Yeah, it’s right next to the wall of e-commerce sites that give you a single checkbox for “send me order information and tracking updates along with occasional promos”

This is the first I’m hearing about it. I don’t know why anyone would be excited about this.

Ooo looks nice. This might make me want to try CLI mail again. I tried neomutt a long time ago and just couldn’t get it working right, but this looks a lot easier.

Yeah, unfortunately the display/esp32 can now only be purchased pre-flashed from specific retailers (for a significant markup) and the firmware is no longer published anywhere. The only way to update is OTA.

It’s all really shitty. Though, I’ll admit, I really didn’t have high hopes when I found out that they use discord for everything from troubleshooting to documentation to group buys.

I bought the parts to build mine a year ago and never got around to it. I’ll still build it, but it’s sad they are either ripping away all potential future support, are fracturing the community, or both

I love open source.

On a related note, open source projects that get big without a reliable leadership organizational structure risk burning down just as easily.

Recently nix, wordpress, and gaggiuino were affected by this kind of thing. Nix seems to be recovering. Wordpress doesn’t look good. Gaggiuino skipped right over source-available and went closed-source.

Linux is a success story with this structure, but I think we need to be better about building projects with stability in mind.

The choice to use “AI” was deliberate. That’s malicious enough.

I hear ya. I’ve gone with Matrix to interface with everything else other than call/text, and it works well enough.

Interesting! I’m sure there is some way to get it working natively on Linux and headless, but a cursory web search brought up nothing. I did just buy a Cell2Jack and a 1979 ITT Tel Touch phone to try this out haha.

very cool! I now want to do this with my jmp.chat number haha

Is there a reason you want to use waydroid + cheogram on the rpi instead of something like dino?

For me, I don’t like living that close to cars. Cars, in general, are horriblely inconsiderate. They make a lot of noise, they smell. The fewer cars I can see, the better.

Haha thanks. It’s definitely a lot. It’s really sad that this kind of thing is what is necessary for smooth interoperability.

It will be necessary once we’ve done all the much more effective and cheaper stuff. For now, it’s important to make it better for when we need to focus on it. That said, anything more than academic at this point is probably designed to allow emitters to keep emitting longer.

Can we not use popular racist and fascist slogans for stuff like this?

When I was using Windows, I used Adobe Lightroom with the Negative Lab Pro plugin to digitize my film negatives. I’ve played around with Darktable, and it does the job, but it’s a lot more fiddly, and it discourages me from processing film.

In Denver, at least, our tool library is $150/year, or $40/week.

Our makerspace, Denhac, is $45/month, or $22.50/month for students, seniors, etc.

The makerspace allows for 24/7 badge access and has a full machine shop, a full wood shop, two CNC routers, auto/bike tools, a bunch of resin and FDM 3D printers, a well-stocked textile shop, a well-stocked electronics shop, a bunch of workspaces and meeting rooms, and short-term storage. The tool library has portable hand and power tools you can take home with limited shop hours at an rate of $22/hour or $19/hour if you’re a member.

Sure, the tool library is cheaper, but as soon as you need any of the bigger tools, it makes much more sense to join the makerspace unless you absolutely need to be able to take tools home, and even then, if you need a shop for more than 2 hours per month, it just makes sense to do both and never use the shop at the tool library.

“We want the market to decide”

“…not like that”

I have the same issue. I just told people that if they want to have me in a group message, we need to use Signal, or they will be frustrated.

As long as people keep buying this slop and as long as game studios don’t have strong unions, things will continue to degrade.

Proton also has a VPN

I use Read You for RSS

For WhatsApp and other platforms, I host a Matrix server and add bridges for them.

To replace Google Home, I host a Home Assistant server

For music, you can host your on music streaming service with Navidrome and use an app like Ultrasonic on your phone. If you don’t want to buy music outright, you can get a qobuz subscription and use qobuz-dl to grab music from it.

I second Kagi. It’s great!