I don’t know of any sftp programs specifically, but any file sync program should work.
It would be massive overkill for this one task, but I personally use my Nextcloud server to move files on and off my iPhone to my services as needed. I have the Jellyfin media directory, Calibre upload, and Paperless upload directories mounted in Nextcloud as external directories (as SFTP mounts, I think) and then access them from my phone from the Nextcloud app.
I won’t speak for anyone else, but Google has a 20 year track record of quietly breaking a fair chunk of promises they’ve made. Especially anything that gets in the way of them making a profit.
I remember back when their core tenet was “Don’t be evil”.
After a certain point, continuing to trust them, continuing to do business with them is consenting to be in an abusive relationship.
Not my jam, sorry.
If I remember correctly, the instance owner vanished but left the instance running.
Secondary admins kept the place running until something happened to the instance itself. Something with the database that the admin didn’t have access to recover from.
I believe it was that secondary admin that spun up the new instance.
Sorry that’s vague but about to get ready for work.
Considering how bipolar we are as a nation, it could range anywhere from “eh, no one got hurt” to wiping everyone off the face of the planet.
“Hi, my name is…”
Admittedly, most of my friends are made at work, however it’s not impossible to meet people in other places. It really just boils down to going places other people are, smiling, and saying “Hello” or “Cool <whatever you find interesting about them>” to a lot of people. If you’re at a store and see someone struggling to load their car or truck, ask if you can give them a hand.
Probably will go no further than that most of the time, however, it might just make their day. Which they will remember. Might have been the first compliment they’ve gotten in a while. Might have been the first time anyone has offered to help them without asking anything in return.
Ever now and then, though, you’ll find yourself with a new friend with a common interest. Probably just for the moment, but if you see them again, say “hi” again. If you’ve got something you think is cool that they might also find interesting, perhaps show it off.
And remember their name. It can help to work it into the conversation. Seriously, Bonje. People like hearing their own name in friendly contexts.
Relationships are really just a longer term version of this with people you already have met.
If this sounds a bit like sales, you ain’t half wrong. What you are selling is you. The payment you are asking for their time, their attention.
Don’t be pushy. Accept no as an answer. But say “hello” to everyone.
Are you using some Apple or MS author account?
Google and Github SSO were the only options when I originally setup tailscale. There are a few more options now including what looks like every self-hosted OIDC provider I’ve ever heard of, and a few I hadn’t.
How did you config tail scale though?
There are a couple options depending on how you are using it. Most of the time I just use the tailscale command to configure each node.
Most systems were just sudo tailscale up --ssh to get it up and running, although I have one system setup as a subnet router to give me outside-the-house access to systems that I can’t put tailscale on. That was a little more involved but it was still pretty straightforward and well documented. Their documentation is actually very well written and is worth the read.
The way Tailscale works, you don’t need to worry to much about your local IP address. You can just use the Tailscale IP address and it will connect as if you were local using the fastest route. That’s the beauty of a mesh VPN. Each device knows the fastest route to each other.
Without more information I can’t really tell what issue you are actually having, but if your system has internet, you have a local IP and if the system is showing as up on your tailscale dashboard than it will have a tailscale IP. Not being able to connect using one or the other would be a configuration issue. Whatever service you are having trouble with is probably only listening to one of the interfaces but not the other.
I’m assuming you are running a linux or unix box, but try running the command ip addr. Assuming you have the package installed, it will tell you all of your IP addresses for the system you run the command on. The list may be quite long if you have a lot of docker containers running. The command tailscale ip will do the same but limited to your tailscale IP addresses.
Enforcement against Linux distributions, however, is likely to be problematic. Distros like Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo have no centralized account infrastructure, with users downloading ISOs from mirrors worldwide, and can modify source code freely. These small distros lack legal teams or resources to implement the required API, so a more realistic outcome for non-compliant distros is a disclaimer that the software is not intended for use in California.
I had forgotten how much I miss that style of website. Well written too.
Sometimes it’s handy to be able to share larger files with just a link, but for the most part it’s just syncing folders on my desktop and laptop, and giving me access to those files my iphone. I don’t generally use it for off-system storage.
There is a paper on exactly that:
Front Nutr. 2025 Dec 1;12:1682746. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1682746
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12702719/
I didn’t read the whole thing, but it looks like, at least right now, they didn’t find anything major.
