Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

My connchk #Rust project has a TODO item right now to execute the network checks asynchronously. I think I will do this at the same time I move much of the project into a library. Then I’ll re-roll binaries for CLI and a GUI version using #libhandy so it can be used on devices regardless of form factor.

Later I may extend the GUI version such that connection test criteria can be defined in the application itself.

It looks like I can eliminate at least one machine from the stables. I’ve already ordered both a Librem 5 and Librem 14 from @purism and these will be my primary computing devices. The remaining systems will be used as servers. One local to me, and the other a backup across the pond. This ought to be more than enough to deal with all of my workloads, and get a HiDPI laptop into the hands of someone else.

Part of my downsizing efforts will be in the hardware I keep around. Rather than buying or building new machines, I’m going to see what I can do with what I have and hopefully consolidate use cases to the point where I can do what I want with fewer physical machines. Anything I free up, I hope to gift to someone else who can use it.

@Gina also trying to work on downsizing. I have probably too much stuff in general, and while I try to let go of stuff I don’t use regularly there’s certain things I ought to send on its way.

@Gina spend less time working.

@kyle damn that’s a good start for a horror story.

@Gina dayyyyyum!

@kyle indeed, the condemnation of single points of failure immediately followed by the assertion that their system/product alone solves all problems is... always a favorite

@Gina that sounds amazing!

@Gina the 30+ bit can certainly be part of it, and in some ways it can surely suck. There are, at least in my experience, other things gained in the process. Always helps me to acknowledge, even for a moment, the upsides.

Suddenly pondering putting metal in a DC. Anyone have any recommendations for privacy-minded co-location facilities in the EU?

@Gina I've gone in on #Pixelfed and #Lemmy as well. Haven't done anything on either yet, really, but it's nice to get my normal handle without any fuss on both!

@Gina hrm Lemmy looks like it might well do as a place to share some longer form thoughts/posts. I’m gonna have to check it out.

Decided to finish some minor restoration tasks on this antique spinning wheel I picked up at the kringloopwinkel. Now I guess I’ll be spinning the rest of this wool on the new old wheel. Much different feeling to spin on this old single treadle wheels versus my new ball-bearing equipped double treadle wheel.

Fairly productive and enjoyable day today. Got in some good violin practice, spun more yarn, cleaned up a bit around the house, knocked out day 5 of Advent of Code. May give day 6 a look later, or save it for tomorrow.

@Gina pretty impractical on YT now. The ads are basically, to any of your network gear, indistinguishable from the stream you requested. DNS trickery is no longer sufficient. I would have said impossible but somewhere someone is surely doing something likely involving real-time decoding and frame analysis to drop frames that are ads before encoding it all back and passing through an ad-free stream. Gonna guess that takes a touch more power than most embedded SoCs offer yet.