The app »BananaBin« looks nice at first glance, but ultimately it’s just a gimmick that consumes system resources and is buggy. It’s basically a recycle bin for files — something even flies wouldn’t be interested in. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
As an enthusiastic user of the Plex software, I find it ideal for centrally managing movies, TV shows and audiobooks on my home server. However, I run into a small problem: audiobooks aren’t indexed very well1. But thanks to the plugin Audnexus I can work around this issue. It’s been running here for about six months and has been working perfectly. So it’s my clear recommendation to anyone who wants to centralize their audiobooks in a similar way. ...
The Raspberry Pi developers will soon offer a free web-based remote desktop feature. Gordon Hollingworth writes in »Raspberry Pi Connect« for raspberrypi.com Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices. We don’t yet know how many people will need to relay their traffic through our TURN servers; we’ll keep an eye on the use of bandwidth and decide how to treat these connections in future. ...
The command-line text editor nano has been updated to version 8.0. According to Releasenotes, this update includes significant changes to how it’s used. By default ^F is bound to starting a forward search, and ^B to starting a backward search, while M-F and M-B repeat the search in the corresponding direction. (See the documentation if you want the old bindings back.) Command-line option –modernbindings (-/) makes ^Q quit, ^X cut, ^C copy, ^V paste, ^Z undo, ^Y redo, ^O open a file, ^W write a file, ^R replace, ^G find again, ^D find again backwards, ^A set the mark, ^T jump to a line, ^P show the position, and ^E execute. Above modern bindings are activated also when the name of nano’s executable (or a symlink to it) starts with the letter “e”. To open a file at a certain line number, one can now use also nano filename:number, besides nano +number filename. <Alt+Home> and <Alt+End> put the cursor on the first and last row in the viewport, while retaining the horizontal position. When the three digits in an #RGB color code are all the same, the code is mapped to the xterm grey scale, giving access to fourteen levels of grey instead of just four. For easier access, M-" is bound to placing/removing an anchor, and M-’ to jumping to the next anchor. Whenever an error occurs, the keystroke buffer is cleared, thus stopping the execution of a macro or a string bind. The mousewheel scrolls the viewport instead of moving the cursor. ...
From the outside, open source often looks like a technical concept. A license here, a repository there, a few lines of source code, publicly visible. But look closer and you’ll see: it’s about much more than software. It’s about freedom. And about sharing. I’m not a developer in the classic sense. I’ve never overseen major projects or designed complex software architectures. But over the years I’ve written many small scripts, sometimes in PHP, sometimes in Python or Perl. I’ve built websites with WordPress, written HTML and CSS, tried things out and discarded them. Never aiming for perfection, but always wanting to create something that works — for me, and sometimes for others. ...