’d probably try Yunohost too, my third option would be plain Debian and diy everything rather than Casa. But for now I have no reason to try anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday, as an American⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Move New Years back to march 1st, then the Latin roots will be accurate again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday, as an American⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a feature supporters of imperial thinks it has. Even if imperial/some special third option is better for guessing, the difference has to be big enough that it’s worth the hassle of having multiple systems or converting everyone again. If it’s not worth having two systems but it is worth converting everything , then you still have to keep or prove that it’s worth losing the conveniences of metric like 1 km = 1000 m , 1 L of water weighing 1 kg , water freezing and boiling at 0 and 100 °C

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best use of extra HDDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Raid5 of three disks and keep the fourth as cold spare. That’s 16TB instead of 24, but you’re barely using your current 8, so a spare makes more sense.