alpaca_math

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

I’ve played around with Ubuntu touch from ubports foundation on an old pixel 3a. It works ok as a basic daily driver. Depending on the phone model there’s support for waydroid which helps with using android apps.

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

There’s a few projects out there to get Linux onto phones & make it a reasonable user experience. It will probably always be a very niche segment. Postmarket OS looks promising too but I haven’t been able to try it as my old pixel isn’t supported. Depending on your galaxy model it might be supported.

Fairphone is another one to watch. They make phones & you can pick the OS when ordering

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

The biggest thing that put me off instantly was the prices tag. However it sound interesting with what they’ve done

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

I ripped out all grass in my smallish yard & filled the area with native plants, shrubs & a ground cover plant thing that should help suppress weeds in a few years. Used a lot of mulch to help keep retain water & also assist with weed suppression.

The benefit of using native plants in my country is that they’re usually drought tolerant & adapted to the harsh conditions that we can experience at times.

It was a lot of work & a bit expensive but I see less introduced birds in my yard now & more native birds. More native & introduced bees too. I’ve noticed that introduced bees target the larger flowers. Native bees are smaller, they seem to target smaller if there’s too much competition for introduced bees on the larger flowers.

The best part, I don’t have to mow anymore.

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

Intel NUC i5 8XXXX running promox. I run home assistant, frigate & plex. Data storage is via the NAS DS 918+ but I do run some of their packages on that too & a couple more on the router / network.

Home assistant is particularly useful for running a bunch of add ons that I’d otherwise need to run as separate services in proxmox like adguard

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

I have a Synology DS 918+. I run just their apps for photos, surveillance station & as file sever. Separately I run promox on Intel NUC for services need more resources than the NAS has such as Plex (with transcoding), home assistant & another AI like NVR called frigate (with TPU). Overall it’s a good low power & stable setup but the fan on NUC can be annoyingly loud at times.

alpaca_math, 11 months ago

Recent best little projects for me was moving home assistant from raspberry pi to proxmox as a VM. A coupe of the challenging ones was setup frigate nvr in docker & getting the TPU to work with it. Then integrating it with home assistant over mqtt. I was driven to set this up to get to turn a cheap ip camera into a smart camera & stop all the false alerts & actually identify what it found. Then only send notifications only when conditions are met, like a person in my driveway or by my front door. Or simply record all dogs so that I can find out who’s repeatedly not picking up after their dog pooped on verge.

Another was to liberate my roborock s5 robot vacuum from the cloud by flashing valetudo. It really just throws a web server onto the vacuum to answer & trigger the API calls, so give local control & no longer needs their cloud or their app. It’s now also integrated with home assistant as well & can use the Siri voice commands as I leave the house.