What dongle do you recommend?

Personally I don’t trust myself with self-hosting something as important as photos. It would probably be fine, but I’m willing to pay for someone else to manage the infrastructure.

Very happy Ente user here! It’s a great alternative to Google Photos and Immich (since I think photos are too important to self-host).

They have an easy guide for migrating from Google Photos (basically they can import a Takeout export directly).

https://ente.io/faq/migration/from-google-photos/

I’ve got it installed on my phone with automatic backups enabled. It had no issues with duplicates from both Takeout and the existing photos on my phone. (I even did the upload twice due to running out of space the first time, and there were no dupes). The app has a pretty similar design to Google Photos, so it feels familiar. It also supports Google’s version of “live photos”.

You can create links to share albums or individual photos, and you can also add people to your plan.

I enabled the local machine learning analysis and, while it’s not perfect, it does make for a pretty nice searching experience.

I prefer just about every third-party UI to the official one…

Don’t forget Playlet for Roku!

• Windows: FreeTube
• Android: NewPipe
• Roku: Playlet

The trifecta!

Is my client bugging or is this comment empty?

is anyone aware of how to properly link comments on lemmy?

As far as I know, there is no way right now. There’s some discussion of having a more agnostic identifier here, but seemingly no movement yet.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

The best you can get right now is using an extension like Instance Assistant for Lemmy, but that only helps you, not the person you’re responding to.

That said, if you use a mobile app (I use Thunder) it will usually handle post/comment links in-app, so it doesn’t matter what instance they link to.

Not yet. They’re supposedly “working on it”. This is the feature I’m most looking forward to.

No worries! Thanks for mentioning it, I might check it out!

Adorable! Thanks so much for sharing.

Syncthing Syncthing Syncthing works flawlessly /plugover :)

Do you know how this compares to Ditto?

System Informer is a nice, more modern take on Process Explorer. My favorite feature is the filter which supports RegEx and searches the process name, command args, path, etc. Really nice for monitoring a few important processes.

7-zip

If you’re on Win 11, use NanaZip. It’s a fork with better integration with Windows 11’s crappy conext menu.

Caffeine

If you have PowerToys this is built in now.

AnyDesk has started enshitifying too but it’s still better than TeamViewer.

What? This just isn’t true? I RDP into work all time and it picks up my user session with all open apps from the last time I was physically at the machine. Then next time I’m at the machine, it picks up the session from last time I remoted in. In other words, as long as you always use the same account, it’s always the same session.

Your activity also can’t be viewed by a user on the remote system

You are right this, but this is actually a benefit in my opinion. The last thing I want is for someone to turn on my monitor and see everything I’m doing. I like that it’s a private session of sorts.

Also RDP is better at adapting resolutions (I want my session to use my local monitors’ resolution, not the remote one) and forwarding system key shortcuts than any other remote solution I’ve used.

A Roku stick requires the Roku streaming service to be functioning to be useful.

That’s not true at all. You could use a Roku with only Plex/Jellyfin and it would be immensely useful.

Thunderbird with the conversations add-on. It’s a game-changer that makes it much easier to transition from Gmail.

Thank you so much for sharing this!!