There’s khal. It’s fine, but can get pretty slow. pimsync for syncing.

Yeah I heard the Tangara team is taking a break. Hopefully they’ll start back up soon.

The other open hardware devices that I’m excited for are the Precursor once it gets more functionality and the Teufel MYND once it’s available in the US. There is, unfortunately, a lot of stuff out there that claims to be open hardware, but isn’t released under an open license or any license at all, and true open hardware end-user devices are few and far between.

The CPU on the Mudita Kompakt is a huge part of what makes it slow. There is definitely latency in Signal because of that. The OS is not open source and it’s pretty infuriating. There was an opportunity to create a device that the open source and security communitirs could rally around. Instead they decided to focus on pseudo-science and “wellness”, which is incredibly unfortunate.

It’s good. I use it. It’s not FOSS.

I have a Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS that used to be my daily driver. It’s nice, but I’m trying to move away from doing everything on an Android or iOS smartphone, so I’m going the multi-device route. I still use my Pixel for banking apps on wifi at home and as a Briar server.

I got a OnePlus 6 to install Linux on because it’s one of the more well-supported options and I got it on eBay for $80. It works okay, but doesn’t check enough boxes to replace any devices. I’m waiting on an MNT Pocket Reform computer that I hope can be a better, albeit more bulky option.

I got a Mudita Kompakt as my phone primarily because of the switch that can cut power to the GSM module and the 4-day battery life. It’s slow, but calling, texting, and Signal work fine on it. I use it with a $10/month 30GB/month T-Mobile data-only plan and a VoIP phone through JMP. chat.

I use a digital camera for photography and a Tangara music player.

I got a physical transit pass to not need a smartphone for that.

When the PocketMage kit becomes available, I hope to offload notes and calendar to that. I’m also playing with replacing other smartphone functionality with a Meshtastic or NomadNet bot hosted on a server at home combined with a T-Deck LoRa device for things like live transit schedules and weather forecasts.

It is a lot of different devices that take up a significantly larger volume and are heavier, but what I’ve found is that I don’t need all of them all of the time and more often than not I still just have the Mudita Kompakt in my pocket.

I use addy.io with fastmail and bitwarden (not self hosted). I switched to that from protonmail+simplelogin+protonpass and get basically the same user experience. What am I missing that requires self hosting bitwarden?

Highly likely they would be installing new software

This basically means that the system will rot over time and will need to have someone who knows what they’re doing to maintain it. If they don’t know enough to do the initial setup, then I would worry about how quickly it would go awry after you no longer have access. given the number of users and the assumed criticality of the data, I would have a long conversation about what can happen and what their plans are

Will they need to install new software after you set it up, or just have user storage and maybe do system updates?

What will they be doing with it?

Do you have a backup storage location available?

How many users?

What kind of permissions do they want various users to have?

How critical is the data that will be housed on the server?

https://beets.io/

This is what I use

I actually don’t use the “tree” part of it at all. I don’t get it either. It just happens to be easier to wrangle into what I want than other options like sideberry.

for number 4, I use the tree-style-tabs addon and some custom userchrome css to get that and it works great. I have it set so that when you hover over the 4-pixel wide sliver that I leave visible (could make it transparent, I just appreciate the reminder that it’s there), it pops out to be 260 pixels wide. I wish it wouldn’t need that level of customization, but it does work.

You can use Nix with basically any Linux distribution. Here is my Librewolf config as an example: https://codeberg.org/jevans/nix-config/src/branch/main/homeManagerModules/gui-applications/firefox/default.nix

I had a similar issue in my city. I had to talk to the human resources division at my organization, and they were able to work directly with the local transit agency to get me a physical card, but it was a pain, and it certainly wasn’t advertised as possible anywhere. It may be worth trying to call people and ask.

When HedgeDoc 2.0 comes out, it will have an “Explore Page” which is the last missing piece to pretty much have feature parity with keep. That said, it’s a long way out.

https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc/issues/3833

lol I do love this video

ffmpeg can make you breakfast if you try hard enough lol. It’s so versatile

With ffmpeg in windows, you can listen to a UDP stream using the ffplay command. you can set up a udp stream as an output in ffmpeg in Linux. I would set up a virtual sink that goes nowhere in pulseaudio or pipewire to set as your output device and have ffmpeg listen to that sink. There are lots of options in ffmpeg available to tweak latency and quality.

I use a Sony a5100 mirrorless camera + Nikon vintage 50mm macro lens + cheap high-CRI LED panel light

I previously used a super cheap Canon DSLR, which worked, but the a5100 is much better. As a bonus it also doubles as a killer webcam + key light combo.

I have a Google account that I created with a throwaway non-gmail email account. I don’t use the email or the Google account for anything else. I then sync my required Google calendars to that (my partner still uses Google, so does my union and my work), and I sync that account to my phone with DAVx5 and to my computers with vdirsyncer (eventually pimsync, when it makes it to nix home-manager) by setting up Google CalDAV API credentials as explained here.

I have to use a local calendar app on each device to see my Google calendar with my NextCloud calendars, but it’s the best that’s possible, I think.

https://mobilizon.org/

I agree! I was certainly starting to look into forks or other alternatives, but it was “settled”. Eelco stepped down and a constitutional assembly was created to develop a governance structure.

https://github.com/NixOS/nix-constitutional-assembly?tab=readme-ov-file