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If you don't want to larp with NAS servers and ZFS to prevent bitrot, I would recommend to run par2deep (only needs python, so crossplatform) or Multipar (only windows) on you most important stuff. Set it for 5 % - 15 % for a decent recovery probability for longtime cold storage hard drives. Remember to still keep multiple seperate hard drives and check them once a year.
 
It's been a while since Mozilla sunsetted Pocket (formerly ReadItLater). I was foolhardy enough to use it for the stated purpose of saving articles and links to visit later, that's not an option anymore, Whatever is a man to do? Set up a home server using an old gaming PC and then install Wallabag via docker-compose

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I must say: it's excellent stuff. Genuinely better stuff than Pocket or Instapaper, and entirely local! Set up WireGuard via docker-compose and you can revisit it any time you want.
 
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Dread First said:
It's been a while since Mozilla sunsetted Pocket (formerly ReadItLater). I was foolhardy enough to use it for the stated purpose of saving articles and links to visit later, that's not an option anymore, Whatever is a man to do? Set up a home server using an old gaming PC and then install Wallabag via docker-compose

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I must say: it's excellent stuff. Genuinely better stuff than Pocket or Instapaper, and entirely local! Set up WireGuard via docker-compose and you can revisit it any time you want.
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Firefox used to allow you to screenshot whole webpages. None of that awful looking pdf conversion thing they do now.
Considering moving over to Vivaldi since people maintaining forks of Firefox can't seem to make it actually better.
 
If you do any sort of LaTeX work, I recommend using TeX Live instead of MiKTeX. I've made the switch due to MiKTeX doing some virtue signaling I wasn't too fond of, but frankly, I find TeX Live better. Mainly due to the fact that by default it will install everything you'd ever need. There are two downsides though. One, the final size is 9GB. Two, it takes three hours to install. First is not that big of a deal with modern drive capacities, and the second is something you'll do once per year, assuming you'll want to update it every year.

The end result is that you'll have a fully offline LaTeX setup. It'll even come with every documentation PDF for every package for reference, and when set up right, it'll be fully portable alongside your favorite TeX editor. TeXstudio is always a good choice, and with a little bit of relative path declaration you can keep your entire LaTeX suite in a single folder, always ready to go. I actually prefer this setup to MiKTeX's "throw an error and only then download the missing package" approach. You don't have to rely on being able to download shit from the Internet and you won't have to run into hiccups whenever you want to use a new package.
 
Jotch said:
latex need annual updates
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Packages keep getting updates and there are always potential new packages. Obviously you don't need to update all the time but LaTeX is still a continuously developed project consisting of thousands of packages. Kinda like a Linux distro, you don't need to keep it up to date all the time for it to work, but it's never set at one specific set of packages and versions and constantly moving forward. It just so happens that TeX Live is updated in these annual compilation packages when you install it.
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take 9 gb
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That 9GB is the entirety of LaTeX packages. Every font, every language, every document type, everything. Which all things considered is pretty small so IMO it's worth leaving the installer running in the background for three hours to have a full LaTeX library locally. 128GB USB sticks cost pennies nowadays, so 9GB is really not that much.
 
Slav Power said:
That 9GB is the entirety of LaTeX packages. Every font, every language, every document type, everything. Which all things considered is pretty small so IMO it's worth leaving the installer running in the background for three hours to have a full LaTeX library locally. 128GB USB sticks cost pennies nowadays, so 9GB is really not that much.
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Does it download much less actual data (like, 2-3 gb) and then build the documentation PDFs locally with the newly installed binaries? If so, that makes sense, given that ~1 gb or so is probably there just in fonts and I'd assume if some of the non-PDF standard fonts then get duplicated into individual PDF files that can add up.

If it's just downloading shit and uncompressing it... goddamn, that would beat ESRI's installers for inefficiency.
 
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Does it download much less actual data (like, 2-3 gb) and then build the documentation PDFs locally with the newly installed binaries? If so, that makes sense, given that ~1 gb or so is probably there just in fonts and I'd assume if some of the non-PDF standard fonts then get duplicated into individual PDF files that can add up.

If it's just downloading shit and uncompressing it... goddamn, that would beat ESRI's installers for inefficiency.
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doc is 4.35GB and fonts is 2.77GB. It's inefficient since it's downloading everything one by one from the mirror servers, but again, where with MiKTeX you'd have to pull these whenever you declare something new that's not yet in your installation, here you let it run for those three hours in the background and have everything installed for good. IMO it's not that big of a deal.
 
Almost made a pointless thread, so here are some cool software, (or shit I want to archive here).

ntsc.rs - Allows you emulates NTSC and VHS video artifacts.

Examples

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Lite XL - A code editor that is less than 5MB (not a progroomer so idk if it is a good replacement for VScode)

Etherpad - A real-time collaborative editor for the web
 
Slav Power said:
Which all things considered is pretty small so IMO it's worth leaving the installer running in the background for three hours to have a full LaTeX library locally. 128GB USB sticks cost pennies nowadays, so 9GB is really not that much.
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People are installing games towards 100GB range now, 9GB is nothing for a tool that lets you express all the mathematical structures and symbols (so far) to be printed on paper.
 
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