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That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after a number of years looking around. Each individual OS works pretty well, if you only want to use that stick on one OS (i.e. Filevault for Mac, Bitlocker for Windows and EncFS or similar for Linux). However, cross platform, things fall down pretty quick – I’ve used Truecrypt/Veracrypt in the past, and I’ve used Cryptomator more recently, as it seems a bit easier on the CPU on a couple of my devices (one being my Mac Mini).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Got myself a San Disk encrypted 32GB USB 3.1 stick for £9 Nothing is leaving my house unencrypted any more. I’ve even set up an encrypted share on the Synology specifically for customer backups. Maybe paranoia but it’s only cost me £14 to implement, £5 on a W10 Pro for the laptop and £9 for the USB stick. Now if I leave anything on the bus there will be no data breach to report.
I’ve been like that for a while. Bitlocker for the USB hard drive I carry between work and home and if I need to use the USB on the Mac, then I use Cryptomator.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
From memory, it also has a number of extra tools that the standard Pi desktop doesn’t have, such as the network boot server so that Pi’s can boot directly from that and Home data is saved to the x86 system (aimed at classrooms).
Mind, it also has items removed, like Mathmatica
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I run two password managers alongside each other – Keepass and 1Password. 1Password because it’s fair superior to Keepass on iOS and the Mac and Keepass because I need Android and Windows cross compatibility and the 1Password Windows app is poor (I use the standalone, not the subscription version).
On Android, Keepass2Android I found to be the best client – autosyncs via SFTP to my NAS, but works with other cloud services etc.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Unfortunately it sounds perfectly legit to me with no fault of Ryanair or Goldcar – most banks will charge you a fee as a percentage for the conversion as well as the conversion rate – usually a percentage fee, so that sounds like how you’ve been stung – that’s jsut less than 1% of the amount charged. Not the answer you wanted, but unfortunately that’s the facts.
However I sympathise, as I was caught out on the Ryanair car hire as well recently – we hired a car and last time we were in Ireland, we’d had to pay the deposit on a credit card at the desk (had to be credit card). As I didn’t have the cash, we had to pay the additional insurance waiver, which was fine, but made the hire pricer. Well, this time around when we hired, I made use of the insurance that Ryanair were offering at the time of hire (as the hire through them is actually cheaper!). So £15 later for the insurance for the three days, we turned up and checked in for the car, to be told that we needed to pay the deposit still or get the additional insurance because the insurance we had didn’t cover it! The insurance we’d purchased would cover us in event of an accident and the car hire firm taking the deposit and then we claim through the car hire firm. Anyhow, that cost us about £90 to get the insurance from them – tripling the £30 car hire fee! Wont be making that mistake again.
As per Dave, I have a similar card – a Monzo account, as I’m over towards Ireland and back. I’ve also a Revolut card as that lets us transfer money to it, convert to Euros, and then send to a bank account in Ireland ready for our wedding next year. Conversion is far cheaper than competitors such as Transferwise!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I saw the duplicate finder last night having done some Googling, but didn’t bother with it, as I’ve already purchased Gemini in the past. I don’t have the recycle bin on – partly because I’ve not used Drive/Cloudstation previously and relied on Resilo Sync which creates it’s own “trash” folder.
I’d seen Hyper Backup Explorer – I was interested in it as I have some backups in the cloud and it would appear to be quicker to download from Dropbox and use the PC to restore rather than the NAS.
Thankfully, I’m all restored now so I’ll download all the files into a separate folder on my PC perform the changes and then upload the files to the machine again separately!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Looking at your original post – are you sure FAT32 will work? Isn’t that also limited to a 4Gb file size?
I ditched my HomeHub as well and use a Netgear nighthawk model. Sorted out the modem internally to connect to BT and then I was off and away.
Interesting to see that the Draytek supports a USB thermoter – I have one of those attached to a Pi in my kitchen to record the temperature (as it’s not the warmest room in the house and I wanted to see by how much!)
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve found Clearscore to be pants recently – it was quite up to date recently but now it’s a bit of a joke. Noddle is far better for showing all of my accounts etc. So now I just check Noddle. Time saved!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Might be some digging and downloading some information for reading on the flight back from Ireland!
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Did mine a while back. Worth it purely for the Bitlocker (as long as you have a TPM).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
My work laptop is a spinner and it’s horrendous. I turned it on about 15 minutes ago after a reboot and it’s sat here still churning away doing something. Took me ages to get to the point of being able to do anything. Feels dead slow and it’s not that slow of a processor. I dread having to open a CAD file from a client, as that grinds the machine to halt for a period of a time.
I’ve not got the 128GB one advertised – tempted, but I’ve a 60GB sat doing nothing (well, it’s in an external caddy now and will be used as an external drive)
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I saw this the other day that I found amusing.
