2024-09-20 | #gmail #google #protonmail #youtube
I'm thinking of deleting my Google account. I've downloaded all my Gmail data. I know I have some services that use my old Gmail address. I need to think about how this might affect my interconnected system of Internet services that have dependencies on my Google account. Changing my email on services still using my Gmail is mostly trivial. I just have to remember/find out what all those services are.
2024-09-18 | #freebsd #google #invidious #youtube
Experimenting with FreeBSD I’ve always admired the BSD family of operating systems even though I mostly use Linux. I currently run a Debian Linux server that hosts a bunch of alternative services like PrivateBin, Invidious, RedLib, etc. Most of these require the use of Docker and/or systemd. Docker doesn’t seem to be a hard requirement, though, because inside the Dockerfile there has got to be a Unixy way to setup and run the services.
2024-08-30 | #project #socialmedia
What could be useful for me to minimize the complexity of cross-posting to Facebook, Twitter, Bsky, and Mastodon: a Python or Go program that does the following: Connects to my accounts via API. Uses gum, bubbletea, or huh to prompt the user for the post content. Editing, replying, and/or delete functionality would be seamless with the exception of Bsky and Twitter, in which case I'd have to delete the post and redo it.
2024-08-20 | #podcasts
I've become frustrated constantly switching through our local radio stations to find something I want to listen to while driving, especially when more than one of those stations plays ads for like 10 minutes between songs. For a while I had been just turning off the radio and driving in silence, or with whatever entertainment or chaotic discontent my brain afforded to me. I solved this problem by buying a USB-C to 3.
2024-07-20 | #homelab #selfhosting
I think. Infodump commencing… My previous setup My previous setup included running nirn.quest services on a $30/month SeedHost.eu dedicated server, and my hyperreal.coffee services in a virtual machine in my homelab. For the latter, I had Linode managing the DNS for my hyperreal.coffee domain, and the domain itself pointed to a $5/month Linode VPS, which used Tailscale to forward HTTP and port 1965 traffic to the virtual machine in my homelab.
2024-05-21 | #caretaking
The bittersweet end of an era For the last three years, I've been living with and caretaking for my grandfather. He's 87 years old, and his needs have progressed beyond what I'm capable of handling. The hard reality is that he now has to live in an assisted living home. From what I've heard from the family members who helped make this decision, the assisted living home sounds like a 5-star hotel.
2021-04-13 | #backup #restic
Context I recently decided to start using my own home server to store my dotfiles. The main reasons are simplicity, privacy, and security. I previously stored them in a repository on my GitHub account and installed them with Ansible, but I have increasingly found it cumbersome when trying to keep them updated and in sync. On GitHub, the changes (and mistakes!) I make to my dotfiles are publicly viewable; sometimes I’ll make changes several times a day, sometimes scrapping a change entirely when I later realize it was not such a good idea or breaks something in my activity flow.
