solidgrue
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I'm just this guy, you know?
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 1 week ago:
And I genuinely hope it stays that way for years more to come. Cheers.
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 1 week ago:
Oracle Cloud will also delete your shit for the price of admission.
Caveat emptor, hey?
- Comment on Alternative to github pages? 1 week ago:
So, uh…
Digital Ocean Is pretty inexpensive at US$7 monthly for 1 vCPU/1GB RAM with 1TB transfer. Decent platform. US-based, alas.
(2025 September, for the archives)
- Comment on Anyone automate anything with smart thermostats and outdoor temp? 2 weeks ago:
I have some logic around notifications and a few actions. My spouse and I both grew up in houses with heat, but no AC, so I’ve programmed HA to send notifications to our phones if the setpoint on our Ecobee thermostat is warmer than the outside temperature in Cooling mode, and cooler than the outside temp in Heating mode. Outdoor temps are a blend of three weather service feed “feels like” observations and two outdoor temperate/humidity sensors.
The outdoor sensors are a ZigBee sensor, and some area sensors I snoop a few times an hour with an RTL-SDR radio single via MQTT bus. I have a helper that blends the weather service and local obs to compare with the thermostat. It bothers us every 2 hours to open some windows.
We both also have a bad habit of not closing the back door all the way, so the Assistant bugs us if a door or window is open for more than 10 minutes and the outdoor temperature is below the heating setpoint, or above the cooling setpoint. It turns off the HVAC a few minutes later if the condition persists and sends a snarky notification about not being made of enough money to fix climate change. However, it will turn the heat back on to 60F if the house falls below 58F and send notifications every hour til the condition is addressed.
Otherwise the ecobee does a fair job adjusting itself to maintain a desired inside temp on its own.
- Comment on Jellyfin won't fetch the good metadata 2 weeks ago:
You’ve solved it by now but this Jellyfin doc article was helpful for me, beginning with the section Naming.
jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/media/movies/
There at similar guides for TV Shows, Music, Books and other mixed media.
There are also guides for “stacking” multi-segment media titles, for example Lord of the Rings movies which come on several discs.
Jellyfin can be a bit opinionated about detecting bad metadata. The override tags in the media data filename or folder name can help clean that up. In fact, I’ve started hard-coding those [tmdbid=…] tags in my encoding workflow because I’m just so damned tired of fighting with the metadata feature.
Hope it works form you,.too.
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- Comment on They don't get it. They think we are A holes. And they are right 3 months ago:
This is so meta it hurts.
- Comment on Grok 3 roasts Lemmy 6 months ago:
Grok’s got some jokes.
- Comment on Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce? 10 months ago:
Your alternatives aren’t shelf stable. That’s all there is to it.
- Comment on Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes? 10 months ago:
When you simmer or slow roast tomato sauce over several hours, the sugars in the tomato release and caramelize which helps to offset acidity. If you’re finding the cooked sauce is still acidic, you can try adding other sweet vegetables such as finely grated carrot, sweet onion, or half of a raw potato (which you’d remove before serving).
That they pack your tomatoes with lemon might mean you need to actively neutralize the extra acids, which you can do with milk or cream, or just a little baking soda as you suggest. Probably not more than a pinch, though, or the sauce could lose its brightness.
- Comment on Have you ever had a shit that smelled like a hair salon? 10 months ago:
N… No?
No.
No, I’m pretty sure I haven’t. - Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 10 months ago:
Termux (on F-droid) is a userland environment that runs on top of your Android device’s kernel. It has Debian/Ubuntu-like package management system that pulls from repos maintained by the termux team. If the package is available for aarch64, its probably available in the termux repos. Its not so.Mich of an app as it is an alternate userland that runs on top of the same kernel, but can interact with Android a couple of different ways.
The main Termux app gets you a basic command line environment with the usual tools included in a headless Linux install. From there you can select your preferred repos, do package updates, installs, etc, just like on a desktop or laptop. You could even install a desktop environment and use RDP to access it.
Then there are some companion apps that are useful:
- Termux:boot is like a primitive rc.d feature that executes upon boot up any scripts found in the termux ~/.termux/boot directory. You could use the feature to launch an SSH server, or perhaps start your syncthing service when the phone starts up.
- Termux:Tasker is a Tasker plugin that allows Tasker to launch scripts in .termux/tasker based on whatever triggers or profiles you define in Tasker. For example, stop or start selected services when connected to your home WiFi
- Termux:API is a set of termux utilities to interact with the Android API, and do things like send messages, interact with the camera or battery, and manipulate system settings.
So you could install the syncthing package in Termux and (after setting up Termux access for your internal storage) configure it to sync folders from your phone to whether syncthing syncs. You’d set up a start script under Termux:boot to launch it when your phone starts, or Tasker to start/stop the service on your home WiFi.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 10 months ago:
For the F-droid enabled users, it seems there’s a Syncthing app in the Termux repos:
~ $ apt show syncthing Package: syncthing Version: 1.28.0 Maintainer: @termux Installed-Size: 26.4 MB Homepage: https://syncthing.net/ Download-Size: 7857 kB APT-Sources: https://packages.termux.dev/apt/termux-main stable/main aarch64 Packages Description: Decentralized file synchronization
- Comment on Kitty car trip 10 months ago:
Hello, third rail. i wasn’t expecting to tangle with you today.