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[Knaldskalle]

Anybody have any experience with Nextcloud on Docker?

I'm trying to see if it's feasible to install Nextcloud on my home server using Docker (Docker-Compose to be exact). It looks like Nextcloud depends on a bunch of other stuff, most notably Mariadb/MySQL and possibly ngninx as a reverse proxy, which in turns seems to require a domain name (I don't have one currently). I have zero experience with SQL-like databases and very limited experience with webservers. Ideally I'd like to run those things, if I really do need them, in Docker as well.

Does anyone have a good, preferably detailed, guide on to how to do this? I've come across a few different ones, but they all seem to take different approaches, very few of them explain *why* they do what they do and I like to learn just that when I do things like this (I like to think that if I know why something's done I will understand and remember it better).

[joachimt]

Anyone using Microsoft To Do and iPhone reminders? I'd like to sync my tasks from MS To Do to Reminders from iPhone. I've got my to-do-list for work in MS To Do. I want it to appear in Reminders as well, so I can access it on my Apple Watch as well. I have added my work-account to my iPhone and turned on the sync for reminders. The lists from To Do actually sync to Reminders, but the tasks itself don't appear. I expect it's blocked somehow by company policy, but the IT-guys can't find the issue. Not a priority for them, so they won't look into it further. Can't find any info about this online.

[weirdboy]

I think your best bet is to install outlook on your phone.

Although to be fair the to do stuff had been weird from the beginning. I cannot remember what it was called before, but MS basically bought a to do list web app company and made mostly cosmetic changes to turn it into To Do, so it is not integrated well. I have experienced issues with tasks and reminders not working even in outlook, and at some point decided it was more reliable to schedule stuff in the calendar and then reschedule those as needed, rather than rely on the To Do features.

[joachimt]

I already installed Outlook and To Do on my phone. That's not the problem.

MS originally bought Wunderlist, but a lot has changed in the meantime as far as I know. The integration works quite well. I can see everything from the app in Office365 online and in the Tasks-tab in Teams, so I have multiple places to enter my to-do-list, also on my phone. My only problem is the sync with Reminders, which should work fine judging on all the info and reviews I find about it, but it's just blocked by company policy, as it seems, just like I can't copy paste an email from work to another app. It's prohibited.

[Coryn]

Is there a way to see what items you uploaded to ICM ?

I saw some docus last year and upload them to ICM but now forgot the names .

[PeacefulAnarchy]

I don't think so. There's a user tag for uploads but I think it was deprecated and hasn't been applied for a while now.

[Fergenaprido]

I can't find any for you Coryn. I checked my own imports, and the most recent one is from 2017, so anything imported since then hasn't been tagged.

[joachimt]

I helped a lot of colleagues this week with random stuff on their laptop. I gave two (online) workshops of 45 min each this Monday, which were simply called Tips & Tricks. It was a big hit. Afterwards lots of colleagues said it was the most useful workshop they did in a long time. And I thought I was simply showing them loads of basic settings and functions in Windows, but apparently a lot of people knew almost nothing about the things I showed them. Curious what kind of things I showed them?

Spoiler

- How to pin programs to taskbar.
- Hot to turn on bookmarksbar in browser and favorite websites.
- What's the difference between an app and a website. (seriously!!)
- What is Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-F, etc...
- How to sync OneDrive and choose which folders to sync and turn on/off on demand.
- How to turn on/off autosave in Word.
- How to choose which autocorrections Word should do.
- What is Snipping Tool.
- How to use Windows-key.
- How to use the TAB-key to go to the next field.
- How to set energysettings: when to sleep, what does closing the lid do, etc...
- Etc....... you get the point......

It's incredible how little some people know about a computer. These are educated people who have to teach our students every day, but a lot of them didn't have a clue about any of the above things. How can they survive at their job? It's not even like these are people who have just a few years to go to retirement. I helped several people with this who are a lot younger than I am. I knew several of my colleagues had huge issues with lack of IT-knowledge, but I didn't anticipate on such a simple workshop to be so important for so many people.

[Knaldskalle]

I helped a lot of colleagues this week with random stuff on their laptop. I gave two (online) workshops of 45 min each this Monday, which were simply called Tips & Tricks. It was a big hit. Afterwards lots of colleagues said it was the most useful workshop they did in a long time. And I thought I was simply showing them loads of basic settings and functions in Windows, but apparently a lot of people knew almost nothing about the things I showed them. Curious what kind of things I showed them?

