Oh I nearly forgot but specifically Prime Video is indeed a service that allows direct movie downloads, thanks for the suggestions!

Altough......now that I've looked at it more closely and if I understood it correctly:

1. one can only use their proprietary app to initiate a download
2. one can only watch the downloaded content on their proprietary app, and
3. the downloaded movie expires after 30 days.

I'll try it out as soon as I can, but if true then this is just a horrible experience.

Not OP, but here's my experience: It's very rare on my end and happens while browsing for posts that link to a website. I wouldn't really classifiy this as high priority, since I suspect that it's the fault of the website, and the wording of the error message in Eternity simply leads one to believe that it's exclusively Eternity's fault for not loading the image. Here's an example in Eternity:

And here is the same post in the web UI:

Thanks for the encouraging words! That's actually very relatable and I hope that moment comes soon. But I'm also learning new stuff about Linux on an almost hourly basis and it's a lot of fun. Oh, and it's so rewarding when something finally works!

Hey!

So I've managed to find the time and install tlp and I'm already hugely grateful for that. You were right, and it was really just as easy as typing "sudo rpm-ostree install tlp" and it worked just like it would with apt or dnf. 1/5 done!

But sadly the other ones weren't so easy.

• Goverlay gives an error when using rpm-ostree, and the installation via tarball required qt6pas which I didn't manage to install correctly. Edit: After trying the same exact rpm-ostree a second time it....worked! But no idea what just happened. 2/5!!
• "Razer laptop control project" requires some packages (libdbus-1-dev libusb-dev libhidapi-dev libhidapi-hidraw0 pkg-config libudev-dev) that rpm-ostree isn't able to find.
• Auto-cpufreq uses an installer that exited with an error about the package "cairo" not being found (or rather, it being inactive). Installing it via rpm-ostree didn't change that...
• NordVPN for Linux uses a weird sh command that exited with the code "rpm-ostree: Dropping privileges as 'rpm' was executed with not 'known safe' arguments." I couldn't find anything on the internet about adding those arguments.

I've basically accepted my fate and given up on these last three programs, and it's largely my fault for wanting to install stuff that hasn't been made to work on an OS like Bazzite just yet. But maybe you can spot a rookie mistake or something that might help me again! Regardless of that, a huge thanks for your help and I'm glad I've got some programs to work while also learning something new along the way :)

Just wanted to chime in and give a +1 to Anytype. While I haven't self-hosted the backup node and I can't help you with that just yet, the fact that a free, P2P decentralized, end-to-end encrypted and source-available notes app like Anytype even exists is awesome!

I'd be curious to see if you manage to get the backup node up and running 👀

Very insightful, thanks. All this does seem very fishy at best. Best to stick with LibreOffice then.

Not an expert, but I think they're actually Latvian.

Ahh yes, the well known dilemma of "data portability", also know as "If you can't leave with your stuff, you might as well stay with us". That's something I'd definitively recommend you look out for in the future, here, I'll make the first step for you [for Joplin]:

• Joplin stores all your notes on your device and allows you to export them in several nonproprietary formats, including markdown and HTML, which are human readable and directly importable by generally all open-source note apps. Joplin being open-source helps too, as it means that anyone can directly add new ways of exporting notes into different formats should you ever want to switch. Joplin is not perfect since it still changes your files during usage, but one could argue that it's well within reason since it adds several features on top that the raw markdown format doesn't have.

As for your problem at hand, imma be honest chief, it's not going to be perfect. You have two options, but both of those options will require that you manually adjust some notes, that's just a consequence of today's world in which different note apps are built completely different and there not being a universally agreed on format that can easily contain all the contents of a single note in one file. Synology using their weird format doesn't make it easier either so you're going to have to put in the work to break out of that file format first. This is true regardless if you ultimately decide to switch to Obsidian, SilverBullet, MoeMemos, Nextcloud Notes, you name it. With Joplin at least, you'll be able to automate the import of 98,9% of all your notes, but even that still means that you'll have to manually adjust some notes. Here are your options:

1. Automate the process:

   • There are several scripts that automatically take the Sinology .NSX export you just created, then they translate all it's content into .md files that you can then easily import in one-click into Joplin. Here are the ones I've found:
     • https://github.com/Maboroshy/Note-Station-to-markdown/
       • "It creates md files and puts all attachments into a sub folder."
     • https://github.com/xinbindai/Note-Station-to-Joplin
       • A customized version of the above script "to export notes/images in markdown + Front Matter (Directory) that can be [more] easily imported into Joplin."
     • https://github.com/andreas-vester/notestation-to-joplin
       • This script might be worth it if the above scripts don't work. Some people had issues with this script, but managed to mostly fix them. See here.

2. Copy-paste each note:

   • This sounds tedious at first, but once you get in the flow, it isn't that bad. It isn't doable if you have 10'000+ notes, but in my case, I got it in a few hours. Remember that even if it takes you one hour a day for a week to move them all, since you're switching to a nonproprietary format you only have to do this once and then you're set for life. This person on the Synology forum had your same problem and ended up choosing this option.

Lastly, my personal experience: I moved from Google Keep to Joplin and I know nothing about scripts or code, so I copy-pasted most of my notes manually into Joplin, downloaded the attachments and added them manually, then reformatted the notes manually. It was a pain in the ass. But nowhere near as painful as importing 1000, 20'000, hell possibly 100'000 notes that will probably accumulate in the years to come. Importing them in a different note app would be straight up inhuman or at the very least impossible without a script, so I'd personally recommend you and your family make the switch to a more flexible file format right now, while you still can.

Good luck!

My fellow self-hosting noob, I gotchu!

