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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • And I still can only get 0 like, 0 comment shaky cam video of a screen capture of ultra zoomed in tiktoks or blasting shitty electronika music at 100dB clipping all to hell with 2005 era Microsoft visualizer videos.

    Just like pixelfed, there is no way to discover anyone except the same 10-12 rotation of people they put in explore.

    I come back every month or two and swipe through 5-10 to see if anything has changed, but it never has. In the case of loops, the same number of creators, some of which haven’t posted a video for almost 8 months are “trending”? Maybe that is where the “active users” number comes from?


  • Cool project!

    A ton of aesthetic effort for a simple Dev board + enclosure and a vibe coding project, especially since arduino already has libraries for MQTT, speakers, etc… Photo displays & animations galore lol.

    Injection molding is much more of an art than simply CNCing a negative of your part and squirting some plastic in it. There is a reason that injection molding services often have around a 1000€ startup & molding fee.

    Plus a custom PCB means FCC/CE certification generally.



  • Had a 2023 VW ID4. They literally go out of their way to make your experience worse in many cases.

    They have an app, they can read locked state, but can’t lock the car.

    Their app/website makes you completely re-sign in and re-accept cookies every month or so that breaks any API usage mildly like HomeAssistant.

    The key unlocks the door if you walk to it, 50% chance to re-lock the door when you walk away without interacting with it.

    Can detect tire pressure, but they don’t tell you what it is, only if there is “pressure loss”

    Backup camera was horrific quality, especially the field of view of a telephoto camera, especially compared to my 2015 Nissan altima

    The entertainmrnt console was terible, extremely laggy, and Android auto was the worst experience. It would take between 2 and 15 minutes to connect to android auto with multiple different phones, and it would choose 1 app per phone to not display. My girlfriends’ was her maps app which is insane. Sometimes I would be at my destination before it would connect.

    Also putting a trailer hitch on it would have been like 1500-2000€…


  • I have. I have given them more and more permissions but they can never connect to the saned service and I haven’t been able to find a single shred of documentation about it from any atomic distro and my discord messages were ignored. There are a few posts asking about it for various atomic distro but it is very much “it works for me shrug” or “it doesn’t work at all so I had to layer the scanner app” with 0 mention in anything about the correct flatpak permissions.


  • I haven’t been able to get flatpaks (what you have to use on Bazzite and Kionite) to work with a wifi scanner and I have been using Linux since 2016, so not really beginner friendly. Apparently some people have gotten it working, but still, it works generally out of the box on Fedora, Mint, and Opensuse Tumbleweed I think.

    WiFi printing works fine though.

    But if you have a USB printer, or don’t use the scanner of your WiFi printer, Bazzite is great!


  • If you everyday tasks include document signing or scanning with a Wifi printer, then maybe steer clear of Bazzite and Kionite and opensuse Aeon/kalpa.

    I would go for just normal fedora or opensuse tumbleweed instead.

    Mint is also great if you don’t have a “fresh off the production line new hardware”.






  • I think the issue is more that large tech firms can absolutely deal with external security in their applications. The amount of times gmail or Microsoft 365 has been hacked and leaked a bunch of client data is statistically zero when looking at their attack area.

    Joe Dirt self hosting a mail server for his neighbors on a salvaged rack server is 1000x more likely to get hacked or lose a ton of his neighbors’ data than a big tech firm.

    That is kind of the trade off for community hosting. There are very very few backup and security-literate people in communities.



  • Some drives are worse than others and higher capacities get worse and worse, in my experience, Seagate drives are extremely loud.

    If you get helium drives (like wd red plus > 8TB i think),or 2nd hand hgst/ WD enterprise drives) they are significantly quieter.

    But, having an ssd is cheaper probably. I have an SSD for the boot drive and all databases, configuration folders, etc… In docker so general IO is fast, then media, documents, pictures, etc… On the big HDDs.


  • KNX.

    Everything is decentrally programmed, and you can do extra automations and stuff from home assistant, but KNX devices are wired (generally) and will always Just Work™. More expensive that the cheaper retrofit options, but if you factor in manual overrides or getting the “better” wireless smart devices it is comparable. They generally also have a manual override at the panel. For core functions like lights, HVAC, roll shutters or blinds, etc… That is honestly the best option (unless you want every light to be an RGB light for some reason, then you still need smart bulbs)