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thegreekgeek ,
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Basically you can mirror the instapapered versions of your saved pages as markdown files in your obsidian vault. You can customize the whole thing basically so you can put it wherever and have it tie in to your PKM system however you want. I've got mine organized in weekly folders with a dataview block in my daily note showing the articles I've saved that day.

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Thats what really kicked me into using obsidian as much as I do.

Hosting a writefreely.org instance (k.fe.derate.me)

Looking through the writefreely.org instances on their website, a lot of the links are dead or closed for registration. The one that is open and working is promoting a paid version. Is hosting a writefreely instance heavy on resources, attracting the wrong people or just not "cool" enough?

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Literally just set one up yesterday on neocities, it was surprisingly easy. Of course then I managed to break it because I'm not as familiar with git as I'd like to be lol.

thegreekgeek ,
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I would also like to know this, best I could come up with was one of those electric water cooler pumps that fit over the top of the bottle.

Looking for some Android apps

Having used iOS my entire life, the switch to GrapheneOS will be a big change. I have learned over the past year about Android, GrapheneOS, and apps to use. I managed to find most of the apps I was looking for, but there are some I struggled with. I had trouble finding privacy respecting, open source apps for the following...

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  • Terminal: termux is the best, just don't use the google play version, it's outdated. Just use the fdroid version.
  • EBook Reader: I've used most of them, I really like KOReader for it's built in calibre functionality.
  • file sync: syncthing full stop.
  • file sharing: Warpinator if its your own machines, otherwise go to pairdrop.net
  • IDE: Acode on fdroid is probably the best mobile-optimized one I've tried.
  • Backup: Titanium Backup is probably still the best option for backing up appdata.

Hope this helps!

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Well of course not, ever since they got that deal with Uncle Sam they knew they could do anything up to Steve Ballmer kicking a secret service agent in the nuts and stealing the Football. Maybe even including that, won't know until it happens lol.

thegreekgeek ,
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Have you tried going into the setting for the feed itself and using the CSS selector filters? You might be able to cut out the extraneous bits using that.

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They couldn't effectively serve ads through it lol

thegreekgeek ,
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It is! They've got a Firefox extension but idk if it works for mobile.

thegreekgeek ,
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I've been using copymethat but I'm trying to move to obsidian.

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I'm trying to find that out myself, just started playing with it yesterday. Right now I've got a personal store of recipes in CopyMeThat, and that's got some nice features like meal planning and shopping lists but its not integrated into anything.

I've seen a few approaches so far, some guy on the forums has all the ingredients stored in the front matter and uses dataviewjs to display them in the note which allows for unit conversion but I think that's too much, I still want to be able to read them without obsidian.

Right now I've got tags and method and ingredients in the front matter along with checklist add-on formatted tasks in the main part of the note. Eventually I want to have it pull a recipe at random and put it in my weekly note or something.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I've got this with a GTS2, you have to activate the watch with the official app and extract the key from either the app or the website. Fitness tracking is actually pretty solid with the GTS2, but I'm probably going to roll with the bangle.js next.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I had the traefik reverse proxy set up for a while until it updated to 2.x and all my configs broke. At that point I gave up and just paid for the nabu casa URL.

thegreekgeek ,
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Ardumower is the one I've always intended to roll with. Eventually lol. The original nav method is a buried perimeter wire, but they do offer a GPS-RTK kit.

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Im looking at dashy's widget documentation and it doesn't look like they have an API query widget quite yet. You could probably output the temp sensor as an RSS feed and pick it up with dashy's datafeed widget.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I honestly forgot about this integration lol. Kinda want to see how I can work it into my setup now.

Seeking assistance configuring conversations/intents

I have input_text.event_1 where the value is currently "birthday", input_text.event_2 where the value is currently "christmas", input_date.event_1 where the value is currently "1/1/2000", and input_date.event_2 where the value is currently "12/25/2024". How do I configure voice assistant to recognize a phrase like "what's the...

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So I found this which might help. I tried defining my own intent scripts too, but it was too much of a PITA, I ended up using automations instead.

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I can think of a couple ways you could have it be one automation, the first is you'd have multiple triggers with different ids and use the choose action to select the response based on the trigger id.

The other way that I'm a bit less sure about is passing the name of the input_date helper through to the response with a wildcard. You'd probably have to set the {{ trigger.slot.event }} as a variable and match that to an alias or an entity_id.

