- Termux has lots of possibilities
- Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
- I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
- Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
- Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
- Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
- Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.
Admiral Patrick
I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.
Ask me anything.
Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.
I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Whose death signified an end of an era?English
22·8 days agoIf she had simply resigned from her position when she began experiencing health issues, it would have allowed her successor to be nominated and approved under a democratic administration.
There’s no guarantee that would have happened. See Mitch McConnell and Merrick Garland
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anti Spam - Anything better than SpamAssassin?English
61·12 days agoI’ve used SA for over 10 years and am happy with it. It’s a bit of a pain to get set up and set to train, but otherwise still works well for me.
I’ve also heard good things about rspamd but I still haven’t even tried it out yet.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is something that ONLY americans believe?English
565·12 days agoNothing. We’re a country of ~350 million diverse people who believe lots of different things. And this question seems in very bad faith from a 21 minute old account.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I wonder what would've happened if Lego bought MinecraftEnglish
20·12 days agoInstead of calling it “Minecraft” we’d have to call it “Generic Danish children’s pixelated building block software”
Lego, or as the BBC has to refer to it: “Generic Danish interlocking children’s building set.”
— Jason Manford
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Anyone else about ready to give up on tech?English
33·14 days agoI just keep supporting open source and following the forks as needed. Otherwise, I’m self-hosting what I can and going lo-fi where I can’t.
Also: !oldmanyellsatcloud@dubvee.org for all your “ranting about how modern tech sucks” needs.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?English
2·21 days agoHard to quantify it, so bear with me.
Not so much a specific genre or distribution medium as much as “the artist/band was born after 9/11”. Like, there are some bands that have been around forever and still putting out new stuff and that’s mostly fine (though I don’t necessarily like all of it) but anything overly electronic is basically a hard pass for me.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?English
4·21 days agoOh yeah, I’m the same. It just gets rarer and rarer each year that I find something I can enjoy. Objectively, it has nothing to do with the quality of modern music (well, maybe a little lol) just the styles changing and my taste not keeping up.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?English
2·21 days agoYeah, I did Docker swarm on an older cluster of thin clients I had ~10 years ago but even that was overkill. I’ve avoided Kubernetes for the same reason.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?English
3·21 days agoGovernment surplus auction. Had to get power supplies and SSDs for them separately but still less expensive than what most used ones go for elsewhere.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosting hardware - what are your experiences with Lenovo ThinkCentre as homelab server?English
7·21 days agoI’m now running 9 of the Dell equivalents to those, and they’re doing well. Average 15-20 watts at normal load and usually no more than 30-35 watts running full tilt. 5 of them are unprovisioned but I got a good deal on them for $25/each so I couldn’t pass them up :shrug:.
Attempting to cable-manage the power bricks for more than 1 of these is the worst part of using them. The only life pro tip I can offer is to ditch the power bricks and buy a 65W USB-C power delivery adapter that’s in the “wall wart” style and also one of the USB-C to Lenovo power adapter cords. Those make cable management so much better.
Wall Wart

Adapter Cable (these are for my Dells but they make them for most brands/styles)

Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?English
4·21 days agoI would like to think so.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are some unique things that sucks about getting old?English
16·21 days agoMost contemporary music sounds like shit. I try to stay current to at least within the last 3 years, but the older I get, the more it just sounds like shit.
South Park did an episode about it, and they were spot on.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the most recent lie you told?English
45·23 days agoGood morning. How are you?
Fine, and you?
Technically that was two lies because I did not care how they were doing.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•ISO Homelab Power Saving Methods [SOLVED FOR NOW]English
7·24 days agoI downgraded from used enterprise gear to those ultra small form factor PCs. They sip power well enough on their own that I haven’t really bothered tuning anything. I suppose I could cap the frequency with
cpufrequtilsand set the governor to conservative rather than on-demand (I do this with my battery-powered RasPi projects) but I’m not sure how much difference that’ll make for my servers.In the past, I had Docker Swarm setup and automation to collapse the swarm down to a single machine (powering the other ones down and back on with WoL) but that was more trouble than it was worth. On average load, the USFF PCs run at about 15 watts and don’t usually peak above 30 unless they’re rebooting or doing something very heavy. Even transcoding doesn’t break 20 watts since I’m using hardware acceleration.
The biggest power savings I found that was worth the effort was to just get rid of the enterprise gear, switch from VMs to Docker containers where possible, and get rid of stuff I’m not using (or only run it on-demand).
The only remaining enterprise power suck I have left is my managed switch. It’s a 2005-era dinosaur that’s loud and power hungry, but it’s been a workhorse I’m having a hard time parting with.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Can someone tell me about DemiGod Rick?English
14·24 days agoLooks like they banned you from the lemmy.zip instance only: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=16510340
When a federated account is banned from an instance, the backend also bans them from any community on the instance they’ve interacted with (including if you’ve just voted in them if I’m not mistaken).
Also, yes, admins can ban anyone on any community on their instance (but only locally if it’s a remote community). Ergo, a lemmy.zip admin can ban you from !asklemmy@lemmy.world on their instance, but you won’t be officially banned and other instances will see your content there while users on lemmy.zip will not.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my labEnglish
5·27 days agoLike you’re thinking: put HAProxy on your OpenWRT router.
That’s what I do. The HAProxy setup is kind of “dumb” L7 only (rather than HTTP/S) since I wanted all of my logic in the Nginx services. The main thing HAProxy does is, like you’re looking for, put the SPOF alongside the other unavoidable SPOF (router) and also wraps the requests in Proxy Protocol so the downstream Nginx services will have the correct client IP.
Flow is basically:
LAN/WAN/VPN -> HAProxy -> Two Nginx Instances -> AppsWith HAProxy in the router, it also lets me set internal DNS records for my apps to my router’s LAN IP.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?English
7·1 month agoWell, removed yes. Deleted, not always.
Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?English
2·1 month agoI’ve been looking into crowdsec for ages now and still haven’t gotten around to even a test deployment. One of these days, lol, and I’ll get around to it.



I use the web version rather than the app, but I want to say the app can store the library on the SD card if you have one of sufficient size lying around and if the Redmi has the slot for one. But as someone else said, there are smaller versions you can download if you can’t fit the full one.
Not trying to push Kiwix on you, but I just can’t emphasize enough how handy it is to have offline Wikipedia always on hand.