Mainly just Nextcloud. I have it setup pretty lean as most of it’s capabilities is just massive overkill for my needs. I mostly just have it handling file, calendar and contact syncing as well as it’s news reader.
I’ve largely ignored most of Proton’s offerings as it feels like they are trying to become Google 2.0. I lived through that once, that was enough. When Proton started they were very much “Don’t know who you are and don’t want to”. Now I’m not so sure what their ambitions are. Creepy vibes from them lately that remind me of Google.
Well, since I’m not doing that, that would prevent me from having to install the apps that every damned company seems to insist I install rather than having a website. Kinda makes me wish for this nonsense to come to the US.
A point. However, how far do you need to go to reach an area, that doesn’t speak your native language commonly?
We recently moved a fair distance, not too far as things go here. Roughly 2000 km. English language spoken by almost everyone throughout the entire trip. Plus 15 random languages from tourists and immigrants from around the globe. I could have gone another 2000 km and I still would have had to dig to find a community that had a common language other than english.
I would have had to travel 2000 km the other way to reach an area where a single language other than English was spoken by more than 5% of the population.
Maybe 1000 km, I forget about Creole in Louisiana, though I’m not sure how common that language is in the State. I just remember running across the language frequently while driving trucks in that area for a living.
We are a truly massive nation that largely shares a single language. Most of us, rarely ever leave a 250 km radius from where we were born. Most of us don’t have passports and will never leave the US.
Hell, I’m well traveled. I’ve been to 45 on the 50 States, and in all my travels I’ve only needed another language once. In Larado, TX, which is right on the border with Mexico.
There are small enclaves that speak an alternative language, but they are few and far between.
Would it be to the students benefit to learn a second language, sure. But it’s unlikely that the student would ever use whatever random language they were required to learn. Spanish and perhaps Arabic might occasionally be helpful, but not necessarily, depending on what part of the country (or trade) you’re they are in.
Around me, the only language spoken with any frequency other than English is Spanish. In a half dozen different varieties. Even that wasn’t all that common until, maybe, 10 years ago. About midway through President Trump’s first administration.
Most schools encourage kids to take a language, but they are kinda a use it, or lose it thing. Unless you just happen to be part of a community or household that speaks a language other than English, you are unlikely to need it.
Well, yes I looked at tailscale too, but that would prevent me from using my normal commercial VPN
You can split your devices traffic, Tailscale traffic through Tailscale, everything else through your masking VPN.
I’m trying to get the best of 2 worlds: using the VPN to hide my IP from services that i visit and my ISP, and a secure connection to my home server.
For that, what I would do is put the masking VPN (like PIA or whatever) on your router (not all routers can do this) and then have Tailscale on the devices or individual services. In theory, everything would still be able to talk to each other (even if your mobile device is not behind the router), but everything that is behind the router would enter and exit their traffic wherever you have the masking VPN set to. Downside of doing this is that EVERYTHING that is behind that router is also behind that VPN which can cause problems with some services, like banking and streaming.
It would also mean that the only way you could host a public service is to have an external VPS acting as a reverse proxy. Cloudflare might also have something that could work around this setup, but I’m not familiar with their offerings.
This setup also doesn’t mask your traffic (origin and destination) from your mobile provider (just your home ISP), but that is a harder nut to crack as they can see, real time, where you are physically, and depending on your device, may have deeper device access anyways. I’m thinking prepaid phones and phones bought from the carrier (at least here in the US) or if your carrier has “asked” you to install an app to manage your account. My assumption is that my mobile provider can see anything I do while I have my phone or tablet with me, and just work around that.
You might want to ask in !privacy@lemmy.ml and !privacy@lemmy.world, as this is more up their alley.
Try looking for themes. It’s in settings. Just named a bit different as it does more then shift from light to dark.
Like others have said, more RAM would help. 4GB is the absolute bare minimum for a usable desktop.
A scan for any malware might not be a bad idea, especially if you’re running Windows. I would also examine whether you actually need any browser extensions you have installed. I’d also check and disable anything running in the background that you don’t actually need.
Wiping the drive and reinstalling Windows may also help, so would dumping Windows for a lighter weight Linux distro. Linux tends to be more RAM friendly.
You might also want to check how much free space you have on your drive. SSDs tend to get slower the more full they get. Ideally you want to keep under 70% full.
If your laptop has a HDD, replace it with an SSD. That upgrade would give you the single greatest performance increase, however SSDs have been standard for some time.