I do think we need multiple tactics:

• Local (national) surplus energy stored also locally (home battery, chargings cars, powering local industry from renewables at moments it isn't needed elsewhere), so all kinds of buffers. To also use it within the same country at other moments.

• Diversify solar wind and thermal etc

• Exchange cross-borders despite geopolitical risc. Countries with more sun hours or more steady wind or abundant geothermal sources or more hydro ... could export their surplus or capacity but also import.

For solar: if storage exceeds need, the daytime countries at any moment should power the nighttime countries, but only to balance local smart grids I think?

Same experience

Oh , that's cute this spammer thinks there must be an admin@mydomain.com etc

Only other downside I could think if is when my catch all cant be used to send a mail or reply.

So I do use them a lot for suppliers en services, but for registering initially and password reset. But I can't use it to contact support by mail.

Mostly I rely on forms or self service portals when I need it as a customer.

Or its just miniturisation in contexts without a separate phone (aka IoT)?

"Supersims are popping up in shared rental scooters, fleet tracking devices, and digital billboards."

I donate regurlay to:

• OSMand
• Signal
• Bitwarden

Which happen to be myself. And the datacenter facility owner.

How would that be leaking, home hosters aside?

Yep, that would be the ip adres of my €5 a month VPS somewhere in an german datacenter.

Ouch ... I hope I smell them from a mile away ... and change course.

As a #2 person, when my level-of-current-knowledge hits a ceiling and I ask for technical advice in forums or lemmy or even social media, it often comes from a #1 person.

Assuming its specialized knowledge few other #2 have.

Half the time I get an answer (about what and how) AND background explanation (giving context and WHY).

But half the other time a #1 doesnt realize easy things for them are hard for me. When they are miles ahead their answer assumes I have a host of other skills already in place. But I dont know what I don't know so I dont ask for them.

But ... every answer from a helpfull stranger is appreciated. Just bridging knowledge is hard.

Is "choosing which files and folders" an upfront configuration thing, or does it happen "on the fly" when opening a file?

It's a type of integration with local file handling:

• you see every folder and file in explorer / finder.
• they are just filenames but without the data
• they act normal and can be copy pasted renamed etc
• the moment a file is opened the first time, the data gets synced locally.

I use it to connect to rather large folders (bigger then my SSD) because it only takes up space of the files in use.

I deleted my comments seeing the ending side note about NC.

Does the MacOS NC app do files-on-demand?

I deleted my comments seeing the ending side note about NC.

Does the MacOS NC app do files-on-demand?

Or I think "Virtual Files" in Apple nomenclature.

In combination with NC just about stable: https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/discussions/6267

If you mean the same as "Files in Demand" (by filestream) afaik your sync client needs to support it but ... on an OS that has it.

Like on my Win11 work laptop both my Office365 as my NextCloud storage has it.

So I can hookup a 1 TB cloud storage and document libraries on my 256 GB SSD.

If MacOS has it I think you can use NextCloud as well maybe?

Not until now, thnx, will investigate!

Sailforms Android app!

https://groups.google.com/g/sailforms-users

Use like 12 years for keeping track of lots of personal stuff. It's a generic database / table / forms app that's very powerfull. Buttons, queries, reports, calculated fields etc.

But: the app developer stopped despite a rather enthusiastic community. Now it isn't even on the Play Store anymore and I guess everybody must have an exit strategy.

Am I the only one getting The Core vibes ... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

For example, because its autocorrect in a multi-language setting is pretty bad (autocorrecting wrong language even if its manually switched).

Was wondering....

If I would invest $10 a month .... How many computing power I could get ... For an Adnauseam-As-A-Service server ... And how many ad-budget that would vaporize?

Would it make $100, $1000 or more ad budget worthless?

Just curious what the numbers would be?