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"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
I’ve found XNView to be a reasonable alternative to Picasa, as I was disappointed when that disappered – partly because the built in quick image editor for explorer was great and much better than the Windows 10 in built photo previewer.
I’ve looked into Apple’s Photo app for my Mac, but I’m loathe to pay for the increase in iCloud storage that putting all my photos in it would entail and XNView also seems to cover some of the uses that I would need.
I don’t mind the media managers to much, it’s when they make it difficult to find the actual files themselves and therefore allowing me to backup nicely. I use Calibre for my eBooks and Zotero for my academic papers and technical standards and they organise items for me in their own way – initially this was a bit of a pain, but I’m sold on it for these, as I can log in and find the files in Explorer if needed easily enough. However, Photos for the Mac hides all the images in various sub folders etc. All nicely backed up using Time Machine, but I believe it uses hard links and soft links, which means that I can’t sync it nicely using my Synology.
However, the Synology Photo Station is quite good as well – I should play with that a bit more as well.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Shame you Pixel is still good, as I’m selling my 5T already!
Back to the Big Apple. ?
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Bob, don’t forget podcasts too! You may like this SF podcast site: http://escapepod.org/
Only recently got in to these (well, over a year ago now I guess!) but I was hooked on the Dan Carlin Hardcore Histories. I’ve just finished the epic Blueprint to Armageddon series. I also await the Infinite Monkey Cage downloads.
Used Glympse in the past and it’s been dead handy.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Tippon – no so eye opening as I was aware of most of that. Mentioned the Timeline feature of Google in the office yesterday and a few people freaked out.
I was against using Gmail for a while until I read this article. If that high a percentage of emails are going to Google, which pay out for email hosting elsewhere? (Mind, I’ve still got my Fastmail account but I’m in two minds as to whether or not to keep that when the fees run out).
Interesting to note Mozilla’s latest release – Facebook Container
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Watching the video on the Beeb, that spread quickly. VERY quickly. As in explosively quickly. Condolences to those that got stuck in the mall, that’s horrendous.
Nothing I design in my day to day job could evacuate occupants from a fire that goes “0-60” in 21 seconds like that. They’ve changed the video now, but the one on yesterday showed the fire starting and then black out from smoke within 21 seconds. Yes the camera was at high level but that was a very rapid spread.
Even when we had the height of combustible materials and placed them in silly locations, it didn’t go up that quick (Stardust Disco fire for example, took at least a few minutes for everything to ignite).
It hasn’t been a good 12 months for fire safety.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Just looking up pi hole. And i found something out i never knew. (You lot probably did a decade ago) In your routers dns host box, the one we change to either google or open dns, you can put your pi holes static IP in there. (Have your dns of choices set up in pi hole). That way their is no messing on any of your connected devices.AAnd tou just connect staight to your router as normal. I thought you had to connect your devices to the ras pi running pi hole. I don’t know why i thought this, but it’s what put me off in the past. Defo going to do this tomorrow. I have a rad 1 2 and i think 3. Will the speed matter, or is any of them more than up to the task?
That’s what I did and was part of the reason I stopped using the BT Homehub (because you couldn’t change the DNS settings). This way, I didn’t have to sort out any of the fiancé’s devices to work (it just works).
Also had no complaints about it either – in fact, I’ve had queries when it’s NOT working!
In regards to the Pi used, it shouldn’t make a lot of difference. The Pi Zero W runs it perfectly well, though is a bit slower on the web side of things (displaying the dashboard) but I rarely use that, so it isn’t much of a hardship! No noticeable speed different using a Pi 3 or the Pi Zero.
At work now, so can’t confirm the adverts. It certainly didn’t whilst I was watching the Derry Girls on 4OD on the Apple TV recently. I’ve also noticed Youtube ads creeping back in on the apps on iOS and Android so I wonder if they’ve found a way around that now.
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Indeed! I’ve a Pi Zero W running Pi-Hole,
I had PiHole running but switched it off. It’s more of a faff to enable sites than just running AdBlock locally.
No help for the iPad or phones though 😉
It’s rare that I need it turned off but I do occasionally. Haven’t found it to hard to do."Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
Double post but on the back of this, I just checked Uswitch and the like and I’ve switched to NOW Broadband – probably will be stuck using the router provided as it’s essentially Sky I guess, but I’ll have a play and see if it can be used as a modem mode, like the Virgin one.
£20 a month (including line rental) for 38Mb fibre – bit of a drop from our 55Mb but shouldn’t be to noticeable I hope! Saves us almost £30 a month. It also had the option not to have a contract (for a one off £30 setup fee).
"Everything looks interesting until you do it. Then you find it’s just another job" - Terry Pratchett
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