You have to configure the space bar to allow a long-press to give you a popup menu to select another language. Currently there’s no way to have multiple languages with the same layout, it’s annoying but you can work with it.

My unpopular opinion is I like ads, some are well thought, funny, and memorable.
Ads in videogames which allow you to have a small boost are also amazing, I don’t have to spend money, just leave my phone for 30~60 seconds and I get a bit of premium currency while supporting the devs.

The annoying/worrisome part is all the tracking the ads have, and the ones which are very invasive which take half of the screen.
If we could go back to TV ads where everyone watches the ads without individual targeting, and with current technology to protect against hacking, and getting them in sensible places to not hide the content I would place and exception in my ublock and pihole for them.

I also like local only with a similar set up as yours, rsync to and HDD and to an SSD.
But I also would recommend you to follow that suggestion, you need to have an external backup managed by someone else (encrypted, of course) so you can have options if anything happens to everything in your local.
It’s up to you how much you’re willing to pay to be sure to be able to retrieve your data.

I’m using iDrive e2, it says it has a limited offer, but it’s been there for over a year.

Im basically paying $1.25 for 2TB per month (it’s charged at once for 24 months) https://www.idrive.com/s3-storage-e2/pricing

Found that also myself trying to do the same thing haha. I did the same process as OP, gparted took 2.5 hours in my 1TB HDD to create a new partition, then copying the data from old to new partition was painfully slow, so I went to copy it to another dive and into the new partition.
Afterwards I deleted the old partition and grew the new one, which took a bit more than 1.5 hours.

If I had the space I would have copied all the data out of the drive, formatted it and then copied back into. It would have been quicker.

Yesterday I started looking for mini pcs and found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/MiniPCs/comments/1afzkt5/2024_general_mini_pc_guide_usa/

They shared this link which contains data on 2.8k machines, it helped me compare some of the options I was looking for and find new ones.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SWqLJ6tGmYHzqGaa4RZs54iw7C1uLcTU_rLTRHTOzaA/edit

Sadly it doesn’t contain data bout the ThinkPad, but I might as well share in case you’re willing to consider other brands.

Edit: Oh, wait, I was thinking about a ThinkCentre, not a ThinkPad :P
Well, I’ll leave this around in case someone finds it useful, hehe.

I’d say it depends on your threat model, it could be a valid option.
Still, how are you going to manage them? A password manager? You’d still be posing the same question: should I keep my accounts in a single password manager?

Maybe what you can do is use aliases, that way you don’t expose anywhere the actual account used see your inbox, only accounts to send you emails.
But I tries this and some service providers don’t handle well custom email domains (specially government and banking which move slowly to adapt new technology)

You can use GPSLogger to record it in local or send it to whatever service you want.
If you’re into selfhosting you can use traccar which is focused into fleet management so it’s easy to get reports on the trips made.

As for your second point, I wouldn’t trust the GPS for this, it can say you weren’t moving since it only checks every so often to record the data, or maybe it says you actually were speeding because the two points it used to calculate the data weren’t the actual points you were at that time.
A dashcam would be better suited for this. I’m not sure how they work, but most probably they can be connected to read data from your car which would be more trust worthy to whoever might decide if you were actually speeding.

I got annoyed at not finding CC for the media I have dubbed, so if the show/movie is originally in English and I have it in Spanish, the Spanish subtitles are not from the Spanish audio, but translations of the English audio, so they don’t usually match.
(which Tom Scott recently made a video about this issue https://youtu.be/pU9sHwNKc2c)

I found and been using this project https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI
It’s been pretty good, for youtube videos (10-30 minutes) has been perfect.
But there are some issues when I tried it with movies, the timings are not great, and sometimes it hallucinates some words in parts where there aren’t any. Just a few words are actually wrong/missing. (I tried it with fastwhisper since I don’t have that much ram)

Yes, that’s the idea, if you’re not running tailscale in both machines then you won’t be able to connect to them (unless you do some other networking configurations).
Once you have tailscale running in both machines or devices, you only need to use the Tail IP to connect to them, they will find each regardless if they are in the same local network (connected to your home router) or across the internet.
If you want to have access to your jellyfin without connecting to tailscale it’ll require more configuration depending on your set up and you’ll have to take care of the security implications of the internet being able to reach your computer or server.

A bit more information:
My jellyfin runs in my computer, so with tailscale I have at least these IP addresses

• 127.0.0.1: The machine itself (or localhost)
• 192.168.X.X: The address in your local network (usually your ISP’s router)
• 100.X.X.X: The Tail IP.

Now, in my phone I can be at several places and I can access jellyfin like this:

• Same local network: 192.168.X of my computer, 100.X tail IP of my computer (if I’m connected to tailscale).
• Mobile data or any other wifi: 100.X tail IP of my computer only when connected to tailscale.

Again, I won’t recommend you on making your jellyfin instance public to the internet, just make sure to always be connected to tailscale.
If you want to share your instance then you can check to share it within tailscale to the specific people you want.

Some services usually just listen to 127.0.0.1 which makes it’s only available for the current machine.
The service needs to listen to 0.0.0.0 or the IP of the network adapter to be able to be reached outside the machine, this is what remote access means, both your local network and the internet are “remote access” to the services running inside a machine.

So, yes, it’s normal you have to enable remote access to be able to connect via tailscale.

Extra note: it’s good to be extra sure your services can be only accessed by you, this is what the ip address filter does, but if this is running inside a normal ISP’s router network then it’s already closed to the outside internet, so the filter would be a bit annoying in the case you want to share it with your other devices or any guest inside your network, you’ll need to remember to update that list, and also if your IP changes for some reason.
With tailscale you can just remember to close all your ports and use your tailIP to connect to the service

Damn, I wanted to answer with that joke…

I’d say I still procrastinate but less. The main factor is it make me feel anxious of not finishing stuff so I wanted a solution.
The way I’m improving is to look at big tasks into smaller steps which are easier and quicker to accomplish, this way I feel better since there’s something I finished even when the big task might be still a long way of being finished.

I remember something about 2 minute tasks or something like that, but also I saw this from my job, splitting projects into epics and each epic into tasks and even then you could split them into sub tasks (taken from the Jira types at my job)

Send secure message takes you to matrix, which is a dedicated messaging project which has encryption.
Send message uses lemmy, which uses federation which is basically public (well I’m not exactly sure if the messages are public like the rest of the activity but the message is sent and saved in plain text, so at least the instance admins can read them)

Yes and yes.

Sure, probably they won’t use it for bad purposes.
But there’s nothing saying they won’t use them in any way they see fit.
Maybe they could find a way to find monetize without disclosing them and anonymized, like statistics or with the update in their policy about training their models with whatever information they can get.
Maybe you have an ad blocker and AdSense can’t build a profile from you, but the google already know what sites you were interested enough to make an account and could try to advertise in other ways.

And then the biggest issue: there’s no mention of encryption, so who knows how they store them and where. Could an attacker read them? How are google employees prevented from reading them?

Doesn’t Lastpass have a data breach every two months or so? I migrated last year after hearing of the second one I knew about

Same with bitwarden, I recently made my wife change from google because I don’t trust how they could be managing that kind of data.