I just recently looked at a house with a plant in it. Unfortunately, it was not potted.

I always enjoy a good video essay, and it's probably a bit of a different niche that'd reach a different audience (+ more likely to be picked up in a social algo). Though it'd probably take a bunch of extra work scripting and editing to convey approximately the same information as a podcast would. Also, I'd assume that few who doesn't make a hobby out of tech would find protocols interesting - but might find the benefits of a protocol interesting if it's slightly abstracted from explaining how things work under the hood. That said, I've never done a podcast or made a long form video essay, so don't put too much stock in my 2c.

The future is now

Though honestly, usually I'd be the one to compliment Microsoft on their Saas. It's *usually* very reliable, and trusted to operate a lot of important systems. But I guess nothings free of jank.

Speaking of it - reading through some of their articles, looks like they would up covering recorded music. https://newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/when-hollywood-union-members-embraced

Looks like a fun read. Also, reminds me about reading about the backlash and congressional hearings about recorded music. Many of the arguments were not that different from LLMs now over a century later. That darned mechanical canned music that was putting sheet music makers out of business.

Random goodies you might find handy. Plus a password manager, I forgot about that.

* A good browser - Fennec, Brave, Vandium, etc. Something that works with PWAs while blocking ads and minimizing tracking. Most apps can be replaced with a web version. * A maps app, Organic Maps or OsmAnd work great * A media player like VLC if you're switching away from something like Spotify or regularly download audio/video from Youtube * A notes app. I like Joplin for its sync feature, but other tools like Markor, Notally, and Simple notes are all good. * An RSS reader, its great for following accounts across platforms and beats out most dedicated apps. Read You + Fresh RSS goes great, but Feeder works great too (& has Nostr article support) * A YT client like NewPipe or Grayjay if you watch/listen to YT on your device * Some form of cloud storage/sync - be it Proton Drive, Syncthing, Nextcloud, or something else * Basic offline tools - equate (unit conversion) tape measure, tasks (to do reminders), trail sense (outdoor oriented tools), pocketpal (local llms), Snapseed (photo editor - by Google but runs offline with no G services needed), TTSutil (text to speech or audio file tool) * Messaging apps - I use Beeper (for Google chat) and Signal because that's what family uses, it'll vary depending on what you need * App stores - Aurora, F-Droid, Acresent, Zap Store, Obtanium - take your pick * Termux or the integrated Linux terminal if you want to run CLI software * Games, there's plenty of foss games to kill time with. A few recommendations: Anuto TD, SuperTuxKart, Unciv, Endless Sky, Tri Peaks, Solitaire, Domination, emulators. * An ebook reader (I use Librera) + optionally a TTS engine * And since we're on Nostr: Nostr clients/tools, proxies (vpns, orbot, Tor Browser, I2P), and/or crypto wallets depending on what you're personally looking for.

https://reclaimthenet.org/nepal-tried-to-censor-the-internet-the-people-set-parliament-on-fire

I2Pd, a C++ implemented of I2P, is BSD if that'd help. https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd

Honestly, outside of signing my name, it's probably been a decade - and never for anything outside of school. I can still read cursive (albeit slowly), but I don't even remember all the letters off the top of my head and probably couldn't write a paragraph in it without consulting a letter guide.

RIP to my tomato and pepper plants. They survived last winter after I brought them inside, giving me a few tomatoes and peppers mid winter, but I'm moving and they're not going to be surviving that.

Lol, I swear, last night I was checking out some photos on my chomebook-turned-into-a-standard-laptop and wanted to transfer them to my main computer. There were a fair amount of them, and I didn't want to take up more of my limited space in proton drive, so I thought: "Hey, might as well use Onedrive. I don't have any files there, so I got like 15gb to spare, and it's not like the photos contain anything I'd care about encrypting (I'll probably post some of my favorites here and on my blog) so no worries about privacy or the lack thereof." The page wouldn't load, so I figured it was probably something on my end. Tried again this morning and it's still down, turns out they've been down for a bit now. Google nuked peoples drives accidentally not that long ago, and now MS is been down for probably nearly a day. I guess moral of the story, big tech isn't jank free. Syncthing, Proton, and my (no longer existing) Nextcloud installation all are *yet* to have any extended unavailability or data loss.