What is a service you host you never knew you needed?

[helix@feddit.org]

Watch out to enable "keep on delete" features. I didn't do that and didn't see that gigabytes of personal photos got deleted which I had to recover from an old backup. Still don't know how it happened as I only found out a few weeks after the fact.

Sync is not backup! If there's a software bug or a wrong setting sync can delete your files. Syncthing is pretty mature so I doubt this was a Syncthing bug, however you shouldn't only trust Syncthing. I'm doing btrfs snapshots weekly and delete them after three years for important folders nowadays.

[stalfoss@lemm.ee]

When you use the official discord client, it only sends to your device whatever chat channel you have open at the time, and when you click on a different channel, it just downloads the last 20 messages, and downloads more when you scroll etc. If you bridge a discord server to a matrix server, it sends all of the contents of all of the channels in real time across. If the server had 50 channels, bridging it to matrix would be the equivalent of you having 50 official clients open, one to each channel. Hence the additional load on discord’s side to send you a lot more data than they usually would.

(Disclaimer: this is all conjecture based on a general understanding of how the systems work, I could be getting some details wrong)

[ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

This is exactly why I’d want a GPU in a home server.

That and transcoding. Wonder what the best option would be without breaking the bank/wasting too much idle power. All the GPU talk online seems to be for gaming.

[hendrik@palaver.p3x.de]

Thanks for explaining. That makes perfect sense. I was under the impression there might be something else.

I'm not interested in forwarding spam in the first place. I don't think I have any use of channels where messages just fly by... So I think I should be safe.

[awittyusername@lemmy.world]

Yeah I left the massively overpriced closed source YNAB and Actual is actually better.

[awittyusername@lemmy.world]

Are you able to provide a few quick examples? I have it installed but don't know what to do with it really.

[earmaster@lemmy.world]

The easiest thing: We use a motion sensor to automatically turn on the light for the stairs. You wouldn't need Home Assistant for that, but with a little more configuration you can adjust the light levels and colour temperature based on the time of day (not as disturbing at night). We have two rooms which have problems with humidity in one a fan is automatically turned on (basic) in the other a dehumidifier is triggered based on the outside and inside temperature because there are large windows which are producing a lot of condensation otherwise. Now the really specific stuff: My daughter has Diabetes and we need to manage her blood glucose levels. There are alarms but ideally you would act before they are triggered. So we hooked her blood glucose levels to a light in our bedroom which turns on at night if her levels are getting out of bounds at night. That way she isn't woken by the alarm, but by one of us and can go back to sleep mich quicker.

[avengefulaxolotl@lemmy.world]

AFAIK intel arc gpus are pretty good for that.

[urandom@lemmy.world]

Background backup works mostly ok. There are times where I need to go to the backup view for it to get going, but those are not that common. The performance is excellent so far

[aluminium@lemmy.world]

Self hosted Librespeed. Just so usefull to know if I or my ISP screwed up!

[yournamehere@lemm.ee]

n8n

thought it was overkill. now does tons of things.wouldnt wanna live without it.

[themakara@lemmy.world]

I think there one I never expected would be Kitchenowl. Shopping list, recipe list, planner for food, expenses... very useful for a joined household.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

Done and done. I just took a screenshot, ctrl+v'd it right in the same browser tab and then went to my phone and hit reply on this post and attached the image. Its the best desktop -> mobile experience Ive used in a long time. It just works once you get it going. I pass through the igpu of a proxmox host into the VM and aside from some earlier compatibility issues (I think its mostly on my end, GVT-v, i915 and a bungled original grub config) the ML has been crash free for almost a year. Ive had 0 uptime issues (now that i only pull monthly) and I was smart with my initial compose script and everything is external. mountpoints are external, all the storage is over 10g to a truenas box.

[bakkoda@sh.itjust.works]

https://mealie.io/

I havent done much with it other than get all our paper recipes into it and added some via import. I am looking forward to it as its my next project now that photos are done.

[neatobuilds@lemmy.today]

Is it pretty easy to do? Does it give you a preview of what you'll get?

[harsh3466@lemmy.ml]

Thank you!

[harsh3466@lemmy.ml]

Thank you!

[rutrapio@lemmy.world]

Damned, I have to say that the glucose surveillance is quiet impressive, and the outcome is both unexpected and so sweet !
And shows how much can be done.

[rutrapio@lemmy.world]

I'm hosting it also, and the only regret is no android app, so don't appear as a "share" possibility. But definitly perfect on PC browser

[vividspecter@lemm.ee]

Side note, PDFs are the absolute worst. Even reading them on a full-sized tablet is incredibly annoying. Anybody have any tips/tricks/apps for that?

Try KOReader. It's mainly for e-ink devices (initially, Kobo devices) but it handles PDFs better than most applications and gives you various options to address them.

It's still not going to do miracles on smaller screens like phones, but I use a Kobo tablet/ereader and it works very well there.