Just a regular everyday normal muthafucka.

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Unpopular opinion from what I’ve seen in this forum, but for me it is Nextcloud followed by Jellyfin.

    I use Nextcloud setup fory whole family, about a dozen all together. I even sprang for the DavX5 plugin for several people so we can share calendars and contacts as well as files and notes. We backup photos from our phones using the Nextcloud app. Several of us use it as a backend for KeePass.

    We use Jellyfin for streaming; movies, tv, music videos and music. It is the backend storage and library organizer for four Kodi boxes, five browsers, several phones and tablets and a couple of Roku’s. It works like a champ, even with the occasional library re-sync.




  • We have about the simplest/cheapest mechanical chimes you can get. (2 total, one on each floor).

    Add “Older than dirt” and that’s what I have too. House was built in the late 70s.

    Did your Reolink doorbell come with a little battery-looking-device that you had to wire into the mechanical chimes?

    How long have you had yours in service? And what model is it, if I might ask.


  • That is effectively what I had with my EZVIZ doorbell-cam. The image quality was actually really good compared to my basic cameras (2k, 180-degree FoV, daylight and infrared modes). The reason I went this way is that it’s damn near impossible to run any sort of wires to the front porch location (Very long story, involving bore-scopes, drills, failure and drywall repairs) which is why I went this way, even with some people being weirded out by the camera on the doorbell.

    I may have to go this route if I can’t find a doorbell-cam that doesn’t suck and is still available for purchase, but that will take months and several tests of the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor).





  • That’s kinda what happened to me, except that it was a month of back-and-forth with EZVIZ support until they finally copped to “Our company broke that, use the Android App or go to hell” (paraphrasing). Also mine always rejects the verification code, no matter how hard I hammer it in the app. That’s why I’m ripping it off my house, telling everyone to avoid this company and their customer-hostile unethical behavior, and trying to find a replacement.




  • Those are kinda what I mentioned originally. The first is for roller shades, the second for curtains. They’re good at what they do, but that’s not blinds.

    I’m fine with them being battery powered. The nice thing about having a window right there is that it can have a small solar panel up high to recharge if needed.

    I’ve got several sensors and even a deadbolt that run on battery, and they go for over a year before needing a replacement.









  • ‘dd’ works, but I prefer ‘shred’. It does a DoD multi-pass shred by default, so I usually use ‘shred -vn1z /dev/(drive)’. That gives output, does a one-pass random write followed by one-pass zero of the disk. More than that just wastes time, and this kinda thing takes hours on large spinners. I also use ‘smartmontools’ to run SMART tests against my drives regularly to check their health.