Here in my small unimportant country, there is one thing we appear to do better than everyone else, and that is our cycling infrastructure. Everyone here has, on average, one and a half bicycles. We use those to go to work, to the supermarket, to take our children to football and music lessons, in short, for everything. Of course, we also drive cars, but because every driver and their children also cycle all the time, drivers drive carefully. This is the reason cycling is quite safe here and ...| thefoggiest.dev
Date2020-05-25| thefoggiest.dev
Yesterday, when driving my car, I was thinking about how the smartphone situation is much like how some describe car situations in many countries. Even if you don’t want one, they’re more or less forced upon you, especially if you have kids.| thefoggiest.dev
I needed to put Linux on an Acer Nitro 5, an absolutely glorious luggable machine from a line of pretty hefty budget gaming "laptops", putting that word between quotes since they are definitely too heavy for continuous use on top of your lap. Indeed, it is the fatbike, the SUV among laptops, satisfyingly, if not intimidatingly large but made from cheap materials. Its huge casing makes full versions of HDMI and other ports possible and the airflow inside so good, they could have left the two f...| thefoggiest.dev
As a self-hoster, I want my phone to think it’s always in my home network so that my calendar, contacts and other apps can see their respective servers without me having to open them up to the vast and fearsome internet. If that sounds like a use case definition, it is. I do not have large security teams at my disposal, and I also do not want to tell Google about all my appointments and contacts. For a long time, the solution was the somewhat cumbersome OpenVPN, but since a few years I use ...| thefoggiest.dev
As a self-hoster, I want my phone to think it’s always in my home network so that my calendar, contacts and other apps can see their respective servers without me having to open them up to the vast and fearsome internet. If that sounds like a use case definition, it is. I do not have large security teams at my disposal, and I also do not want to tell Google about all my appointments and contacts. For a long time, the solution was the somewhat cumbersome OpenVPN, but since a few years I use ...| thefoggiest.dev
Since I bought a Sony Ericsson W810i recently, I've been having a lot of fun playing with it, so much in fact, that I thought to write a show-and-tell post about it.| thefoggiest.dev
I suppose everyone, at least everyone reading this blog, owns a drawer, or some other storage system, containing cables, or something else. This, for example, is my current cable drawer:| thefoggiest.dev
I just wrote that last sentence to the tagline, and it started out as “it needs to be scriptable”. I’m trying to stop writing or saying that. “Has to” means the same thing as “needs to” but it sounds, at least to me, less agressive. I feel people should generally sound nicer, so why not start there.| thefoggiest.dev
Some time ago I wrote about FreshRSS being my new and favourite RSS reader, but that it had a little problem, formed by those RSS feeds that are created by atomail, a script that is running on my own mailserver. Atomail converts emails, based on their sender fields, into XML files and creates RSS feeds based on that. How nifty is that? It was originally created by Curtis Wilcox and you can find my fork on my personal project mix.| thefoggiest.dev
Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams, cover| thefoggiest.dev
A decade or so ago we went to a shop to buy a portrait lens for our Nikon D3000. The gentlemen in the shop selling it to us, looking at my wife, stated that many people buy lenses like that, when expecting a child. His blatant indiscretion aside, this was indeed the idea, and we took many gorgeous close-ups of our first and then only child.| thefoggiest.dev
I got a new phone. It’s my first real smart phone, it has Android and two CPU cores. I like it. It’s an LG Optimus 2x and it looks like this:| thefoggiest.dev
I’ve done it before, for a single month. I remember starting at my new job during that month and someone from HR requesting me to take a picture of my ID using my phone and send it to them. My PinePhone's camera didn’t work properly, so I had to ask one of my new colleagues to help me out.| thefoggiest.dev
This is the second A decade of phones I write, but last time I still called them cell phones. What prompted that post was the arrival of my then brand new LG Optimus 2x, my first Android phone, which had an absolutely glorious weather widget.| thefoggiest.dev
As a follow-up to a post describing what would be involved for me to daily drive a Linux phone, you could wonder why this would in any way be better than Android. After all, an Android phone will still be needed and remain charged, even though I won’t need to carry it around.| thefoggiest.dev