Extrasvhx9he

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Are you asking whether you should use grapheneos, your fitbit or a second phone for banking?

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Oh that's smart. Would it essentially be just a miracast dongle thing?

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah that's why I said it needs to be refreshed and also edited in an option for m-disc in case they want to go the optical route

Of course you can use another storage media, like m disc,

You'll just have to dig it up and refresh everything every couple of years, think 3 years at most iirc for consumer ones

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

oh my bad i was referring to the storage capacity difference between ssds and m-disc. I'll edit it in

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Think they meant a blu-ray drive that could burn to a m-disc.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Might be a dumb idea but hear me out. How about sealing a reputable enterprise or consumer SSD in one of those anti static bags with a desiccant and then sealing that inside a pvc pipe also with desiccant and then burying it below the frost line? You'll just have to dig it up and refresh everything every couple of years, think 3 years at most iirc for consumer ones. Obviously this isn't a replacement for a backup solution just archival so no interaction with it. It'll protect it from the elements, house fires, flooding, temperature fluctuations pretty much everything and its cost effective. Hell you can even surround the hard drive bag in foam then stuff in the pvc pipe for added shock absorption. Make a map afterwards like a damn pirate (its night time so my bad if I sound deranged)

edit I took a nap: in hindsight I should've clarified. I went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity compared to m-disc, and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason. Of course you can use another storage media, like m disc, just know of the drawbacks. Like needing a m-disc burner (~100$), several discs depending on how big of a capacity you need (price varies), pray that there's still a drive that can read m-disc in the future and know that's its gonna be slow when getting your data back regardless. All you would have to do to modify the idea would be getting a disc case that kinda suspends the disc so nothing is touching it's surfaces. Then the same idea: antistatic bag with desiccant, foam or even bubble wrap around it, stuffed in a pipe with desiccant buried below your frost line. People usually skip the "in optimal conditions" part when talking about m-disc but this way we get close to those optimal conditions

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 66 points 9 months ago (9 children)

The only one i can think of is people not saving their old toothbrushes. A small brush comes in real handy for a lot of situations

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thats a great story it’s amazing how sometimes things just resurface and click after years. I'm genuinely happy that I'm not the only one that fiddles around with paracord. I get a lot of looks from family because of it, haha. Think it was either the sheet bend or square knot that got me into this.

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 27 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

Rope or really any cordage. Can't begin to tell you how handy learning 7-10ish knots has come, plus lashings

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 11 points 9 months ago

Same person made me appreciate my can opener

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now that's something interesting. Does it work with piped?

[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 9 points 9 months ago

Mull on mobile, mullvad and Firefox on desktop

 

Still new to linux hope its ok to ask here. I decided to replace one of my backup drives for the first time in 5ish years with a new 2.5" HDD meant for internal use but in an enclosure (the enclosure works fine). I formatted it in ntfs via gparted and everything went as expected, I even created a large veracrypt container file. I safely removed the drive and after a few hours I re-connected it and it made the notification noise that indicates the drive was detected but it's filesystem wasn't mounted. It showed up in gparted, disks and lsblk (as sdb1). Searched online and learned to manually mount it in the /mnt/ directory but I didnt want to manually do that everytime. I ended up reformatting it and for good measure, connected to another port and boom it mounted once connected. Decided not to create the file container or even incorporate the drive into my backup strategy yet until I get input whether or not this is a hardware issue or software. So what do you guys think happened? Not sure what info to provide

Edit: the filesysten and encryption software I chose is for compatibility between my devices

Edit 2: new errors relating to my hardware started showing up when further proceeding with my plan so I'm just going to return it and try again

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

Hi again, I went thrifting and found a working, original switch dock for 3$ including the charging cable and assuming I could just plug in my other devices via the usb c input, I brought it. Turns out it doesnt work with other usb c devices for reasons and I dont own a switch personally so I'm kinda stuck with this cool paper weight. Do you guys have any ideas? Alternatively, I could take it apart for spare parts and keep the housing for a project or just donate it again. I usually do research before buying electronics but for the price I took a gamble.

