Oh yeah, nothing to do with intelligence for sure. I just meant that, for me, since I’ve always used mouse plus a good amount of keyboard shortcuts, was too much to learn. That and the config files (hyprland, hyprpaper, this and that). I’d rather have less options, but be it more “easy” on the learning curve. On my work pc I use a tiling assistant for Gnome (it runs on catchyOS) and I just have a few combinations to tile midscreen or to the corners, and that is enough most of the time. "It is just that the brain forgets stuff it doesn’t see as relevant " that is so true and infuriating now that I’m trying to learn some academic work… pretty irrelevant for me lol

This is actually a great post. I’ve struggled with this and it feels like all those tiling window managers are for power users. They’re a pain to customize and 0 intuitive (at lest for me). I share your question!

In /docker I have just the yml and .env files. All the data is on an external volume, docker runs as a local process and Dockman is a container (not sure if this is what you asked, sorry).

I tried dockge yesterday and I think it does not change permissions, haven’t had time to really check. I just want to select and x number or containers and click update lol until now I had to get into every folder and docker compose pull.

I just found out something else: restic can’t access the folders because root:root. this is so annoying! I’ll try podman again… I didn’t see how to make it find my containers lol

I’ve been thinking about buying a meshtastic device for a while now but I’ll tinker with reticulum first, because the concept is amazing and would solve an actual problem for me. Thanks for sharing!

Quick update! I’ve been pretty busy with life and some new and unforeseen struggles lol but so far this has happened:

I’ve done nothing with the Arduino. Likewise, I started looking at some of the books, but I did not have the brain power at the moment to keep on learning/retaining the info. I’m coming back this summer, though, because I did some automations at home and I want to see how much I can accomplish while being offline (not saying I’m walking around with a tinfoil hat, but I want to try to enjoy tech without being constantly being tracked).

I definitely entered a rabbit hole that sent me straight to linux (I was just using Ubuntu once in a while and now even my wife’s laptop runs on linux!) and now I repurposed and old laptop that runs NixOS and is our home server and hosts Home Assistant with some useful and some silly automations, Grocy, Immich, Music Assistant, Jellyfin, shares media and folders through samba and WebDAV and let us connect when we’re not home through Tailscale. It’s been pretty empowering for a noob to be able to do all this, although it might not sound as much for literate people like you guys, lol

My next stop is some cheap solar panels that let me run Home Assistant OS on a PI5 (?) and now that I know better how NixOS works, probably re-do our home server on a new machine that’s also cheap but does not eat as much energy as an old T530.

I wanted to write back since it’s been a year, I wanted to let you guys know how it’s been so far. Any questions and recommendations are welcome, and it might not look like it from this message, but all your replies were super helpful (still are, I just snatched a website and another book from the just now!).

Take care!

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Sorry man. Feels like 2024, no more no less. Friendship and willingness to be around people (in person) is an old fart thing. Nowadays I only invite or make plans with my really close friends. Friends that are more family than friends.

Those casual friends we used to have are gone for good between laziness and socializing on-line, whatever that is.

If you were my neighbor and invited me I would’ve totally attended and decimated those delicious quesitos!

It is incredibly expensive. I only buy the ones I need for academic reasons… And you can imagine the artwork on those 😂

There’s plenty of second hand libraries here that make deals like buy 3 for 5€. That plus public libraries is what keeps me reading to be honest!

Ping just to see if you found something relevant/interesting! :)

Wow! That’s one thing I miss when reading on e-books. It’s extremely convenient, but I miss those treats and the whole experience of holding a beautiful volume!

You’re welcome! I hope you find something you like :)

Fair point lol I don’t find the “discover” feature attractive, so I’ve been using the Openreads app just to keep track of what I’ve read year to year (a great app, by the way!)

Edited to add that maybe different instances of bookwyrm have different ways to review your books? I may be wrong about this, but I think it is worth checking if you really want to try an open alternative.

https://bookwyrm.social/ is what I’ve been using. I’m not an avid tracker though.

I tried thestorygraph, liked the idea but I don’t like my readings to be guided by an algorithm and also I don’t feel like paying for a platform, especially if I’m not using the main feature (the recommendations)

You could read Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste by Carl Wilson. It’s an essay(ish) book about taste in music, funny to read and not too long (~200pg I’d say).

About the comfort zone, you could try and read something about contemporary problems and predicaments. A poison like no other talks about plastics in our everyday life (not fun), or something really old like Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It (~100pg)

We’re suffering a serious drought here though, even Barcelona’s tap water might be not available this summer! We should split our sunny and rainy days! We visited Frankfurt and Heidelberg and loved the cold and rainy days… which makes sense: we barely had any winter this year 😅

You make some good points, and being overwhelmed after trying to bite too much at once is something I’m used to, sadly, so I’ll try to think about how to approach all this. Probably pre-configured hosting as you said, so I can see the website running sooner, and we’ll then see how it goes or what calls my attention!

So, happy tinkering… Keep us posted in case you start another low-tech blog coming from Spain to us. And don’t let any complexity stop you 😊

That would be so cool! I don’t know much about practical stuff, but I plan on putting my reflections about morals and society online. It would be nice to have some kind of low-tech website like that and inspire some conversation on the topics. I’ll keep you guys posted for sure!

PS: I’m pretty sure I had a coffee with Kris, but I didn’t know about the website back then. I thought it was a cool guy, we had a good time (well me at least lol).

Probably, because only two of them decimated a whole plant here. They’re hungry little buddies, so much so that I actually captured them and keep feeding them with veggies leftovers lol

That’s so cool! I’ve taken care of cabbage loopers three times now, and it’s so cool to see them do their thing. My fiancée is not a fan though since both her and the caterpillars love our Swedish ivies lol

I’m all about free use and distribution of all kind of content, but also a big believer of patronage and supporting what actually made a difference in your life (because you learnt from it or just because it brought you enough joy, so to speak). I will definitely chip in!

I like how posts and replies tend to be longer here than in other platforms. It feels more like talking to actual people, and makes Lemmy less noise polluted I would say, so your reply was a very welcomed read!

When I was a kid I was really into computers, so I met Linux back then. Nowadays, I just use it when I’m fed up with Windows or if I need to get work done since it’s distraction free and workspaces and hot corners make my life so much easier when working with multiple documents :)

Saved the website for later on!