Perfect! Honestly though, I would expect the gears icon to appear in the top right corner, not in the search bar😅

Some features seem to limit the working area to only the middle part of the browser. For example, the Multi Tool use 100% width but the Editor uses 33% only. Would love to see all features making full use of the screen size.

Unsure it fits your scenario but you could use VBA. In my case, we collect data via Excel then they get populated into a Word report template, and finally export to PDF for project delivery purposes, all automated using VBA.

Try alltalk_tts v2. One of the features is you can provide an audio sample and the AI will imitate the voice. The overall quality is pretty good, if you choose a larger model and let it run.

I couldn’t figure out how to setup Pihole with Unbound so I use Technitium. Thank the Lord it exists.

Is there a good option that can export the whole Wiki into a PDF with hyperlinks to different chapters and such?

Take a look at Profilarr. You can set fine custom conditions to block anything you want.

Same, no complaint for Navi and Symfonium.

Don’t make any connection to your home server, period.

I mean, the kids don’t need to log in YouTube to view Shorts. What’s the purpose of setting up anything account related? I missed anything.

Don’t think you need a Google account to view Shorts, though?

I feel like I’m doing something illegal by calling my home a lab. Might be thinking too much ;) Jokes aside, I’m not really testing or inventing anything so I genuinely don’t understand where the lab part comes from.

Without technical know-how or experience in general using NAS, Synology is a good first-time option. All apps are ready for immediate use. And don’t forget the majority of computer users don’t even know what a NAS is and they simply want to store files for remote access.

You could ask the question for video gaming. Can a used computer do the job? Yes, but you may not be able to play cutting edge / demanding games if your computer lacks the appropriate hardware. It really depends what kind of things you want to do, for choosing hardware that’s powerful enough.

Jellyfin? You need to consider if you need transcoding. Transcode or not makes quite a difference on the hardware needs.

To answer your question, most people don’t have just one device. Do you have only one device? You must have at least a desktop computer and a smartphone? What if you want to have something stored in your computer when you are not at home?

Music for example. If I don’t want to pay Spotify or whatever, and I want to listen to my music on my phone at work and on my computer at home. Other than making two full copies of the entire music library, I think I have to store them on a 3rd location then share it to my two devices.

If I don’t listen to music at home, then you’re right, there’s no reason to self host anything. I can just store all songs on my phone.

There are three reasons that I can think of:

1. Privacy
2. Collaboration
3. Accessibility / cost

Privacy. This is obvious. People don’t want their private information to be sold by corporations or scraped by AI.

Collaboration To share information with others, while maintaining point 1, people have to self host. Say, you want to archive a bunch of photos for personal viewing then you can store them anywhere you like. But if you want to share them with family, a self hosted solution is the way to go.

Accessibility / cost People want to do things for free. Many applications offer free version or demo, but features are often limited and you can’t really customize them to your own needs. In addition, applications often adopt a subscription model these days and people don’t like that.

I don’t think it checks if the video is watched in Jellyfin.

Just curious if there’s a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It’s sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don’t want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.

Wholeheartedly support Tailscale or similar solutions. Reverse-proxy or VPN are just too complicated (for me, at least).

I know this is not the theme of this post, but I wonder if there’s an LLM that doesn’t hallucinate when asked to summarize information of a group of documents. I tried Gpt4all for simple queries like finding out which documents mentioned a certain phrase. It often gave me filenames that didn’t actually exist. Hallucinating contents is one thing but making up data source is just horrible.