Spoiler

- How to pin programs to taskbar.
- Hot to turn on bookmarksbar in browser and favorite websites.
- What's the difference between an app and a website. (seriously!!)
- What is Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-F, etc...
- How to sync OneDrive and choose which folders to sync and turn on/off on demand.
- How to turn on/off autosave in Word.
- How to choose which autocorrections Word should do.
- What is Snipping Tool.
- How to use Windows-key.
- How to use the TAB-key to go to the next field.
- How to set energysettings: when to sleep, what does closing the lid do, etc...
- Etc....... you get the point......

It's incredible how little some people know about a computer. These are educated people who have to teach our students every day, but a lot of them didn't have a clue about any of the above things. How can they survive at their job? It's not even like these are people who have just a few years to go to retirement. I helped several people with this who are a lot younger than I am. I knew several of my colleagues had huge issues with lack of IT-knowledge, but I didn't anticipate on such a simple workshop to be so important for so many people.

I don't even use Windows any longer and I still know most of those things (OneDrive is not something I've ever had to deal with). But yeah, it's astonishing what people don't know about the thing they use every day. On the other hand, it's a bit shameful that people are just handed computers (or placed in front of one) and no-one ever bothers teaching them about the basics because it's just assumed that everyone knows how to do it. Arguably your school should train their teachers in how to use the tools you're given.

[xianjiro]

It doesn't surprise me that people don't know the ins and outs of their PCs. Similarly, if something happens to close a road they use during their commute, they are lost at how to get around it. Most are just creatures of habit, doing the same thing over and over. They don't want to explore (too much) and with computers there's that fear they might do something wrong and break it.

One would think, by now, people would be so used these tools but how many of us learn about the parts we don't need to use? How many of us open every program or app and poke and prod it? I know I do and if it doesn't have anything I want or need - uninstall!

But then again, how many users here opened the control panel and adjusted their settings?

I'm not at all surprised, but glad to hear the training was a success!

[joachimt]

I helped a lot of colleagues this week with random stuff on their laptop. I gave two (online) workshops of 45 min each this Monday, which were simply called Tips & Tricks. It was a big hit. Afterwards lots of colleagues said it was the most useful workshop they did in a long time. And I thought I was simply showing them loads of basic settings and functions in Windows, but apparently a lot of people knew almost nothing about the things I showed them. Curious what kind of things I showed them?

Spoiler

- How to pin programs to taskbar.
- Hot to turn on bookmarksbar in browser and favorite websites.
- What's the difference between an app and a website. (seriously!!)
- What is Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-Z, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-F, etc...
- How to sync OneDrive and choose which folders to sync and turn on/off on demand.
- How to turn on/off autosave in Word.
- How to choose which autocorrections Word should do.
- What is Snipping Tool.
- How to use Windows-key.
- How to use the TAB-key to go to the next field.
- How to set energysettings: when to sleep, what does closing the lid do, etc...
- Etc....... you get the point......

It's incredible how little some people know about a computer. These are educated people who have to teach our students every day, but a lot of them didn't have a clue about any of the above things. How can they survive at their job? It's not even like these are people who have just a few years to go to retirement. I helped several people with this who are a lot younger than I am. I knew several of my colleagues had huge issues with lack of IT-knowledge, but I didn't anticipate on such a simple workshop to be so important for so many people.

I don't even use Windows any longer and I still know most of those things (OneDrive is not something I've ever had to deal with). But yeah, it's astonishing what people don't know about the thing they use every day. On the other hand, it's a bit shameful that people are just handed computers (or placed in front of one) and no-one ever bothers teaching them about the basics because it's just assumed that everyone knows how to do it. Arguably your school should train their teachers in how to use the tools you're given.

You got some point, but the problem is the differences are so huge, it's hard to tell what you should teach to whom. Should they just teach everyone? Or only the ones who need it? But if you ask people, most of them don't know they have a problem. Should they test everybody then? This used to be so a long time ago, but that system failed miserably. And people who did the test then, how often should they be retested? I have colleagues who learned to work with Windows 98 or XP and still work in Windows the same way (put links to websites on your desktop, click the start button and browse the menu to open a program, etc...). Windows and apps keep changing. Every time MS Office has a huge update some people are completely lost.

The most important message I had for my colleagues this week was: Google knows the answer. I hope I managed to reach some people with that, because at my work if you have a problem with a computer, most people think "Joachim knows the answer."

[Knaldskalle]

Every time MS Office has a huge update some people are completely lost.

I'll confess, the first time I encountered the ribbon menu in MS Office I was thrown for a loop. Fortunately I'd learned most of the important keyboard shortcuts a long time ago and they hadn't changed so I could still get stuff done, but man... It took me far longer than it should have to print that document.

I hope I managed to reach some people with that, because at my work if you have a problem with a computer, most people think "Joachim knows the answer."

Been there!

[kongs_speech]

My mom and I had our cell service suspended today. Nothing works, not even texting -- except our Facebook and Messenger apps. Mine are a little weird and sluggish, so I just got out of it, but I have no idea why they're working at all.

