JustEnoughDucks

I was already a long time KISS launcher user after the sale (long time nova user)

Recently discovered Kvaesitso and I have fully switched! It is just a bit more featureful than KISS while still being very clean and now when people use my phone for something, they can actually find apps too which is nice.

That is pretty expensive nowadays, if OP wants to go that expensive, getting a mini PC with the latest intel N150. The pi 5 doesn’t even have hardware AV1 decoding. By the time you have all of the pi accessories, it is not much of a price difference, but defi itely a performance difference.

https://amzn.eu/d/85cytyZ

Plus you get benefits like actual storage instead of a separately bought SD card, more RAM, 2.5G ethernet, and HDMI2.1 & USB–C displayport.

Then you slap Linux on it (and also hope that plasma bigscreen is a success in the near future) and you have a very reliable 4K HTPC that can decode anything you throw at it. It has enough horsepower to be a home server at the same time, unlike a pi while also having just a bit higher idle power usage (2W or so).

Except that proton released their LLM AI so maybe they will start doing that?

Is this similar to Wero as a back end or different parts of the process?

Open source Obsidian notes application.

The second brain part comes (I think) from the zettelkasten method of brain dumping all of your thoughts, notes on things you learn, etc… "On paper” in order to organize it and not lose it.

It is often recommended (along with to-do lists) for people with ADHD, and good for people like me with bad short-medium term memory.

Yep, it is made by google to replace google fit api.

Immich!

Keeping personal photos off someone else’s server and stopping google and apple from training their AI on your nudes.

It is

However, for file transfer, LocalSend is a smoother UX and supports almost any device for transfer. It won me over from KDE connect because I can transfer things with different phones, friends’ comuters when they are here, work computer in rare cases with a portable install and no need to bond anything.

Yep

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/support/+/refs/heads/androidx-health-connect-release

I think android HealthConnect doesn’t get enough notice as it is a kind of silent background service.

It is local, opt-in, and privacy respecting connection API for sharing data between fitness apps with fine control over what gets shared where. You can have the shittiest privacy-violating fitness app and it can’t just steal all of the data from your smartwatch or whatever because you connect the two apps via a stupid cloud integration.

Is your printer network attached and scanning via flatpak packages?

Network printing works fine, USB printing and scanning works also, it is just anything having to use saned that flatpaks can’t seem to use

I have hopped through multiple distros and I have never once had scanning not work on a “normal” one after correctly setting up saned. Only bazzite because of the flatpak/system split (also why any embedded programming needs distrobox)

It’s worth it to note for people switching that your network printer is unlikely to have usable scanning functionality with flatpak scanners you install (unless something has changed in the last 6 months since I tried last)

Localsend is absolutely my go-to. It is awesome.

iOS, computer, android, whatever, it just always works and is fast and everything is extremely user friendly.

I essentially stopped using kdeconnect except for its automatic clipboard and notifications.

Syncthing is a bit more complicated to set up, but that is what I use for “file sync” which in my view is different than file sharing which is different than file hosting like next/owncloud.

I have written a more detailed comment on it before, but 2d printing is much more technically complicated than 3D printing, and the resolution is literally an order of magnitude difference (0.2mm vs <42um) and the printer has to print full color on any surface with microdots in a very very short time. People would throw the printer out if it took 10 minutes for a single paper like a large first layer takes in 3D printing.

1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &

1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver

My father-in-law got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!

Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.

I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)

That is very very very often also not the case. There are probably many shitty private companies as public.

See: Cargill, Koch industries, Schwartz group, state farm and pretty much every insurance company in the US, deloitte, publix, subway, McKinsey, Vitol, etc…

The few things I don’t like about flatpaks (which become a problem on atomic distros that use almost all flatpak by design):

• Some types of embedded development is essentially impossible with flatpaks. Try getting the J-link software connected with nrftools and then everything linked to VScodium/codeoss

• Digital signing simply doesn’t work, won’t work for the foreseeable future, and is not planned to get working,

• Flatpaks sometimes have bugs for no reasons when their package-manager counterparts don’t (e.g. in KiCAD 8.0, the upper 20% or so of dialog boxes were unclickable with the mouse, but I could select and modify them with the keyboard, only the flatpak version)

• The status on whether it is still being actively developed or not (at least I hear a fair amount of drama surrounding it)

But besides those small things, it seem great to me.

I’m sorry. There are people who go to an adult hardcore porn site and then type in “Suitable for work”??? Like do you think the site wouldn’t get flagged at your work?

It’s funny, because often they aren’t prettier. Well optimized and well made games from 5 or even 10 years ago often look on par better than the majority of AAA slop pushed out now (obviously with exceptions of some really good looking games like space marine and some others) and the disk size is still 10x what it was. They are just unrefined and unoptimized and try to use computationally expensive filters, lighting, sharpening, and antialiasing to make up for the mediocre quality.

And you are often paying 140-200 for a pi nowadays to make it have the same usability as a laptop (pi, power supply, sata hat, data drive because SD cards simply fail after a while under server IO) while you can get cheap used laptops for 0-100.

So unless you are running it for more than half a decade (which rarely happens with selfhosters for a main server), you are probably spending more in total on the pi.