Notices by Jiří Eischmann (sesivany@social.vivaldi.net)

@viralobscurity @1br0wn @EUCommission strange, are Google Play Services available on the phones? The notifications don't normally even go through apps, they go through Google push notification service regardless of the app running or not.

I was wondering how a #blackout like the one in #Spain would affect us. The last time the house battery was completely drained was five days ago. The only appliance in the house that is not backed up is the heat pump. Without the heat pump running, the #photovoltaic system would never run out of energy. But we'd have to heat bathing water with a kettle. I'm not sure how backed up O2's infrastructure is, but we'd probably lose the Internet connection as well. Otherwise, we'd probably survive a multi-day outage just fine at this time of the year. In the winter, it'd be a lot harder.

@fabia_man náš barák už nemá ani komín. Všechno je na elektriku. V té jsme z velké části soběstační, ale barák fotovoltaikou v zimě nevytopíme. Uvažoval jsem o záložním generátoru na plyn, ale pořizuj zařízení za desítky tisíc, které možná ani nikdy nepoužiješ.
Jinak všechny nové kotle už potřebují elektřinu, ať už topí čímkoliv. Kamarád sháněl před několika lety takový, který to ještě nevyžaduje, a říkal, že sehnal jeden z posledních kusů.

@Cooba13 @fabia_man máti si pořídila kamna i do bytu (jako sekundární topení, hlavní má plyn). Ta by byla vysmátá, protože elektřinu to nevyžaduje na rozdíl od jejího plynového kotle.

@janbartosik Určitě Mini, poslední SE má naprosto příšernou vydrž na baterii, reálně jednu z nejhorších na trhu (včetně telefonů za pár korun).

Today I learned that my humble hobby project #Linux #Desktop Migration Tool is being used in a company with 600k employees to migrate to new Linux workstations.

It's amazing how far code I started writing at night to help myself can get.

#opensource

If you haven't switched from #Goodreads to #TheStoryGraph yet, don't hesitate. I've been using it for a few weeks now, and it's Goodreads before it was enshittified by Amazon (and much more): you can add missing books, if you see problems you can't fix yourself, you report them and a volunteer librarian fixes them within a few days...

#books #bookstodon #StoryGraph

#Garmin watch owners, beware! There is a problem with a GPS coordination file that can brick your watch. Until it's resolved, avoid any GPS activities and/or turn the watch connectivity completely off.
My model is affected. 😕

#GarminGPS #BootLoop

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/01/garmin-watches-are-crashing-when-trying-to-start-gps.html

@jwildeboer it still makes me uneasy that it's a centralized service with servers located in the US. I'd very much prefer Matrix. But it's still much better than what most people use now, so yeah, a win.

I often hear that #Mozilla got into trouble after they let Brendan Eich go, that that was the point where political voices overrode technical merit. In fact, these projects have a lot of momentum, these things take years to work out. It's actually the strategic leadership of Brendan Eich, who was CTO since 2005, that got Mozilla into trouble.
Today I came across a nice example of this from 2007.

Source @torgo: https://www.torgo.com/blog/2007/03/browser-panel-at-sxsw.html

@jwildeboer @bookwar Thanks, it also looks good, it's always good to have more options.

@jwildeboer yeah, it's great. I just set up one instance for my parents in law.
I only wish it supported more resource hungry features such as video thumbnails, or facial recognition in Photos, or Nextcloud Office. I understand it requires more resources, but I'd be willing to pay for it in some extra package.

@bookwar Interesting. Can you point me to the offering? I've only found this which is significantly more expensive than Hetzner:
https://www.ionos.com/cloud/cloud-apps/nextcloud

I run my Nextcloud in my own VPS and mount 1TB Storage Box by Hetzner to it, that way I can run whatever I want and have cheap storage, too. But I don't want to run VPSes and Nextcloud instances for other people.
@jwildeboer

@janbartosik Sedly jak prdel na hrnec. Vyzkoušel jsem před nimi asi 5 jiných a jenom jsem je obul, hned jsem říkal: ten zbytek můžete odnést.

When I came to #TriExpert with my 17-year-old #Asics running shoes, the shop assistant almost fainted. They lasted for so many years, I got the most out of them, and I ran in them a few years longer than I should have.
Today I finally got new ones.

#run #running

Today I convinced my mom's boyfriend to use #Hetzner Storage Share (#Nextcloud) instead of just paying Google for cloud storage. 1TB for €5 compared to 100GB for €3 and it has so many more apps and features.
If only Hetzner's sign up and setup was less enterpricy.

@richlv @nullagent @jberg @NeonPurpleStar @elCelio Exactly, naivity at its best. Russia was "invited" to my country, too, they stayed for 40 years and it was not particularly good experience. Russia comes there to exploit, nothing else. France has a terrible colonial past, but is at least a tiny bit held accountable by its democratic system, the Russian regime is accountable to no one.

@VeroniqueB99 @ArneBab the same here in Czechia. My father was fighting cancer for 7 years and never paid anything. The insurance company even reimbursed travel costs to the hospital.

@janbartosik @mkyral @xcabal05 já hned: "Jé, jdu se Spotify podívat, co jsem letos poslouchal...", abych si za pár vteřin uvědomil, že už půl roku jedu na Tidalu. 😅

@zechy Už jsi od svatby pochopil, že nejde o to, co bys chtěl ty, ale co ti naplánoval manager tvého volného času? 😄