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Cake day: December 12th, 2023

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  • Must have an android client,support mtls,support attachments and card layout.

    ps: pls don’t suggest to save to local storage and sync that.

    pls don’t suggest this app that cant do that but its great.

    Anyways anyone aware of any app that can do that?

    Nope, you seem to be well aware of the options available to you and there isn’t any one single app that meets all of your requirements, so unfortunately we can’t recommend anything at all to you, per your specific request.

    You’ll have to build it yourself either from scratch or by taking one of the existing open-source tools and adding the missing functionality.

    Looking forward to your pull requests!



  • I ran RAID-Z2 across 4x14TB and a (4+8)TB LVM LV for close to a year before finally swapping the (4+8)TB LV for a 5th 14TB drive for via zpool replace without issue. I did, however, make sure to use RAID-Z2 rather than Z1 to account for said shenanigans out of an abundance of caution and I would highly recommend doing the same. That is to say, the extra 2x2TB would be good additional parity, but I would only consider it as additional parity, not the only parity.

    Based on fairly unscientific testing from before and after, it did not appear to meaningfully affect performance.


  • 125W (Less than $15/month) or so for

    • Ryzen 9 3900X
    • 64GB RAM
    • 2x4TB NVMe (ZFS Mirror)
    • 5x14TB HDD (ZFS RAID-Z2)
    • 2.5GBe Network Card
    • 5-port 2.5GBe Network Switch
    • 5-port 1GBe POE Network Switch w/ one Reolink Camera attached

    I generally leave powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = "powersave" in my Nix config as well, which saves about 40W ($4/mo or so) for my typical load as best as I can tell, and I disable it if I’m doing bulk data processing on a time crunch.


  • My partner and I use a git repository on our self-hosted gitea instance for household management.

    Issue tracker and kanban boards for task management, wiki for documentation, and some infrastructure components are version controlled in the repo itself. You could almost certainly get away with just the issue tracker.

    Home Assistant (also self-hosted) provides the ability to easily and automatically create issues based on schedules and sensor data, like creating a git issue when when weather conditions tomorrow may necessitate checking this afternoon that nothing gets left out in the rain.

    Matrix (also self-hosted) lets Gitea and Home Assistant bully us into remembering to do things we might have forgotten. (Send a second notification if the washer finished 15 minutes ago, but the dryer never started)

    It’s been fantastic being able to create git issues for honey-dos as well as having the automations for creating issues for recurring tasks. “Hey we need to take X to the vet for Y sometime next week” “Oh yeah, can you go ahead and put in a ticket?” And vice versa.



  • I think it’s worth pointing out that this article is 11 years old, so that 1TB rule-of-thumb probably probably needs to be adjusted for modern disks.

    If you have 2 full backups (18TB drives being more than sufficient) of the array, especially if one of those is offsite, then I’d say you’re really not at a high enough risk of losing data during a rebuild to justify proactively rebuilding the array until you have at least 2 or more disks to add.



  • Very similar heuristic here, insofar as when to use passphrases and how long.

    LUKS and Bitlocker volumes get 8 words, computer logins usually get 4 words (potentially more depending on frequency/criticality of system).

    Smartcards and mobile devices do have numeric pins due to frequency of use and relative difficulty in copying those for offline attacks.

    Websites that are filled in w/ password manager get passwords get the random symbol-laden strings that ‘meet requirements’


  • Still a few Ubuntu Server stragglers here and there, but it works quite well as long as you keep your base config fairly lean and push the complexity into the containers.

    Documentation tends to be either good or nonexistent depending on what you’re doing, so for anything beyond standard configuration but it can usually be pieced together from ArchWiki and the systemd docs.

    All in all, powerful and repeatable (and a lot less tedious than Ansible, etc), but perhaps not super beginner-friendly once you start getting into the weeds. Ubuntu Server is just better documented and supported if you need something super quick and easy.


  • NextCloud main use is file synchronization

    Is it? Interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever even considered using it for that purpose.

    I mostly use it as an easily web-accessible interface for a variety of unified productivity and organization software (file upload/download, office suite, notes, calendar, etc), with easy ability to do stuff like create a password-protected shared folders of pictures/documents I can easily share with friends and family who don’t have accounts so they can upload/download/organize/edit files with me and each other from a browser without having to install additional software on client devices.




  • If that is the threat model then Signal is not and never was fit for purpose at all.

    Because every time I’ve complained about not wanting to give my phone number to sign up for Signal I’ve been lectured about how Signal is “all about privacy, not anonymity and those are not the same thing” and how that is good for the average Joe even if it isn’t useful for journalists and activists, and what you’re saying goes completely against that by suggesting that the police are somehow unable to get the phone number out of the thing that uses the phone number as the user id.

    You’re describing how a real privacy-focused app like Briar functions, but definitely not how Signal does.