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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • All the ones I’ve used require a separate service to actually do the query.
    You can use traccar, owntracks, or wanderer (this one is not realtime tho, and requires for you to find an app to send the data).
    There’s also gpslogger which can record everything locally (or send it to any URL you set), but you need another app or service to be able to query it properly.


  • My unpopular opinion is I like ads, some are well thought, funny, and memorable.
    Ads in videogames which allow you to have a small boost are also amazing, I don’t have to spend money, just leave my phone for 30~60 seconds and I get a bit of premium currency while supporting the devs.

    The annoying/worrisome part is all the tracking the ads have, and the ones which are very invasive which take half of the screen.
    If we could go back to TV ads where everyone watches the ads without individual targeting, and with current technology to protect against hacking, and getting them in sensible places to not hide the content I would place and exception in my ublock and pihole for them.


  • I also like local only with a similar set up as yours, rsync to and HDD and to an SSD.
    But I also would recommend you to follow that suggestion, you need to have an external backup managed by someone else (encrypted, of course) so you can have options if anything happens to everything in your local.
    It’s up to you how much you’re willing to pay to be sure to be able to retrieve your data.

    I’m using iDrive e2, it says it has a limited offer, but it’s been there for over a year.

    Im basically paying $1.25 for 2TB per month (it’s charged at once for 24 months) https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/pricing



  • Found that also myself trying to do the same thing haha. I did the same process as OP, gparted took 2.5 hours in my 1TB HDD to create a new partition, then copying the data from old to new partition was painfully slow, so I went to copy it to another dive and into the new partition.
    Afterwards I deleted the old partition and grew the new one, which took a bit more than 1.5 hours.

    If I had the space I would have copied all the data out of the drive, formatted it and then copied back into. It would have been quicker.





  • I’d say it depends on your threat model, it could be a valid option.
    Still, how are you going to manage them? A password manager? You’d still be posing the same question: should I keep my accounts in a single password manager?

    Maybe what you can do is use aliases, that way you don’t expose anywhere the actual account used see your inbox, only accounts to send you emails.
    But I tries this and some service providers don’t handle well custom email domains (specially government and banking which move slowly to adapt new technology)


  • You can use GPSLogger to record it in local or send it to whatever service you want.
    If you’re into selfhosting you can use traccar which is focused into fleet management so it’s easy to get reports on the trips made.

    As for your second point, I wouldn’t trust the GPS for this, it can say you weren’t moving since it only checks every so often to record the data, or maybe it says you actually were speeding because the two points it used to calculate the data weren’t the actual points you were at that time.
    A dashcam would be better suited for this. I’m not sure how they work, but most probably they can be connected to read data from your car which would be more trust worthy to whoever might decide if you were actually speeding.


  • Damn, I wanted to answer with that joke…

    I’d say I still procrastinate but less. The main factor is it make me feel anxious of not finishing stuff so I wanted a solution.
    The way I’m improving is to look at big tasks into smaller steps which are easier and quicker to accomplish, this way I feel better since there’s something I finished even when the big task might be still a long way of being finished.

    I remember something about 2 minute tasks or something like that, but also I saw this from my job, splitting projects into epics and each epic into tasks and even then you could split them into sub tasks (taken from the Jira types at my job)



  • hashtags as they can be seen on mastodon.

    I haven’t seen the federation content exchanged, in the UI I’ve only seen hashtags from mastodon as links inside the content of the post.
    For the implementation in lemmy I’d guess they need to be included in the metedata (as in one of the examples in the rfc), does mastodon already does this so lemmy can properly display them in a separate section in the ui?
    Also, how would mastodon handle not having the hashtag in the content but only in the metadata?