I can ruin toilets just fine myself, thank you.

Bidets are from Italy though.

Or else you’ll be FUNKAYYY! 🎶

The only way for it to go wrong is if you turn it on while standing over it looking directly into the nozzle. You couldn’t get the room or yourself wet without really trying.

The water is clean because it comes from the water that fills the toilet, not the water that drains from it. Nothing from other people ends up on the appliance or you. Clean water sprays from the device, onto the user, then draining into the toilet bowl. Bidets are much cleaner than toilet seats.

Italian here. Get a bidet, nobody died or took any infection from them. Your brain is over thinking it. Get a bidet. Thank me later. Go get a bidet.

I havent had any issues with Plex so far, so I continue to use it. Ive definitely looked into jellyfin and it doesnt seem painful to swap over, but at the moment there hasnt been a compelling reason to make the switch.

I put media in my folder, plex scans it by the time I sit on my couch, I click button, show plays. No issues to speak of so far.

While Plex has moved towards the “free” content, it still does remarkably well with apps on all devices. It also makes user management extremely easy without having to manage yourself. Password resets aren’t your problem if you share with others.

It has its limitations and it’s development budget isn’t in the self hosting space as much. But for what it is, it’s still a good value.

Have been using Plex for years, thought I’d give Jellyfin a shot but my god how ugly it was 😩

The value in self hosting is your passwords aren’t exposed to the internet at all, and can only be accessed over VPN from outside the house.

If you care about security and you know how to run a network properly, then it’s definitely worth doing.

In terms of things that can “go wrong”, the first rule of homelab is “Back your stuff up”, and the second rule of homelab is “Back it up again”

I’ve used Keepass along with dropbox/onedrive/nextcloud (changed over the years) for a decade now and never had a problem. I keep a backup copy of my database on a flash drive in case I somehow lose all my devices. Takes like 5 minutes to set up.

I would not self host a password manager, simply because I don’t want running something like that on a 24/7 online server.

Still, if I needed to run a password manager on a server, I would rather self host it than use a hosted service from someone else.

In my opinion, running such a service commercially is a much harder problem than self hosting it and has a much bigger attack surface.

This is IMHO what many people do not understand about hosting as a service vs. self hosting: The full time DevOps/Admins etc. people who work at the hosting service are hopefully better than me at hosting stuff. At the same time the problem they have to solve is so much harder than self hosting, that even if they are 10x as good as me, running my own little service with a firewall, rate limiting and monitoring should at least not be less secure.

I was using Shinobi for like a year, but I’m enjoying Frigate so much more now. Shinobi is definitely more feature rich though.

You may also want to take a look at zoneminder. I’ve had great luck with it over the years.

All the stuff I listed is also free for personal use. But yeah, all those are solid alternatives as options.

I used emby briefly after ditching Plex then settled on jellyfin. It’s been over a year and I’ve had no issues with reliability.

Everywhere I go suggests Lemmy returned the pictures feature, but then I try it and it still won’t work. What’s going on here?

I have a Kobo and my wife has a Kindle - I like the Kobo way better, primarily because the Kindle is trying to sell me stuff all the time.

It’s likely because kobo’s can be flashed with a custom OS https://inkbox.ddns.net/, which can sync with https://calibre-ebook.com/

I have a kobo as well and I I did a lot of research before selecting it. Imho it’s the best on the market for my personal needs and that definitely changed how often I use it vs an alternative. Some of the things I like about it are direct integration with the library and the ability to do audiobooks. I also like that it is only an ereader and I can’t play games or surf the web on it. I think knowing what’s gonna help you as an individual is the most important thing. If you’re more likely to take a fully fledged tablet with you somewhere because of the versatility, and would otherwise leave a plain ereader at home, then a tablet is better because if you decide to read at least you have it with you. Like a lot of tech, I think it really depends on the user.

For me it’s the ability to read outside in bright days, so I can take care of kids in the beach/pool.

I went for a boox since it’s an Android and can run not only my favorite e reader app but also dictionary, browser for Wikipedia, and any apps for Android such as news Guardian, DW etc.

Obviously it also runs official apps such as Kobo, kindle etc, so I can try/ buy the book wherever and later I de DRM it and upload epub.

Oh also I have severe dust allergy from physical books, and moved countries a couple times leaving behind lots of unread stuff.

It’s very hard. I cry for days and drink a lot. It is a huge piece of life suddenly gone. But, like my last dog, I see all the things we did, so many adventures, and how many people are upset—even strangers at my climbing gym reached out because they knew him but not me; someone even drew an amazing portrait of him for me and it’s on the wall. That made me realise how awesome a life he had and how many people loved him. A truly good boy that got a hell of a life.

I know I’ll be sad, but it passes and I’ll be very happy with what I did for my dog and what they did for me. Then I’ll get another dog and they’ll get an awesome life too.

take peace in knowing that i gave him a good life, and i got to share it beginning to end. it’s nice to know i could do that for him.

What’s the difference between an air fryer and a convection toaster oven. Everybody’s so excited for air fryers but AFAIK, both just blow air around.

Not OP, but we make roasted carrots with garlic, Italian spices, and parm cheese sprinkled on top.

Be sure to use avocado oil instead of olive.

They’re fucking delicious.

Edit: 325 for about 18-20 minutes. Just check for tenderness that you prefer.

I bought a Philips device and installed the companion app (Kitchen+). It has a decent selection of recipes that you can filter by appliance and other stuff. You can add your own recipes too.

Just any kind of glass.

Just say no to glasses kids, or you’ll end up like this guy.

My experience is very similar to this. Sometimes it can go a full week or two with no interaction, but mostly it needs a bit of prodding and helping

I have a thousand wires hidden under my couch, my rug, my chair, and anywhere else I can hide them. Chargers, home theater, other chargers, smart-ish devices, and whatever else that I don’t even want to go look at.

I’m terrified it’ll eat all my cables because that’s what my last one did.

I love my Roomba, but it’s also 10 years old, no internet, fully repairable. If you don’t need most smart features, I can recommend getting an old one before they apparently became shittier.

I got Xiaomi Mi vacuum cleaner 4 years ago.

I passed an Intelligence check and outsmarted it.

You can always just not connect it to the internet. Always an option.

Hold onto it long enough and it will be eventually. Home ownership is the only real cheat code we have against inflation.

Depends on market. In Vancouver existing rentals are controlled until you move, the house sells, or you are reno-evicted. This involves evicting the tenant to “fix up the suite” and then renting it out at a much higher rate.

There is also the move to evict for a " family member" to move in but often this is abused to get low paying tenants out.

New mortgages are much more than existing rent here. As much as renters go through credit checks, I think landlords should too as you don’t want to rent a place where they can’t afford the interest rate increases. Often they cheap out on repairs and usually sees the place being sold or one of the above abuses of the evictions to get a higher paying tenant in.

The market is really tight in places like Vancouver and Toronto. The interest rate hikes will eventually catch up to most renters as properties are moved/sold.

Australia checking in: mortgage repayments are absolutely cheaper than rents. Especially if you bought pre-pandemic.

Source.

Often rent covers the owner’s mortgage plus their benefit, so yes, it’s easy for your mortgage to be cheaper than rent.

Mortgage cheaper than rent here - just outside of Washington DC. (Only true when comparing like for like living spaces, same bedrooms, square feet, etc)