I use podcasts to escape so I more lean towards comedy podcasts. My top is

Regulation Podcast (PREVIOUSLY F**kFace)

• 4 guys and Andrew (who didn’t know what the shift key did) shooting the shit, coming up with zany and dumb ideas and having way too much burger confidence

My Brother My Brother and Me

• 3 brothers doing different bits, talking about fast food news, making jokes about pop culture and bad movies

Clutch my Pearls

• 3 girls started their own smut podcast where one of them who only reads true crime is introduced into the very very weird world of smut novels. With very funny readings from the books

We’re Here to Help

• A comedy advice podcast with Jake Johnson from New Girl where they get questions like “my kids got a trampoline and my neighbor likes to walk around naked outside” and “my coworker likes to take their socks off at work” and “I brought muffins every week to work since I started and now they call me the muffin man and excpect muffin deliveries”. Quite fun.

Then more seriously

Swindled

• The stories of how the great (and often mainstream) scam artists get found out and topple from power

Nerdland Podcast

• (In Dutch) a podcast about new developments in science and technology. Sadly very often about AI or Musk now but they try to keep that to a minimum.

same with antennapod

Then you deal with it when you get back. Easy as that. If it is non-critical enough to turn off when you leave the house, then it is non-critical enough fix it later when you have time. Fixing software/bios/program errors are not time-sensitive.

Hardware now is EXTREMELY safe and it has to be tested against electrical surges, ESD events, and depending in the device, different temps in order to get CE conformity and UL ratings. There is a near-zero chance that it would cause a fire or something critical, especiallly because home servers typically are not under load most of the time.

Not going nearly as fast as I hoped. But we will get there.

34 cm from the floor dug out

Concrete slab got placed

10k L water pit and 2.5k L septic pit installed and hooked up

Bathroom we completely drywalled and routed all of the electrical and water (not hooked up yet). Man doing drywall plasters to brick is the worst ever. You have 1, 15 minute chance to get it completely level and plumb and you can’t pull it back out if you push it in too deep otherwise it won’t stick. I never want to do it again. Luckily we are having the rest of the house plastered.

Toilet, shower wall, bath, etc… Are all ready in the next room to install when the shower wall is waterproofed with a rubber layer and the drywall is completely sanded where there won’t be tiles.

Half of the routing for the upstairs radiators is ready, but the contractor that promised to install the 2 temperature mixing system before winter break delayed by a month and a half…

But it is going!

And then there is me who can’t feel hunger or full and as a kid the doctor told my mother the same thing and after 5 or 6 full jars of baby food, she decided better of it lol.

I listened to a ton when I bike to and from work. 40 minutes gets like 2 episodes a day, plus when I am at work

I don’t really get the idea of decentralized internet.

The internet is already decentralized. There are millions of websites hosted on thousands of separately-owned machines.

“Decentralized” services like the fediverse use thus exact same structure and bind them together by a search/aggregation API.

The “centralized” part of the internet is DNS, Service providers, and search.

You are perfectly allowed to go your whole life without using search, or by self-hosting searX.

If we go back to the age of webrings, that is essentially decentralized internet. It seems like every decentralized internet idea is just a rehash of this with some Tor ideas sprinkled in.

You are never going to be able to pull a “Silicon Valley” and make every device into a mini server. The ping and uptime would be horrific.

Sorry, I think options like Firefly III for that might not be sufficient for small business, but it was the only great Foss personal finance software for a long time.

Odoo is the gold standard for business. I think they also have a business finance app? It isn’t free, but the cost is reasonable.

Otherwise, I use Leantime for project management. If you work in a project-based or contract-based company (like consultancy or design house), then it has a lot of project & product features including time tracking with a plugin. Not financial though.

Oh boy! Here goes

Desktop:

• Bazzite
• KDE Connect
• KiCAD
• FreeCAD
• Plasma
• LocalSend
• Thunderbird
• Bitwarden
• Code OSS
• Krita
• CoreCTRL
• LibreOffice
• CuteCOM
• KopiaUI
• Calibre
• Heroic Games Launcher
• Lutris
• PrusaSlicer
• Okular
• Inkscape
• FluffyChat
• SyncThingy
• Elisa
• Haruna
• Kdenlive
• YouTube Downloader GUI
• Paperwork (stille can’t get network scanners working on Bazzite with sane set up)
• Solar
• ProtonUp-QT

Phone:

