Mealie is so underrated. They have meal planning, recipes, recipe parsing from the internet, grocery lists based on recipes and meal plans, like 4 different ways to organize recipes, and OIDC/SSO on top of it all!

I think some things are very necessary for medium or bigger companies:

• Dynamic Drill Tables, stackup in the spec layer and DRC import export NOT importing from other projects (and not the “DRC file” thing that does not transfer back into the GUI)

• Fonts

• Technical assembly drawing exports

I use it weekly in my own time, but it is difficult to get everyone “synced” on it.

Freecad can’t keep up with professional software with decades of paid development, sadly. It has gone very fast these past 2-3 years compared to being relatively slow before that, but now the SaaS company supporting them is bankrupt so who knows.

KiCAD on the other hand, is like 50% or more of the way there to match commercial offerings and is mostly missing QoL and productivity features

The shed as an of site backup is a good idea.

We live in the shed (it is really its own entire stone building) during our full house renovation, so I have already run electrical and cat6a to the shed and have an old router in AP mode there.

Hooking up one of those NAS boards or a 2nd hand old PC there would be a good backup option.

Do you happen to know when the last time was that a rich company was prosecuted for this?

It seems a lot like the perjury laws: there to scare poor people into telling the truth because of almost non-existant prosecution of it.

And if it is a fine and not jail time (white collar crimes are almost never jail time) the fine would have to be much larger than the penalties they would not have to pay because of the crime, otherwise it is simply a net win for the company

I don’t understand the usecase for tuta and proton. Their “automatic encryption” only works for people also with those providers if I am not mistaken, otherwise it just uses the same method as PGP (password that you have to send the recipient).

It seems to me that for 99.9% of emails going through the account, it is not any more secure that other providers like mailbox, posteo, nubo, etc…

Maybe I am understanding them incorrectly though.

Apple mail

It uses standards instead of a proprietary app like proton/tuta so you can simply add it to almost any mail client.

I mean, it isn’t as thick as normal toothpaste, and the taste is different (like every brand switch of toothpaste to be honest), but they got a new formula for much much harder tablets in the beginning of 2025 more like real mints, so they don’t get powdery or fall apart like they sometimes used to.

It doesn’t sit on your teeth as much after you spit before you rinse, I find, but sometimes you get tiny grits in the molars from chewing them if you don’t brush them out well enough.

I find it completely fine, just took a few uses to get used to.

Also mealie supports SSO with OIDC so authelia/authentik can cover it and there is no need for separate accounts.

Also being a PWA on mobile instead of another electron app means that authentication in front of it doesn’t break anything.

I kind of agree. I use accubattery on my phone since I got it so I know more or less how much I have used to charge it.

1526593mAh over almost 4 years. If we assume 3.9V charge voltage (about average between CV/CC and I only charge it to 80%), then it is a bit under 6kWh consumed, which is under 2€ with our high electricity prices here.

It uses literally a rounding error of power over its entire lifespan.

However, having a standard way to test battery life and battery cycle longevity in phones would be very helpful, but I am 99% sure it would be an unrepresentative test that manufacturers would start gaming within a year or two to have very skewed results.

Happy tabs! (happy-tabs.com, not happy tabs.com) Toothpaste tablets with fluoride, because they aren’t anti-vaxxers like many toothpaste tablets

They are as expensive as the more expensive toothpaste because you can’t stretch them out by just using less since you need 1 tablet, but they have 0 plastic packaging, the tablets are amazing for camping, they have 2 sizes of glass containers and the refills are just in paper and cardboard, they have actual reasonable subscription delivery periods and amounts, and they have versions with charcoal of that’s your thing.

(You can find the standard jars, but not refills at Dille and Kamille in Belgium/NL)

Yes,

https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/expansion-cards/ECS07/ https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-RIITOP-Expansion-Chipset-ASM1166/dp/B0D8BCWHPT

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003335714128.html

Then you have 4 main plus these 5-6 extra. Just put your boot drive on a data drive instead of m.2 or get an adaptor and you are good to go. 8 data drives plus a boot drive

Ah yeah, that is the difference. I always keep a local copy of my photos since immich has broken once in the past for me. That is one fantastic piece of software though.

I also use jellyfin, but the security on it is an absolute clusterfuck mess apparently so I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use syncthing for my music.

I should really also set up a backblaze or hetzner off site backup for everything, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Yeah I need an SD card. I have ~160 GB on photos, videos, and a pretty decent music library synced to my other devices via syncthing. My current system apps (no games, just utility apps and messaging caches) + music streaming downloads (18GB) are 87GB. That is right on the boundary of internal storage if I don’t take any more pictures or add any more local music.

Just android alone is 21 GB, but yeah if someone doesn’t take photos or videos, doesn’t listen to much music, and doesn’t play any phone games, 128 or 256 is probably more than needed.

Polar and withings are the only ones left. Polar has better biometrics tracking. Withings is a style brand. A guy does a to. of comprehensive heart rste comparisons with the Polar H10 gold standard ECG. He also now does sleep tracking correlations with EEG.

Sadly that is it. Some guys in India I believe just released an open source HealthyPi Move, which is getting closer.

You can also take the route of buying a supported watch by Gadgetbridge which at the very least will get rid of the data mining and constant location tracking of some non-EU smart watches.

Withings, sadly has absolutely horrific heart rate tracking. This guy does correlation tests with the Polar H10 (skip to the graphs).

And I say this whenever this comes up in this sub.

Nothing is European in name only. They only have UK marketing. They have american investors, a shady CEO with a history of lying about his companies (oneplus “starup” BBK controversy anyone?) and everything is designed, coded, manufactured, tested, etc… in China.

They have started to maybe hire some people to possibly take over a bit of the phone design in the future in London, but the smartwatch is 100% a Chinese product. It even looks exactly like the standard ODM smart watches from the dozen Chinese companies that make all of the generic smart watches that get rebranded.

Interesting, my girlfriend’s friend bought a FP4 because she wanted an eco-friendlyish phone that would last a long time and she says it has been the worst phone of her life with tons of bugs, super slow specifically over 4G, mediocre camera, android auto works badly, etc…

(She uses android, not /e/ or calyx)

I want so hard to believe, but there are just as many reports of it being very bug ridden as positive reviews, so it is difficult, since the negative ones always seem to be detailed and specific.

I would also consider a pixel for graphene, but no SD card and 128GB or 256GB internal memory only is a deal breaker. My SD card + flash in my current phone is already at 245GB

I have a few of those from 2nd hand stores, but they are getting harder to find. It definitely wouldn’t triple the cost new though, maybe 50% more or something, but I only have 10 or so now.

There are a ton of 2nd hand jars with just glass+glads with no fastening mechanic and sloped lips so 3rd party clamps or clips don’t work on them, so they can’t be held shut. Only good for storing dry grains and stuff.

It definitely is a waste, but companies have spent millions of euros in packaging design to make it that way so you buy more.

Me too, the problem is, there is no way to judge quality effectively until you wear the clothes for a long time.

Just because it is made here in the EU, doesn’t mean it is good quality. Tons of shit quality at a high price things exist.

For example couches. There are plenty of 5000€ couches that sink and degrade as fast or faster than ikea 500€ couches. It is a crapshoot for finding actual good quality like couches used to be.