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  • This will depend on your work. All my work is on the computer. Showing someone something is as easy as sharing my screen (and this might even be better, as I can draw on it).

    And I don’t agree online meetings are useless. All of my team work from home most of the time, and we work out how to make that work.

    Having half the group in the office and half joining remotely I think is the worst of both worlds.



  • Yeah it’s a maybe, uLogger seems to let you choose which track you want to see. I presume the app lets you log to a specific track so you can have one for each person.

    It might depend on what specific experience you’re looking for. For example, I log to Nextcloud and can view it there, but this is more of a “find my phone” plus tracking where I’ve been for myself (similar to Google Location History). While I’m sure I can set it up so others can see, it’s not really designed for it. It would also be a bit awkward as you’d have to log in to Nextcloud in a browser to see the locations (seems it’s possibly the same for uLogger).

    I also run Home Assistant for home automation. I trigger automations off of my wife and my locations, but either of us can open the app and see at a glance where the other is (with pre-defined locations, such as “Home”, “School”, “@Dave’s Work”, etc, plus the ability to tap and see the exact location on a map).

    That Home Assistant setup is much more useful for either of us seeing where the other is than I think the more dedicated tracking apps are, since they aren’t designed around sharing your location with others and that’s more of a side-function.





  • Are you literally just wanting to see the location of family members?

    If you’re a self-hoster there are options, and that’s pretty much the only way you can know it’s private.

    Two that come to mind are:

    The PhoneTrack NextCloud app. If you run Nextcloud you can install this in nextcloud, then install a location logger on the phones. I’m more familiar with Android which has options but from a search I think OwnTracks can send to Nextcloud and supports iOS and Android (someone reported their iOS success here).

    Home Assistant let’s you see locations of people on a map that is tracked with the Home Assistant mobile app on Android/iOS.

    I have found uLogger or the old PhoneTrack app (that connect to GPS on a schedule) to be more accurate than apps that rely on Google telling them when the location has changed (Home Assistant and I think Owntracks). But also much more of a battery drain.

    So it depends how often you want the location to be updated. I find running uLogger or PhoneTrack on the phone actually makes Home Assistant get location updates much quicker(I run both for different reasons).



  • No problem! I’ve used it for years, though my home assistant running on a Raspberry Pi 4 is now doing the pi-hole thing with adguard instead as the original one was having issues. Though you get weird DNS quirks when the machine running DNS also relies on the internet.

    Plus that time I did a dumb thing in home assistant to see what would happen, and it brought the internet down.

    So I am keen to get another Pi. I highly recommend keeping it on a dedicated device you never touch except for updates!



  • Dave@lemmy.nztomemes@lemmy.worldThis is a PSMA!
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    I went M-Disc. Need a special burner and disks cost me $30NZD each or about $18USD for 100GB.

    They are write once (I fucked up two early on) but they should last 100+ years. I burnt about 1TB, and made two copies (one for offsite storage). It was not cheap.







  • I swapped the motherboard on my old desktop /now server, and now it does this. Fan lights stay on when it’s shut down. It’s a server so it’s never off except when something went wrong but it’s annoying to think it’s on when it’s not.

    Next time I need to shut it off I’ll check for this setting, thanks for the tip!