I mean, the hosting company would be the likely target then and they’d probably lock your account and switch off the server. Depending on your nationality and that of the hoster, at least.

My newest vps runs with Caddy. Works like a charm. The downside was, that I didn’t think of the automatic certificate deployment when I set everything up and it wouldn’t come up a first when I only wanted to connect locally to it, as it tried to get a certificate but the challenge failed because I hadn’t the firewall open yet. But besides that it was very smooth so far.

Amazon Deep Glacier is a lot cheaper for storage (but expensive for retrieval).

I use Archive Storage in Oracle Cloud S3 for my dr backups which is their equivalent of AWS deep glacier archive. It’s quite cheap, no restore fees, inbound traffic is free and outbound traffic is only paid, when you’re using more than 10TB per month. (Also first 10 GB of S3 storage is free)

That’s what she said!

It’s not the most detailed thing, but I just use a free account on cron-job.org to send a head request every two minutes to a few services that are reachable from the internet (either just their homepage or some ping endpoint in the API) and then used the status page functionality to have a simple second status page on a third party server.

You can do a bit more on their paid tier, but so far I didn’t need that.

On the other hand, you could try if a free tier/cheap small vps on one of the many cloud providers is sufficient for an uptime Kuma installation. Just don’t use the same cloud provider as all other of your services run in.

Have you watched Shrek?

Dragons and Nymphs don’t fuck around. Got it.

I was wondering the same, but I didn’t find any information on how it builds the search index. I guess it takes quite a while until it’s usable. Also, it might be very dependent on the speed if the internet connection and also the available storage.

I use Voice audiobook player, that can do that, too. But when I switch devices, … it’s easier to pick up where I left, if it’s at least separated by chapters (or as some MP3 CDs do every 3-5 minutes a new track).

Also I do sometimes buy mp3 audiobooks for a blind friend who prefers to listen to them on a CD player (buttons can be felt and its easier to use than a touch screen). But a single, several hours long mp3 is bad in this scenario. And as i didnt find a tool to split them easily, Audible exclusives were out of the question…

Thanks, I’ll try it

Have you found a way to split those mp3s into several files by chapter etc.? All converters that I have tried so far just yield a single, several hours long mp3…

dang it, I just created it !trebuchetmemes@feddit.de

Don’t let the guy from trebuchetmemes hear that! Wait… where are they? Does this not exist on Lemmy? 🤔

Or you can host your own instance quite easily. If you want just a new instance, pick one from the list above. Everyone who intends to run a public instance can enter it there and you’re sure, that this person intends that instance to be public.

CMG’s website addresses this with a section that starts “We know what you are thinking…”

“Is this legal? YES- it is totally legal for phones and devices to listen to you. That’s because consumers usually give consent when accepting terms and conditions of software updates or app downloads,” the website says.

Well, yes, but actually no. No idea how this might play out in other parts of the world than the US. But in most places, you’d usually need consent of all parties, that are involved. If my neighbor were to install an (infected) app like this, then carries his phone around and talks to me, I did not consent and it would be illegal to record me, even if he were not tricked into consenting, but did knowingly accept it. Worse yet, in the last scenario, he might be on the hook for legal consequences, too…

Besides that legal minefield, I thinks it’s a bluff. The tech is either way less accurate than they claim, or quite ressource intensive by either eating through your data plan on a mobile phone or draining your battery. My bet is on a PR stunt.

These are just screenshots of the data privacy section from the Apple AppStore of each of the apps. Afaik those are mandatory & self reported by the devs of the app.

Imaginary? But it feels so real!

Me and my group initially wanted to get Ark Nova but two of us got to test it and both didn’t really like it. Then we found Earth and fell in love with it. It also features a huge replayability.

On the central board, 4 animals get drawn randomly. These set “milestones”. Players that fullfill their requirements can claim the card. If your’re first to claim it, you gain more points than the later players. Also two ecosystem cards are drawn randomly, that award points for specific ways that you have built your grid. All of these cards are double sided, so we usually toss a coin for each one to determine which side gets chosen. Then each player gets an island card, a climate card and an eco system card. As they’re double sided, each player gets to choose for their own, which side gets placed on their tableau (and thus, which actions they allow or which player specific bonus points are active, how many ressources they start with,…).

This setup is really variable and every game forces you to rethink and build a new strategy. Also almost every ressource in the game is worth victory points, which means, that there are tons of ways to gain (and exchange/lose) points. No two games feel the same.

Oh: And there’s no downtime, as everyone gets to participate in the other players turn and also gain ressources / activate their cards. At least after a few rounds, when everyone is able to play in parallel. In the beginning, I recommend to take turns, so that everyone can learn from your actions and also everyone is on the same page interpreting the rules, etc.

Two rounds of Earth. We both played it for the first time and in both rounds the player that thought, he’d be losing won - which was also the player that didn’t complete the grid.

Learned: Take a close look at the bonus cards. Sometimes it’s better to fulfill them partially than to go for the highest score, as that one might limit your options to score points elsewhere. (E.g. 5 cards of type x score 28 points, 6 cards score 30 points. As you can only play 16 cards, playing only 5 cards and then other cards will probably yield more points than these 2 extra points for the 6th card)

A few games of Cascadia: Those time in easy mode, to introduce some kids to this game.

And last but not least a game of Brass: Lancashire. Cool game, but you can severely f yourself if you don’t pay attention. There’s no real catch up mechanism. Start into the second age having a or better several piles of coal strategically placed on the board, having much money and being the first player to move is crucial here. Otherwise this transition will cost you your game.

Yes, but

1. Begin transaction
2. Update table set x=‘oopsie’
3. Sees 42096 rows affected
4. Rollback

Can prevent a restore, whereas doing the update with auto commit guarantees a restore on (mostly) every error you make