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How to remote control the stupid Wayland/GNOME/Ubuntu
I wanted to be able to help someone with their Ubuntu laptop when they call with a problem. That means seeing the same screen they see, moving the mouse when needed, and connecting without making them hunt through menus to approve every session. The Internet connection can be awful, so I wanted something compressed too.…
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Why I left Chrome after 20 years and self-hosted Brave Sync
After roughly 20 years of using Chrome, I finally left. Google’s Manifest V2 shutdown was the last straw: it disabled the older extension platform that my ad blocking setup depended on, and I was tired of asking whether the extensions I rely on would survive the next browser policy change. Chrome still claims to have…
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Synchronizing two Immich albums while on vacation
During our vacation we had the usual modern photo problem: everybody took pictures, more than one Immich server was involved, and the photos ended up in different shared albums. Immich can create public links with download and upload permission, but it cannot federate two installations or synchronize their albums. The wise developers of immich actively…