Coolcoder360

Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.

Let me introduce you to bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/

I don’t yet use it, but I read a few of the blogs. Very RSS feed reader friendly and it’s simple without excess crap.

Thanks for the info! Tbh I never looked into extensions, honestly like 90% of the point was to get the hundreds of photos off my phone and into somewhere else.

But I’ll have to look into that.

Honestly syncthing was very attractive at first, and then I went for next cloud because it looked to me more complete and more full. I’m trying to find something my wife could possibly also use, so next cloud having online editing with collabora was nice to try to have it feel like Google docs, but since I’m migrating away from that then maybe sync thing is worth a try too.

I’ve had next cloud break on me before and it runs slow, so I switched to Seafile instead for files, but actually Seafile scares me even more than next cloud because at least next cloud saves files on disk as files you can copy out to somewhere else if you need to access them (I’m not above emergency scp of important files to get the files I need).

Seafile uses some binary format that means I can only get files in and out through the Web interface. If Seafile breaks, I’m SOL to recover data to somewhere else and need to be able to get a working backup or fix it. I can’t just scp files to a local machine to work on them.

Nothing broken yet, but there’s still time! So far I set up immich instead of seafile for photos (keeping seafile instead of next cloud for files, but immich is way better for photos) And set up link warden and floccus for book mark backup and sync.

I have had some interesting DNS issues though where the immich app would not reliably resolve my immich local domain from the pihole, so of course there’s a DNS issue… Working around that by using the IP for now, it seems to be an issue only with the app.

I think when I set up vault warden with the docker compose it had scripts to generate it’s own self-signed certificate. So it was already set up to use https.

I have a CA I created with easyrsa so I went and found the csr from vault warden and signed it with my own CA, so I didn’t have to juggle two certs.

But otherwise yeah, running it on my local LAN, no let’s encrypt.

The problem is the AI tool you’re using is making your comments longer than necessary while still saying little to nothing.

Shorter content is faster to both write and read. Using AI to fluff up your comments just makes it seem like you’re out of touch with how using it makes you sound, and trying to feel like you didn’t waste all your money paying for an AI model.

It’s also not concise at all, extra words with no purpose make it less clear and don’t make it any more helpful.

Just say what you prompted it with.

The proxmox interface let’s you make the containers, but you have to install the software you want to host in that container after creation.

These scripts let you run a script that makes the container and also installs what you want to host within the container and does the setup.

I used their script to set up a home assistant vm, you run the script and it downloads the HaOS install media and does the install in the VM for you, preconfigured, and starts it so all I had to do was go access the web interface.

Just switch to visual mode and select the text and yank it.

Press v where you want to start the selection from (switches to visual mode), hjkl (or arrow keys) to move the cursor to the end, then you can yank it from there. It’ll highlight what you’re selecting just like you’re using your mouse, but you’re using the keyboard.

If you want to get really fancy there are 3 different kinds of visual mode, but lower case is the most often one that I use because it’s char by char, V is line by line, Ctrl+v is “block” (you can select chunks across several lines omitting things at the beginning or end of lines).

Ctrl+V to do the block mode is nice if you need to edit the same part of several lines that all line up vertically, you just Ctrl+v, jk to select the lines, then I (shift+i) to insert on all those lines (if you’re in vim you can delete things in insert mode also, if you’re in vi you’ll need to delete first then insert)

Emoji are defined as part of Unicode, so they can be encoded alongside other text:

https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html

I think white roads could be a problem with snow, usually the only good way to find the road in a snowstorm is to look for the darkness, no darkness and you can’t tell the road from the ground covered in snow.