DeuxChevaux

DeuxChevaux, 2 months ago

My cheap and cheerful, but not very secure homebrew solution is a used smartphone, then load any of the motion-detection apps onto it, plus an FTP server app. Then place the phone anywhere within Wi-Fi reach. Run a script once a day on my home server that downloads and deletes the videos from the phone via FTP, and also deletes that footage after 30 days. So the “system” can run indefinitely without running out of memory. The old phones just need to be rebooted once in a while for some odd reason.

DeuxChevaux, 3 months ago

I have been using Terminator for years now, because you can easily slice and dice the window into several terminals, and it is reasonably configurable. But then, as I am completely happy with it, I never ventured out to find an even better one, so YMMV.

DeuxChevaux, 4 months ago

I think, these are great ideas. OTOH, how much would it cost to reinforce a roof structure to reliably withstand the forces and vibrations of such an apparatus?

DeuxChevaux, 4 months ago

The shareholders of the pharma-industry will not be happy. You have to manage a disease, not heal it; that would be detrimental for the balance sheet.

And unhappy shareholders of big pharma is definitely not what we want; if they are happy, we will be happy.

DeuxChevaux, 5 months ago

I have been using MapFactor Navigator for decades already. It uses OSM for maps (or Tomtom maps, if you want to go commercial), and you can configure every aspect of the navigation; you can completely geek out on it, if you want.

Not affiliated at all, just a happy user.

DeuxChevaux, 5 months ago

AFAIk, on Lemmy there are no “private communities” like they can exist on Reddit or most other forum-software, unless you build your own instance. I think, private spaces do have a good reason to exist e.g. for families or other closed groups who’d like to talk about an illness or other sensitive topic, but Lemmy seems not (yet?) to cater for that, unfortunately.

DeuxChevaux, 9 months ago

Thre could be two other things that I can think of:

Permissions maybe: Try “sudo chmod +x /path/yourscript.sh” to make your script explicitly executable.

Also, the environment of cron doing something may be different from when you do it as root or user. So you should always use the full path to every command in your script; like “/bin/tar” instead of just “tar”. To find out, where things are, you can use “whereis tar”, and it will tell you, whether it’s in /bin, /usr/bin or elsewhere.

DeuxChevaux, 9 months ago

I switched two of our boxes over to Debian “Bookworm”. And so far, I am completely happy with the change. On desktop, it’s still a little rough around the edges, and a few oddities need to be ironed out here and there, but that’s nothing compared with the ocean of pain that were snaps for me and my company.

Still a little nostalgic, though, after 17 years of Ubuntu 🫠

DeuxChevaux, 9 months ago

Over 65? Like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak et al? No wonder, we know how to use these things; our generation invented them. I find it hilarious how some youngsters are amazed that we even know how to turn on our computers.

DeuxChevaux, 9 months ago

I switched from Windows to (X)Ubuntu in about 2006, when it was still fresh. Never looked back, and the cost of the Windows Server licences were hard to stomach for a small company like mine. Currently transiting all the boxes, servers, workstations and laptops of my company over to Debian “bookworm” in order to get away from Ubuntu. The gadgets we have, are all Android, more for the lack of something less worse than out of persuasion.