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Cake day: Jun 17, 2023

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My advice would be, be pragmatical, an error on a backup script I did not notice wiped the time tracking data I had been collecting on my self hosted database for over a year. I got really anxious at first, because of my mistake and because of the data lost. But at the end of the day… Who cares, life goes on, this is only a hobby.



Well, if this app works Instead of Google maps for sending the location you can then disable location collection in Google


App Idea: Location History
I like the fact that my Android phone records my location timeline from Google Maps, but the fact that this is stored in Google servers creeps me out. I know you can download the entire location history database from Google so I was planning on building a custom app to store and browse this data. I was also curious if there would be the possibility of making the phone send locations to this app instead of Google, but I don't know much about Android and I don't know if this would be possible. What do you think about it? Is there already an app like this? Do you think this is a good idea?
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Ah I see! Thanks for the explanation, I have pomerium in front of everything using Google as IDP. Then if the app supports header authentication (like grafana) I get automatically logged in, and for those that don’t I have to log in again (a bit inconvenient) I event went as far as forking one and implementing header authentication myself.





I’m using Mealie for this, and so far suits my needs


What does having OpenTelemetry improve? I have a setup similar to yours but data goes from Prometheus to Grafana and I never thought I would need anything else.



I’m still using the self hosted docker image, the all in one is too bloated for me and my computing resources are quite limited. Why would I like an antivirus? Or a backup solution different than the one I use to backup the rest of my containers?

Cool initiative anyway for other kind of users though.



I only backup data I’ve generated myself, nothing that was autogenerated or downloaded from somewhere else.

This goes far beyond backing up since not a long ago I had to deal with emptying the house of a deceased person that had been locked for a while and got to the conclusion the only things worth keeping are original ones (photos, handwritten letters and so…). Anything that could have been bought somewhere else, no matter the antique it was resulted to be almost worthless, not just to me but also to pawn shops, as it seems to be easy to find the exact same thing somewhere else.

So I took that as a life learning and apply the same concept to my data :)



I’ve been using miniflux for a while now ok Android, why should I prefer News app?


I started with an old computer, then I moved to Raspberry Pi’s and now in about to get rid of the last Pi since I’m replacing everting with small Lenovo or Intel PCs.



Back in the days, I used to have an iPad full of games and software, I’m talking about a 1st gen iPad and it was about one year or two after it was first released.

Then with the new iPads, OS updates and so the app repositories died out and apple dropped official support and now it is a mechanically fully funcional device that is completely unusable because of the software it contains.


I have all my configuration as Ansible and Terraform code, so everything can be destroyed and recreated with no effort.

When it comes to the data, I made some bash script to copy, compress, encrypt and upload them encrypted. Not sure if this is the best but it is how I’m dealing with it right now.


The [most requested feature](https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1006) for Immich has just been implemented [by this guy](https://github.com/etnoy)! Now using Immich makes much more sense since you'll be able to sync with Immich your existing photo galleries!
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I’ve been told running an email server is the final boss of self-hosting


My experience with Lidarr
As much as I like radarr, lidarr has some problems radarr doesn't. Some bands nowadays do not release albums and directly release singles on YouTube or Spotify, so the albums organization doesn't work that well anymore. On top of that, the content you find in the trackers is very heterogeneous, entire albums as a single track, discographies as zip files, different file formats, single albums... and it seems to confuse lidarr all the time so it cannot figure out what is what. What do you use for your music collections? How do you organize them?
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Back when I was studying japanese I managed to set a way to download hours of japanese TV to later watch ok my phone. I don’t know if it would still work though

https://www.google.com/amp/s/namelivia.com/abema-raspberry/amp/


I’ve been self-hosting Pleroma (Mastodon) for a while as a technical challenge and because I thought it would help. But truth is finding content was a nightmare, and apart from that it was taking all the resources in my machine, and also was receiving network requests like crazy.

In comparison, for Lemmy I just joined a big instance and the experience has been much much better.



Sorry, my explanation was not very clear. Check this thread: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1006 this is what I was talking about


I installed immich thinking I could use it to access my entire pictures collection that I had stored on my hard drives only to learn it currently does not support that.

Luckyly I saw the other day there is already a PR in the official repository trying to implement that, so I may wait for a bit to Immich to have this importer.


My personal blog that is a bit abandoned right now