SelfHosted – Best Self Hosted Apps of 2024
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The title is a bit meta, but there are some excellent options on this list of best self hosted apps of 2024. I’ll set up Pinchflat to give my younger children access to YouTube creators that don’t label their content as kid friendly because that breaks their monetization, but are still totally fine to watch.…
Federico always makes me want to use my iPad more
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While it’s older, I just read Federico talk about his 11″ iPad Pro setup and as usual I want to use the iPad more. I don’t think Apple is any better than other large tech companies but I’ve tried other tablets and the iPad is the best tablet on the market. Nothing has even come…
Mechanical Keyboard modded with TouchID switch
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What the title says, here is a mechanical keyboard modded to have a TouchID switch. I love fingerprint authentication which I have on my TouchID keyboards for the macOS systems I have around and on my Framework 13″ laptop. I plan to build a Linux desktop this year and need to look into adding fingerprint…
Apple storage is overpriced – here are some options
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Outside of the constant services Apple wants to push on users, or the fealty payments Tim Cook is making to the criminal insurrectionist president of the US, they charge stupid amounts for storage upgrades. At least there are options to avoid the Apple storage tax, even if you can’t stop the other crap they’re doing…
Women’s Health Issues are Minimized and Ignored
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This is a heartbreaking story about an IUD that caused suicidal thoughts so that’s a content warning. What really gets me is that her medical professionals ignored her at first. Although after reading Invisible Women this doesn’t surprise me at all because it documents so many ways the experiences of women are deemed “too complicated”…
Scarcity contracts moral circles of concern
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The moral circle was first talked about by Stoic philosopher Hierocles in 2AD and is defined as the number and type of entities you give moral consideration. In the context of Right Thing Right Now, Holiday talks lots about justice and who justice applies to in society. Which of the people in your city are…
Finding Sacred Blocks
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Last week I talked about consuming content and how your library should be about the stuff you want to learn instead of a performative shelf of stuff you’ve read. One key point I mentioned was that if I owned a book, but had read it and taken good notes on it I better have a…
Being a parent can be really fucking hard
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I was just talking with my coworker about how hard parenting can be. Like Matt, we don’t have family in the area and have never had much support with our kids. To add to this my wife struggled with post-partum depression with all our kids but very deeply with our 3rd child. Add to that…
Constrained by creating for others
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I felt so constrained. I was giving so much of my creativity to something I wasn’t actually creating. I have always had this hope to do things on my terms as a creative person. I’ve always had this passion for creating something from the ground up that was totally mine. I was initially worried this…
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