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For remote access, wireguard is great. You can access stuff via their internal addresses.

One of the few podcasts I listen to sometimes. Wishing them well and thanks for all of the hard work.

I don’t need backlight to type words, but love backlit keys for symbols, brightness keys, volume keys, function keys, etc.

I just discovered (thanks to this site) that you can click the uBlock Origin icon, then “enter element zapper mode” (the lightning bolt). It just gets rid of whatever you want to disappear.

I wonder if it started as a joke.

“Where can you force people to sit still for long enough to detect an afib?”

“The toilet!”

uBlock Origin, to be specific. I don’t know if it’s still a thing, but uBlock used to be not good in comparison to uBlock Origin.

I’m a fan of Dockge. Nice simplicity, easy to update container stacks, etc. etc.

It looks like the hEX refresh is the same price from that vendor.

RB5009 is better but more expensive. There’s a PoE version that can power your WiFi APs in the future.

I also question the decision to put OpenWrt on it. RouterOS is solid. There’s a learning curve, but it’s worth it if you’re a nerd.

A while back, the docker installation instructions just had “lemmy:latest” as which version to pull. The Lemmy devs aren’t the brightest, and the beta versions are included as “latest”. Now the instructions have you put the specific version to pull, like “0.19.10”.

I wonder if that’s what happened?

Chinstrap Linux haha. It’s like Fedora, but for a totally different demographic.

I didn’t know Gentoo was named after a penguin.

Since there’s no native ntfy notification built in to LubeLogger I figured out a way to do it using Node-RED. If you don’t have Node-RED set up, It’s pretty great for automating things. I mostly use it for Home Assistant. There’s certainly a way to accomplish this without Node-RED, but I would have no clue where to start.

The basic idea of the flow attached below is:

1. Schedule when you want notifications (I like being reminded on monday, wednesday, and friday at 8am)
2. Have Node-RED pull the maintenance reminders, which are available in JSON format
3. Do some filtering and splitting of the data, narrowing the reminders down to Past Due, Very Urgent, and Urgent (ignoring everything that doesn’t need attention).
4. Feed the filtered data into templates – different templates for each level of urgency. This adds some complexity, but I like it.
5. Bring everything back together, format it into something that ntfy.sh likes, and then fire the notification.

You’ll of course have to go through and change settings in each node to match your LubeLogger URL and vehicle ID’s, and preferred ntfy server and topic. You can also add your username/password for LubeLogger and ntfy (or a bearer token, if that’s what you have set up with ntfy).

Node-RED flow

If you’re not familiar with Node-RED, you’d import the above JSON and edit it from there. Stuff “flows” through nodes, stopping and doing what you tell it along the way.

They can be charged below 0*C, too. No need to redirect lots of current to heating the batteries during charging like with Lithium.

I love LubeLogger. I’ve totally switched both my and my wifes cars to it for tracking gas mileage and maintenance.

If anyone would like, I can share how I got ntfy notifications working with it for maintenance reminders.

Good news, they just released v1.130.1

I never understood the hate against Raygun. Are there set moves in breakdancing? It’s not like ballet where you have to do very specific things.