Some great food for thought - and some ideas that I hadn't considered before - esp. about the mood I'm trying to convey.

Your comments about taking lots of photos makes good sense - with a few batteries and a couple of sd cards, I could take hundreds of photos - and maybe if I see one that I like, I can return to explore more of the same.

Many thanks for the great tips.

Leather strop for sharpening

I'm genuinely curious here - really? As someone who always has to mess with the old fashioned 'steel' (mind your hands cus there's no guard on it!) sharpener, are they better? Honestly, heard of them, never used but interested.

Now, a Sony Bravia - what size and price may I ask ? And how difficult is it to remove all the shit ad functionality from it ?

I've had my 32" for like 8 years but definately looking for the same quality piece of kit.

Excellent! Glad you found what you wanted - I'll bookmark this for when I have to replace my trusty Bravia! 👍

I'm dreading replacing my dumb tv, but can confirm that the nvidia shield was the best thing I ever bought for entertainment: just sideload your apps and off you go.

Take the cable out of the tv, plug it into your android box and hdmi to the tv.

Can recommend STN, cloudstream and plex.

Good luck.

Hi, on f-droid there's an app called Android Samba Client but I can't get it to connect to my shared folder because of permissions - it says, but I can't find a lot of documentation about it.

Have you seen this?

I'm hoping that it's not connecting because of something I'm doing wrong - and maybe I can figure it out later (poss. because of my lack of understanding on my part of the way plex should share permissions with other devices).

If you get anywhere further, please let me know. - it just doesn't seem to be a well covered topic unfortunately.

Yeah, sorry - I misunderstood you. The link is good, thanks for providing it. Some of it is a little above my head, but when I look at X-plore and my plex server I can see in the properties that it's using smb V2 to connect.

So, I guess the means of permanently having a remote drive connected for Android to access isn't a pipe dream. It's now just figuring out the best way to achieve it.

So, I'll try to explore some of that links info and see if I can get anywhere with it.

Thanks again for taking the time.

I'm thinking maybe mount as you say using Xplore and bring in Syncthing to move the file across onto the server. Thanks for the idea.

Who gives a fucking shit about x fucking twitter? - let's hope it crashes along with reddit !

PS cross post all the good stuff onto lemmy first - then just let it burn and sink!

I like it.

I only ever lurked on Reddit and here on Lemmy I'm trying to be more of an active participant.

Same here, and now I'm soo glad that I jumped that shit ship.

Interested myself as a usenet user.

Interested myself as a usenet user.

Thanks for the reply. I like obsidian at the moment: I can sync across all my devices - using Syncthing, so it's very workable for me. I guess whichever editor works for you is good - though I must admit obsidian is a bit too overloaded for me, but I'll persist as the Syncthing works well. I'll try to simplify it with minimal plugins.

Also I have plain text editor and I have a txt file shared with my computer

Hi, can you share the name of your plain text editor? I use aCalendar+ and opentasks synced via davx5 on Nextcloud.

Yeah, I'd actually made a comment on that thread (duh). I guess before I realised how good / useable Syncthing was.

Edit: grammar

Just to clarify then: you use a home server - are you running Syncthing on Linux?

So, if I have an old laptop (win10) would I need to learn linux to use it as an home server - and could it use minimal power when it's always on? The power thing is an issue here in UK.

I have a nvidia shield for the tv, is that a possibility for a server - I go run plex on it?

These might sound to you like daft questions, but I'm just learning stuff. Thanks.

That sounds really cool. I currently sync obsidian via a hosted solution on Hetzner using webdav. I'm wondering if I might be able to utilise it somehow as you have - maybe I won't need to intervene as much.

Thanks for the advice.

Does your method use cloud storage? If not, can you please explain to me just how it works across multiple devices?

Try this: handy News reader on f-droid - fully customisable.