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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
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@devilgirlbot Holy fart burgers!
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@scott I use the login portal reverse proxy to do some forwarding of http/https things to various docker stacks. The native synology stuff handles the http/https redirect and the tls certs.

This instance, my photos instance, and other things run fine that way.

You might want to look at the various howto guides at mariushosting.com which is where I gleaned some of my knowledge from about synology specifics.

Caveat Emptor, I am a retired sysadmin/network-admin/storage-admin and have that experience to lean on to take the things from Marius etc and make them behave the way I want to.
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@cks Hrmm. Maybe if there were a simplified client. Worth checking into, thanks.
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Looking for a simple self hosted chat system for non technical end users.

We got everyone off FB messaging to sms but the android peeps have old devices which I think is part of why they see blurry low res images sent from iPhones. Or Apple botched RCS implementation.

I have a Synology nas and have tried syno chat (clunky) and rocket chat via docker (too many bells and whistles and overly complex onboarding of end users)

Suggestions?

Anything that can spin up in a docker instance, I will try.

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I think I'll keep the 1945 Parker Vacumatic in Emerald Pearl inked up, despite it being the quickest to dry out and not the best writer either. I just think it looks neat.
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Not sure why I had five fountain pens inked up and sat on my desk for months. They of course all dried up. Some of them even evaporated most of the ink that was in their converter unit. A bit of water on the nib and feed got them temporarily working again.

I should clean them out soon and just keep one inked at a time. Maybe also not ignore it for months.
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I love when a company emails me changes to their privacy policy or that they now offer a unified login across their various properties they have bought up. Gives me the opportunity to ask them to delete my account and all of the related data.

To be honest, most times I had completely forgotten about said company.
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USA regime change when?
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Operation Epstein Jury
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@ZenHeathen Nice story. I am amused at the tv part. Just a different type of tv / remote than they were used to? Too many buttons with all the streaming platforms having their own buttons?
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Remember the days of having dust covers for the computer, monitor, and keyboard? No food near the computer? I just now had to get peanut butter out of the hinge on my laptop. 🙃
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Went for a haircut today, long overdue. Tried a new barber shop, cash only place (though e-transfers work). Best barber I’ve had in a while, will keep them. Usually get a buzz but went down to the wood today for the first time. My poor widdle head is cold now.
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@headius I was having fun with the 10.1 vs 10.1.0.0 in your post, that's all.
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I miss the early internet days of the subservient chicken and similar fun.
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@headius Does adding more zeros work like pin striping or flames on cars? The go-faster accoutrements.
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@ZenHeathen I've become more aware of an interest fade in progress in recent years but no actual awareness of falling off the cliff. Things just get put down one day and never picked up again for months. Clutter blindness means I don't even see them during those first few not using months.

Then I see the thing, and might pick it up again right then or it's the kernel of an idea I should use it again soon-ish that may or may not grow into the yep gonna do this thing again.

Also, not official or self diagnosed ADHD but probably have some of that mixed with also not official or self diagnosed autism spectrum. Just .. Hey I see some of that in me, interesting, ok what's next.
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@the5thColumnist Hard Agree.
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My first and only reaction when reading the 15% global tariffs thing was . . . ha ha loser . . . anyways . . .
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@dpiponi One of the first spam emails I received in the early 90s included a photo of a kitchen table completely full of various types of plumbing fittings. The text was in Portuguese, and I think it originated from Brazil.

Very amusing at the time.
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At the start of the pandemic, I had been already working from home for about six years and was very comfortable with the video meetings.

The majority of the company was new to it though, and they were doing video calls for the first time due to offices temporarily closed for the plague. When I attended some meeting outside of my usual group it was a revelation for many that you could have fun with it.

Most didn't know about having custom backgrounds, for instance.
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