Yeah, this thing sucks. It is actually ok in general, but the UI is horrible and the hard-coding of useless Health Tips at the top of the home page, which takes up half the screen, is some kind of particularly insidious developer affliction. Cue special circle of Hell... To get rid of this you have ... Read more
Anki is open source flash card software which runs on Linux, Android, and the web, and other operating systems. It is free for these platforms. It's revenue stream is from the iOS app, which makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Tax the rich kids. It is pretty much the sine qua ... Read more
By that I mean open source software. Yes, there are problems in this golden age namely that the gold isn't flowing to all the most vital projects. We need a large amount of money to be taken from rapacious proprietary software purveyors and distributed to open source projects. That is clear. Note: this is only ... Read more
Ah, containers. Well, gotta have them these days, I guess. Install Docker, etc. Install docker on Debian keys and apt.sources file Install various parts # Add Docker's official GPG key: sudo apt update sudo apt install ca-certificates curl sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings sudo curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc sudo chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc # ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 I like AI. It is neat, and I especially like the kind I can run on my relatively underpowered integrated-graphics mini PC at home. Yes, slow, but good enough to get actual work done. Here are a slew of things: Translate books Create audiobooks out of ebooks Create music Be a personal assistant ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 What are they good for Local LLMs are running these generative tools on local (not cloud) hardware. This is good for cost, security, privacy, and the resources spent. That said, those of us with tiny budgets still can do some interesting things. By that I mean the following generative AI: Images Video Audio ... Read more
Updated 11-Sep-2026 ebook2audiobook is an open source project that does what it says on the tin. Setting Up ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) with AMD Radeon 680M Acceleration (integrated GPU) This guide outlines the complete setup for running ebook2audiobook on Debian 13 (Trixie) using an integrated AMD Radeon 680M (RDNA 2) APU for ROCm hardware ... Read more
Updated 02-Oct-2026 Navidrome and Jellyfin are servers for Audio and Video, respectively. They run on Linux (and possibly other operating systems) and have clients that can access them and stream media, provide an organized interface for browsing, etc. They should be accessible to AI agents as well. Navidrome for audio Navidrome uses the Subsonic API ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 After messing with the grist-desktop app and trying to do the source NPM app, too many dependency errors and such, I've given up and embraced docker. docker pull gristlabs/grist-core docker run -p 8484:8484 -it gristlabs/grist-core Running grist-core (docker) Support and Help files (online) Grist Youtube channel Grist new users' guide My online grist ... Read more
See also Samsung buds core bluetooth Android devices Android apps Disable One UI 7/8 battery indicator Android Debloater I didn't know what to do with the newer GUI version (is this a docker thingee?), so I just ran the old shell script, which is only a year older, and it worked fine. Summary I try ... Read more
Updated 29-Sep-2026 Apparently it is time to update my command line / terminal / shell commands. Here we go: Nerd Font icons Nerd Font patches great terminal fonts, including my favorite Hack. Yazi Yazi is a *terminal file manager, and also integrates with Zoxide and Fzf. And it can run on top of Kitty. Naw, ... Read more
I believe that the Home Assistant will be the key to freeing myself from the Google ecosystem of personal assistants. Of course I will still want the YouTube Premium](https://www.youtube.com/premium) membership 1,790 THB/year (it might be 1,990 THB/year at the end of my current subscription), so that we keep the curse of advertisements at bay and ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 See also Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning The future is being made in China. Not all or perhaps even most of the future, but big and important parts. The implications are enormous. China Shock 2.0 Note: The idea that the success of the Chinese EV industry is just a takeover of western automotive ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning See also Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Speech Tesseract Generative AI in Music AI Chat Bots Local LLMs The anti-search engine Put a basic search into Gemini (or any AI chat bot) and compare that with the utter slop of Google or related search results. The quality difference ... Read more
Updated 15-Oct-2026 In general, the arguments both for and against AI are flabby, and don't rely on actual facts. Too much hucksterism on the one hand, waiting for a payout, and too much fear-mongering and ignorance on the other. Both are a disservice for a technology which will be with us for a long time ... Read more
Updated 09-Sep-2026 See also Coming of the Bots from 2016 Rise of the Chat Bots from 2016 Deep Speech from late 2010s Tesseract from late 2010s Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning updated 2026 Generative AI in Music 2026 AI Chat Bots 2026 Local LLMs 2026 Coding AI 2026 Separate from image, video, or music creation, AI ... Read more
Updated 09-Oct-2026 Note: Another day of Caddy letting its bandwidth be consumed early into the month. Honestly, get someone to help you out! It is useless to try and use their APT repositories. They even suggest using xcaddy which are also on their APT repositories! Instead, update as needed from their github pulling source. Sigh. ... Read more
Updated 27-Aug-2026 Note, Claws has some ugly bits that just don't go away. I'm currently trying out Aerion email client, which looks quite promising. Claws is a 25-year-old email client that is still getting updates. It started as a fork of Sylpheed, and is now using GTK3. The look is a bit old-fashioned, but it ... Read more
Updated 23-Aug-2026 Scraping bots (AI and otherwise) have increased to the point where they have become virtual denial-of-service attacks. I'm not against AI in general, as I use it in several areas, but those in charge of these bots engage in unconscionable behavior, a kind of *destruction-of-the-commons" phenomena. Anti-bot mitigation Anubis Zip bombs go-away Note ... Read more
This is my latest watch, replacing the Xiaomi Mi Band 8 Pro. I'll be comparing these directly. To be honest, this isn't something I planned on doing anytime soon (switching to another watch) but late one night there was an online shopping urge (and a very nice discount) and well, what can one say. Samsung ... Read more