5 self-hosted apps that could improve your life Useful self-hosted solutions can make great weekend projects (just saying). This collection covers: * Recipe management * Gamifying productivity and habit management * Expenditure management * Workout manager * Password manager Often these solutions will run even on a Raspberry Pi connected to your network at home. They are open source, too, so there is no cost to installing or running them. See

XDA

5 self-hosted apps you need to be using that will improve your life

Make your life easier by hosting these cool apps on your home lab

#technology #selfhosting #opensource

EFF Launches Digital Rights Bytes to Answer Tech Questions that Bug Us All Yes, politicians and Big Corporates do twist narratives to suite their own agendas. EFF is aiming to try to give more objective and honest answers to technology questions, especially those which affect users' privacy and security. EFF is the leading nonprofit defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology Development. Its mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice and innovation for all people of the world. An interesting twist is that you can submit your own questions and answers too (without providing your name, e-mail address, or a completed reCaptcha). See https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-launches-digital-rights-bytes-answer-tech-questions-bug-us-all #technology #privacy #security #EEFF

PeerTube, the Open-Source YouTube in the Fediverse, Now Has Official Mobile Apps PeerTube is an open-source and decentralized video network, with videos hosted across thousands of interconnected servers, from large YouTube-like public servers to smaller ones set up by individual creators. You can browse and watch videos from over a thousand different servers—the app calls them "platforms" in some places—and you don't need an account with any of them to use the mobile app. You can also favourite videos, subscribe to channels, follow your favourite creators (regardless of the server they're hosted on), create custom playlists, and add videos to a watch list. Created in 2017 by a single developer, PeerTube is now maintained by the French non-profit Framasoft. PeerTube uses the same ActivityPub protocol as Mastodon, Meta's Threads, PixelFed, and other services, meaning you have a bunch of servers to play videos from. I can imagine that funding for a video based platform is going to be a bigger challenge than for text based posts. I also post my own videos to a Peertube server. See

How-To Geek

PeerTube, the Open-Source YouTube, Now Has Mobile Apps

Watch videos without becoming a product.

#technology #opensource #video #PPeertube

Before Replacing Your Phone Battery Watch This — Scams Abound Bottom line is, you really cannot trust ad hoc online or flea market sellers (and neither Facebook Marketplace sellers). As shown in this video, even 500+ “positive” reviews really mean nothing at all. That online “bargain” may not just cost you a fake battery, but could even damage your device. Watch #technology #batteries #sscams

The Raspberry Pi 500 with an integrated keyboard is the perfect starter mini-PC The Raspberry Pi 500 is a mini-PC that's tucked away within a keyboard, which makes it super portable and easy to plug in wherever you want. It's the next step up from the Pi 400, utilizing the Pi 5's hardware to make an even better companion. I'm thinking that this enclosure should probably also be able to have a SSD drive tucked into it. The new Raspberry Pi Monitor is also interesting as it can be connected, and powered, directly from the keyboard. Now that it also includes a GPU, and can run most OSes as well, this all makes it a very compact and useful computer. It looks like it will even handle two display outputs. The total cost then would probably come to about $220 (with mouse, screen, and power supply), but that really includes everything you need. See

XDA

Raspberry Pi finally releases its own monitor for your SBC projects

Plus, the Raspberry Pi 500 is here to make your mini PC dreams come true.

#technology #rraspberrypi

You can 'play' AAA games on a Pi (or anything else) using open source Sunshine and Moonlight Moonlight allows you to play your PC games on almost any device, whether you're in another room or miles away from your gaming rig. Moonlight (formerly Limelight) is an open source implementation of NVIDIA's GameStream protocol. They implemented the protocol used by the NVIDIA Shield and wrote a set of 3rd party clients. You can stream your collection of PC games from your gaming PC to any supported device and play them remotely (even over the Internet). Moonlight is perfect for gaming on the go without sacrificing the graphics and game selection available on a PC. Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight (where you are running the game from). Offering low latency, cloud gaming server capabilities with support for AMD, Intel, and Nvidia GPUs for hardware encoding. Software encoding is also available. You can connect to Sunshine from any Moonlight client on a variety of devices. A web UI is provided to allow configuration, and client pairing, from your favorite web browser. Pair from the local server or any mobile device. Sunshine can host a game from a device running Android, ChromeOS, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, Xbox One/Series, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Wii U, or LG webOS TV. Run Sunshine on your own hardware. No need to pay monthly fees to a cloud gaming provider. It works with Intel, AMD or Nvidia GPUs. So yes, you could have a game running on a Windows or Linux or other computer, and be accessing and playing it from a Raspberry Pi or a mobile device. This is also useful if you have one main gaming computer with a good GPU, but others in the home have smaller computers and also wish to play games. See

It's FOSS

How I Managed to Play AAA Games on Raspberry Pi

You can utilize your Raspberry Pi to experience games too, with a catch!

#technology #gaming #remoteaccess #opensource

Ubuntu Linux works pretty well on a 2014 MacBook Air I also have a 2014 MacBook Air, except mine still has its original battery in, and works perfectly. But this is a great idea as there are no longer macOS updates for these old devices. It is an intel based CPU so most Linux distros should work perfectly well on it, and then regularly receive OS updates. Just note, in the linked article, that there was a small workaround needed to establish Wi-Fi connectivity. See

How-To Geek

I Installed Ubuntu on My Old MacBook Air and I Wish I'd Done it Sooner

Make your old Mac feel new again with Linux.

#technology #Linux #mamacbook

Nebraskan Farmers Were Using Wind Turbines Before Environmentalism Was Invented Many seem to forget that electric cars, windmills generating energy (whether electric or mechanical energy) are just not new ideas. The difference is that the technology at the time was limited by what was known then. Today, we can make things work much more efficiently. With the networking of ideas, we are also able to exponentially improve what we know. So many inventions have come about from society's need to solve challenges and problems. And yet so many ideas were violently resisted as well - remember when all cars had to be proceded by a person waving a flag, or where it was thought that steam locomotives would cause cows to stop producing milk, when we thought humans could not travel faster than they could run, when we were not made to fly, when we thought 5G cell towers were going to cause cancer, and so the list goes on and on. Our biggest problem today is we are a society of buying everything - so things cost more, we lose our ability to fix and repair things, and then we panic that a new invention is going to take all the jobs away. In fact, new things (like just moving from horses to cars, or typewriters to computers) have created more new jobs after the transitions. Society's difficulty is more one of not being willing to change, and today even more so, with the misinformation that is so popular. See

Hackaday

Nebraskan Farmers Were Using Wind Turbines Before Environmentalism Was Invented

To a casual observer of public discourse here in 2024 it seem extremely odd that the issue of replacing coal fired power stations with wind turbine...

#technology #windpower #environment #change