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I have been using a "withings" smartwatch for the last 8 years. The battery now last 3 weeks instead of a month. It has all the features I need spite of being an oldy: heartbeat, steps, calories, countdown, sport mode, etc. The newer ones even have gps and more.

But the thing is: it looks analog, the smart is almost hidden away, that's how I like the tech, because the watch looks really cool. It can receive messages, but I never enabled that feature.

I've taken it deep under water, clashed against climbing walls, kettle-bells and it has a few scratches on it. I'm not a pro at anything so I don't need the garmin precision. I only had to change the wrist thingy once. I don't want another screen in my life. I recommend it as an alternative to all these "wrist-phones"

Why I love NixOS 4 months ago

Same, I've been playing with kernel settings for AMD, and it's really easy to revert in case things blow up

Because I don't feel confident. I'm super green at VPN's and this kind of networks. I don't want to give the wrong advice.

I'm editing what I can, but you don't want to take my advice, it would be better if someone who knows does it.

The fact that I'm into home lab, doesn't mean I know specifically how to do this. And I'm just saying, when I go to the wiki, to pick up on one of the options, they are missing.

I don't know why the hostility for asking to add some docs

For the guys at Netbird, please create an entry in the https://wiki.nixos.org explaining how to use it with nixos.

- Tailscale has one entry - Pangolin is getting one

I would like to see, even if brief:

1. Getting started

2. Hardware requirements

3. Security considerations

4. Recommended architecture, like running in a VPS if it makes sense

5. Configuring a server

6. Configuring devices

7. Resources (links to read more on netbird)

Thank you from the home lab community

Last year I got a laptop with Linux, after a Mac gap of 6 years (work) and it's been super smooth with NixOS and KDE.

My main issue now was the 16GB of RAM using a VM and working on rust, which would kill the system, but now I have more, so all the issues are gone.

One of the machines has become a media-center, with a remote keyboard, anyone at home can operate now.

Multiple screens, bluetooth, drag and drop, night/light all seems to be working

How uv got so fast 7 months ago

nah, a lot of people working on `uv` have a massive amount of experience working on the rust ecosystem, including `cargo` the rust package manager. `uv` is even advertised as `cargo` for python. And what is `cargo`? a FLOSS project.

Lots of lessons from other FLOSS package managers helped `cargo` become great, and then this knowledge helped shape `uv`.

Backing up Spotify 7 months ago

I'm paying for youtube music, but on the side I started buying records in bandcamp directly from artists and putting them in my jellyfin library. I do use lidarr for some older tracks. I think the ecosystem is starting to look good enough, where you can have your own personal spotify.

codeberg.org for open source, because it's a non-profit, with what it seems, very well intentioned people, with a good governance structure, and it's starting to support federation.

For a company, I'd recommend self-hosting forgejo (which also has actions), which powers codeberg.

(forgejo started as a fork of gitea)

I bought a roomba because I associated it with quality. It's crap! I bought a nice mopping model. The cheap one I had before was even better with a simple only-turn-left algorithm. I'm not surprised by this.

Reading the comments, I'm glad the industry is way ahead, and I was just confused. I think I'm gonna sell and get a better one.

You reminded me that in the culture series a mind can teleport people through "Displacement". It's a very fast, but at the same time I don't think it serves for what OP wants, as it's very risky. It's like planes, we don't hand them spite of being very fast haha

I think once Codeberg becomes federated, it will likely attract a lot of people.

Right now github is great for discovering and tracking projects, reflecting growth via the star and fork system (although a bit broken in the last few years).

If a federated layer is applied to these github alternatives, you could have an account in Codeberg, and be able to track lots of projects wherever people want to host them. Right now, I see a lot of forgejo servers, but I don't want to register in all of them.

In Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota, part of what transforms society into an utopia is the development of some kind of flying car that can take you anywhere in the world in under 2hrs, making borders irrelevant. This transit system is coordinated by a special group.

I would suspect The Culture would have some means to travel very fast. But you are right that it's never explained. In "The player of games" I think the main character lives in a beautiful house with an incredible view, and I always wondered, how did he get that house?

If you think about, the problem could be solved even now, you could use fast trains to connect small cities, and replace cars completely.

I did Beej's Guide to Network Programming and it was fantastic, I learnt a lot, and it was easy enough that I was able to do it in Rust. I'm sure this one is as good as all the others.

Point 7.5 of this guide reminds me of the Einstellung effect, I built my own "pomodoro" timer with notifications saying "go stretch" or "go drink water" (https://github.com/reciperium/temporis in case someone is interested)

This is very nice! I love passive houses, although much of the advice is for the US, not for Europe.

Something really nice I saw recently at a friend's house in Amsterdam, it's a Qettle, a faucet which is able to dispense boiling water instantly! Fully electric, using induction. And I was thinking about this recently, because where I live in Portugal, for the shower and the kitchen's faucet, share a boiler, which it's in the kitchen. If the faucet didn't need it, the heating could be way closer to the shower, making my shower hotter!

Zed is our office 8 months ago

To me it feels like 2 different set of products, what they are showcasing here seems very similar to slack/teams.

Of course, it would be awesome to have a faster and open source slack, and if I can take notes on the same style as my editor great. So I guess, it would be nice to be able to embed zed in another product.

I think this would be appealing for a company that it's core product is code, like zed, but I do wonder if other companies even need this functionality.

Steam Frame 8 months ago

Is the steam controller registering as a joystick and a mouse? It could be amazing to manage my current media center! As I cannot make KDE detect my current controller as a mouse