Obsidian can be almost anything you want it to be. Try searching out some videos from folks who use Obsidian for journalling.

We’ve used a couple of different Pis and a couple of different Odroids. The Odroids have been excellent and trouble free, the Pis not so much. Initially we got a Pi because we thought with the bigger community and better software support it would be easier to troubleshoot issues. Except that they have been regular problems that we haven’t always been able to work around or fix. One of them got relegated to a retro game ‘console’ because it was more trouble than it was worth. We’ve had little issues with the Odroids that wasn’t easily sorted.

That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated to the Fediverse, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.

I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?

Calibre Content Server
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/server.html

Or Calibre-Web
https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web

It’s been years and I have Memory Impairment so I’m not sure but I think part of the issue with syncing was that we had a ‘family’ database which made for multiple devices and several people needing to sync that while frustrating at times was OK, until we had an episode of data loss that just killed it for us. Enpass had built in sync, a nicer UI, more features and jut more cohesive across devices.

But again, my memory is very fuzzy and it’s worth looking into again because as good as Enpass is, it’s not open source.

I used to use Keepass (thanks person who said keep ass, I can’t not see that now) for many years but started to get frustrated with stuff not syncing properly and a few other reasons I can’t remember anymore. But I think I’ll have to give it a go again. I’ve been using Enpass for a number of years and it’s been good but I’ve never liked that it’s closed source.

More reasons I’m glad we switched to Jellyfin

I didn’t mean that every single Google product is a acquisition, just a LOT of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet

That website shows how much Google buys up and then shuts down, centralising it’s power even more.

Not always. And I don’t see the key distinction you mean. Can you explain further.

Using the example of my city again, there’s no difference between the buses and taxis here in terms of contracted or not. The various bus companies are all privately owned. Some still have their own liveries. Some have the city council liveries. Some bus services don’t have regular contracts with the council/government at all and just run various private services. Sometimes the council will contract them for one off services. Regardless of how they look or the contract (or lack thereof), they’re all privately owned.

All the taxis are private owned. But the government/council contracts them for certain purposes. For example, if you are injured and unable to drive, ACC will pay for a taxi to take you to and from health services.

All of these companies are for-profita nd make profit from their contracts.

The profit made by some of the public services by private companies is a regular issue of contention in this country. As is the selling off by state owned public interest facilities (such as the rail system, power generation, communications, etc.).

In some countries the public transport is run by for-profit companies too. In my city, for example, ALL of the public transport are contracted private companies. They’re all liveried as public transport, but they’re still privately run.

This is less a problem about the actual scooters though and more of an issue with the people using them (or people setting them up) not giving a damn about where they’re left.

I have mobility issues and can’t use the footpath on Fridays because that’s rubbish collection day and people just leave their bins in the middle of the footpath. People in my area also park on the footpaths, across the foot paths and leave all sorts of crap from their property leaning out onto them. That’s despite it being illegal to do so.

If most people used the scooters responsibly (put their bins out responsibly, parked their cars on their property or road, etc. etc.) it would mostly be a non-issue.

But if the program isn’t restarted then it could become unstable or crash. You shouldn’t really have any software running while doing updates anyway. I browse the web knowing that I’ll need to restart Firefox so I never do anything of import while waiting.

Exactly this. I often browse the interwebs while waiting for updates to finish. If Firefox gets updated, it’ll prompt me to restart it.

Not sure ht the big deal is here. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Thanks for helping. I’ve already tried putting the blur all the way down (and fiddling with the noise, no idea what it does either) - the screenshots in my post are both with blur at 0 :( Also means my logout screen isn’t blurred properly and the icons are harder to see over the background.

My panel opacity is set to “Adaptive” so that it turns opaque with maximised windows. Even if I set it to be “Translucent”, it’s looks the same as it is in my screenshots.

I tried that. Unfortunately it doesn’t play nice with adaptive transparency and makes the panel transparent all the time, so even when a window is maximised its still transparent. 😞

Drip looks great! I’ve been using Ovuview which says it keeps your data private, but being proprietary I can’t easily know for sure. I love Ovuview for its depth of tracking (Symptothermal plus any custom symptoms you want) and it’s accurate predictions.

But will be really nice if Drip works out well (gonna try it for a while first before ditching Ovuview) so I can finally use something FOSS.

My spouse and I both use Arch (we use Arch BTW) on our desktop PC’s. We also have a Pi, an ODroid and now a Dell Optiplex running as a game server. Our media server has DietPi which is an option I would recommend.

My spouse just tried Arch on the Dell and found it would have done great as a server but more work required to get stuff set up, especially with ensuring dependencies are installed. So he scrapped that idea and went with tried and true DietPi.

We’ve messed about with a few different flavours of server distros over the years and it’s always come down to what we need the server to do, feature set and ease of use and configuration.

It’s been a while since we last used RaspiOS but every time we’ve given it a go, it’s never lasted long because it’s always given us problems and just hasn’t suited our needs as well as DietPi has.