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Rambler,

Funny, but I see soo many kids walking to school with their worldly belongings in their back packs! Worse is they’re hanging soo low - at least get a hip strap. Life lessons I guess. In my day we had lockers in the school.

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Leather strop for sharpening

I’m genuinely curious here - really? As someone who always has to mess with the old fashioned ‘steel’ (mind your hands cus there’s no guard on it!) sharpener, are they better? Honestly, heard of them, never used but interested.

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I’ll fuckin bet someone came out singing ! Why do we allow this to continue to happen to penny shareholders? And workers alike.

Looking for what I can do with my android TV

I’ve got a Sony android TV and it… Kinda sucks with the constant 'reccommended content’s (ads). Every update just adds more scrolling shit I don’t want to see.I want to know what different programs I can try out, and maybe a different os I can put on it. I’m looking at smarttubenext currently, and I want to know of...

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I’m dreading replacing my dumb tv, but can confirm that the nvidia shield was the best thing I ever bought for entertainment: just sideload your apps and off you go.

Take the cable out of the tv, plug it into your android box and hdmi to the tv.

Can recommend STN, cloudstream and plex.

Good luck.

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Excellent! Glad you found what you wanted - I’ll bookmark this for when I have to replace my trusty Bravia! 👍

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Now, a Sony Bravia - what size and price may I ask ? And how difficult is it to remove all the shit ad functionality from it ?

I’ve had my 32" for like 8 years but definately looking for the same quality piece of kit.

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Thaks for the oxyclear tip and yeah, loading the fire up initially is something I struggle with - it stays in our it goes out. I’ll try that loading fashion - cheers.

Rambler,

Great advice and thanks for taking the time.

For what it’s now worth, this has been my way so far (which by the sound of it may be why I’m unsuccessful): load kindling, one log and a couple of firelighters, light fire, keep control open and also door.

Close door after 3-4 mins, wait until log is burnt on one side then turn it over, wait until its burnt through then add another log then repeat turn and refill.

Not getting chance to watch tv properly as I’m constantly watching the fire!

Do you find any type of log better than others?

Thanks again for the advice.

Rambler,

Hi, apologies for the delay in replying and thanks for the advice - I’ve been following it this weekend after getting some more logs.

So far it’s working well - I’m on top-down (Scandinavian) method - gets a really nice fire going quick and heats up the flue pretty quickly too. Your tip on getting a moisture tester: I’m gonna follow up soon when I get paid. I get that it’s going to be pretty useful.

I got the two controls mixed up: left being main air vent (which I now keep open until the fire gets red hot) and the right (which I used to keep closed all the time) and now leave open. So, it’s running pretty nice now, my next challenge is keeping it going! I got some complaints that the room was going cold so I’m not sure if leaving the logs to go to embers was leaving it too late before putting more logs on.

Again, thanks for the heads up, this is a learning curve for us, but I really appreciate the help.

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I could look at that all day long. Critics eh?

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I’m thinking maybe mount as you say using Xplore and bring in Syncthing to move the file across onto the server. Thanks for the idea.

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Yeah, sorry - I misunderstood you. The link is good, thanks for providing it. Some of it is a little above my head, but when I look at X-plore and my plex server I can see in the properties that it’s using smb V2 to connect.

So, I guess the means of permanently having a remote drive connected for Android to access isn’t a pipe dream. It’s now just figuring out the best way to achieve it.

So, I’ll try to explore some of that links info and see if I can get anywhere with it.

Thanks again for taking the time.

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Hi, on f-droid there’s an app called Android Samba Client but I can’t get it to connect to my shared folder because of permissions - it says, but I can’t find a lot of documentation about it.

Have you seen this?

I’m hoping that it’s not connecting because of something I’m doing wrong - and maybe I can figure it out later (poss. because of my lack of understanding on my part of the way plex should share permissions with other devices).

If you get anywhere further, please let me know. - it just doesn’t seem to be a well covered topic unfortunately.

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and my PC at home would have it downloaded automatically before I even got home.

Hi, could you please explain how you got this to happen? Thanks.

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Thanks for the link - I’ll definitely look into it.

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Absolutely no issues at all on lemm.ee from the day reddit killed 3rd party apps - using boost now.

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Why is it a pain? I’ve used it for some time and it just does the job.

