RCS dates back to 2007/2008 when it was still called lots of other names. (E.g. Joyn) And since then, not many cell providers adopted it. For all other providers (and those still sitting on an old version of RCS), communication will happen via Google-servers. It basically is a proprietary service under the disguise of a public standard. Especially because of this I’d rather use “proprietary” encrypted chats with it, so Google doesn’t get a copy of all my texts.

RCS at this point is just another Google messenger. And officially unencrypted as well. At least Google recently implemented encryption on top of it and it looks like Apple will adopt it as well.

Back when BlackBerry and their unified inbox (all messages from email, AOL, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc. in one single list of messages) was still a thing - did people get bullied because of their choice of messenger?

It pops up on BundleHunt every once in a while.

MountainDuck supports this. They call it “cache on demand”. So you could setup an SFTP connection and use it via that. The next version of MountainDuck - v5 - should even support SMB.

What’s the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

Yep, had ejabberd running on a Pi 3 with all the XEPs supported by Conversations enabled and various transports. 4 or 5 people at times. No problems at all - with chat and memes, that is. Never tried video or voice calls, but I don’t think they require much work from the Pi itself.

However, similar to @[email protected], in a bout of simplifying my life I decided to nix the setup as all people involved also had one or more of Threema, Signal or Telegram anyways.

This is how I cleaned (most) of my old posts: Searched them via Google. As they’re posted under my username I was able to change them into nonsense before deleting then. Even though they never appeared under my profile anymore.

Or Yazi.

Let’s phrase it differently: Those who blindly install some MDM profile deserve everything that happens after.

A trojan you have to install yourself (by accepting a malicious MDM profile) is not a trojan…

Not sure how Docker behaves, but in a Stack/Compose file you can define volumes to use a specific driver, such as smb. E.g.:

volumes:
  smb-calibre:
    driver_opts:
      type: "smb3"
      device: "//mynas/ebooks/CalibreDB"
      o: "ro,vers=3.1.1,addr=192.168.1.1,username=mbirth,password=secret,cache=loose,iocharset=utf8,noperm,hard"

So Docker will take care of mounting. Paired with restart: unless-stopped, all my Containers come back online just fine after an outage.

I’ve setup Dovecot and Solr in Docker containers for the IMAP end. Solr provides a fulltext search for Dovecot. I’ve also configured a virtual “All Mail” folder that shows all the messages on the server - to help with clients that don’t support search in all folders.

As webmail client, I’m using SnappyMail and let it search the “All Mail” folder.

See also: https://blog.cloudron.io/email-search-in-mail-clients/

Of course. The original OS, Terramaster OS (TOS), is Linux based and you can replace it with other plain Linux versions or a NAS-specific distro such as OMV or UnRAID.

Since this is basically an Intel NUC, even Windows might run on the thing.

I’m looking at the TerraMaster F4-423 which is basically an Intel NUC soldered to a SATA controller. It has 4x 3.5" SATA bays, an internal USB slot for the OS, 2x m.2 slots, HDMI output, 2x 2.5G LAN, etc. Comes with 4GB RAM, supports up to 32GB. I think it’s the smallest NAS with custom OS you can get.

@[email protected] It’s now 24 hours later - what do you think? I’m also running a NextCloud to run PhoneTrack. I had a customised version of php-tracks-recorder before that, but wanted something for multiple devices/users and with a bit more features.

How do you convert imported media? I.e. what tool and/or settings do you use - especially for videos?

For photos, I use the macOS-included sips tool which doesn’t seem to need any tweaking. Just sips -s format heic *.jpg --out ./ does the trick.

For videos I’m using ff-Works with h.265 CRF 22 output, keeping dimensions and framerate.

As 99% of my photos come from my phone, I’m using PhotoSync to push them to my NAS whenever it sees my home WiFi.

I needed something that allows for unlimited aliases as I’m creating an email address for every service I sign up to.

I’m using UberSpace for 5€ a month which also allows for hosting websites. Very happy with them.

• Achoo HTML Viewer & Inspector
• Amplosion: Redirect AMP Links
• Baking Soda / Vinegar: Replace custom videos with native HTML5 video tags (Vinegar=YouTube, Baking Soda=everywhere else)
• History Book - Browse & Search: Every page you visit for more than x seconds gets added with its contents to a full-text index so you can search for that sentence you remember but don’t remember where you saw it
• Noir - Dark Mode for Safari: Works better than Dark Reader for me
• Redirect Web for Safari: Custom redirect rules, e.g. replaces Mapper and Customize Search Engine (to redirect to my own SearXNG) for me; also use this to redirect to Facebook’s chronological feed every time I open the front page
• Rewinder - Time Travel the Web: gorgeous Wayback Machine UI, albeit very slow b/c archive.org is slow
• SingleFile for Safari: Latest addition, not used it much; allows to save a complete web page incl. all assets to a single file similar to MHTML
• SponsorBlock for YouTube
• Table of contents - for Safari: Provides a TOC for web pages to easily jump to different headings
• Wipr: Pay once, install and forget ad-blocker. Works very well for me - incl. YouTube ads.

Not a Safari extension, but related:

• Opener - open links in apps: Share a deep-link to this tool and it provides a list of apps to open the link in