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I self-identify as an nblob, a non-binary little object.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • For not having to remember ports, use a reverse proxy. Keep configuration text files in a repository somewhere, online or offline. Then maybe write an ansible playbook to install all the packages you need and configure as you want. For services that don’t have config files, document in a personal wiki what you do to have it set up.

    I currently have a lot of things installed and use a mixture of docker compose files and config files (podman can also use compose-style files). I’ve written down a guide for myself on how to redeploy my whole server and plan to use ansible to reproduce the setup.

    Flow charts are also good to visualize the state of things.











  • This makes some fair points regarding signing practices. Although I’d point out F-Droid isn’t just the F-Droid repo, there are also others, like Izzy’s as well as dev’s own repos. Obtainium is a lot easier, in a way, but the repos are a good way to look for apps. I’m using Droidify and it’s good. The article seems to think Droidify rebranded to Neo Store but they are separate apps made by separate communities.

    F-Droid is also undergoing a bit of drama at the moment with leadership on GitLab. I think it’s good to remind ourselves that open source (or free software) is not equivalent to security. Nevertheless, it’s still better than GPS (I know you can run GPS sandboxes on Graphene but I’m on Graphene and I’d rather stay away from it, even though this article seems to go light on Google). Paired with Obtainium, it’s s a good setup for discovery + frequent updates.


  • The dev has been working hard on a whole suite of apps for years, taking only donations, so I can sympathize if he wants to sell out and be done with it, even if it’s very against the free software way.

    What is reactionary is the abysmal choice of a company this is. Imagine seeing your old projects now with craptier subscriptions, ads and spyware. I wonder if the main dev even cares. Other contributors are having serious discussions about the copyleft licensing and the legality of this but it seems like the dev and ZipoApps (the company) won’t give a single flying fuck.

    On the other hand, there are many free software alternatives on F-Droid. And the whole thing is probably being panick-forked too. Doesn’t make the situation surrounding free software vs. capitalism any better though.




  • I didn’t have ads either but being able to use KoReader is a good enough motivation for me.

    • You can customize it a lot to your own liking and they do something clever with page changing that it seems a lot more responsive.
    • Another thing is I used to have to convert epubs to KFX to get nice hyphenation and good typography but on KoReader you seem to be able to customize all those typography things with whatever epub you throw at it.
    • Also, I have a local Calibre OPDS endpoint, you can add that in KoReader and download books over wirelessly. WiFi needs to be on when doing that but with a few tweaks you have read only root partiton so Kindle shouldn’t update.

    Overall there are a lot of steps to it, if you’re comfortable with your current setup it’s not worth the hassle/time.