thejevans

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Texas Governor Will Deploy National Guard to Immigration Protests in c/usa@lemmy.ml
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

fascists gonna fascist

shared google calendar in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

I have a Google account that I created with a throwaway non-gmail email account. I don't use the email or the Google account for anything else. I then sync my required Google calendars to that (my partner still uses Google, so does my union and my work), and I sync that account to my phone with DAVx5 and to my computers with vdirsyncer (eventually pimsync, when it makes it to nix home-manager) by setting up Google CalDAV API credentials as explained here.

I have to use a local calendar app on each device to see my Google calendar with my NextCloud calendars, but it's the best that's possible, I think.

Districts Event calendar in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I considered doing this a few months ago. I ultimately decided that for my use, it's easy enough to just memorize the road network in my city, so I did that instead. This was the navigation software I was planning to use: https://github.com/navit-gps/navit

We must face reality — the Gaza War is now a war of annihilation in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

or antisemites like the murderer of two young Jews at an AJC event in Washington DC last week

lol sure

Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns in c/technology@lemmy.ml
Growing the Shire, Not the ‘Burb: Facing the Housing Crisis with Ecological Sanity in c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sorry, but using data from US averages (largely representative of single-family-home suburbs) to make sweeping statements about how urban living is bad is simply misleading and borderline irresponsible. Living in a multi-family building, living without a car, getting electricity from renewables, and using electricity for heating and cooking is insanely energy efficient. It takes advantage of density to reduce infrastructure needs, and can benefit from having resources developed / farmed at scale, further reducing energy and emissions.

If you need ANY infrastructure to connect your "shire" to anywhere else, you need to include that in your analysis. It will have a massive impact. Need a car? You've already lost. The road infrastructure per capita alone will put you over the edge, let alone the infrastructure required to build and maintain said car or the emissions from the car itself if not electric.

Reverse engeneering a Keyboard software in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

for a more low-level discussion for fundamentals, Ben Eater has 5 videos going over PS/2 keyboards and then USB keyboards. Here is the first video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aXbh9VUB3U

With the Legion Go S, we can now directly compare performance between official builds of SteamOS and Windows in c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's becoming more common, but it mostly comes down to available tooling. At this point all three of the big game engines have a Vulkan backend available, but that's a fairly recent development. And if a developer isn't using a game engine, writing their own openGL renderer is easy, and writing a Vulkan renderer is a nightmare.

Alternatives to MZLA Pocket? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Its 4 EUR per 3 months or 11 EUR per year

Alternatives to MZLA Pocket? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
I created a script for installing Linux apps from their official sources in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

with that being the case, correct me if I'm wrong, but your pitch is that users should trust your manually compiled and maintained commands to install things because you're guaranteeing that the binaries being installed by your commands are from official sources, and that is better (in at least some cases) than cached binaries from something like nixpkgs, where the trust we are asked to give is that the cache is built correctly from source.

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Phones suck (blog.jevans.bio)
 

Ramblings about degoogle-ing, and going further for the fun of it.

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TRMNL | E-ink dashboard to stay focused (usetrmnl.com)
 

I just wanted to shout out TRMNL.

They have an interesting product, and they're trying to build a business that includes a lot of open source aspects.

The device that they sell is proprietary, but it's also just an ESP32, screen, enclosure, and battery, with a custom PCB for convenience. They plan to add instructions to build your own device, and their firmware is open source under a GPLv3 license.

By default, their device connects to their servers, and they have a slick web configuration tool for people who don't care about having smart devices call home, but you can easily modify the firmware to connect to your own self-hosted server instead. As of this evening, both the Phoenix and Sinatra server implementations are open source under an MIT license after I pointed out that they had no license in an issue, and they pretty much immediately updated the repositories.

There are two other repositories that they have not added a license to, but given their swift response, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, and I would expect them to be updated shortly.

They have not shared all of the plugins that are available on their hosted service for use on a self-hosted instance, but a few are available for use and there are many plugins made by others available as well!

As soon as they update those last two repositories, I plan to pre-order one (unlike the conceptually cool VU Dials who's creators still have not added a license even after being called out by the co-creator of Rocky Linux).

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Trials and Tribulations of Setting Up a Home Theater (jevans.bio)
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MKBHD responds to Panels criticism - Let's Talk About Panels (youtu.be)
 

The way he just blew off the 50/50 split criticism was pretty gross. Basing it off of Youtube's bad-relative-to-the-rest-of-the-market 45/55 split, and then making it worse is not great, especially when coming from someone who makes YouTube content for a living.

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Linux gaming rig (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/battlestations@lemmy.world
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PC

  • Nobara Linux
  • Fractal Torrent
  • Asus Proart B550
  • AMD Ryzen 5800X3D
  • Noctua NH-D15
  • GSkill 2x16GB DDR4-3600
  • Powercolor Hellhound 7900XTX
  • Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB
  • Crucial P3 Plus 4TB
  • Asus WiFi 6E card
  • Be Quiet Dark Power 13

Husky height adjustable workbench

  • DT770 Pros
  • AT2040 Mic
  • Yamaha MG06X Mixer
  • Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 3rd gen
  • Drop BMR1 speakers
  • P.I. Engineering L-Trac
  • ESP32-S3-Box3
  • Sony Dualsense
  • BenQ lightbar

Glorious GMMK Pro

  • GMK WoB
  • holy pandas + tealios v2

Monitors

  • Gigabyte M27Q-X
  • LG Dualup

Camera

  • Sony a5100
  • Sigma 16mm f/1.4
  • no-name LED panel
  • Amaran 100d
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sleek for todo.txt and why I love open source software (lemmy.ml)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4506191

I've used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I'm really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I've found.

About a week ago, I ran into a minor annoyance with an edge use-case that I have, and I wrote about it in the sleek github discussion page. Within 4 days, the maintainer of the project had a new build ready that fixed my issue. Nobody else said they needed it, but they took the time to add the feature I requested and now my workflow is that much easier.

I know not every project is like this, or can be like this, but there's no way that something like this would get added at anywhere near this pace in proprietary software. I, for one, am super grateful that software like this and the people that maintain it exist. Thank you.

Please check out sleek!

sleek is an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax. It's available for Windows, MacOS and Linux

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sleek for todo.txt and why I love open source software (lemmy.ml)
 

I've used sleek as my primary todo.txt UI for a while now, and I'm really happy with it. If you are interested in a simple, but useful way to put together a todo list in plaintext, the todo.txt spec is a great way to handle it, and sleek is by far the nicest GUI I've found.

About a week ago, I ran into a minor annoyance with an edge use-case that I have, and I wrote about it in the sleek github discussion page. Within 4 days, the maintainer of the project had a new build ready that fixed my issue. Nobody else said they needed it, but they took the time to add the feature I requested and now my workflow is that much easier.

I know not every project is like this, or can be like this, but there's no way that something like this would get added at anywhere near this pace in proprietary software. I, for one, am super grateful that software like this and the people that maintain it exist. Thank you.

Please check out sleek!

sleek is an open-source (FOSS) todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax. It's available for Windows, MacOS and Linux

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