Your guitar is out of tuna!

Clippy made sense, was very likeable, and I enjoyed interacting with it as a child.

This featureless blob I find rather disgusting. A pure depiction of an era we live in, where the market thinks it's good enough to spew out "something" to cater the customers, and have the audacity to ask hard earned money for it.

FTR: currently experimenting with scraping Gadgetbridge data into Grafana.

I keep track of lots of vintage devices in my basement, these lay on a CD shelf with narrow walls, and I want to keep track of their maintenance status, i.e. when did I charge the battery last time.

This little printer is pretty handy for labeling tasks, with one noticeable problem: the resolution is quite low, so I cannot afford printing full length domain name on such a tiny label. What I ended up with is writing my own microservice that puts fake http://i.nv/ domain in front of inventory ID. That domain is provided by DNSMASQ that I run on my server, and there's also NGINX listening for that domain and doing 302 onto an actual Homebox page.

Homebox sends URL parameters to the specified endpoint, and given that information it is possible to construct any label of any shape or form, it only needs to be a PNG image.

A friend of mine calls his boy Luci (yes, a nod to the Disenchantment series) "a sack of buttkicks".

Ooooh that roomba brush is Muscat's favourite toy! He'd play the damn out of it.

What's currently running on mine:

• 10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man's NAS with snapraid + mergerfs
• Podsync for converting my favorite YouTube channels to podcast feeds
• Syncthing for generic file synchronization
• K3s for whatever projects coming to my mind
• Retroarch for occasional gaming needs
• MPD with a floppy disk interface as my music station
• CUPS for printserver

Grab your feline buddy and vibe with us!

It's Nelko P21, around $20.

Bring Your Own Box

The USB hub is powered, and the Pi needed a driver swap for better stability. So far works great.

I see it's an Ericsson-branded Psion, the first to carry the Symbian logo!

Pretty dope, need to try that myself some day. But first I'd like to setup URAN-1 SDR to spawn a DIY 2G cell tower 👀

Grab Homebox here and start tracking your inventory!

Surprisingly, it works! I just checked it on my microservice, indeed now QRs are smaller. This is a lifesaver tip, thanks a bunch!

Gadgetbridge allows automatic SQLite database export to the location you specify.

Navigate to Settings -> Automations -> Auto export database, and from there you can configure the details.

You can put it into a shared Syncthing folder, or something alike, or process it with Termux + Tasker. Personally, I hesitate to send megabytes of data over the wire every couple of minutes, so I rigged up a script that extracts the required metrics (for now its my steps only, the rest does not seem to be accurate) and sends a payload to my queue, where a consumer script later adds it to the DB.

Muscat is a totally different beast. Before any treats he would effin' murder for pets.

His name is Muscat 😊

My wife worked for some alcohol retail company when she adopted him.

Well, this path seems to be the most appropriate for what I am for.

And more to that, both mergerfs and snapraid are available out of the box in the latest stable Debian release.

Thanks for pointing me at it!

Earl Grey is such a handsome booooy I already want a headbutt with him.

I plan to explore the operating system, it has undergone some heavy design changes from Sony. Currently the device has no battery and it lies on the shelf as a display piece, but later on could film some videos maybe. Just need to gain more confidence talking to camera 😅