I’m confused by Synology’s OS and how you actually view the SMART report but it just says “Healthy” and now it isn’t even showing the bad sectors anymore…

One example I remember… getting an appointment for Global Entry.

If you’re not American, you might not know what that is… but it’s an expedited airport/immigration program in the US and getting an appointment often takes months.

You can use tools like this to monitor the appointments page for cancellations. I didn’t use this specific tool but I used something similar when I signed up for GE and was able to get an appointment 2 weeks after I applied.

I just went through this and tried quite a few Navidrome clients before settling on Plexamp.

I wanted to like Navidrome because it’s more forgiving with your tagging/organization, particularly with compilations. It reads the compilations ID3 tag and puts all tracks with the same album title and that tag in one album, which is super simple.

Plex is far more picky with tagging/structure. But the clients for Plexamp are just so much better, imo.

So I just eventually sucked it up and spent days retagging my MP3 collection and moving files around to make it work with Plex. It sucked but it was worth it.

After a while, you start to get tired of apps and other online services either disappearing or changing in ways you don’t like.

How would you automate the stopping of the containers?

Wow people are recommending a lot of things I don’t do and now I’m worried I’m doing something wrong.

I just have a folder on my Ubuntu boot drive called Docker with all of the persistent data from my containers. And I just tell Duplicati to backup that folder to BackBlaze. I don’t stop the containers to do that. Am I doing something wrong?

I first tried out Plex like a decade ago because The Simpsons weren’t available online in any way and I hated having to change DVDs all the time. I loved that it remembered where I’d left off too.

I was using it to track which episodes I’d rewatched as I prepared for a Simpsons trivia competition. My team ended up taking second place! We won a case of donuts. :-)

I just had a strange issue with Watchtower where it somehow failed to update itself. And it left a running but unhealthy duplicate of itself. Just restarting the old container fixed it. But I guess that’s a risk?

There are some third party apps on Android that allow you to upload custom firmware to devices like electric scooters in order to change default settings. Those simply don’t exist on iOS, I assume because they aren’t allowed. I would definitely like to try that.

It’s definitely a niche thing but I’d love to have emulators on my phone.

And there have been a few other instances where I’d like to do something not allowed by the App Store. My electric scooter has lots of unofficial Android apps that let you change default settings by uploading custom firmware. But those apps are not allowed on iOS. So I would have to borrow an Android device to do it.

Yes it’s niche but it’s pretty annoying for those use-cases that are simply banned by Apple.