Any good file syncing/drive replacements? My Synology exists pretty much because Synology Drives works so well syncing Mac and iOS.
Copyparty. Found that recently and absolutely love it.
Readit Newslompad commented on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/11/... · Posted by u/rpgbr
lompad commented on Why Nextcloud feels slow to use ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/11/... · Posted by u/rpgbr
I would love to like Nextcloud, it's pretty great that it does exist. Just that makes it better than... well everything else I haven't found.
What frustrates me is that it looks like it works, but once in a while it breaks in a way that is pretty much irreparable (or at least not in a practical way).
I want to run an iOS/Android app that backs up images on my server. I tried the iOS app and when it works, it's cool. It's just that once in a while I get errors like "locked webdav" files and it never seems to recover, or sometimes it just stops synchronising and the only way to recover seems to be to restart the sync from zero. It will gladly upload 80GB of pictures "for nothing", discarding each one when it arrives on the server because it already exists (or so it seems, maybe it just overwrites everything).
The thing is that I want my family to use the app, so I can't access their phone for multiple hours every 2 weeks; it has to work reliably.
If it was just for backing up my photos... well I don't need Nextcloud for that.
Again, alternatives just don't seem to exist, where I can install an app on my parent's iOS and have it synchronise their photo gallery in the background. Except I guess iCloud, that is.
Recently people built a super-lightweigt alternative, named copyparty[0]. To me that looks like it does everything people tend to need without all the bloat.
lompad commented on Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54% electrek.co/2025/09/30/so... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
Yes, because you can't just increase capacity with solar. It has to be backed up by base power. Add 10% solar? OK now you need 10% from natural gas, nuclear, oil, etc. You need to add both solar and something durable then you can just use the solar until you cant.
Look what happened in Portugal when it got cloudy.
This comment is always so strange to me - do you really, seriously believe that the people setting up the grids never thought about dunkelflaute? And I don't mean that in an attacking way, I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts there.
Like, yes, we're aware. At least in the german south we have the opposite problem right now. We are getting negative electricity prices (you get paid for taking some) more often because we have more electricity than we can use due to solar, at least during the day. Proper power storage is being built at this very moment all over the country.
Aside from dunkelflaute, the wind is statistically stronger when solar power generation is low, so at night and when it's super cloudy. And dunkelflaute is a couple days to weeks per year. (german perspective, don't know enough about the other countries' grids)
Regarding that problem in portugal, you misunderstood something there. The big 2025 power outage wasn't caused by clouds, it was an combination of localized blackouts and a sudden power _surge_ which caused a cascading failure which couldn't be stabilized by the conventional power plants even though on paper they had the capacity. How did you get the idea it had anything to do with "cloudy" weather?
lompad commented on Major quantum computing advance made obsolete by teenager (2018) quantamagazine.org/teenag... · Posted by u/kwie
Relevant reading: "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an
8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" by Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus [0].
Shows in a humorous way how the vast majority of quantum computing "records" are utter nonsense based on simplifying the factorization so far, that it turns into a problem on the difficulty level of "factorize 9" - _before_ running the experiment.
Journalists however tend to lack the knowledge to accurately represent that, resulting in nonsensical record claims.
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Why are us humans projecting "confidence" into a machine?
Because "confidence" isn't just something a conscious being can have, it is also something text can simply convey, irrespective of the author. It's just how we perceive language and about what we feel, not about what the author intends.
And you couldn’t just board a plane to Mexico or anywhere down south and get the job done for half the price including said flight? People keep complaining but don’t realize that no place is perfect in this world.
Some places are significantly worse than all others in the same wealth class though.
Somebody further up quoted such insane numbers - $750 for a proper periodontal cleaning? That's usually ~50 to 80€ in Germany. For a _full_ self payer.
Those prices and the health system creating them are utter insanity.
I think you're better off switching to https://starship.rs
I did try to do my whole zsh config/theme from scratch, but it did take some time and lot of small features here and there were no worth the effort (like python version, vevn, and such) so I just switched to starship which is very fast and easy to use
Why not just use fish at that point? It's been rewritten in Rust too.
To me personally, oh-my-zsh and similar projects feel like a worse version of the stuff fish brings by default.
Sigh.