There’s a DVD rip on Usenet, it seems. 723.20 MB

alt.binaries.friends - according to usenet-crawler.com

Find a tool to properly convert them to .m4b format. This holds the whole book incl. cover and chapter marks in one single file. You can use HE-AAC or AAC-LC which are both superior to MP3 and result in much smaller files.

Does the data change a lot? Does it need to be a block-based backup (e.g. bootable)? Otherwise, you could go with rsync or restic or borg to only refresh your backup copy with the changed files. This should be far quicker than taking a complete backup of the whole SSD.

Where are there ads in Apple Podcasts? I’ve never seen some. The season info is clearly shown wherever it’s relevant.

I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.

The power-on hours are shown directly on the Health Info page, no need to click through to the SMART attributes.

According to my Synology:

• WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 - 86,272 hours
• WD40EFRX-68WT0N0 - 86,207 hours
• WD40EFRX-68N32N0 - 34,417 hours
• ST4000VN006-3CW104 - 10,054 hours

You mean “Two printers and one CUPS”?

These variable names are dynamically parsed and used for generating the smb.conf.

And if you need a way to support underscores AND spaces (which are not allowed in a variable name), you have to get creative.

I like the solution as it allows me to encode any possible configuration value (even the most obscure one) in the compose file.

Yes, it’s explained in the documentation.

E.g.:

SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_bind_SPACE_interfaces_SPACE_only: yes

maps to:

[global]
bind interfaces only = yes

This way you don’t need to provide any extra configuration file.

They just get rid of a bunch of so-called “fact checkers” deciding for you which posts you’re allowed to see and which get banned/hidden/deleted. It’s not the end of the world. You can still block people. You can still decide NOT to read posts.

There’s dockurr/samba which is also pretty easy to setup, but doesn’t allow much deviation from the defaults.

# https://github.com/ServerContainers/samba

services:
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/servercontainers/samba:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      TZ: Europe/London
      MODEL: MacSamba
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_STANZA: "vfs objects = acl_xattr catia fruit streams_xattr; fruit:nfs_aces = no; inherit permissions = yes; fruit:model = MacSamba; fruit:posix_rename = yes; fruit:veto_appledouble = no; fruit:wipe_intentionally_left_blank_rfork = yes; fruit:delete_empty_adfiles = yes; fruit:metadata = stream"
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_load_SPACE_printers: no
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printing: bsd
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_printcap_SPACE_name: /dev/null
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_disable_SPACE_spoolss: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_min_SPACE_protocol: SMB2
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_bind_SPACE_interfaces_SPACE_only: yes
      SAMBA_GLOBAL_CONFIG_interfaces: lo eth0
      SAMBA_CONF_SERVER_STRING: Docker Host Samba
      #SAMBA_CONF_LOG_LEVEL: 3
      ACCOUNT_shareuser: mypassword
      UID_shareuser: 1000
      # avahi seems to introduce issues with the share
      # "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "xxx" can't be found."
      AVAHI_DISABLE: true
      WSDD2_DISABLE: true
      #NETBIOS_DISABLE: true
      SAMBA_VOLUME_CONFIG_myshare: "[myshare]; path=/shares/myshare; valid users = shareuser; guest ok = no; read only = no; browseable = yes"
    volumes:
      - /path/to/myshare:/shares/myshare

Just make sure you don’t have any local SMB server running on the host. And if you need multiple different shares, these all need to go into the same container or you need to define different ports if you use multiple containers.

why bother with the aliases

Because once some service “loses” (or sells) your email and you start getting spam, it’s pretty easy to burn that specific email address and change it to something else with that specific service and the spam will stop.

I thought the thing will lower your phone into the box so that the battery doesn’t take your whole room with it when it eventually explodes during charging…

Yeah, Synology and NFSv4 is a bit hit or miss if you don’t use a Kerberos server. I’ve experimented with that back in 2018 to no avail: https://blog.mbirth.uk/2018/01/05/synology-nfsv4-with-id-mapping.html

Well, it’s not a protocol, Subsonic is an app that became pretty famous in the MP3 era and had a nice API for which various clients were developed.

The source code was Open Source in the early days which was forked into e.g. AirSonic, MadSonic, LibreSonic.

Those projects are dormant for a few years now. That’s why new ones have emerged that simulate the same API so all the client apps can still be used with them.

EDIT: Looks like these are projects that support the Subsonic API and are still in active development:

• Funkwhale (also: federated)
• Navidrome
• Gonic
• Airsonic-Advanced
• LMS
• Astiga
• Nextcloud/ownCloud Music
• SupySonic (headless server)

Ah, so alternative implementations. I’ve still got a license for the original Subsonic, but that hasn’t been updated in years by now.

Subsonic? Is this still a thing?

I have all my photos synced to iCloud and have Apple Photos running on my Mac with the option to “always download originals” enabled. Then, I run a daily backup of my Mac’s photo library to my NAS. For this, I’m using CCC at the moment but I’m planning to switch to restic.