OpenSourceDeezNuts

My university was like this all the buildings were heated (and cooled I believe) via water pipes that ran under campus. There was a giant, dedicated chiller building just off-campus, and presumably a similar building with a giant boiler.

I’ve recently moved into a house with hot water radiators and I love them. No hazard as long as there’s nothing overly sensitive to heat (eg electrical wires) up against them

A year or so I turned off targeted ads from Google. I very quickly noticed an increase in ads with anime tiddies.

I guess Google sees a correlation between people who worry about privacy, and people who are likely to click on anime tiddies…

I’m nervous about how long it’ll be until those stop working

Going from 256GB -> 1TB is $400. That’s insanity. A 1TB NVME drive is less than $100 these days.

For me the real value is that a good password manager makes it easier to not use “login with Google” for everything

1. Ditch Chromium.
2. Use a Password Manager instead of “log in with Google/Facebook/whatever”
3. Keep tabs on Mobile App permissions and revoke as many as you possibly can. I revoke location permissions from every single app except Navigation apps, which have to ask for location permissions. If possible, remove apps in favor of Native Alpha / Hermit web apps

I just bought in to mulvad today via Tailscale, so far so good, I like it!

Use a Zigbee controller or Zigbee USB stick on a controller, and Zigbee lights. I’m planning to switch to that myself

Any recommendations for a Zigbee hub to use with HomeAssistant? I’m planning to make the switch now that Hue is doing this

Sacrifice a few extra bits and you can do floating point arithmetic on your fingers too

Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.

I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.

The sheer amount of pro-communist/pro-china comments is insane here. Plus the number of giant emojis that spam up the whole comment feed. Honestly, most of my real issues come down strictly to Hexbear users. A lot of their behavior completely ruins the platform for me.

That and the lack of fanbases for the things I like. There’s very little Star Wars or Halo fan presence here. Feels like Star Trek is the only fandom with any presence here, so I have to go back to reddit for those things.

By the time you’re 20 you’ll be using Arch Linux and self-hosting everything!

I’ve been using Photoprism. Single-user is fine for me. I see lots of people switching to immich, but haven’t checked it out myself.

Photoprism supports sharing albums via link to people who don’t have accounts. Mine is remotely accessible using Tailscale. I would like to set up proper remote access via DNS, but haven’t made that leap yet, I’m too nervous about opening ports up.

TandoorRecipes is a great little recipe-hosting service, and it’s available as an app on Unraid. No more saving recipes in my notes app, I actually have nicely-formatted ingredient lists and instructions.

Anyone have any good extensions for hiding ad blockers from sites? Can ublock origin do it natively?