[maxwelldeux]

Fun fact: Thermal paste does not last indefinitely in the tube.

Which would have been really nice to have learned BEFORE I took the cooler off and wiped all the old paste off...

[maxwelldeux]

CPU temp idling dropped almost 30C with the new thermal paste. Boy was this overdue...

[Knaldskalle]

Fun fact: Thermal paste does not last indefinitely in the tube.

Which would have been really nice to have learned BEFORE I took the cooler off and wiped all the old paste off...

Opened or unopened? I have a fairly expensive tube of that stuff (Grizzly Thermal Kryonaut) lying around, unopened. If it doesn't last I may as well use it, even if my machine doesn't really need it (yet).

[maxwelldeux]

Fun fact: Thermal paste does not last indefinitely in the tube.

Which would have been really nice to have learned BEFORE I took the cooler off and wiped all the old paste off...

Opened or unopened? I have a fairly expensive tube of that stuff (Grizzly Thermal Kryonaut) lying around, unopened. If it doesn't last I may as well use it, even if my machine doesn't really need it (yet).

Opened, cap on. Stored in a garage. I can't recall how long I've had it, but I haven't used it in this house I've lived in for 6 years. My online curiosity research suggested a tube might last a few years, but I was WELL beyond what was reasonable.

[Knaldskalle]

Fun fact: Thermal paste does not last indefinitely in the tube.

Which would have been really nice to have learned BEFORE I took the cooler off and wiped all the old paste off...

Opened or unopened? I have a fairly expensive tube of that stuff (Grizzly Thermal Kryonaut) lying around, unopened. If it doesn't last I may as well use it, even if my machine doesn't really need it (yet).

Opened, cap on. Stored in a garage. I can't recall how long I've had it, but I haven't used it in this house I've lived in for 6 years. My online curiosity research suggested a tube might last a few years, but I was WELL beyond what was reasonable.

Yeah, that does indeed sound unreasonably long.

[kongs_speech]

Is anyone else's Facebook app down?

[xianjiro]

What's Facebook?

[joachimt]

I want to switch from KeePass to a different password-program. I want one that easily synchronizes on multiple devices: iPhone and Windows laptop. Some at work recommended Bitwarden. My wife started using LastPass after a recommendation from her colleague. Any experience with one of these? Which do you recommend?

[Tim2460]

Used KeePass @ work for years ... don't really know the others ;(

[Knaldskalle]

My only experience is with KeePass and KeePassX, so no help here.

I've heard good things about Bitwarden, but that's all I can offer. I prefer that my passwords stay local and not under the control of a company that can close overnight.

[maxwelldeux]

I want to switch from KeePass to a different password-program. I want one that easily synchronizes on multiple devices: iPhone and Windows laptop. Some at work recommended Bitwarden. My wife started using LastPass after a recommendation from her colleague. Any experience with one of these? Which do you recommend?

My wife uses LastPass and loves it. So far her only complaint so far is that it couldn't automatically input the credit card info on the Jimmy Johns website, which she blamed on the website. Multiple laptops and an Android phone.

[joachimt]

I prefer that my passwords stay local and not under the control of a company that can close overnight.

That's a minor concern I have, but I'm getting more and more irritated to have it on my laptop and not available on my phone. I have one pw-file for work on my work-laptop and one personal pw-file on my personal laptop, but I'm mixing work and personal time more and more, so I'd like to be more flexible.

[Knaldskalle]

I prefer that my passwords stay local and not under the control of a company that can close overnight.

That's a minor concern I have, but I'm getting more and more irritated to have it on my laptop and not available on my phone. I have one pw-file for work on my work-laptop and one personal pw-file on my personal laptop, but I'm mixing work and personal time more and more, so I'd like to be more flexible.

I have a small rugged USB flash drive in my key chain. I regularly copy my local copy of the KeePass database onto it. I know you have an iPhone, so maybe something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/External-Storage ... 45&sr=8-18

Another solution could be to store your KeePass database file in a "cloud container" like a DropBox folder. That way you can sync it to/from anything that has a Dropbox app. It's encrypted, so you don't need to worry too much about other people accessing it and you'll still have a local copy if the company shuts down. And KeePass files are fairly small, so it's not a huge strain on any network or storage.

[xianjiro]

I've had no problems using KeePass across devices with cloud storage.

[bal3x]

I want to switch from KeePass to a different password-program. I want one that easily synchronizes on multiple devices: iPhone and Windows laptop. Some at work recommended Bitwarden. My wife started using LastPass after a recommendation from her colleague. Any experience with one of these? Which do you recommend?

