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  • 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!




  • One of my favourites that I haven’t seen mentioned is the Todo.txt extension.

    It adds a todo list in the tray synced to a couple of files (that I store in Nextcloud). I add things I need to do to the list, and I also play with the settings so it colours by priority and sorts by priority.

    I also use the ntodotxt app on my phone to sync items. The app is fine but I really like the gnome extension, very handy.





  • If a person was ordering them, they would do it in numerical order. Despite these being numbers, the computer is still ordering in alphabetical order.

    Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

    I note that your season and episode start with 0 as well (S01E05), in order to ensure the alphabetical ordering works. Perhaps you should use 5.0 to solve this in the same way.


  • I believe it’s correct. If you sort say “A”, “AA”, “AAA” then you get

    1. A
    2. AA
    3. AAA

    Because the first character is compared, which are all the same, then the second. The first one has no second character, so it comes first. The second has no third character, so it comes before the third item.

    In your scenario, you have:

    1. 5
    2. 5.5

    The first characters are the same, so it looks at the second character. Item 1 has no second character so it comes first.

    Scenario 2:

    1. 5.5 A
    2. 5 A

    The first character is the same, so it looks at the second character. The second characters are “.” and " ". The “.” comes first in the character ranking so is shown first.




  • I can easily search up people talking about both the Windows and MacOS system wide spell checks. While for Linux you just find people talking about how dumb it is everything uses different implementations: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/hu4ktg/does_systemwide_autocorrect_and_typo_flagging/

    As for NZ English words, it would mostly be words that have come from the Māori language including place names and people’s names.

    In theory having multi-language spell check would solve most of the issues, but I’ve never seen Māori as a supported language on Linux.

    For some examples of words, there are place names like Taranaki, Te Anau, Te Awamutu. People’s names like Hone Harawera or Apirana Ngata. And common words and phrases that have made it into English like Kia ora (mostly used in English as a greeting) and Aotearoa (a name for New Zealand). There will also be company and product names as well.