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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • tl;dr short distance texting (up to 25 miles depending on line of sight) without cell service.

    This is the meshtastic community, which revolves around radios that use unregulated frequencies to communicate.

    These radios are either standalone or connect to your phone via bluetooth. They allow you to text others or transmit some data (e.g. temperature, humidity in a greenhouse).

    They’re completely separate from cell networks. They form their own network by repeating signals they pick up. You can designate how many hops a message will have, which is how many times that message will be repeated.

    The more people who have one, the better it works.









  • Game servers are always fun! I set up a custom Minecraft modpack and have it set up on my domain. I also run an Arma 3 server, but it’s a hackjob of a self-host solution and I’m ashamed of how it works.

    To address your examples directly:

    Media server: Jellyfin, along with an *arr stack (Radarr, Sonarr, and qbittorrent and gluetun) to automate everything for you.

    Photos app: Immich is your direct Google Photos replacement. Automated uploads, object detection, facial recognition, etc, all ran locally on your machine. Just remember: you still need a proper backup!

    Recipe management: Mealie is the best I’ve used. It can import a recipe from almost any website. Very easy to cook with and follow along each step. It also lets you categorize meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), rate your meals, and randomly pick meals for you.

    Other things I have going:

    Frigate NVR - A couple PoE and wifi cameras set up around the home record everything. Frigate records and timestamps things based on the settings - A person walks up, something loud happens, etc. My only gripe is that there isn’t a good Android app to go with it. I’d like to receive notifications on my phone, too.

    MeTube - Rip videos from almost anything. Friend sent you an Instagram video, but you don’t have Instagram? Chuck it into this and it’ll give you the video. Here’s all the websites it supports.