Have used both, switched from LastPass to BW recently shortly after they were bought by LogMeIn and they initially started to charge for sync across devices.

[joachimt]

I want to switch from KeePass to a different password-program. I want one that easily synchronizes on multiple devices: iPhone and Windows laptop. Some at work recommended Bitwarden. My wife started using LastPass after a recommendation from her colleague. Any experience with one of these? Which do you recommend?

Have used both, switched from LastPass to BW recently shortly after they were bought by LogMeIn and they initially started to charge for sync across devices.

LastPass doesn't charge for sync at the moment. My wife has it up and running and it looks a lot easier to use than KeePass, so I think I'm moving.

[bal3x]

I want to switch from KeePass to a different password-program. I want one that easily synchronizes on multiple devices: iPhone and Windows laptop. Some at work recommended Bitwarden. My wife started using LastPass after a recommendation from her colleague. Any experience with one of these? Which do you recommend?

Have used both, switched from LastPass to BW recently shortly after they were bought by LogMeIn and they initially started to charge for sync across devices.

LastPass doesn't charge for sync at the moment. My wife has it up and running and it looks a lot easier to use than KeePass, so I think I'm moving.

Yeah, they reverted the change, but what's been done cannot be undone In terms of functionality those two are quite similar.

[Fergenaprido]

I have two copies of a film, and I'm trying to decide which one to keep. Here are the media specs for both files.



They're both mkv files with the same runtime and almost the same resolution, yet the first one is 2.3GB and the second is 4.35GB. My first thought is to keep the smaller file, but is there something I'm missing that makes the second file almost twice as large? Aside from 4 pixels in height, the only difference I can see is the audio Codec.

[Knaldskalle]

I have two copies of a film, and I'm trying to decide which one to keep. Here are the media specs for both files.



They're both mkv files with the same runtime and almost the same resolution, yet the first one is 2.3GB and the second is 4.35GB. My first thought is to keep the smaller file, but is there something I'm missing that makes the second file almost twice as large? Aside from 4 pixels in height, the only difference I can see is the audio Codec.

Take a look at the image quality and see if you notice anything. It's not just resolution that matters, but how compressed the image is. It's possible that they're pretty much the same in terms of image and then it's simpler to keep the smaller file, but it's also possible you can see a difference and then you just keep the better one.

[maxwelldeux]

In addition to image, consider sound. AC3 is a compressed format for audio, and DTS is going to be much closer to the original. If the sound in the film doesn't matter so much as long as you can hear it, smaller is fine. But if this is something where the sound matters a lot, stick with the DTS. For example, I watched an AC3 encode of Ford v. Ferrari. Audio was compressed, so I didn't have the deep bass sounds and rich sound range you'd get in the theater - that decision I regret.

[Fergenaprido]

Thanks both. I couldn't notice any difference in image quality, but I'm on 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro, so perhaps it would only make a difference on a larger screen. As for sound, it's a French thriller (which I still need to find subtitles for, actually), but I don't think the sound design is so important, as it looks more like a visual film. I should have mentioned the film originally: it's Dans la brume (A Breath Away).

[PeacefulAnarchy]

None of those media specs give the bitrate, but both of those file sizes seem on the small side for a 1080p encode of a 90min colour live action movie. On the one hand you don't need a DTS encode for something with that level of compression, on the other hand there's no way those both look the same with such a drastic file size difference.
Though if your Mac book pro is this: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp619?locale=en_CA
Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native)
Then that explains why they look the same since your screen can only do 720p and it's downscaling the video anyway.

[Fergenaprido]

None of those media specs give the bitrate, but both of those file sizes seem on the small side for a 1080p encode of a 90min colour live action movie. On the one hand you don't need a DTS encode for something with that level of compression, on the other hand there's no way those both look the same with such a drastic file size difference.
Though if your Mac book pro is this: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp619?locale=en_CA
Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native)
Then that explains why they look the same since your screen can only do 720p and it's downscaling the video anyway.

Yes, that looks like the specs for my laptop, except I bought it in Spain, not Canada (if that makes a difference). It is an early 2011 model though, and I remember someone explaining to me a few years ago that 720 vs 1080 was a moot point on my screen.

Built-in Display
13.3-inch (1280 x 800)
Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB graphics

Edit: where do I go to look for the bitrate of the files?

[maxwelldeux]

Edit: where do I go to look for the bitrate of the files?

Install this: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo/Download

[it's safe - I use it on multiple machines]

Once you install it, just right-click on the files and grab the info. The video bitrate is what you're looking for in this case.

[Fergenaprido]

Thanks Max. Right-clicking didn't work for me, but if I opened the program and then added the file, it did.

Looks like first file as video bitrate of 3000 kb/s and the second one has 5000 kb/s.