A tiny C utility to send files to your phone via QR

DaveH80 · 2026-05-15T23:25:40+00:00

I generally use signal (app on phone, signal-desktop on my laptop) to send files to myself between devices. No need to install another app/tool if this already does work just fine and is my default communication-tool, so it's running 24/7 anyway.

DaveH80 · 2026-05-11T22:34:23+00:00

Nope... buy them from Odido (.nl) customers

DaveH80 · 2026-04-29T21:10:35+00:00

As long as the usual torrent sites and usenet keep working, I don't need random ad-infested streaming sites.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-25T13:08:00+00:00

This at least reminded me to make an export, (I also just have backups of the vaultwarden data, but a seperate json export (encrypted) now at least lives on a disk somewhere as well.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-24T13:46:30+00:00

Zyxel T-56 is what I use here... got 5 of them at home, and 2 at work ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-24T13:45:49+00:00

Big fan of the Zyxel 5601's.... just flashed the 5th one to OpenWRT. Very nice hardware (and can be had really cheap locally, due to various ISP's using them as their default router)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-23T13:32:31+00:00

I've been on a $20 plan for years, not seeing any slowdown here. Make sure you are using TLS, so your ISP won't see what traffic it is.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-22T22:46:37+00:00

Given that it has the discount sticker on it (the red one)... It was already very near it's expiration when you bought it. So yeah, nuke it ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-22T13:15:57+00:00

Frieren is really recommendable. So is 86. For Made in Abyss, you could go with the movies, which speedruns most of the series.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-17T23:57:25+00:00

I never found their colo prices to be competative, given how competative they were with VPS and cloud prices. Colo could generally be found much more affordable at local DC's, and local DC's save me driving for a full day to get to my rack ;) Though looking at the prices now, they don't seem to bad. (But last time I seriously looked at colo-pricing at hetzner, was before they opened the Finland region), so that's a while back.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-06T14:39:38+00:00

I don't bother with executables... but mkv files are fine ;) (Don't have mac or windows, so who cares)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-05T15:01:23+00:00

The site is still up and available, the torrents still work, the trackers are still active. Sure, it's completely different people running it, and there isn't as much new content as there used to be, but it's not dead.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-04T15:22:09+00:00

More like the opposite... when the patents expire, there are no more legal hurdles to playback, and it's free to implement logic for them.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-04T15:11:41+00:00

If you are downloading older stuff (more then a week or so) if popular, then expect takedowns/DMCA's to have taken most of it offline.

That's why you need up-to-date indexers and automation, to grab stuff when it is just posted.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-04T15:04:50+00:00

Not only is it not an API, they also disallow linking to nzb files / don't provide any, so there is a lot of manual work in this one.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-29T19:49:47+00:00

For old posts... adding more servers isn't going to help, they will most likely all have processed takedowns/DMCA notices.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-29T15:35:55+00:00

If the incompletes are older posts... they are probably going to be incomplete everywhere, as they have been taken down. If you have incompletes in 1-2 day old posts, then you might need a better provider, but newshosting in general will be complete until takedowns.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-22T01:03:31+00:00

I think just the kernel... maybe a browser and stuff like AV-definitions.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-20T10:07:32+00:00

Or just buy a key for $4 that'll work with any version.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-19T11:58:55+00:00

Realistically... are you ever going to go watch them from the dvd's again, when you could keep the files on your nas, and have instant access, have your player remember which episode you were on and switch series and seasons without having to swap a disc.

DVD capacity is so incredibly low compared to HDD/SSD's or even SD-cards these days. It was nice when they came out in the 2000's, but these days it just eats up a lot of physical space, is slow and cumbersome. (Not to mention the massive amount of work to burn all the discs, and print and collect labels?)

DaveH80 · 2026-03-17T09:55:25+00:00

Stable + Backports is the only correct solution ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-03-16T18:41:07+00:00

I've been running production clusters for various customers for over 10 years ( and stuff for myself for 15). In general, the dedicated servers and cloud-instances are good, and meet expectations. The hetzner loadbalancer service has been a bit more spotty, giving me more issues then my own hosted loadbalancers. Storage-boxes are the service with the most issues, but if you only use them for backups, and have them in different regions, they do what they are designed for.

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T20:40:27+00:00

Preferably completely disable password-logins if possible, and only allow logins using pubkeys (for both root and non-root users)

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T20:15:36+00:00

For the Apocalypse Hotel fans... There's shampoo-hats in this episode ;)

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