That’s great to see, with the cost of living crisis, just arguing green power is more ethical/better for the environment etc understandably doesn’t cut through - but making the focus the direct improvement of peoples local area and the above a nice side effect is a great way to get buy-in.

You can store an ssh key in Bitwarden or Keepass(XC) easily enough - Bitearden can certainly be configured as the actual source of your ssh keys with only a tiny bit of config effort

The trailing slash is just following cp’s own special treatment

# before
dir/
    file1
target/
    orig.txt



# no trailing slash - copy *dir* to target
cp -r /path/to/some/dir /my/target

# after
target/
    orig.txt
    dir/            # dir copied to target
        file1



# with trailing slash - copy *contents* of dir to target
cp -r /path/to/some/dir/ /my/target

# after
target/
    orig.txt
    file1            # contents of dir

I have lots (100s?) of pdfs for ttrpg rules collected over years - storing in folders is enough to separate by game, but fails when a single book is a mix of content - does it go in the adventure, character options or DM folder?

Having a nice UI with tags and searching would help to organise the collection a lot better.

Accessing all of that across any of my devices while the files actually live on my NAS would a be a big improvement - its easy for my laptop & tablet to get out of sync etc

This looks great - thanks for all your efforts! :)

I plan to setup a service to better wrangle all of my many ttrpg PDFs soon and this will definitely be in the mix.

Genuinely heart warming, made my morning.

Strong contender for article.of the year 2026.

For anyone else wondering F-Droid Shortcuts

I’d much rather keep my rc organised, so I just have a pair of aliases to quickly open it in an editor and another to reload.

alias cfge="$EDITOR ~/.bashrc"
alias cfgs="source ~/.bashrc"

I just had a mishap that resulted in a system booting unexpectedly whilst a stick of RAM wasnt seated properly. The stick is dead as a dodo.

It was a Corsair 16GB 3000MHz DDR4 and the price to replace it is slightly more than I paid for a pair of them last year.

Luckily its a bit surplus right now as my NAS rebuild is only 2666MHz max so I can replace it with 2 stick of cheaper used RAM for 2/3 the price of the one replacement.

Prices are nuts right now.

I’ve put down the cash for ECC for my main NAS, but can’t justify it for the offsite backup I’m putting together.

This is great news, I’ve never sat down and benchmarked the importing times (I believe theres a python -X switch or similar) but the more options the merrier!

Sounds fun, did you design from scratch or start from something existing?

In my infinite wisdom and attention to detail, I managed to mix up top/bottom sides of the RP2040 pro-micro controllers in my Sofle v2 kit.

After soldering up and connecting power, only 2/3 of the LEDs are lit, different spots on L/R boards. All LEDS are pretty evenly illuminated.

I’ve given everything a good inspection and can’t see any bad solder joints and theres no issue with the keys.

I’m wondering whether I’ve damaged the drivers on the controllers and need to replace them. Sigh.

For now, the LEDs remain off and I’m slowly working up my typing speed, quite fun with the layout tinkering too.

LIDL are owned by a huge German wholesaler who are already dealing in large quantities, their middle aisle products are bought in huge volumes because they have such a laegr foot print of stores, unlike your average hardware shops where you’d otherwise be buying your drill, hedgehog hotel and speciality Greek produce.

Signal is my only instant messenger and I can happily report no issues these days with notifications, that said, I never really noticed them previously and have been using for >3 years.

Occasionally we’ll use Signal whilst on a live call, someone will tell us they messaged on Signal and I’ll get the notification immediately - i.e. I knew when it was sent and received.

This is working smoothly on my grapheneos phone and the desktop client across Linux and Windows.

You’ve opened a rabbit hole I know I’m just going to fall down… thanks netizen!

Setup Fedora woth Btrfs, Snapper and grub-btrfs

I followed this guide to setup snapper on fedora, not too much work involved.

I did initially try their guide on the above plus LUKS encryption but something was amiss in the boot process and I gave up on that rodeo for now.

That was a really good read, thanks for the link!

I’ve just spent the last week with Gadgetbridge for my Forerunner 265.

Previously I had Garmin Connect installed on a separate Android user profile with Google Play Services enabled (GrapheneOS). I would only go in there once a week or so and look at the Garmin info as it synced over.

Gadgetbridge is working pretty well - the great majority of everything I actually cared about viewing is accessible. I also have an always on BT connection for notifications and music controls which I was missing out on before.

That said, there are a few drawbacks

• Garmin presents the date better.

Gadgetbridge often uses bar charts for time-series data where Garmin uses a line chart. e.g. Stress is a series of 1px thin vertical lines with colour to indicate bands. Garmin’s single line which swaps colour is far clearer.

• GPS data is not overlaid on a map

Its easy enough to open the GPX file in an external map viewer, but you can’t see its alongside heart rate etc and the track won’t be heatmapped for speed as in Garmin.

Personally, I’m willing to live with these compromises for the privacy, certainly for another few months trial.

As it seems easy to setup a regular export of Gadgetbridge data, I might make it a coding project to implement better visualisations in Python.

This thing looks like a nightmare.

Can’t wait for my employer to roll us over to Win11 and see Recall rollout to more PCs -.-

Cheers, always good to be aware of these concepts even if Pythons is far from ‘blazingly fast’