Being at 100% all the time kills a battery quite fast, especially older batteries. Trick is to hack the phone to work without one, or limit the charge to some 40-60% (smart socket control loop for example).

I have next to zero experience about coding (unless you count a few months of Borland Delphi work back in 00’s, which you shouldn’t). Yet, I’ve managed to create half a dozen really useful tools for my work, and a few more for my hobbies too.

Inflection point for me was Gemini 2.5 Pro. Before that I was only successful with smaller scripts, using ChatGPT mostly. But with Gemini I was able to do Deep Research as the initial step to plan out the overall architecture, interfaces, technologies etc. and finetune the actual coding prompt using that info.

Crucial step after first generated (buggy) version is to copy paste the code and errors to ChatGPT and/or Grok to get their take on it, then feed back those ideas to Gemini again. Some 5-10 iterations of this and I usually have a fully functional application or a component of bigger piece software. Problems at the moment usually arise if any particular file exceeds ~800 lines, and when there are many many iterations. Then LLMs tend to get forgetful, dropping out comments, reintroducing faults from earlier iterations etc. Better to start a new session at that point.

Thinking of LLMs as just a lossy compression algo for all human knowledge, the parallel use of LLMs makes kind of sense: All the companies use approximately the same data in their training, but end up having a bit different looking ”lossy big picture” in the end. But if I ”look at all these pictures” side by side I can perhaps see more detail. Or that some of the pictures are fuzzy on one location but one is much clearer.

LLM’s seem to be very good to at spotting the correct solution when they are given a couple options or hypothesis about an cause of an issue. Most surprising to me is that Grok has been the one to solve majority of the most stubborn bugs that other have gotten stuck to.

With GPT 5 I just had my first ”hole in one” where it generated a flawless ~500 line web app in the very first try. Just gave it my Git codebase as a zip file and asked for a new module that interfaces the existing stuff. Wild times.

Indeed. Tom’s Hardware for me has for long been one of the most useless tech news sites, mostly just dumb clickbaity ad articles in disguise.

If they would know anything about anything or done some actual research they would point to Firefox with a few relevant extensions that keep YouTube’s fuckery in check. Or the alternative mobile apps. Or stuff like Invidious. But guess they are too mainstream and thus afraid to upset Google in any way.

Lol no. To all their friends they’ll say: ”yeah I know it’s not legit, it’s some weird thing dad hacked there for some reason. I want to have a real one but he won’t install it idk”

p7zip has been around since early 2000’s I think, and the official version from early 2020’s, so I wonder why that kind of info has been floating around…

Was so proud when my kid stated that ”If the thing is good enough, it does not need advertising. Only poor stuff needs that.”

** for Android (and Windows/macOS/Linux) but not iOS.

And apparently never going to be as some key component is written in Java. Other technical obstacles should be solvable (like f.ex. getting continuous running in bg by exploiting location services like iSH can do)

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Or maybe it pops the link out of the browser into a dedicated media player which has decent codec support.

I think this is exactly what it does.

With iDevices no luck with mkv’s if I remember right, but not sure if I have even tested one. Most my files are mp4 x264.

Mostly using the ”browser” (so shitty that you can barely call it one) on my LG smart TV, and sometimes some iDevices, but I’ll consider myself lucky with codecs then. Even mkv’s play on LG without hiccups. Only small thing I miss are subtitles which these devices do not seem to support, even if I’d mux them in as a track.

Someone should explain me why transcoding is even needed (other than in case bandwidth is an issue)? My ”media server” at the moment is a custom ffmpeg script to edit all x264 mp4 files it finds by moving the moov atom to the beginning of the file (and what ever the similar thing for x265 was), and then lighttpd to serve them via dir listing. No file has yet had playback issues even over the internet…

What is free though is LibreOffice, or some Nextcloud document addons (to a degree) if ”cloud” is the thing.

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Nice, but the bots may not understand the joke.

And not only that but they will tag the domain with ”there is something here”, and maybe some day someone will take a closer look and see if you are all up-to-date or would there maybe be a way in. So better to just drop everything and maybe also ban the IP if they happen to try poke some commonly scanned things (like /wp-admin, /git, port 22 etc.) GoAccess is a pretty nice tool to show you what they are after.

Not at hand no, but I’m sure any of the LLMs can guide you through the setup if googling does not give anything good.

Nothing very special about all this, well maybe the subdir does require some extra spells to reverse proxy config.

Use a reverse proxy (caddy or nginx proxy manager) with a subdomain, like myservice.mydomain.com (maybe even configure a subdir too, so …domain.com/guessthis/). Don’t put anything on the main domain / root dir / the IP address.

If you’re still unsure setup Knockd to whitelist only IP addresses that touch certain one or two random ports first.

So security through obscurity :) But good luck for the bots to figure all that out.

VPN is of course the actually secure option, I’d vote for Tailscale.

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