Edit: I'll just donate it appreciate all the feedback thank you

 

Hiya, pretty much the title. I have a dozen tapes I want to backup before age takes its toll. My basic idea after watching some videos online is to buy a hardware based upscaler that can interface with my vcr then throw that signal to a video capture card and record on my computer. I'll go with name brands to avoid problems but is that really the best method? I want to avoid sending them to a service since it will cost more than just buying the hardware in the first place and I got time to kill.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
 

Hi, hope I can ask here. I've been using vlc for android as my music player but it really struggles after 5k local songs surprisingly so I'm looking for an alternative. The main problem I have is that after switching to the user account that has my local media, vlc refreshes and clears my playlist and I'm at the point where it's becoming a bit frustrating. I already tried the majority of music player apps on fdroid but they all have issues with the metadata (no album art, unknown genre, etc...). Any help?

Edit: If it matters for troubleshooting, I'm running grapheneos and use vlc on a seperate user profile where my local media is located.

Edit #2: Phonograph plus seems like my best option rn but feel free to give more options to help others

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

Hi, I've been using vlc as my music player but it really struggles after 5k local songs so I'm looking for an alternative. The main problem I have is that after switching to the user account that has my local media, vlc refreshes and clears my playlist and I'm at the point where it's becoming a bit frustrating. I already tried the majority of music player apps on fdroid but they all have issues with the metadata (no album art, unknown genre, etc...). Any help?

Edit: If it matters for troubleshooting, I'm running grapheneos and use vlc on a seperate user profile where my local media is located.

Edit #2: Phonograph plus seems like my best option rn but feel free to give more options to help others

 

In short I need a cheap external disc drive and dont want to cough up the 20$ and buy online so thrift store it is. I cant really come up with a way to test these usually usb powered drives besides somehow setting up a computer or asking the workers for help (doubt they will). Does anyone have an idea to narrow down if a drive is defective or should i just take a chance and hopefully the store has a return policy?

 

Trying my luck here since I really couldn't get an answer on the grapheneos forum. I see thumbnails from videos not available to the currently used profile for the audio tracks that are playing, only on the notification popup though. Not sure if this is a bug or whatnot but I'm kinda concerned if this indicates that data is being leaked between profiles. I already checked the metadata/tags for the audio tracks and confirmed that they are correct also storage scopes are enabled. Should I be concerned? Any help will be appreciated.

Edit for some more information: vlc (permissions removed and not setup) is installed on the default "main" profile, where the video files are at, since I use it to install updates downstream to other profiles where vlc is also installed.

Edit #2: whatever bug was causing this seems to be taken care of after the latest update.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/anime@lemmy.ml
 

Not sure if I can ask here but I honestly need to clean my palate after watching dreaming boy is a realist. I seen a couple dozen already so if you got any hidden gems I would really appreciate it.

Edit: thank you, everyone. Cant wait to watch some of these

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
 

I seem to be generating excessive amounts of saliva to the point where I need a disposable cup to kinda drool it into every couple of minutes. This makes sleeping kinda hard and so I'm wondering is there a trick? I had to make a sort of makeshift bib out of a towel just to combat this last night and that allowed me to get a few hours but man was it uncomfortable. Any advice?

Edit: the excessive saliva finally went away last night. Appreciate all of your help

 

Howdy, not sure if this is the right place to ask but I figured this community has the best chance of using libreoffice. I recently started to learn about gpg and decided to try to digitally sign an odf file I created via libreoffice writter. Thought I could do the same with a pdf file but turns out you need a third party ca certification, so now I'm wondering, assuming only open formats can be signed, why even sign an odf file in the first place? Is it just for niche situations or do official/mainstream entities now support that format? Would it be considered legally binding? I heard that microsoft office gained support for the odf format back in 2021 so if the digital signature could still be verified on their end then I don't see a problem. Is that the case? My bad for all the questions I'm just trying to see the usecase for this seems to me that for anything professional signing with a third party ca cert. would be the better option.

 

Hey so I'm new to the world of gpg/pgp. Using a test gpg key pair I created, the goal was to digitally sign a odf so I was wondering what do I backup so I could keep signing digitally using this key in case shit hits the fan and my computer no longer works? Using seahorse, I perfer it to the terminal, the options are to either export the public key or the secret key and I'm honestly confused should I do both or just the secret key? I did notice people also just take a copy of their .gnupg directory but I feel thats just to backup all of their keys including imported ones rather than a singular one. Any help is appreciated preferably as if you were talking to a 5 year old

The TLDR: Just created a gpg key pair now how do I back it up?

 

After the last 2 update I noticed that a lot of times fennec and mull just hangs or freezes when opening a website and needs to be force closed with cache cleared. I disabled dark reader and so far the issue hasn't happened. Is this just in my case or are others also experiencing it as well? Edit: I also have ublock origin if that matters

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