Because I’m an idiot. 🤦 Thanks!

Actually, one thing I want to do is switch from services being on a subdomain to services being on a path.

immich.myserver.com -> myserver.com/immich
jellyfin.myserver.com -> myserver.com/jellyfin

I’m getting tired of having to update DNS records every time I want to add a new service.

I guess the tricky part will be making sure the services support this kind of routing…

It asks to verify pin once a month. Which I think is fair, since it can help you recover from a lockout / transfer your device.

Even that is too annoying. OK, I just realized there’s a way to turn off reminders. Trust me bro, I’m not gonna forget. I’m a big boy.

backups are important, but they can also be disabled

Ah! YES! Thanks! I just poked around deeper in the settings and disabled them. Backups are not important to me. I don’t want to backup my messages.

I have never been asked to verify my recovery key.

Maybe it’s because I had backups on? Let’s see if this popup goes away.

Donating to open source projects is important, as it’s a large portion of their funding.

Agreed. Which is why I donate to them… And I still get the popups! I’m already a donor, leave me alone.

Overall, I want to give my attention to my messages, not to Signal. Leave me alone. Let me message people. I don’t want to be nagged. WhatsApp doesn’t nag people nearly as much. I know Signal is overall better, but user annoyances like the excessive popups makes it harder for me to try to convince normal people to use Signal.

I’ve been using Signal more to test if I can recommend it to other people… it’s mostly like WhatsApp, which is good…

Except, can we please disable all of those god damn popups. Everyday: “Hey! Verify your pin!”, “Hey! Verify your LONG ASS recovery key!”, “Hey, plz donate!”, “HEY! I couldn’t start a backup”, “HEY LOOK AT ME!”

Time to switch to Plan9!

I don’t want to sync files at all. I want files to only be on the server, accessible via web interface. Like Google Drive.

Yeah, that’s what I was doing before when it was just me. But, my wife isn’t gonna wanna mount an SSHFS. It needs to work like Google Drive, meaning web interface.

but if simple is what you want then a Synology DS225+ should get you up n running quickly

Ah, I forgot to mention I’m already running my own Debian server. Ideally, I wouldn’t have to buy another device just for online file management.

Which part of the seafile install was it that made you back off?

There’s proxies behind proxies behind proxies that proxy to proxies so you can proxy while you proxy.

I managed to install half of it, but then some of the many servers you need to install didn’t end up talking with each other. I tried studying the architecture for a bit, but still couldn’t figure out which server’s request I needed to rewrite in order for the other server to see it.

you can’t truly use Signal’s new “username” feature. If any of the recipients have your number stored in their phonebook, irrespective of whether you know them or not, the username goes for a toss.

Hm. I haven’t interacted with a new Signal user in a while… but I do see in settings two knobs: “who can see my phone number” and “who can find me with my phone number”. Both of these settings can be set to “nobody”.

I’m guessing if I set “who can find me with my phone number” to “nobody”, then even if someone has my phone number in their contacts, they wouldn’t know I’m a Signal user?

Yeah, you can make payments with MobileCoin. 🤮

Luckily, Signal does give you the option to completely ignore it. I only see it mentioned in the settings and I have not enabled it.

Same with stories, you can enable/disable them. Although, if I want to convince my normies friends to look at Signal using stories probably helps that. 🤷

Gah. I was really torn between replacing my broken Pixel with another Pixel+GOS or buying a Fairphone 6…

I ended up going with the Fairphone 6 cuz I want to support other players. I’m not completely off Google, but I keep moving away where I can.

I wish Fairphone and Graphene were friends… :/

You should consider trying to work for yourself

How do you even start this?

Relevant, about Kagi: https://マリウス.com/doubting-your-favorite-web-search-engine/

What about connectivity? I’m currently using Tailscale cuz it’s so easy. Maybe I should look into WireGuard? Also, how does Headscale fit into this?

Does anyone have a good guide for installing Seafile? I tried installing it a few months ago, but it’s so damn complicated with load balancers behind load balancers and a bunch of services tied together.

I gotta try again.

Here’s my PR:

-A small and tidy task organiser 
+A small and giddy task organiser 

Ah, fuck.

I just started donating to GNOME, Guix, and LogSeq. I wish more people used OpenCollective. Sometimes I see orgs there, but I’m not sure if they actually use that account…

How the heck did you install Seafile!? I spent a whole day trying to get it to work, but there are so many moving parts and proxies behind proxies behind proxies. I managed to get the UI to load, but other parts of the app didn’t work. I want to like it, but it seems pretty complicated to install… 😢

Frigate + Reolink (or actually Frigate-approved cams)