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Pushover for notifications. Paid a very small amount a decade ago. Works reliably ever since. And for monitoring I’m using Zabbix.

You could also think about moving to Gemini or even Gopher. Using some web proxy like kineto you could still make the pages available via HTTP (looks like this).

I had looked into GRAV which is not quite suited for blogging (i.e. date-based posts) but rather for wiki-like content or a simple page structure. Also, they’re also feeling more and more enterprisey, especially with their recent 2.x release.

Tried Serendipity but found it to be more or less on life-support.

And finally settled on a very basic WordPress with only a handful of plugins (all set to auto-update), most importantly SQLite and ActivityPub. Backups are a simple copy of all the files or just the SQLite db. The Gutenberg post format in the SQLite db is easy enough to convert it to anything else using a small custom Python script should need be. I don’t remember how I imported my existing posts, though. Might’ve been via RSS import.

On clients you mostly have to set MODE=netclient in the nut.conf and modify the upsmon.conf according to the manual and detailed manual. By default, it should only shutdown systems when reaching a “low battery” situation, not immediately when switching to battery power.

What was the difficulty with NUT for you? The setup is pretty straightforward, IMHO.

Should be easy to wrap in a container, too.

THIS! Normally, the battery should be accessible via some door or a few screws. Replace the battery for a few bucks and you’ll have 5 more years of peace.

If you search for “12V ups” there are several. However, most only go up to 2 Amps. Not sure what kind of monster router actually needs 5 Amps, though. Also, I believe those 12V UPSes don’t provide status information via USB. So, there’s no way to know when the battery backup is going to fail.

$ strings "PSOFT Pensil+ 4 Render App.app/Contents/MacOS/Pencil+ 4 Render App (Trial)"
...
pshi_%s.dat
psh_%s_%u.tmp
psh_%s_%u.dat
/Users/Shared/.etc

So, maybe check the /Users/Shared/.etc folder? Make sure to turn on hidden files in Finder by pressing ⌘⇧. (dot)! Also, look for some files starting with psh_.

EDIT: I’ve also seen something like /.config/ or /.config/PSOFT/ - so might be in your user directory or in the /Users/Shared/ one.

Try installing/running it while offline.

Also, most apps just put a preferences file at some obscure location. Try uninstalling it using AppCleanerX (make sure to remove everything it shows) and see whether that helps.

For the real “TV feeling”, try ErsatzTV. It basically creates multiple real-time streams of TV shows and movies from your media library. You can switch between them like channels.

It’s a mix of --codec copy to not reencode the streams, --map 0:1 to select the audio stream of the input file and for merging back you need multiple -i input files and then --map 0:0 to map the first input file’s video stream and --map 1 to map the second input file (English audio stream). Mappings may vary - use ffprobe to check your files.

You might want to look into Tdarr. Configure it once and let your old computer transcode away automatically.

For audio stream replacement - if you get the exact same video (same intro length, same scene lengths, same total length, etc.), you can easily replace the audio streams and it should work out. ffmpeg is your friend to do it lossless.

database schema improvements, which is a particularly tricky thing to work on

Not, if you know what you’re doing.

I dont like AI, I wish I could go back to the world before it, but I cant.

You do know that you can use LLMs to get inspiration and suggestions but then still implement those things by hand? Which is also a great way to make sure it doesn’t change something else in the background. Also, if you use Claude like you’ve used StackOverflow and Google before, you don’t even have to mention it as a Co-Author.

Pro-tip: Block the user “claude” on GitHub and it’ll show you a warning for every repository where they forgot to remove the Co-Author tags:

v3 Migration Guide

[!NOTE] Upgrading to Paperless-ngx v3 can only be performed from version 2.20.15. If you are running an older version, please upgrade to v2.20.15 before proceeding with the v3 upgrade.

You can tune SearXNG results in a similar way. There’s just no easy UI for it.

And yes, it’s often slower than commercially available search engines - but it’s completely free, without trackers, and it’s combining results from various different engines. I can live with that.

Residential IP (runs in a Docker container on a Raspberry Pi 5 here), pretty much vanilla (apart from Marginalia).

Kagi is still $10+tax a month. That’s $120 a year (plus tax).

SearXNG is $0 and a few minutes of my time whenever I tweak the configuration.

No problems with my SearXNG here at all (just have to look into Qwant):