Yeah, minus the animation it took me a couple hours. Well worth the time spent!

Firefox. I’m fairly convinced it’s something to do with UBO or one of the blocklists but I’ve never taken the time to dig into it properly.

You’ve reminded me of a similar frustration that I’ve never found the answer to - though it may be adblock related - in that whenever I open a link to eBay it completely wipes the history for that tab. Or possibly it opens a new tab and kills the parent. Either way I always forget about it until the next time and then it drives me mad all over again.

Nice! I’m learning Python right now so I’m going to take this and make a script out of it.

Back in the 2000s I used to have an app on my PC where I could enter my salary or hourly wage, hit a button when I went for a poop, hit it again when I got back and it would tell me how much I’d earned on the can.

Wonder if there’s anything like that for phones these days?

Yeah this. Shortly before he left the church, a friend of mine’s pastor told him not to recycle because it delays the end times. These people want Armageddon and think they’re doing god’s work by hurrying it along.

Thanks, I’m going to have to put some research into this!

Didn’t Plex used to do something like that natively? It would simulate live TV using your library, right down to being half way through an episode when you switched to that channel.

The cut-off date for the integration is October, while Tidal subscriptions taken out via Plex will stop getting renewed in September.

Edit: Comparing mine and OP’s emails I’m guessing it was a different template depending on whether you subscribed via Plex or directly through Tidal. The 26th is probably OP’s renewal date.

I’ve heard Shelly bandied about quite a lot in the HA circle but this is the first thing that’s made me sit up and take notice. You’re saying they’re far more customisable than, say, your standard ZigBee light switch?

Admittedly it was a few years ago since I last tried, but even in WPA2 compatibility mode I had no end of trouble either getting things to join in the first place or weird stability issues afterwards.

Maybe things have improved now, but when 2 “just works” and is good enough for most use cases I’ve been reluctant to try 3 again.

Yes of course! I enabled experimental features to use a template add-on, but I later removed it and turned the option off.

Either they A/B tested this or they accidentally released some of it early because I got all of that new UI stuff a few months ago, complete with addons appearing in the HA updates section. A few days later, just as I’d got used the change, it disappeared!

At least I now know I wasn’t going mad.

To be fair the Synology lineup is confusing, but if you get the right model - one with a Ryzen processor and support for 32GB memory (officially; they can take more) - then you’ve got yourself a proper little workhorse with low power consumption, a stable, reliable OS, and super easy expansion thanks to the hot-swap drive bays and their Hybrid RAID option. My 8 bay model is running a couple of full-blown VMs and what must be two dozen or so docker containers while barely breaking a sweat. The DS723+ is the equivalent 2 bay model.

For things that need some acceleration like Plex and Immich I’ve added a little N100 box (a Beelink S12 Pro) with Ubuntu Server and another Docker instance, and mounted the NAS storage via SMB. This also sips power even when transcoding 4x Plex streams at once.

All of which is to say you don’t need to do a complex, potentially power hungry and difficult to expand self build to do what you want.

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Ohhhhh I see. The wording on that page could be so much better!

I don’t get it. What’s it supposed to be doing?

This is excellent but alas I can’t get it to work in nginx-proxy-manager. Keen to see if anyone else can figure it out.

Make an offer of $0.01. Assuming the responses aren’t automated, every time they reject it, raise the offer by 1c. Keep doing it till you hit the $15 mark and then just stop. It could waste literal years of their time.

I’ll have to have a look when I’m next in the vacinity but I’m pretty sure I have an APC Easy UPS on mine and it works out of the box.

Let me get back to you…

Update: It’s an APC Back-UPS 850. No doubt the instructions banged on about requiring Powerchute but I just plugged it into the Syno and it worked fine. You do need to enable UPS support on the NAS itself of course, from Control Panel/Hardware & Power/UPS, and set it to USB UPS.