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Hej,

Tractive is a service to track dogs and cats, via a GPS tag attached to their collar.

I'm more than aware this isn't a privacy conscious service, but from what research I did it was by far the most "effective" service and easily accessible.

I paid a full year subscription for this service during January. But now two months later they have changed their terms. They do not list what these changes are.

My Questions are:

1. What's the best way to find the differences in the old vs. new terms?

2. I bought the product before these changes were made, does that somehow give me a right to continue using them under the old terms?

3. Considering I bought this before the changes, and if I don't agree with new terms, do I have the right to a refund?

Appricate any suggestions!

Hi there, hope everyone is have a good weekend!

Got a general question regarding these types of coffee bags, that I keep getting with my coffee beans whenever I buy some from my local roaster. But honestly not sure what they're for...? Currently just using them as my lunch bags for work haha.

Let me know if they have a more specific use case!

Hiya!

Wondering how people's experiences are regarding the use of ultrawide monitors on Linux these days. What kind of setup do you rock?

Am thinking about getting an oled monitor as my next monitor and current setup is two 32inch monitors where one of them is vertical. But been keeping a keen eye on ultrawides for a while but not sure its for me and how well it's supported with Linux. I've read KDE supports it well, but what about when gaming? Also what's the current state of oled and hdr support?

Also, please add your monitor brand+models, would love to see what peeps are rocking. Personally been looking at the Alienware AW3423DWF.

Edit: I'm looking at screens that are oled and 2k resolution.

Let me know your experiences, tips or recommendations!

One of my goals this year is ot make more bread. Super happy with this one, taste really good too. Can post the recipe if someone is interested.

Pictures from the process:

I did it. Finally. My meta account is in process for deletion! (Whatever that process actually involves we'll probably never know). But I did what I could and deleted all posts, pictures, aswell as changing name and email. Hoping that at least helps a bit. Feels good to finally get rid of what has felt like a burden for a long time.

Was able to move more people than I had imagined over to Signal, some easier to move than others ofc. But it truly helps that Signal is a breeze to use and setup for folks.

Anyway I just wanted to share what feels like a good achievement with you all. Hopefully you're also able to do the same during 2025, there are many good alternatives these days!

Have a good rest of your week!

Basically title. I'm in the process of setting up a proper backup for my configured containers on Unraid and I'm wondering how often I should run my backup script. Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent? Whats your schedule and do you strictly backup your appdata (container configs), or is there other data you include in your backups?

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17736356

Hi there good folks!

I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows:

• Case: Fractal Define R5
• Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF
• CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
• Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity.
• OS: Unraid 🧡

While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hands on my first mini-pc soon, an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
• Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB

From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. This leads me to my questions:

1. What are your suggestions for enclosings?
2. Whats the best way to connect an enclosing like this to the mini-pc?

Any pinpointers, opinions and suggestions appriciated!

edit: im getting the mini-pc for free actually, so feel like its a no brainer to upgrade.

Pictures of the mini-pc for those interested:

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Hi there good folks!

I am going to be upgrading my server within the next couple of months and am trying to do some prior planning. My current setup is as follows:

• Case: Fractal Define R5
• Mothberboard: Gigabyte Z170X-Designare-CF
• CPU: i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
• Storage: 15TB spread across 4 HDDs (10x2x2x1) + 1HDD at 10TB for Parity.
• OS: Unraid 🧡

While this setup as served me well, I am completely hooked on these mini-racks(Rackmate T1) and am thinking of getting one eventually. Fortunately I'll be getting my hands on my first mini-pc soon, an ASUS ExpertCenter PN52. This little badboy has the following specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 9 5900HX
• Memory: 32 GiB DDR4
• Storage: Comes with one NVMe SSD 1TB

From my little cpu knowledege this one is superior in almost all ways, so it feels like an easy choice to swith out the old one. I need an enclosing for my 5 HDDs that connects to this minipc. This leads me to my questions:

1. What are your suggestions for enclosings?
2. Whats the best way to connect an enclosing like this to the mini-pc?

Any pinpointers, opinions and suggestions appriciated!

edit: im getting the mini-pc for free actually, so feel like its a no brainer to upgrade.

Hi there!

Context: After the recent debacle with Proton I was finally pushed to look for other alternatives. I had already wanted to change services for a while so it was nice to get the final push. It's still a good service, open-source and all. I personally just wanted to look for something else. However, I had not realised how deeply I was integrated into the email+alias feature they had, and how much work it is to change out of this, I have a fair amount of accounts.

I have now found a new email provider and bought a new domain. However I've got a few questions for those to who rock custom domains:

1. Do you use random strings before the @ sign? Or do you use it like [email protected]?
2. Because I'm considering using this as a catch-all address, doesn't this mean that anyone who wants (and knows the domain) and send spam on any random string before the @? Are you worried about this, and are there any counters to this?
3. As far as I've understood the main benefit of using my own domain for email, is that it will make it a lot easier to change providers in the future, as I can just change the nameservers so traffic is directed elsewhere - correct?

Thanks for any input, experiences or thoughts about this.

Ps. My threatmodel isn't that complex, I mainly want to stop spam from any potential services selling my email.

So, got this silicon bakingmat and its amazing - does the job well. However its well used and I'd like to see it better cleaned than its current state, e.g. not brown. Tried the washing machine and manual cleaning with different sops and brushes. Is there a secret sauce to clean this kinda mat?

Appriciate any tips or recommendations.

Just discovered this cool project, thought i'd share it here.

AliasVault is an end-to-end encrypted password and alias manager that protects your privacy by creating alternative identities, passwords and email addresses for every website you use. Keeping your personal information private.

Link to website: https://www.aliasvault.net/

Link to source code (MIT Lisense): https://github.com/lanedirt/AliasVault

For those wondering how the alias feature works:

AliasVault includes a built-in email server that allows you to create unique email addresses (aliases) for different services. When someone sends an email to your alias, it's received directly in AliasVault, helping you maintain privacy and reduce spam.