eramseth
@eramseth@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 2 days ago:
Not sure what sort of length on play you’re looking for but wingspan and terraforming Mars are both really good board games that have good-to-quite-good mobile versions.
- Comment on Suggestions for file sync / android backup / sharing software (nextcloud alternative) 5 days ago:
I have found synching to be very useful for making copies of files across devices. I have it setup to mirror photos from my phone, photos from my wife’s phone, and various other things (to-do lists for todo.txt, notes and shopping lists for obsidian… stuff like that) back to my desktop and my NAS. You can set it to do one-way sync (which is more like a backup) or two way sync (where changes anywhere are propagated to everywhere else).
As others have said, it’s not really a true backup solution, but handy to have immediately accessible copies of what’s on your phone in case of phone loss or damage.
For photo viewing and sharing, I am more or less pointing the photo sharing app on my NAS to the photos I sync from phone. They all get dropped into an “inbox” when first synced and then can be organized from there.
You may also want an actual backup solution. There are quite a few and that’s a different topic. The reason I bring it up, though, is that simply mirroring what’s currently on device is not considered a real backup by most people, and for good reason.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 1 month ago:
“Sorry, disc must be scratched”
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 5 months ago:
Yes that’s a concern with all of them, Apple TV included.
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 5 months ago:
That’s what I’m using now and I like it.
- Comment on AppleTV complete replacement opinions 5 months ago:
Not sure if it’s a factor for you but roku tries to phone home a lot more than. Anything else on my network (or perhaps my firewall just catches it more than other devices and apps). Otherwise roku is pretty good.
Nvidia shield tv is better though. It’s the best set top box. Made even better by replacing the default launcher/ home screen (android TV default launcher now has 2/3 or more of the screen taken up by ads or “recommended content” which is just ads)
- Comment on Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using? 7 months ago:
Big.
- Comment on Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using? 7 months ago:
Absolutely agree
- Comment on Users of PiHole/AdGuard/Blocky, what blocklists are you using? 7 months ago:
Oisd.nl
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 8 months ago:
Feels like what happened with android tv.
- Comment on Routers 10 months ago:
Depending on how in depth you want your firewall, packet inspection, etc to be and your internet access speed, you may want a commercial grade router. You can also probably use an old PC and add a dual gigabit NIC to it and load up opnsense or pfsense or some other router/firewall distribution. From there, add a stand alone switch and a standalone wifi AP (or router in AP mode). The reason I bring up using a commercial device or an older desktop is because packet inspection, filtering, etc at line speed on a gigabit connection won’t be possible with a lot of low powered devices.
I used to do this (was using an old Intel core i5 second gen with added RAM and a dual port gigabit NIC) but it was a lot to keep up with. I have since moved on to an Asus router (RT-AX86U) with the AsusWRT-Merlin software package. The only functionality I really lost was suricata for IDS. The AsusWRT distro comes with some proprietary stuff (that I think you can turn off) but it’s also very “open” in terms of just running Linux underneath. This means you can set up things like VLANS, use iptables, etc.
AsusWRT-Merlin adds some niceties (including a nice add on system that will expand into web based interfaces for certain things you might usually do from command line, better/expanded firewalling, and even adguardhome installer for DNS-based malware/spyware/ad blocking… kinda like pihole but lots of people like it better). The maintainer of that package corresponds frequently with Asus (to the point that some of his stuff is merged back into the official AsusWRT at some points).
I can confirm that the model I mentioned above is able to do all the firewalling, QoS, adguard DNS filtering, etc at gigabit speeds.
- Comment on Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit old. Any suggestions from the community? 10 months ago:
A short hike
- Comment on Tutanota vs Proton Mail for daily use 10 months ago:
It’s not too bad. Pretty standard with like anyone who needs to communicate securely like banks and insurance.
- Comment on Tutanota vs Proton Mail for daily use 10 months ago:
I see you’ve more or less chosen proton.
Came here to say that I have been using tutanota for years now and it works very well.
It does fit the use case of encrypted emails to people who don’t use tutanota. How it works is they will receive an unencrypted email letting them know they have an encrypted email waiting for them, along with a secure link to an https encrypted, password protected web interface with inbox and outbox.
Just wanted to point this out for anyone else evaluating privacy focused email providers.
- Comment on I printed and painted Terraforming Mars 11 months ago:
On lemmy you mean? I think boardgames@feddit.de is active.