Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: UJLNORA Wordo: FOGGY

  • Alex Schroeder’s Diary — Episode 54

  • Musings on My Life - 07/07/2025

    I'm gonna use this space again to write stuff that comes to my head. To write. I need to write things to get organized. Maybe like those exercises of writing for 30 min every day as soon as I wake up, from that book, Julia something's The Artist's Way... but the fact is, I sometimes pressure myself to update the blog, write a newsletter, or something for someone. an Instagram post... but this pressure doesn't let me get much done. this space is good for that. it's ideal... I forgot what I was gonna say, cause my cat interrupted me.

  • 2025-07-06

    Many of my friends know me as the eternal luddite, the non-stop shitter on new things, the ultimate if it ain’t broke guy…you get the picture.

    So of course a few years ago when generative AI hit the scene, I didn’t think much of it. Afterall, I’m an elder millenial and it didn’t really seem like anything in my life would be improved by using a stupid AI tool that generated college term papers and crappy clip-art.

    Plus i’m the ultimate cheapskate and I’ll be damned if I’m paying a fee for AI much less try to purchase a decent GPU and run a model on my own hardware.

  • 12ug & motorcycle accident

    A motorcycle parked near the intersection, something happened.

    This section of the road has been treacherous for the motorcyclist this year.

    A biker in leather trying to control traffic. I park by the ambulance, I see familiar faces. Familiar faces with un-familiar emotions.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Gotify - Get notifications about everything on your phone

    I like being updated, especially about things going wrong. This includes downtime for my home lab services, websites and, of course, when jobs like CI/CD are done or have errors.

    Gotify is a simple server for sending and receiving messages, self hosted, free and open source, cross platform, written in Go and can easily be installed with it's docker image.

  • A small digest of what happened in the recent weeks

    So, I'm back, not that I got more time but at least somewhat more capacity to manage it.

    First, I had set up an experimental Nex station at nex://piratezeppel.in address. The address points to the same VPS but the server itself is not hosted there: it is tunneled to my Orange Pi via SSH reverse port forwarding. The Zeppelin journal contains more of philosophical musings stuff, as opposed to this phlog that became more of instructional and technical sort of writing.

    Second, I got myself some more hardware. Not spilling the main secret just yet, but among this hardware also is a long-awaited upgrade to my slowly dying first-gen Bose QC35 headset, namely Bose QC Ultra, a Victorinox Super Tinker multitool knife and a very interesting foldable Bluetooth keyboard called WiWu FMK-01. Not without its own flaws, but it really is quite portable, easy to type on and the carrying case also has a smartphone stand which can be convenient at times. IMO this is a must-have thing for Termux and whatnot. Not even sure if any further upgrades like Logitech Keys-to-Go 2 would be worth it: the FMK-01 fits into a small manpurse or even a cargo pants pocket, where the KtG2 definitely won't fit. And if a large backpack is involved... well, this is where I'd rather take a K6 or K68 with me. And/or the laptop itself.