Here are three solutions that are easy as pie:

1. Keep using Syncthing, but add additional devices to that folder to ensure one is always online and ready to receive and sync.
   • Pro: You can use an old laptop, a PC at home, your parent's phone and so on. It's like your own torrent network, as long as one peer is online it will always be synced.
   • Con: Your notes will be on those devices too. But in my personal experience Joplin notes don't take much space and as for privacy, you can always E2EE them.

2. Use a different sync method that uses an always-on server for guaranteed sync.
   • I used Nextcloud for half a year and it worked flawlessly. I used the free 8GB hosting that tab.digital offers. Maybe give them a try again?
   • Alternatively, for an even faster experience (almost "Joplin server" levels of speed), use the S3 sync method in combination with Storj.io. They give you 25GB of free, decentralized, open-source, E2EE storage. You can DM me you need help setting up the S3 "bridge" with Joplin but it's fairly easy.
   • You could also use OneDrive or Dropbox and encrypt your notes end-to-end first, but let's assume you want to try to move away from closed-source services, not the opposite. Although the thought of making them pay the electricity bills without giving them your data can be quite amusing :P

3. Use Elfhosted.
   • It's a newcomer in the "managed self-hosting" space that specializes in installing and setting-up all kinds of open-source software on a server for you. For some it's not really self-hosting since you don't have root access to the server, but at least it's not "Google Drive" levels of control and we're trying to get away from that. The guys at Elfhosted give you 10$ for free (no payment method required) to use on all of their offerings and as luck would have it, they also offer a Joplin server instance. The Joplin server instance costs 0.05$ a day, meaning that with those initial 10$ you could try it out for 6 months for free. As far as I can tell, at that price it can't be beaten, not even by a VPS. I used it two weeks ago and had no issues. You even get cool features like note sharing, multiple users and note collaboration. Or, always with Elfhosted, you could just use a Syncthing instance that's always-on, although they price that at 0.10$ a day.

P.s. There's a Joplin community on Lemmy too, at !joplinapp@sopuli.xyz. Happy syncing!

Edit: Hell, here's a fourth solution: Just use something like the FOSS app Round Sync and set it up so that it backs up your local Syncthing folder to a cloud of your choice (like those mentioned above) every 24h, or 2h, or even every 15 minutes. That way, once you come home and power on your laptop, your phone will automatically sync all your notes via Syncthing, but in the event that you lose your phone, you will have a "checkpoint" as recent as you want it to be. This way, you don't have to change your current setup and at the same time you're prepared in case something bad does happen. And in my case seeing that "Joplin Notes: Backup Completed" notification every 24h is something beautiful.

+1 for Qobuz.

I simply buy the songs singularly, ~2€ a song for the best high-res flac 876Khz 36bit snakeoil-imbued quality one could ever want. You buy it once, it's yours forever. You can even re-download it if you lose it. It's converted me from pirating music to buying it. Best example of "piracy is a service issue".

Well, he's played a role in getting me and I'm sure many others interested in tech in the first place (remember the OnePlus One days?). So I'd say he has a bit more going for him than just video editing, he summarizes tech really well and he just....sparks that tech passion in his viewers! But I simply can't believe that in all these years he never stopped and pondered what in-transit encryption vs. end-to-end encryption might mean!

To hammer my point home: This means he doesn't understand why people would use Signal instead of sending a DM on Facebook or Instagram. Why any sane mind would pick Proton Mail over something like standard Gmail. He's absolutely clueless as to what a data breach into popular password managers like Bitwarden or LastPass might mean. When Apple says things like (and imagining this in Tim Cook's voice makes it a hundred times better) "What stays on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone." or "end-to-end encrypted, meaning that not even Apple can access it", he doesn't understand any of it and just moves on. And mind you, these are Apple presentations we're talking about, catered to the simple understanding of an average consumer.

Yes, naturally everyone has to start somewhere, but I wish him and his team (c'mon guys, I KNOW you'll read this!) would put a bit more effort into fillling knowledge gaps as soon as they come up, instead of just relying on their selective research each time a new video gets made and arrogantly thinking that in all other aspects they must still be ahead of 99% of all other people. Don't take my word for it, see for yourself: After one of his co-hosts asks people watching the podcast to tweet at him to explain it, Marques replies: "Good luck getting a tweet."

But hey, I hope these are only the first of many steps they'll take in the big world of data protection, transparency, open-source, privacy and, of course, encryption ;)

P.s. sorry for the wall of.....text.

Edit: clarification at the beginning.

Ahaha no worries, it was a nice run....

.....is what I would have said, but you underestimated the fact that I have no life whatsoever and am crying over my desk everyday!! And thanks to that I present the end-all solution version 3.0. Enter: Ghost Commander (f-droid).

• Remember when I said that I looked at every open-source file manager that doesn't look like it was made in 1997? Well, Ghost Commander is a dual panel file manager with an old-school look, so imo it takes a minute getting used to it, but immediately upon opening it for the first time you'll be able to press on "FTP site" to connect to an FTP server. Under "Server", you have to input both your IP and port in this format: 178.149.5.649:2121

• Then leave everything as is, press OK, and if you've deactivated that pesky VPN setting you should see your PS Vita folders on your Android phone. Here's a screenshot of how it looks on my end after changing panel view. That's all there is to it. It looks a bit clunky, but drastic times call for desperate measures, and it works!

Jokes aside, you're gonna get access to your PC in a week so you're soon gonna be able to solve this in one way or another. But you'll probably still have to move files to your PSV while on the move, and I couldn't believe there wasn't a fully open-source solution to do this, so I'm gonna post it anyways :P