I am writing this on the train back from a wonderfully successful day in London, teaching 70ish lawyers about the fundamentals of technology.| neilzone.co.uk
wallabag is a web application allowing you to save web pages for later reading.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I set up fleamarket.neilzone.co.uk using flohmarkt. Over the years, I appear to have acquired quite a lot of tech-related stuff.| neilzone.co.uk
I thought it would be interesting to jot down some of the reasons why I’m still so positive about computers and the Internet in 2024.| neilzone.co.uk
I have run my own mail server for years now.| neilzone.co.uk
Over the weekend, I set up the Lyrion Music Server, which existed originally to serve music to the Squeezebox hardware.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr A Linux installation on a USB stick, onto which I can copy my presentation slides, so that I can boot my laptop from that USB stick when I come to give a presentation, thereby leaving my actual drive (and thus my documents, email etc) encrypted.| neilzone.co.uk
I use Jellyfin for media streaming, and also an arrangement based around mpd and ncmpcpp for my office.| neilzone.co.uk
This morning, I wondered “Could I cope with a terminal-only computer?| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: for a lot of things, yes, but not everything| neilzone.co.uk
This was a pleasingly simple problem to solve. Background Earlier this year, I moved away from the SOGo groupware tool for calDAV and cardDAV (i.| neilzone.co.uk
I’ve had a SIM with rwgmobile since 2021. I picked one of their SIMs for the simple reason that, for £1, it gave me cellular access, including a small amount of data, that was absolutely perfect for me when it comes to testing Linux phones.| neilzone.co.uk
I use freeradius to control access to our Wi-Fi. It’s probably overkill, but I find it a useful way of doing VLAN steering while broadcasting just one SSID.| neilzone.co.uk
tl;dr: I don’t think so. I just really like it. And that’s fine.| neilzone.co.uk