hendrik

Nice. Hope it does the port forward as well, because in my experience that’s the part where you could face some issues. DynDNS is relatively easy, in case your router hadn’t supported this, it’d be possible to let the Pi handle that.

Sure, you’d need a domain name, a certificate, an IP address that’s reachable from the outside, and the RasPi or some other computer.

If it’s some residential internet connection, you might be able to open up a port and forward that to your RasPi. You’d need to do that in the internet router. Port 80 and 443 are for HTTP(S). (protocol: TCP). Some internet providers don’t allow any of that.

Your IP address will change with most regular internet providers, so you’d want to buy your domain name somewhere you can change it automatically with a script. Or use DynDNS. duckdns.org would be one of those DynDNS providers.

If your internet service provider doesn’t allow incoming connections and port forwards, you need to work around that. Use Cloudflare, or better, some better tunnel provider.

Free certificates for HTTPS are available from letsencrypt.

And if it turns out Lemmy is too heavy on the Raspberry Pi, try PieFed instead.

Fair enough. I thought this was some Reddit re-post or something. I mean that information is easy to google…

But I’d agree. It’s really hard to concentrate in that moment and do a good job in tracking time. I don’t know my exact time either. I’d say it’s about 10 seconds? Could as well be 5 or 15, I don’t really know. Supposedly it’s longer for women? But I guess that varies a lot from person to person. And maybe also with the exact situation.

Why do you want to know?

Thanks. And good call, seems we’re doing similar things. I also had 100 more Free Software apps from F-Droid that sounded useful, or I wanted to try them and never did… These were easy to “clean up”.

The app for my password manager (pass) isn’t being developed any longer. Guess I have to tackle a few more things.

Btw, do you happen to know how I’m supposed to move apps which are paired to Bluetooth devices? I got a body weight scale and a fitness tracker, and I’m not sure if I can just copy it to the new phone and it’ll continue to work with the paired device…

I did the same thing a few days ago. Just that I switched from an old Pixel with GrapheneOS to the 8a. It’s really come a long way and it’s ridiculously easy to flash GrapheneOS with their “web installer”. Took a few minutes of clicking on the next button. I’m always excited and eager to replace some firmware or operating system with a more free counterpart… But I still need to move a lot of stuff. I decided to clean up and not to move all my mess… Guess it’ll take a few more days until I’m done with that.

I think that aligns well with the general advice on how to get somewhere and how to start moving: You take one step at a time…

And if you’re really down, the only thing that matters is that you do any. And make it a habit to do it regularly. You can worry about the size of the steps and the direction later, after you stopped being completely down and disheartened. But I’m not a psychologist…

The driving license thing is something you could struggle through. I mean it’s not nice if you got some asshole as instructor. That happens. And you need to sit in a car next to them for quite some hours… I mean if you have 0 motivation to succeed, that could also explain the lack or progress. Or you’d need to change the instructor if they’re the problem.

I think that’s based on OpenAI’s Whisper model. (Which seems to be the defacto standard these days.)

I think the real deal would be to have that available as open source. Maybe integrated directly into the core AOSP. I mean the technology is available. And my phone has like 8GB of RAM. The only issue is that all of that isn’t really integrated into my phone. And I think I’d ocassionaly use speech to text, text to speech and machine translation… But I want it locally and Free Software…

I once asked a salesman for a different product (not an UPS), why they still use lead acid batteries in their products. He said they’re easier to replace and readily available… I could hook up pretty much any car battery from the shop around the corner to that machine.

But I’m not sure if I like the failure modes of the traditional UPSes, either. I’ve seen several badly maintained ones in some smaller companies. And on the next power outage, they last like 6 seconds and are practically useless. And I’ve removed one lead acid battery that definitely didn’t look okay any more. Not sure if that’s a fire hazard with that battery type… But there’s that. And I’m comparing 20yo neglected devices which I removed somewhere, to their more modern counterparts with better monitoring, better battery management systems etc.

I don’t have any valuable insight on LiFePO. Sounds good to me. They generally have some advantages over Lithium Ion. And they’re bound to appear in every other electric car, bicycle, some solar installations in the near future. We might as well put them into our UPSes.

I’ve also read the recycling process is way more complicated for lithium cells. While it’s easier to recover the lead. And we have a proper infrastructure for that and 99% of the batteries get returned (or something like that). I certainly hope we make some progress with LiIon and LiFePO as well…