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  • Same boat here, I have the 5 II and I absolutely love it. Great size, the camera is OK on auto but can do wonders in manual mode (depending on your skill).
    The lack of software support is a bummer though. I was surprised it's not in LineageOS' official support anymore...

    Do you use any custom ROM on your Xperia?

  • Mishaal Rahman: Here's how Google (actually) addressed the spike in false 911 calls placed by Android phones
  • Definitely not intentional. Even if you are fidgeting with the power button, while being bored, the phone makes so much fuzz about it, when you hit the right combo. You would need to be deaf, blind or dead not to notice you're just about to call emergency. Or startled by the noise, panic and throw your phone out the window followed by a brick, hammer and grand piano...

  • Mishaal Rahman: Here's how Google (actually) addressed the spike in false 911 calls placed by Android phones
  • It's usually a butt call, it easily happens in your pocket or bag, specially if you have other items in it as well. Some phone/cupholders in car might be just the right shape to press the power button repeatedly when turning or going over bumps.
    Sometimes I wonder how can people not notice they're calling emergency, because the phone usually makes loud noise and counts down before actually calling... But then I realise that if I have switched off notifications on my smart watch, I often miss a call ringing in my pocket, so...

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  • If I can't have control over shit happening, then I just don't care.

    I think it was Další Lama who said: "If a problem has a solution, there is no reason to worry. If there is no solution, worrying will not help."

  • eReaders for Selfhosted book collections
  • I do have an Onyx Boox tablet, the Note 2 plus to be specific, and I do run Calibre and calibre-web on my home server.
    Though I don't actually use calibre-web at all, and the full flat calibre only to organise the collection. Usually I just copy the files to my tablet manually, but I do leverage the built-in RSS reader in Calibre to create my own epub "newspaper" periodically, which is synced to the tablet by Synching.
    I have also used to have (actually still have it, but not use it) an old Kobo touch with Koreader, and I intended to download the books wirelessly using the calibre-web, but honestly, I just copied it over an USB anyway...
    If I think about it, I could simply sync my whole library over Synching.

  • Does aeropress fit on top of chemex?

    Hi guys, Can someone with access to chemex and aeropress at the same time check, if aeropress fit on top of chemex? I use the aeropress for myself and I would like to buy chemex for when I want to brew larger batches of 4-6 cups. But I would also like to use it as a karafe only, brewing 2-3 cups with my aeropress.

    Hence my question. Will classic regular size hexagon-based aeropress fit safely on top of chemex to brew coffee in it? Cheers

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    Looking for shared storage with access without loging in
  • Thanks to everyone for ideas and your time. We have set a dropbox account and sent out a file request link, it is filling up already.
    When this anniversary is over, on our next meeting I will bring up the possibility of deploying our own NAS with nextcloud at our building.
    Cheers

  • Looking for shared storage with access without loging in
  • I know of it but haven't tried it yet. For my personal needs I actually use Zerotier to connect to my server remotely, but having two IP adresses is a bit anoying and not family friendly. Also it doesn't work 100% of the time, sometimes I have troubles connecting. When the right time comes and I will get my IPv6 address I will switch to Wireguard to tunnel home, but until then...
    In my case right now, any VPN is out of question, as it doesn't meet the no-authorization condition, and I don't want 60 people poking around on my LAN.
    But thanks anyway, I might try Tailscape over zerotier to see if it is better.

  • Looking for shared storage with access without loging in
  • I do run Nextcloud on my home server, and in an ideal world I would like to use it as I have sufficient disk space, even though my internet connection speet would be the bottleneck. The problem is, I am at the moment hidden behind a hell of a NAT maze and my server is simply not accessible from outside, even with VPN.
    I have found out in the meantime, As you said, I found out as well, Nextcloud permit uploading without need for signing up. I am now thinking about setting up an acount at some Nextcloud provider, but they seem to by limited by capacity...

  • Looking for shared storage with access without loging in

    Hi guys, this might or might not be entirely off topic. I am looking for a solution that would in a civilized manner allow me to gather photos and maybe videos from a bunch off poeple.

    Background

    There will be an anniversary at our local community and we are preparing a printed publication. Due to us being a bunch of incompetent, naive fools, all photos are spread across our memberbase. We don't have any collective storage or album. We want to use these photos for our publication, thus we need to collect them from our members and to make things worse, it is really on short notice, we have like 14 days to pull this off.

    What do we need right now?

    • Online upload
    • about 50 users
    • ages from teens to seniors
    • mostly Windows users, mixed Android, iOS and dumbphone
    • possible mobile app
    • Anybody with URL shall upload and edit folders
    • Shouldn't need to create account or log in
    • preferably folder structure (no AI sorting nonsense)
    • total size unknown - my estimate is <100GB
    • I don't care right now if it is FOSS or not

    Right now preferably not self hosted

    Wrong community, I know. But, my home server is not accessible outside LAN and I am afraid that I wouldn't set VPS fully working in time. I would be very happy and grateful for both advice for our current situation and for (FOSS) selfhosted solution we could use in the future. Hopefully I can finally convince everyone, we really need at least NAS, so there will be no next time... Cheers

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    Split zigbee RGBW dimmer into two separate CCT lights
  • Thanks for pointing me somewhere. I have managed to control individual channels and mix them with rgb_color, one strip was working quite fine on its own, on the other hand the second one cased troubles. It used the white channel, and whenever the white channel got active, the rest got shut down.
    Eventually I have decided it's not worth any more of my time and replaced it with individual 2ch dimmers. I will save my 5ch for somewhere I can actually utilize it, or to tinker with the settings in the future.

  • Split zigbee RGBW dimmer into two separate CCT lights

    Hey guys, Yesterday I have finished installing two LED strips to my kitchen. Both strips are CCT, connected to separate outputs on 5 channel dimLED zigbee dimmer. The dimmer can work in single colour, CCT, rgb, rgbw and rgbww modes. If I set it to CCT mode, it shows up in HA as single light and both strips are controlled in tandem. instead of replacing it with two 2ch dimmers, my idea is to switch it to rgbw mode and somehow convince HA to see them as two CCT lights. Honestly though, I am confused with how empty my config file is. There aren't any of my zigbee divices. (I guess i was experimenting with HA long time ago and mostly with ESP devices). Has anyone tried something like this? I am using a Sonoff zigbee USB stick and ZHA integration. Cheers

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