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Hi, not sure if this will work on roku, but it does fine on my nvidia, /u/Metigoth mentioned STN (SmartTubeNext) - it’s on github. You could download the apk and try side loading it. Edit: gotta get used to linking better.

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Yeah, I’d actually made a comment on that thread (duh). I guess before I realised how good / useable Syncthing was.

Edit: grammar

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Also I have plain text editor and I have a txt file shared with my computer

Hi, can you share the name of your plain text editor? I use aCalendar+ and opentasks synced via davx5 on Nextcloud.

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Thanks for the reply. I like obsidian at the moment: I can sync across all my devices - using Syncthing, so it’s very workable for me. I guess whichever editor works for you is good - though I must admit obsidian is a bit too overloaded for me, but I’ll persist as the Syncthing works well. I’ll try to simplify it with minimal plugins.

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Yeah, gotta admit to jumping back onto it a few times - purely because of the wealth of information. But I do have to agree with you that the quality of chat seems to be declining.

Lemmy is definately a better quality place to be, but if people don’t post - only to a fraction of communities, it’s in danger of becoming too focused on just a few topics.

What I don’t understand is: some niche communities started getting interest, then the interest waned - did people leave, did they go back to reddit (and why after leaving) or did they find a better place to go (if so where)?

I’m sticking with lemmy for now - with fingers crossed!

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Recently visited York (UK) and they have a fantastic bus system - and they’re electric.

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Does your method use cloud storage? If not, can you please explain to me just how it works across multiple devices?

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That sounds really cool. I currently sync obsidian via a hosted solution on Hetzner using webdav. I’m wondering if I might be able to utilise it somehow as you have - maybe I won’t need to intervene as much.

Thanks for the advice.

Rambler,

Not sure if this will help you stick with orgzly, but it synced very well with Nextcloud. Must admit Nextcloud was easy, so didn’t need to manually sync it any other way.

Hope you find what you’re looking for though.

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Just to clarify then: you use a home server - are you running Syncthing on Linux?

So, if I have an old laptop (win10) would I need to learn linux to use it as an home server - and could it use minimal power when it’s always on? The power thing is an issue here in UK.

I have a nvidia shield for the tv, is that a possibility for a server - I go run plex on it?

These might sound to you like daft questions, but I’m just learning stuff. Thanks.

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Interesting, would you mind explaining how I could use it to connect 2 (or more) android devices together? Where would it have to be run ‘from’ or installed ‘to’ ? From what I’ve gathered, it appears that it just runs from a central point - ie a server and that it keeps clients updated. Is that not correct?

If it’s possible to run Syncthing between multiple devices that would be great, but, I’m not sure - in my head, how this functions between devices. Consider me a novice - could you please explain?

Many thanks for your reply.

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Excellent! Got it installed now and it seems to work. It was the prompt bit I was getting confused with - I thought that I’d need to have both folders under the same structure on both machines. This is a brilliant app. Thanks for the detailed explanation.

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That sounds good, I’ll check it out. Thanks.

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Good advice 👍

Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? (lemmy.world)

According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return....

Rambler,

If you’re not getting a full text feed for articles try changing your feed app (assuming android). I’m using handy News reader (flymm fork on F-droid). It retrives the full article text for all my feeds.

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Handy News Reader (F-droid).

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Good luck, it’s kind of feature-rich so if you have any questions, feel free to ask. The dev is quite responsive (on Github) which is good.

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I could possibly be wrong here, but are you a bot? From what I see you never comment on anyone else’s replies to your posts. I’ll stand corrected it I am.

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I’m pretty new to some of this, did you have to enable these in the car or on the phone?

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Thanks. Can confirm this works well. Nice to see when you do this it gives a list of all the apps that now have support - for me it’s Harmony (github) and Spotube (pstor). Now to see what they look like in the car! Many thanks for the info.

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Interested myself as a usenet user.

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Interested myself as a usenet user.

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Pretty sure that’s a skill too - probably confuses attackers who try to pre-empt your movements.

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Rambler,

Gottcha 👍

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I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I’m trying to be more of an active participant.

Same here, and now I’m soo glad that I jumped that shit ship.

What's the best RSS feed out there?

So far all of my experiences with open source RSS feeders have ranged from mediocre to disappointing. Either I have too little control over how the app itself works (Nunti, You Reader) or the interface looks too messy. Feeder looked like a really option but the lack of organization didn’t convince me. Are there any other...

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Try this: handy News reader on f-droid - fully customisable.

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