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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I habe another “magically solved itself” story with solution.

    When I leave my PC on for a long time without needing to access it, e.g. to make a backup or some long updates, I always lock it. This ensures that the monitor turns itself off.

    Or so I thought. Mostly I would only look at it, when accessing it again, since it faces away from the door. Then the screen was off.

    But sometimes when I didn’t want to use it, the screen was on. This really bothered me for a long time. When I wanted to use it, the screen was off and when I didn’t, the screen was on.

    Some day it just stopped happening. The screen was always off.

    Just last week I found out why this all happened.
    It was my phone. I have my mouse on the left side and always place my phone to the right. Except when not sitting at the desk. Then I put the phone on the left side which faces away from the wall. There it slightly shook the mouse thus activating the screen and gaslighting me. Last month I thoroughly cleaned my desk and now I don’t have to place the phone on my mousepad anymore.




  • We host a small Matrix-server. The server is for 4 people but barely uses the 2 cores 4GB RAM.

    Storage is mostly media, but stayed under 100GB in about 3 years.

    We also host a web frontend and use Schildichat as app, but Element X could be better nowadays. Both also have a desktop client.

    A big plus are all the bridges. My girlfriend uses WhatsApp, no problemo, there is a bridge for that. That one club only has a signal group? Use the bridge.
    One of us uses Fb-Messenger via a bridge. Telegram also works and there are lots more.

    The server is also low maintenance. It’s an ansible playbook, that I irregularly run.
    It takes around an hour twice a year due to changes in the playbook.

    Also matrix is feature rich beyond your requests. I don’t know much about the others, but matrix had emoji-reactions before WhatsApp and has threads inside of chatrooms and spaces which are collections of chats for common topics.
    Also polls, sharing current/live location (not bridged to WA), voice messages and stickers.






  • That’s because they don’t have to let you do that and mostly it’s counterproductive to let you do that.

    A prime example for a cookie with “legitimate interest” is a session cookie. Your shopping cart or even staying logged in wouldn’t work without it, so it’s not a good idea to even give the user the choice.

    Legitimate basically means “needed for the function of what you’re trying to do on that website”, so ads are not it, but session cookies are. Everything in between is up for debate. (Usage tracking etc.)