• AntennaPod
• Immich
• Aegis
• Heliboard
• Organic Maps
• Breezy Weather
• Aurora Droid
• K9 mail
• Signal
• Fluffy chat
• Home Assistant
• Eternity
• Findroid
• Gadgetbridge
• Fitotrack
• Loop habits
• Tuta
• StreetComplete
• Wireguard
• Unit converter untimate
• mastodon
• ntfy
• newpipe
• KDE Connect
• bitwarden
• findroid
• localsend
• material files

server:

• Leantime
• Bookstack
• Immich
• Jellyfin
• Home Assistant
• Traefik
• Crowdsec
• Authelia
• Dozzle
• Glances
• full *arr suite
• transmission + wireguard
• paperless-ngx
• cloudflare-ddns
• syncthing
• valheim server
• Boinc
• stash
• ntfy.sh

If I donated $5 per month to each of these projects I would be broke 😂

Interesting, when I started using FreeCAD I had 0 training, and I have managed to make it work just fine. Was mostly frustrated by the topological naming problem, but that is fixed now.

You can do quite complex things with it.

You just have to put in a bit of effort and think in an additive sketch-extrude workflow. But yeah, not easy to transition from solidworks.

Well the gadgetbridge comment is not really true.

It can’t pull activities from Strava, runkeeper, or similar or push to them. Syncing across services via APIs or Heath Connect stops it from really being a proprietary watch software replacement or a google fit replacement as they all do that and it is a core function because people want to use the apps they want to use. For example, lifting tracking from Progression or similar which other apps like gadgetbridge or strava just aren’t made for. It doesn’t have the functionality built in to cover every activity set.

GPX is extremely limited and is only GPS data, not good for fitness trackers as they track all sorts of activities. TCX or FIT are better, but of course managed by Garmin. There isn’t really an open alternative standard. I guess the closest we come is the Health Connect API which is completely local interoperability.

Yeah, but as someone who had both bazzite and Opensuse MicroOS (Kalpa), it is even more of a long and painful process on that platform lol.

Immutable OS’s are literally for people who specifically don’t want to tinker. Everything via flatpack except a few system-level apps layered on the base image.

(Also they are for people who don’t need document digital signing as Firefox and libre office can’t access the modules via flatpak)

If people want specific apps and don’t want to build them or use user space apps then it definitely isn’t their best option. Just a different option.

I have very much enjoyed never even having to think about updating my system for months

What would I want to do?

• Cut down the 2 larger trees and 10 mini trees (originally hedges) that we marked for removal

• deep clean the house

• climb in the crawlspace and drill the pipe brackets I need to

• finally go weightlifting after months of no time or willpower

• play saxophone

• meditate

• go for a long run

• play with my dog and go adventuring for an hour or 2

• cook a new meal I haven’t tried before

• watch a movie with my girlfriend

• take an edible

• play some games with the boys

What would I likely do?

• sleep

• mow the grass and rake leaves

• play rimworld

• watch Castle with my girlfriend

• eat leftovers

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On the final episode with my rewatch

True, but the same judge who would say that this means Github’s AI tools can harvest and regurgitate code that you upload as its own would have a good chance of ruling that the Winamp BS license is valid and the forkers have to fork over money.

But there is the fact that the company is based in Brussels and their license apparently breaks Belgian law 😂

No, the autocorrect literally doesn’t exist.

You can sync with immich also.

It literally is as simple as choosing which folders to include with the backups. You can set backing up just like google photos.

Otherwise you have to deal with their external library mechanics which has ballooned my 5k photos to a 1.3million in the database which broke immich.

People have hit on most of them here, but here is another big one:

Fitness apps. Mainly calorie tracking, workout tracking and heart rate tracking

Health app

Sleep as Android

(No, gadget bridge is not a replacement for 99% of cases and doesn’t even support the gold standard for heart rate tracking, polar H10)

For calorie tracking, the massive food databases required, barcode scanning, and crowd sourcing are generally not compatible with the open source community’s privacy ideals. OpenNutriTracker has promise though!

For workout tracking, none of them have any device support and most of them are dead and abandoned. Not to mention heart rate zones, stats and training trends, etc… FitoTrack and Opentracks are good starts though.

And then a google fit alternative. Something that can integrate sleeping, workouts, heart rates, sensors, etc… Data all in one aggregates place. It is a huge task and it makes sense that there is no open source alternative for it. Especially when the components aren’t individually there to aggregate.

Title of the book? I am looking for some fantasy or sci fi to read.

Or I guess that might be doxxing yourself…