Sadly, NOAA is prohibited from making their own weather app. God bless America.

If it’s too hot. Unless it’s actually frigid in my room, I also tend to kick the blanket off at some point during the night.

What do you think of weather apps from F-Droid?

This is the stuff I fear about self-driving cars, but now with the middleman hacker cut out. If they ever make self-driving cars mandatory, that’s my cue to move somewhere I can get around with just a bicycle. Or a cabin in the woods.

Interesting, I’ve only had filets and fried nuggets. How’s the taste and texture of ground alligator?

Alligator

Night and day indeed. With the GSI, it feels like a perfectly fine tablet, even right after using a recent Pixel.

6 years of using bottom-of-the-barrel laptops because I wanted to buy new. Not to mention the time wasted “optimizing” them, working around their quirks, and spending a whole day fitting a riveted-in keyboard that was never meant to be serviced. If I had the foresight to buy a used business-grade laptop for $200 when I started, I might as well have daily driven it to this day.

GrapheneOS doesn’t support it. If there are no ready-made custom ROMs for it, take a look at Generic System Images (GSI). Due to the lack of cellular modem (I assume), GSI have better compatibility with tablets and should only require:

• Unlockable bootloader
• Project Treble support (check with this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/tk.hack5.treblecheck/)

That said, there’s still no guarantee it’ll all work out. Feel free to ask for any details. I went through the misery of installing a GSI on my Tab A7 Lite since it had no LineageOS support and all of the existing ROMs were also GSI that didn’t really fit my tastes.

Also, you’re not alone if XDA forums tutorials are incomprehensible. A good majority assume some level of niche knowledge.

Do TOR Browser and Orbot have proprietary libraries?

There’s a dark pattern to it as well. I was under the impression that it was mandatory along with handing over my ID.

Don’t worry, I handed out my Instagram to some people who requested it and those connections fizzled out just as easily.

Could be down to me only ever checking it on a designated laptop once a week, but in my opinion, if it comes down to an Instagram account and regular app access, can’t even exchange SMS numbers to text, then it’s already a tenuous connection.

Funny enough, I didn’t even make my own Instagram account. My friend really wanted me to be on Instagram so he went ahead, made it under my name, and handed me the keys. You probably can’t do this nowadays due to security checks, unless you’re Meta making a shadow profile kinda like my friend did for me. I’m just sitting on the shadow profile that would exist anyway, trying to contribute as little as possible.

18650s, but the laptops refuse to charge the batteries, so the BMS might be toast already.

I’ve been using purelymail.com, $10 a year gets me just what I need, which is as many independent addresses and inboxes as I would reasonably need under a parent account. It is what it says on the tin, so there aren’t any extras like file storage. Granted, there is a bus factor associated with Purelymail since it looks like a one-man operation for now.

I’m not qualified to speak on cloud-based calendars since I design and print my own.

The one thing that stood out about Purelymail to me was having not just aliases, but fully separate inboxes. But I’d also suggest checking out Tuta, Posteo, mailbox.org, and FastMail. I had also used Proton and was considering upgrading my plan. What kept me back was the web interface getting heavier by the year and having to install Bridge to use another client wasn’t my cup of tea. E2EE is certainly a good feature, but I’ve never found myself sending an email to another Proton user and therefore have never taken advantage of it.

Plain text is how I have it set up. I have the files named by date in one folder (made effortless with my small script) and a plain text editor on my phone, also pointed to a specific folder. The setup is pretty much ready for Syncthing if I wanted to automate syncing, but I haven’t bothered yet.

Tidying up, journalling, writing, or art. Though nothing on a screen and nothing related to eating to avoid brushing my teeth again.

Indeed, I have the means and curiosity to try out biphasic sleeping. Only things that keep me back are having two alarms a night (at least while I’m not used to it) and the fear I’ll get too worked up to fall asleep again.

Sometimes I’ll wake up at 0300 and contemplate trying biphasic sleep. But I fall back asleep before I can muster the courage to get out of bed.

I made a 1:3 peroxide to water mixture in my watering can and in about a month, the fungus gnats were gone for good with no apparent harm to my plant.

Aw man, I was about to praise the first two.

I’ve sketched out ideas for something like the MNT Reform, but with a Framework motherboard, and it’s surprisingly hard to whittle down the form factor any more without sacrificing unique and useful features, like the user-replaceable battery cells and modular mechanical keyboard. Those were the main attractions for me, and it is indeed very weak hardware for the price. Tallying up the component prices, it’s about as good as it gets without economies of scale while insisting on libre firmware.