Jonathan from Australian Survivor is better Jeff than Jeff is. I said what I said.

I don’t care about updated iPads as long as they didn’t update the mini. Justice for iPad mini, please update it to the M1 or whatever.

Dear diary, today my Sonos just blew up and I had to reconnect everything. Apart from that Aqara cameras were disappearing every couple minutes from home app but I did unfuck that as well. Today was a good day.

I know what I said about having Arc on Windows but it’s also the buggiest and slowest browser I’ve ever used.

I adore it when my Aqara camera randomly disconnects from HomeKit, forcing me to re-bind it to the system. It’s moments like these that truly make me appreciate the dependability of these cameras. Fucking hell…

Bought myself an app called Tusks that basically makes writing threads/longposts on Mastodon really easy. If you’re into that - highly recommended.

I’m currently in micro.blog-first scenario but I see myself leaving everything and moving to my own Mastodon server, so having Tusks available is great.

After getting Arc Sync on Windows (with all the cool stuff like extensions and favorites), I’m totally hooked on Arc. It’s smooth sailing on my Mac and iOS, and not too shabby on Windows either.

No other browser syncs tabs, and as someone who switches between Mac and Windows, I need that to keep my sanity intact. I use my MacBook Air on the go and my big ol' desktop PC for work or chilling at home. I come across interesting reads on all three devices, and with Arc Sync, I can just pin them as tabs and access them wherever I am, no matter the device.

It might sound a bit crazy to care so much about a browser, but after going through the multi-OS journey, I’ve really come to appreciate having my tabs synced up. Arc is the only browser that truly gets it right, unlike Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and the rest, which just show what’s on other devices without the real sync magic.

It all started just like Dropbox - wanting a folder that syncs across devices. Now, I want a browser that does the same. It’s mind-blowing to think that no one thought of this before Arc.

My own Ian Knot (yes – I’m the inventor) is the World’s Fastest Shoelace Knot. Source.

What. I’m gonna do it from now on!

Fucked up my home setup today but thanks to home assistant unfucking was pretty easy. Also - the only things that are missing from HA are thermostats (Eve Thermo is not really playing nice with HA), Nanoleaf Essential bulb (I hate it, can’t wait to change it to something more HA friendly) and my set of cameras. But I don’t think there’s a way to have cameras in HomeKit security camera whatever and home assistant.

I’m gonna change this Nanoleaf one day but changing thermostats is going to be pain in the ass especially because they do work great and finding something that will be as quiet (they are not really quiet but quiet enough) and work nicely with HA is a couple hundred $ and I’m not really looking for a new place to spend money.

Love that these automatic updates are actually not happening automatically.

Added blogroll to my blog, not really done with it but at least it’s here.

🎵 Gone Like A Flower - Club Khru - ★★★★★

Simply because, if I could ever bring myself to break out of Apple’s walled garden, I would want to steer clear of anything similar. I wouldn’t want to just replace everything Apple with everything Google, for example. Source: https://chrishannah.me/micro/2024-04-26-00-30/

That’s why I’m trying to get out of this walled garden.

No but this is something different. I didn’t know that anything like this was even possible.

Yesterday was a good day.

Yeah but Arc just dropped Sidebar Sync for Mobile too and now it just makes sense to use Arc because - apparently - it’s the only browser that keeps whatever tabs you have open between devices and operating systems. Bonkers.

Dear diary, today I’ve used ChatGPT to create backup scripts for my dietpi setup and they do work.

I have an itch to create an app. A Mastodon client. I’m gonna start fresh either way but I’m wondering on which platform should I start. I’m using iPhone everyday but I’m thinking about moving to Android sometime soon and there isn’t anything for Mastodon that I’d like to use so I might as well try to make something I’d like to use when on Android. Decisions decisions.

But I think Android is a better way right now. Especially because I’m gonna work on it on my Windows PC, so it would be easier to do it natively for Android. And when I’m gonna do an app that I love, it’s gonna be easier for me to switch fully to green robots.

April 2024.

I spent a couple hours during the weekend looking at my read-it-later queue and I’ve found out two things: I’ve saved LOTS of articles during the pandemic, about the pandemic, that are irrelevant four years later. And most of the stuff that I’ve saved pre-pandemic is not relevant after/during the pandemic.

I am rethinking my RSS reading and read-it-later reading flow and I think I’d like to move to Readwise but paying $100 per year to read my stuff is CRAZY. Plain crazy. Currently it costs me nothing, so I think it’s not going to happen.

My existence largely revolves around transferring my saved bookmarks from one browser to another and from one read-it-later service to another. Rinse and repeat.

After two months of being on windows I’m starting to think about installing / at least virtualising Linux alongside Windows. Mostly because of all of this Windows related bloatware. I’m worried about games because I love playing games, so that’s why I’m thinking of virtualising Linux. I’ve got enough CPU, ram and GPU to use both at the same time.

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WTF, linkedin, why