I’ve even been fooled by a few AI videos by now…

What do you mean by “90%”?

I have a MiBand which for me is primarily a regular watch with notifications.

I haven’t used audio notifications or ringing on my phone for years. I can also just allow the most important apps, while the less important notifications I’ll see just on my phone when I unlock it, unless I blocked those notifications too.

Currently this means I get SMS notifications (mostly useful for verification codes / package pick-up codes), Lemmy reply notifications (and few other e-mails), bank notifications (like payments), phone battery charged (80%) notification, and notifications of upcoming space rocket launches with webcast available (within 10 minutes).

My phone doesn’t make a sound, it doesn’t light up the screen, it doesn’t show notifications on lockscreen, it doesn’t vibrate, it doesn’t use notification LED. The smartband is a replacement.

Me when I was too lazy to properly set up Arch:

And how small it is, and that it can take 240W.

I’ve had the image in landscape, so…

I don’t know whether you’re saying that Sweden is rural or just specifically asking about rural parts of Sweden.

But anyway, if the former, Mullvad is based in Sweden and have quite a few servers there: https://mullvad.net/en/servers?country=se

Probably.

Yeah, I am dumb. I have no idea what mathematics is going on here (really). Perhaps we had it in school, but after taking an exam, all that knowledge evaporates.

Just like 3 weeks ago I started using Tailscale. I’d highly recommend trying that.

It does some uuuuh… magic to establish direct connections on most networks. You can verify whether you’re using direct connection or relay using tailscale status on Linux.

It uses Wireguard under the hood. There’s also Tailnet lock feature (still in beta) in case you don’t trust Tailscale to not maliciously add devices to your Tailnet.

This would give you lower latency than the VPS solution. I use it with CG-NAT on both sides. I also started using it for LAN since it establishes direct connection over LAN too, and seamlessly switches between networks so I can disconnect from LAN and keep current connections going over WAN or vice versa.

But I’ve just tried now, and it won’t work even on LAN without internet access. Still better than a VPS solution in some way.

But you may also try looking into headscale which is basically a lightweight self-hosted private Tailscale control server, but I haven’t tried anything with that.

Not sure if you’ll find something that cheap, but RackNerd has some pretty cheap offers sometimes. Thing is, they don’t seem to expire, so there’s this: https://racknerdtracker.com/?sort=price

But I haven’t tried them yet.
Also keep in mind the monthly bandwidth limits.
You get what you pay for, and $10/year is basically nothing.

Oh, and you may be responsible for random people’s traffic depending on the provider. I think I’ve read in ToS of some VPS provider that you have to notify them about running a public service for this reason.

I rather thought of Dumb and Dumber To at around 1 hour 26 minutes.

1. Master random shit in 2 days
2. Forget it completely a week later

Five minutes into a boring wiki article, with a white noise app going: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ yep, works pretty fuckin well turning into 5 hours of research.

From quick internet research that may be slightly more expensive than a session with therapist.

I can’t even use the stall if there’s someone else in the bathrooms.
But it’s impossible to explain that I am late because I had to try 3 different bathrooms and in the end ended up in a completely different building altogether.

I just got one from e-waste and its worked for 4 years, somehow.
Don’t try replacing a USB port as your first ever soldering attempt. Or at least don’t be an idiot like me, you need flux, not fucking 520°C.
I mean, it holds. It’s tilted, burnt, but works…

Drivers, Linux works fine, but not Windows. HP support page for that specific printer says the installation is automatic. Windows says it can’t find drivers. As usual, archive.org is my friend (Linux doesn’t support high-DPI feature).
But, uuuh, the high DPI takes 20 minutes per A4 page. Yeah, 20 minutes. And it is the only acceptable option for pictures or small details.

Ink, I managed to get half a liter from AliExpress on sale for 71 cents. At least black one, I don’t use color too often. And even then, I only managed to use half of the 2 bottles when I decided to print 180 pages of text in dark mode (white on black).

I am starting to realize how hard my files are to find. I keep rsyncing so much stuff to newer phones and SD cards, I don’t remember where everything is.
13,003 files accross 1,181 directories on SD card
9,756 files accross 522 directories on internal (user accessible, thus excluding Android)

Text to speech from “Slovak”: https://files.catbox.moe/yqzj72.mp4

(It kept reading ä as “long a”, but it probably would be worse anyway)