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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks.

    A bit of an anecdote, but i was a long-time user of Mint, which integrated with all my banks and credit cards, which was nice.

    When I decided to selfhost, I was disappointed that bank syncing wasn’t a thing, or it had these roundabout ways of working, or they simply didn’t support the banks and credit cards i use.

    So… I ended up wity Money Manager EX.

    Once i did the initial importing of my records, everything since has been manually entered.

    Now, this might seem tedious depending on how many transactions and accounts you manage, but it’s really not.

    Depending on how often you update your records, you can do an easy export/import of your transactions from your bank (usually a csv export). Doing this once a month isn’t terrible.

    I just manually enter all my transactions. Yes, more work, but also less frustration and it makes me feel more in touch with my spending.

    Even not having to worry about the hassle of syncing not working, or having to fix things like that is a huge weight off my shoulders.

    Anyway, just wanted to share my experience because bank syncing shouldn’t be a make-or-break thing.





  • I went through the same dilemma. The old Synology photo software had a duplicate finder, but they removed that feature with the “new” version. But even with the duplicate finder, it wasn’t very powerful and offered no adjustability.

    In the end, I ended up paying for a program called “Excire Foto”, which can pull images from my NAS, and can not only find duplicates in a customized and accurate way. It also has a localAI search that bests even Google Photos.

    It runs from windows, saves its own database, and can be used as read-only, if you only want to make use of the search feature.

    To me, it was worth the investment.

    Side note: if I only had <50,000 photos, then I’d probably find a free/cheaper way to do it. At the time, I had over 150,000 images, going back to when the first digital cameras were available + hundreds of scanned negatives and traditional (film) photos, so I really didn’t want to spend weeks sorting it all out!

    Oh, the software can even tag your photos for subjects so that it’s baked into the EXIF data (so other programs can make use of it).


  • The batteries should not degrade that fast.

    For real!

    I use several refurbished APC UPS’, and also use third-party batteries (from the company that refurbishes the UPS’) and it’s been trouble-free for like 10 years. I replace batteries, it seems, every 4-5 years and only when the self-test says to replace it.

    Never had a problem with data loss due to the UPS failure.


  • But key mismatch error when trying to actually connect between two internal systems.

    Can you confirm that there are no spaces before or after the key on the client end? Sometimes, copy and pasting can add extra spaces that cause invalid passwords, etc.

    I’m not having issues running my self-hosted Rustdesk (docker) externally, but I can’t offer much more than that :(


  • Yeah, the weird filenames bothers me, too. It does take a hit to data portability, for sure. I’m not using it for some kind of long-term, bomb-proof YouTube archiving, but more to have offline access to instructional videos I might need in the near future. For that, the UI and integration with Jellyfin works well for me.

    If I was actually collecting youtube videos, I would go with something else that generates human-friendly folders and filenames! I’ll bookmark Tubesync :)







  • Are there any extensions that are causing issues?

    Very doubtful, as I’ve tried this on vanilla installations of various browsers.

    Anything in the browser console?

    Now that I check, I do see some DOM exception errors in the console, which seems to happen when the UI freezes.

    The errors come up after I’m able to interact with the UI (video remains playing throughout):

    Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: The fetching process for the media resource was aborted by the user agent at the user’s request.

    This might be the first place I should look to find a solution.








  • Floccus is what I use for bookmarks.

    Works across pretty much any browser and on Android (maybe iOS, I’m not sure). I’ve got it set up on my Synology NAS through webdav, and it’s been reliable.

    I do also use Linkwarden, but that’s more to collect web pages, and not just bookmark them. The archive feature is great, since it doesn’t rely on the page still being live to work.

    Linkwarden and Floccus are very different, IMO.