rouxdoo

@rouxdoo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I knew my take wouldn’t be a popular one here. In all fairness if you are using Apple products the iCloud sync brings all of the metadata with the data on every device that accesses it.

  While I don’t have any illusions that Apple has my back they do have a lot invested in keeping people’s trust in their ecosystem. The automated on-device CSAM scanning kerfuffle that they backed away from shows that they are sensitive to the threat of people leaving their walled garden.

  Another fairly easy to implement local solution that wouldn’t be an admin headache is to put a Mac mini with a bunch of attached storage on the network and use it as a file server. I do that for my PleX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good NAS solution for dummies / apple users?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This will be an unpopular suggestion here but why not just go all in on iCloud? It’s reasonably inexpensive for not data-hoarding amounts of data, reasonably secure and E2E encrypted. Given the low cost, zero setup if they’re already Apple people and lack of admin I think it is ideal for them.

  I pay for iCloud storage because I want HomeKit Secure Video cloud storage (I also have a local copy on disk).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These are documents pulled in an investigation and are probably mostly paper (digital was less prevalent during the heyday of his abusive stage). Digital comms were likely less used in commitment of crimes for obvious reasons. Paper documents are rarely digitized unless someone has a reason to disseminate them to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gutter replacement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would drop a downspout from the second story then do another from the one-story section. Hard to tell from the pics but if I’m seeing it right that second story run appears to be over 20 feet. You kind want to drop the water at least every 30 feet max.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I make Lemmy feel less dead?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found that if you want engagement then most communities are fairly quiet. This is not /r so there are fewer around. If you want to engage then find a post that resonates with you and engage with it. Lemmings are conversational but you need to poke them to get something back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My bingo card/wish list - Trump gets tied up in litigation/impeachment (first pres to be impeached 3 or 4 times…bring it!) until he is out of office (I suspect his Outlook is already set that way). Then, after, nobody says his name ever again because…let’s face it, everyone is just plain embarrassed that it happened - ®’s (D)'s, even whack-a-doo (Others … independent, green, what are those guys that think that everything is transactional…forget).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a long time plex pass user, is there anything there that would make me want to switch? Plex has just plain worked for me for years. mobile apps, everything is just great. Why should I look around?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My best friend at work is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative. He will never not be - and I rush to profess that he is not an asshole…he just thinks conservitave/republican is the side he needs to support probably because that’s what daddy did, dunno. We see eye-eye on most other things.

  We do not agree on anything political except that everyone is way too heated up over everything. We are still friends, regardless.

  My point in responding is that his gay daughter disconnected from him after Trump v.1 - would not take a call or interact in any way. This is painful for my friend and he has been confused by it but does not realize why his daughter won’t engage. I think she is offended that his political choice doesn’t allow for her right to exist and, frankly I agree with her.

  I think my friend has lost his daughter forever because he is a stubborn man. I hope your dad can open his heart to accept you.