Linode has good, cheap VMs, and are a better deal than the AWSs of the world.

Also, when you set up Nextcloud, also set up something like samba-domain with LDAP for users. That way you have central user management as you add new services.

Hmm, can you get stats on your own music or podcast in the admin pages?

I made an 8 outlet box with relays connected to each outlet (might post a how to). That’s connected to a Pi via GPIO.

The Pi runs PiKVM, but also has a service that:

• Checks if the router can be pinged
• Checks if the internet can be pinged
• Checks if the router webUI is up

If any of those fail, it toggles the plugs for modem and router.

I run OpnSense on a 5V miniPC. I have a second one and will be setting up CARP, too.

Note: Cellular backup is more involved, but a separate Cellular inbound might not be. I’ve considered putting one on the Pi above.

Seems @Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de has tried this at some point, but maybe repeat rhe test in 2025?

• Upload a private/unlisted video to YT
• Watch once all the way through on YT
• Confirm count went up within 24 he’s
• Watch on another platform
• Rinse, repeat.

I’m also curious if yt-dlp has an impact.

Yea, running from repo there are updates, but yea, sad it has stagnated for releases. It’s why I’m starting to look at Lawnchair again.

They were acquired by Branch Analytics, and right after the APK went up in size by 150% with no visible changes.

It then asks for location and accessibility (to see notifications) permissions.

They then got rid of most of the staff, leaving a sole developer.

No one knows what it sends back home (at least not the last time I read about it, which was years ago).

I stopped using it years ago when it got bought and immediately injected with spyware. Neo Launcher or Lawnchair are very similar to Nova. Lawnchair gets more active development, but I use Neo because it’s nearly the same as Nova.

Agreed, but it’s also great that an option opened up. Gaggiuno was never FOSS, just source available, and basically built up a following before shutting source code availability down.

While Gaggimate isn’t FOSS in the fullest sense, they do use a CC license (to stop commercial use) with no personal restrictions at https://github.com/jniebuhr/gaggimate

And, it’s a lot cheaper to build.

My advice, don’t “substitute”, instead replace.

There are so many delicious healthy options, and all the fake meat substitutes are garbage in comparison.

Eggs are great sources of protein already, so put just about anything on instead. BBC Good Foods is a great resource for easy meals and sandwiches with healthier ingredients if you need ideas.

I’ve also recently cut way back on processed meats, and honestly have really been enjoying pan fried tofu, chickpeas (seasoned and air fried are amazing), and many other protein sources enough that I’ve cut a lot of meat out by default.

I would not recommend the Gaggiuno. It is now closed source. Instead, I would recommend the Gaggimate, which is open source.

Yup! Was so happy when a FOSS Gagguino alternative popped up. Gotta finish building the printer and then on to that.

Not that I think you need it for this, but a DynDNS implementation would give you a hostname you can dynamically change to your VPN ip, thus solving the SSL host issue.

Well, if we’re being meteorologically precise, the “weather” as you experience it at this exact moment is really the culmination of a vast number of interacting variables that are constantly shifting on scales ranging from the microscale—say, the turbulent eddies you might feel swirling around the corner of a building—all the way up to the synoptic scale, which refers to the continental-sized weather systems driven by upper-level dynamics in the troposphere.

At present, the dominant feature influencing local conditions is the interaction between a semi-stationary frontal boundary, which is essentially a transition zone between differing air masses, and the associated baroclinic zone, where horizontal temperature gradients are maximized. This boundary tends to act as a focus for mesoscale convective development, though in your immediate vicinity, that energy seems to be manifesting more in stratiform cloud decks rather than organized convection. The dew point depression values are modest, suggesting that the boundary layer is near saturation, which is why relative humidity feels elevated. Surface observations corroborate this, showing low to moderate cloud cover with occasional breaks depending on diurnal heating and radiative flux.

Meanwhile, if we look aloft at the 500-millibar geopotential height field, we see a weak trough propagating eastward, embedded within a larger quasi-zonal flow pattern. This induces some subtle upward vertical velocity fields via positive vorticity advection, which, if you were inclined to notice, could explain the patchy mid-level cloudiness overhead. At the surface, barometric pressure is trending slightly downward, but not at a rate that would imply rapid cyclogenesis—rather, it’s consistent with the passage of a weak synoptic-scale disturbance.

In short, the weather right now could be described in lay terms as “a little cloudy with some humidity,” but really what you’re feeling is the local manifestation of vast thermodynamic and dynamic processes—everything from latent heat release in distant convective systems to planetary wave modulation in the upper atmosphere. In other words, it’s all very ordinary, but also astonishingly complex when you stop to unpack it.

Did I normal right?

(No, I did not write all that. I used devil robots.)

Baker’s dozen here!

Are you me?

Except I hate coffee. But am great at brewing/shots by smell. And my partner loves it, so I’m turning our espresso machine into a Gaggimate.

Red green blue when setting a BG color to remember a layer, but that’s it.

Yea, should say: FDM 3D printing a screw with PLA vertically in vase mode.

But thats a bit long winded.

It’s a shame things that are exciting as kids become scary as adults, even when they don’t need to be. Sure, there can be risks, but we tend to over-exagerate them when we are unfamiliar.

My issue is heights. But only sometimes. Brains are wierd.

It you want to try something new that gives you more freedom than the print bed, consider 2020 alluminum extrusion. I’ll be doing a custom enclosed rack with it soon, using the printer to make shelves/containers between beams.

Yes, I have. The very first one on the list sells their own HR LLM, and uses others.

https://blog.leena.ai/worklm-by-leena-ai/

And they’ve integrated LLMs with other tools HR uses since ChatGPT started getting popular, too.

https://intellyx.com/2023/07/25/leena-ai-llm-based-virtual-assistant-with-proactive-capabilities/

And, personal experience as a hiring manager being given tools that were LLM based.