I hate using Discord and Google for open source as much as the next FOSS-head, but I do also like receiving reliable calendar events and chat notifications. 🙃

Oh no, my new obsession has me considering buying a used Casio watch to replace the motherboard with a custom minimally-smart board…

I can’t wait for Google to tell me that my door can no longer lock or unlock because “it has become increasingly challenging to continue to update these products given the early hardware. So we made the difficult decision that… [they] will no longer receive software updates. You will no longer be able to control them remotely…”

https://web.archive.org/web/20250425171221/https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/Support-changes-to-our-earliest-generation-Nest-Learning-Thermostats/ba-p/713068

Internet-connect smart home products were a mistake. These devices should have always been local, peer-to-peer like Zigbee.

#SmartHome #Google

It took way too long, but I finally have a properly set-up sabacc card template for standard poker-sized playing cards, including the bleed and safe area in Inkscape.

#StarWars #Sabacc #Inkscape

Something on my network is constantly pinging time.microsoft.com but we don’t have any Windows or Microsoft devices… 🤨

Imagine shipping a Linux app in 2026 solely as a .deb file that only works on Ubuntu/Debian and that users have to download and install as root.

If only, idk, there was an app store…

https://flathub.org