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I want to add on to this comment that there are also users who use clients that hide the ability to downvote if negative scores or downvotes are disabled in the settings (which is fair). Tesseract is one that comes to mind with that restriction, where if downvotes are turned off, your downvote button is removed and the upvote button is replaced with a like/heart button.

Being said, agree I don’t see many low quality posts in the first place. But it would be nice if reports or comments could be included as a way to judge low effort as well,

As others have stated, if your model is able to have the battery removed and have it still run off power, no problem, do so.

You should be using a dedicated UPS for something like that if you’re concerned about power going out , For a power input that a laptop requires, you could very easily find a $30 or $40 one at your closest big box retail store.

If you must keep the battery in it be careful to monitor it. I ran a laptop as a server for almost four years. It does work really nice. But depending on model, they may be prone to having the battery expand if it’s on 24-7. And even if it doesn’t, that battery is going to be shot after two or three years of constant use anyway.

You can mitigate the battery health issue by making sure you have some form of battery management software running where it stops charging the battery once it hits like 80-85%. and allows it to discharge on its own. But realistically using a laptop battery as a backup power source isn’t super recommended.

Plus with a UPS, you could also hook your router and modem/ONT up to it, which means that not only is your laptop going to remain on, but usually your network will remain up as well since communication lines are quite a bit more durable and generally stay alive even if the power goes down

I’ve never personally had any issues with the bot, but I’ve also never really needed to look at the bot either to see what the acronyms meant, but I’ve appreciated that someone’s trying to help if someone didn’t know what the acronyms were.

Being said, I do have to agree with what others have stated. It would be nice, if possible, to have it so the definitions link to hyperlinks to persistent pages such as Wikipedia. Even more so on technical style terms like DNS, for example, because that’s one of those terms that if someone doesn’t know the acronym to it, chances are they don’t know the full name to it either.

I’m not PC but, one benefit of using a central server for syncthing is an always on backup that doesn’t require another client device to be on, it also allows for easier creation of new shares.

For example, with syncthing you can set the “servers” client device to auto approve/accept and shares that are to trusted devices, then when you get a new device, instead of needing to add that device to every device you share on the syncthing network, you only need to add that device to the server and then you can have your other clients connect to the servers share instead of device to device. It’s easier. You can also configure the shares on the server to use encryption by default too, since you don’t really ever need to actually see the files on the server since it’s basically a install and forget style client.

yea I have the machine backed up in case this happens. I have noticed that its a mess UI wise. But ipfire doesn’t seem to be stable. every few months it’ll randomly kill itself which will take everything on the network down until i manually restart the machine and then force tell it a new DNS server. It’s something I’ve never managed to resolve on the machine, and I don’t seem to have that issue with my test network with OPNsense.

I’m in the process of switching from ipfire to opnsense myself.

I hate how bloaty opnsense is at first glance but it has so much more control so once I copy my current config I’ll be leaving ipfire in the dust.

I have never thought of doing this. That’s now going on my server.

There is also some that you just don’t want to put that type of responsibility onto either. I moved my grandfather to a password manager 5 or 6 years back. I reiterated at least 8 times do not forget this password if you do you will lose all passwords and need to do everything over again.

He lasted 3 or 4 weeks then suddenly called me saying he couldn’t remember his password period. Like he tried for a good 40 minutes to guess what he may have done and was in a pretty intense panic because he didn’t want to have to change every service he had.

Thankfully it had not been long enough for his file history backup to have deleted the file, so i just restored the last backup of his passwords.docx file and put it back where he was used to it.

I’m not about to try and have him use a password manager again, he has decent enough password management skills since he doesn’t reuse passwords period, but like, it was far too risky putting him on a password manager again.

I couldn’t get into matrix, but I was a huge fan of open fire. It’s interface was stupid easy for XMPP administration and for awhile I ran it no issue with my group of friends. granted we ended up just going back to discord not due to any issue with the server or protocol but because it was tedious trying to get people to switch off a platform that works for most people.

I loved UG and UG2, but honestly HP2 takes the cake for the best game, not because of the involvement but, because no other game in the series ever did the Cops system as well as it. The newer HP game was also good too, but I felt it branched off. HP2 you could just give a map, no reason for it, and spend the entire game dodging the cops the rest of them it felt like you were actively penalized for not pulling over. I loved the added challenge of running from the cops + racing