Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn’t used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.

It’s things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There’s a small button at the top to load them if I want.

Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn’t.

Exactly the same in Australia.

This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.

Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.

They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.

Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻

Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.

I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.

Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.

Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.

I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.

They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.

They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.

Wait - this changes everything!!

Yeah, I’m only keeping it because of the grandfathered deal. If they scrap that I’ll just cancel and save the money. Better in my pocket than Google’s!

I’m relying on some of you folks to do a “trial” for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛

Damn, that did a disturbingly good job of sounding like the real deal 😮

Thanks!

Thanks, that’s great 🙂

To never make any resolutions ever again.

So far it’s going well 👍🏻

How do you filter for English?

I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!

Yeah, that’s what I use for close to 100% of my payments since about 2020.

I guess losing your phone or running out of battery are the limitations with that. Not often a problem admittedly.

Anna’s Archive?

https://annas-archive.org/

I only found out about it on here recently and I’ve been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.

Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.

My starting assumption is that almost everything I read online is either misrepresented or totally untrue.

If I don’t recognise the source I assume there’s a high chance it’s bullshit. If I recognise the source well, I still assume there’s a chance it could be inaccurate.