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Store Wars was great when it was the new thing.

For the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/hVrIyEu6h_E

Grats on the 10k stars!

Unfortunately I’m also in the camp of “when would I need this” but maybe I’ll try to set it up anyways/just in case. I never need to do anything to pdfs that Firefox can’t do…

We believe the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.

Um. Hmm. Pretty sure that didn’t work and those in politics are raising armies and not doing peaceful pursuits…

Also a lot of the stuff about willing buyer and seller assumes that the buyer has options, I don’t think from the perspective of real people that everyone has that many options, so they end up with loans or other things which are not good, just to be able to afford vehicles to get to work or a place to live.

So a lot if this seems written by a rich person who has always been able to buy everything they needed and more, not someone who is having to go take loans or go into debt just to be able to get to work.

I’ve not found them useful yet for more than basic things. I tried Ollama, it let’s you run locally, has simple setup, stays out of the way.

Only “up to one third can be fixed by avoiding inflammation”

So, he’s going to give almost the same advice as everyone else and not even help the other ~66%, and that’s “up to” so it could actually only fix less than that, he didn’t give a lower bound, could be less than 1%.

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.

Glad that Chef Jean-Pierre got to retire now.

If you thought that the Onyo was fun, you should watch some of his other videos. He’ll show you how to make sauces so good, you could just rub it all over your body!

Prusa slicer, orcaslicer, I’ve used both on Linux, runs native.

Prusa slicer was in the repos, orca slicer I had to download the app image.

Also openscad, freecad, also work for 3d modeling and should be in your distro’s repositories.

“needles/yarn after cheap”

That’s a lie. My wife is into knitting and crochet, I’ve seen $300 purchases for yarn only, for just one dress. Not to mention $50-100 needles or swifts or yarn caking tools

I started using Linux in addition to Windows years ago, but I switched full-time because I found that Linux actually runs faster on the same machine hardware, and if you have a stable distro it actually breaks things less often.

I’ve had windows go to do it’s update, and sit on the update screen for ages, never seeming to finish. No process bar, nothing, just that stupid screen saying “we’re doing updating, thanks for waiting” or whatever (cycling through several messages without saying what it’s doing, is it stuck?) I would have to hard reset my windows machine when it did that.

And windows has so much stuff running in the background, either pre installed things running or who knows what services. I didn’t use edge or IE but they would still be running there in the background in task manager.

Not to mention the other issues like having to go find software I wanted to download, hunting for a real, valid, non-virus link to download, then run an installer, and click click click through the installer. Oh it needs some version of Microsoft visual C++ runtime that it didn’t include automatically? Good luck finding the right vcredist to install to make it work, you’re on your own.

Linux has none of that nonsense.

You want to update? You either click the button or type the command, put in your password, it gives you a list of exactly what it’s going to update. You confirm yes and it goes and giving you a progress bar and tells you what it’s doing each step of the way. No guessing if it’s stuck or broken. If it does break, it gives you an error message you can actually Google for a result for.

You want to install new software? For most of what I’ve wanted, I can just go to the distro’s software repository and download things directly from a trusted source. The builds are signed and verified so I can trust they’re real and not a virus rather than having to go searching online. All dependencies are also automatically installed with the correct versions to make everything just work.

And there are no installers, you click the buttons to install and what you want installs with no extra stupid menus or anything, if you want to install 10 things in one go you can.

Also there are standard paths for everything, you can pretty much Google “Linux how to” and you’ll get sane results for most distro’s.

And games run faster on Linux with less overhead from background things competing, there’s no background update crap kicking in to nuke your game performance. I’ve been running steam and the free epic games stuff on Linux full-time and Linux only for probably 5 years and I’ve had minimal issues, VR also works. Sure there may be some setup involved but there are many guides and instructions out there, and it mostly amounts to installing things and maybe a little bit of configuration.

Which, on Windows you still often need to install things to get stuff to work anyways, so really the argument that windows “just works” has worn a little thin with me. I’d believe you if you told me that a Mac just works, I’ve not used one.

I’ve used Windows for decades, I know that “just works” is a lie. It works no better than Linux imo, and depending on distro, some Linux just works better than Windows.

From my decade of Linux I would suggest: Debian or Ubuntu for a rock solid stable distro. Probably go Ubuntu since you’ll find way more help easily Googleable, but snap causes some difficulties.

Garuda is my current Arch based distro, so far no breakage after about 2 years of use, great for gaming. Would not recommend arch based for your first foray, I ran archlinux itself for about 6 years but it would break from time to time (fixable, but still not beginner friendly.)

This helps a lot I think!

I’ve found there’s very often a sort of “writers block” I’ll get if I sit down trying to like, do something like journal or write note cards or anything like that. The pocket notebook I’m using for grocery lists and everything is actually a notebook I was gifted like 10+ years ago and never used until now, when I decided I wanted to reduce phone usage and switch to analogue more, so I basically just use it as my everyday sort of pocket notebook to write whatever in (I think I’ve heard this called a commonplace book).

At first I didn’t want to really use it for much, even when I decided I wanted to, but what made it work for me was going on a trip with multiple connecting flights, so I wrote down all my flight info (numbers, times, seats, confirmation #, etc) and other travel info, this made it easy to look up those details.

Then once I’d started with that it became easier to use for things like grocery lists, todo lists, etc, things that I used to try to save on my phone or take notes in my phone for. And now I even will like, copy recipes I’m going to make into it so I can have shorter, more concise, instructions to follow and without worrying about getting my phone wet or messy.

the numbering format itself doesn’t matter much if at all. It just need to be unique (which is easy to do) and it can be anything

So in theory I can just, number everything chronologically when I write them (or by date?) and put them in a box sorted by number/date, then just have multiple category/subject based index sheets/cards to find things or refer to other notes based on their ID number or date?

I’ve never been good at organizing notebooks or other things like that so I can find things, I guess often because I never bother with the indexing part…

I didn’t know much about Zettelkasten until I tried using Zettlr, which is basically a slightly different, better, Obsidian that can also export PDFs and handle latex in addition to markdown.

Can you tell me more about how your organize your physical Zettelkasten’s indexing/numbering? Like do you bother to number each card individually so you have an index somewhere that has each card topic written down, or do you just give them general numbers for a topic/category and then stuff them in the box any order within that category’s section?

I’m split between physical vs electronic Zettel, but I like the idea of it being physical right now because I’ve started using just a regular little notebook in my pocket for taking notes, copying out recipes I’m making to avoid needing to unlock a phone that automatically locks itself, writing grocery lists or to-do lists or measurements or other such things. Easier to write entries if I can bring cards and pen with me wherever I’m at rather than have to copy it into a computer at a desk.

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.

I don’t mean to insert myself in some “armchair researcher” discussion, but Leyland Cypress is from the family Cupressaceae, not Pinaceae like the Ponderosa pine.

So how does the Ponderosa pine being edible prove anything about the leyland cypress? They are in the same class of pinopsida, but diverge and have different orders, families, genuses, and species below that.

You’d be better off comparing the leyland cypress to other cypresses than to ponderosa pines for edibility I think.

Well you can compare photos and recipe ingredients here: https://cheesemaking.com/collections/recipes

Being in Europe may just mean your cows are fed differently or a different breed. Here in the US there are also laws about using raw milk vs pasteurized, so typically most milk and milk used for cheese making must be pasteurized, so I think that may cause it to be lighter colored cheese compared to raw milk cheese.