teardownthewalls

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Cake day: March 4th, 2025
  • teardownthewalls@lemm.eetoBuy European@feddit.uk•Leaving Dropbox, alternatives reviewEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I checked out nextcloud and koofr when switching from Google drive and settled on koofr. In terms of the criteria you outlined above:

    • Decent desktop client + network drive which appears like a USB key in your file system, super usable
    • Very good android app
    • No document editing but you can open everything from the network drive using the editing software on your device and it syncs to the cloud
    • Nice price (45 euro for 200GB, which is all I need)
    • Downside: no integrated document suite for editing in the browser but the workaround with the network drive is very straightforward (one click to enable in the desktop client)

    I don’t need a massive amount of cloud storage, in the terabytes, say, so I’ve found koofr ideal for my purposes. Another bonus for me is it’s a Slovene company so must be GDPR compliant.

  • teardownthewalls@lemm.eetoBuy European@feddit.uk•TV Series?English
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    6 days ago

    My favourite series of all time is Brideshead Revisited (UK, 1981). A beautiful and melancholic look at British high society between the wars, following the recollections of one Charles Ryder as he remembers his youth, college years and early adulthood. Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews give star performances as the two leads, while John Gielgud and Lawrence Olivier steal the show as their respective fathers.

    Also I’ve been quite partial to the range of crime dramas from N. European countries. Ones I can remember offhand include:

    • The Killing (Sweden), award winning crime drama, multiple remakes
    • The Bridge (Denmark and Sweden), possibly the apotheosis of the Nordic crime drama subgenre
    • Endeavour (UK) a prequel to Inspector Morse
    • Jack Taylor (Ireland) gritty police procedural from the West of Ireland
    • Corp & Anam (Ireland) Irish language crime drama, great cast
    • Wallander (Sweden, UK remake) long running series, also remade a few times
    • Poirot (UK) charming and eccentric series based on the Agatha Christie stories
    • There are many others but that’s what I came up with on the fly

    Also Father Ted is something the Irish are still very proud of. 3 misfit priests are exiled to an island off the west coast where they get up to all kind of ridiculous high-jinks. The show lampoons Irish culture and society in the 1990s, and absolutely eviscerates the Irish Catholic Church.

    And there is of course a wealth of excellent stuff out of the UK: comedies and dramas, sketch shows and miniseries.