+1 for SoulSeek and Slskd. Been using it for about a month now, and I’ve largely ditched Spotify because of it. Once I get the Arr integration working it’ll be a very nice system. Still deciding how I want to tackle music discovery, but sourcing the songs I know I want has been pretty easy.
Yeah agreed. I borked my repo a couple times and needed to rollback changes, re-sync everything, and resubmit changes. It was a bit scary, but that’s also kind of the beauty of the system, is it’s just files in a folder. I could move the conflicting files out, do a push/pull and then move the files back in and push. The biggest part is getting in the habit of doing a pull before I make any local changes on a device.
I haven’t heard of the tools you mentioned, but you’ve got me curious, so I’ll definitely be looking into them and a potential fix. I’m sure I could automate things with some simple scripting, but until I make my final move off iOS I’m sort of stuck with the clunky Unix Pass app on that OS which causes most of my issues.
Presumably you could just target the passwordstore folder with any version control, Unix Pass just has some git interaction built in.
I also use Unix pass and self host a git repo over Tailscale to keep it synced across devices. Works like a charm so long as I remember to push whenever I edit a password somewhere.
Among plenty of the other things mentioned, I enjoy “diagetic interfaces”. Ways of interacting with a game’s systems that stay grounded in the reality of the setting of the world. Dead Space is a prime example, but I’ve been enjoying a lot of the crafting in Vintage Story for this reason. The smithing in particular has had me hooked for a while. Hammering out my armor and weapons voxel by voxel made finally suiting up and feeling ready to take on a boss that much more satisfying.
I have a Boox for when I want a bigger screen, and a Hisense touch (I think that’s the model). I like them both a lot. The Hisense device is also a HiFi audio player which is nice.
This is almost exactly what I’m after. Will probably pick one of these up and experiment with flashing it. The big assumption I feel like is that the keyboard just registers as a normal HID/USB device and will work with any os. Fingerprint and stuff could be fiddly, but we’ll see.
I already have my eye on doing a hotspot from the Calyx Institute and then whatever devices I fancy that have WiFi. I have a phone sized e-reader I already do this with using my phone hotspot, so I’ve considered just making that my norm.
I’ve also got my eye on a few Linux handheld projects for the same reason, and honestly I might lean toward those so I can get more modern hardware. Could potentially incorporate a usb cellular antenna with a Linux handheld to streamline the tethering process.
I recently found a window manager for Linux that is designed for phone sized displays. I’m forgetting the name at the moment, but I’ll come back and update this once I find it.
Second this, and all functionality worked over USB right out of the box. Didn’t have to config my Arch (btw) install at all. Literally plug and play. Easier than all the fiddling I had to do with windows.
I second Touch! Though just with my own experience I project some level of transness onto the robot. Sort of this feeling, or moment, of finally becoming “living” and knowing what human contact and connection feels like, but struggling to find it.
“Get on your knees and pray to me \
The problem child becomes the only God you'll ever see \
You made me believe that I was never mine \
I made my goddamn self, a product of my own design”
This song is fairly explicitly about being trans and struggling being seen as who you really are by family. It’s not really trying to be sad about it though, more empowering in spite of that struggle. Great song.
I often get game choice paralysis, so I have extensively categorized my game library to help with both decision making, but also time management. I use numbers to force my categories to sort in the order I want rather than alphabetically by category name.
Also worth noting I only started doing this after I stopped playing an MMO and reclaimed whatever % of my life.
First is my “currently playing” category. This contains roughly one game from each other category/genre.
A story driven RPG (Witcher 3 at the moment, the Metro series after)
A rhythm game (McOsu, an Osu mod)
An optimization/building game (Shapez 2 but maybe back to factorio soon)
An action rougelike (going back to Hades before Hades 2)
A deck builder (currently MTGA, but my group really wants to ditch WotC)
A puzzle game (probably Blue Prince once it comes out)
A dedicated indie game spot (the Cairn demo)
A few other odd games that I like having quick access to because I like them
There is sort of a secret bonus game to this section, but it also sits outside of this system entirely, because I will ALWAYS go back to it. And that’s the “block game” category. For a long time this was various flavors of modded Minecraft, but I’m so fed up with Microsoft enshitifying my baby that I’ve jumped ship. I’m playing Vintage Story (also heavily modded) and it’s just a better game top to bottom in my opinion.
Then there is an “Interesred” category for games I’ve either been told I should try and also think I might enjoy. I try to keep this small, following roughly a similar “one per genre” as the previous category. I honestly don’t really touch these much, it’s more there for when a spot is freed up in the “currently playing” section. This is also where demos for unreleased games go.
Then there is a “favorite” and “liked” category which largely contain games I’ve played before or are intentionally hyper replayable. This has a lot of my favorite puzzle games, a lot of the various rogue likes with a different game as the core mechanic (think peglin and ballionaire) stuff like that. Basically things to sift through if none of my current games are sparking an interest.
After this is just genre categories used for storage essentially so I can collapse them and not be sick scrolling the whole list.
I have a decent amount of time to game, but also work a very physical job, so I need to be very into a game to prioritize it over sleeping and such.
I sort of have 3 variations of this drawer. One is fully named “the junk drawer” and contains things like rubber bands, batteries, scissors, garden snips, things that are sort of odd one out in other spots, but I feel are still relevant to my kitchen. Then I have one that is this but specifically things used on the stove and for mixing. So that puts spatulas, whisks, and such into their own mess. Finally is the “kitchen gadgets” drawer which looks very similar to yours. No organizer tray because everything is odd shapes, but also honestly sees little enough use I don’t really mind digging through it.
I recently went through getting it to run on Linux. It’s one of the only Bungie games I haven’t played. Shockingly in depth combat, I’m enjoying it, but I’m bad at combo based fighting games, so I’m playing it in very bite sized pieces.
I randomly thought about converting all my “feeds” into RSS, but wasn’t really sure where to start. Stumbling across your post came at just the right time!! This is an awesome tool. Thanks for sharing!
I understood it all to mean, you get a layer of automation and triggers that can be used when you post to interact with data both within and beyond the scope of the actual social platform.
I’m not 100% sure this is accurate, but that’s what I got.
I’m not able to check on my box right now, but I’ll try to take a peak at my configs when I get in front of an SSH connection.