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I did just check to see if you can pass along wildcards in an automation, which you can! I used this automation:

alias: sentence test
description:
trigger:
  - platform: conversation
    command:
      - When is [my] {date}
condition: []
action:
  - set_conversation_response: curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.game }}
    enabled: false
  - choose:
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''birthday'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: >-
              curses, that damnable {{ trigger.slots.date }}! It completely
              slipped my mind
      - conditions:
          - condition: template
            value_template: '{{ ''christmas'' in trigger.slots.date }}'
        sequence:
          - set_conversation_response: sir you know when {{ trigger.slots.date }} is!

This should give you a framework to build off of. It looks like when you don't define a list of slots in an intent it just passes the wildcard along in a slot.

thegreekgeek ,
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No problem! I've been puttering around trying to figure this out and this post gave me the push I needed lol

thegreekgeek ,
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One of these days I'm going to find out where they hide those speakers and when I do I'm bringing an icepick to the pump.

thegreekgeek ,
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Ehhh, it's not like I'd actually do it, but the thought of doing it while I'm pumping gas gives me warm fuzzy feelings inside.

Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule?

If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn't that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don't want it linked to my standard notes account. I don't strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft....

thegreekgeek ,
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Same! I used orgzly for a good while, might have to get back to it.

Note-taking app that looks too good to be true? - Siyuan

Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I've been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah I saw this yesterday when I was installing Heliboard. It looks interesting but I think I'm going to run with silverbullet next.

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Honestly I've been thinking about this and I think I might try to mix the two. I really like silverbullet's built in query feature and being able to bake the results into the note with a command. That seems better than how dataview does it and might work well for automating my day-to-day file handling.

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Stract.com also looks promising.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah that makes sense. My comment had more to do with the potential of a open source search engine/crawler than anything it currently does. Though I feel the optics feature might be able to account for that eventually.

thegreekgeek ,
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Yeah IDK what they're talking about, I've got a 8yo cartridge in a 19yo printer. When's the last time you saw an inkjet last that long?

thegreekgeek ,
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Server here, usually with restaurant Point of Sale systems the transaction isn't sent to be processed by the financial institution until the ticket is closed out. (Presumably because tipping culture 🙄) I don't blame your server for not putting her tip on there, if you get caught without sufficient ass-covering (having the guest initial the tip field is what I usually did) that's a fireable offence.

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Looks like someone on reddit was asking a few years ago, hopefully this points you in the right direction.

EDIT: Just got to the bottom of the thread, found THIS.

thegreekgeek ,
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No problem! This is hella cool, I kinda wanna try one for my car too.

Tempo – An open source music client for Subsonic built natively for Android, with Android Auto support and synchronized lyrics and it's available on F-Droid (github.com)

Hello community, today I want to present to you the work done on Tempo in recent months. This new version brings improvements to Android Auto, a first use of the OpenSubsonic API, synchronized song lyrics and the ability to customize the home screen....

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I found this and this which seems to flesh out what it is pretty well.

The tl;dr is they added some flexibility to the API because since subsonic went closed source everybody's been working off the original specs which doesn't account for all the extra bells and whistles that have been added in the past seven years.

Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

thegreekgeek ,
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If you want open source encrypted messaging, try delta chat. It's an email client that's styled like a messaging app, and it works with most email providers.

Edit: a word

thegreekgeek ,
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Someone is working on replicating echo show functionality in home assistant, it's called View Assist.

thegreekgeek ,
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As a bartender this is always a fun one when training lol. Perfect teaching moment.

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You're missing the backdrop of tattooine lol

Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)

It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....

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I think when mullavad disabled port forwarding it kinda borked it. I ended up getting my *arr docker stack nested in an LXC along with one of those qbittorrent+VPN containers.

thegreekgeek ,
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Pretty sure you can just manage a remote library from the app, you just gotta point it at your library folder iirc. Also just found COPS, which I've never heard of but now I want lol.

thegreekgeek OP ,
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Ope, that'd totally work. Definitely would be easier to impliment than what I was gonna do, which was try to add a custom attribute to identify normally closed or normally open.

thegreekgeek OP ,
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Aha! I did some more digging and I figured out how. I wasn't sure if you could just spin off new custom attributes in customize.yaml but according to this gentleman and scholar turns out you can! So everything is getting a normally closed attribute.

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