I think I found it: cassette. Unfortunately it is iOS, not selfhosted :(

https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/12/cassette-brings-vhs-nostalgia-to-your-iphones-camera-roll/

https://blog.devthedev.co/p/cassette

I’m too deep into the android ecosystem, sadly, but if I found a good Linux phone I’d try it.

What problems have you had?

This is like a google voice number? Do they do VoIP and voicemail transcription, because I don’t have a replacement for Google voice yet.

https://jmp.chat/

Edit: yes they do voip, voicemail, and transcriptions, but they do not do RCS yet. When they do, I might consider switching, especially if I can use their voicemail for my regular number, like gv.

JMP does not (yet) support these features:

• RCS, which allows for video calls over the phone network.

That’s funny, I never use 1 and 2, but I use 3 often.

I used to use tap to pay, but I recently acquired one of those adhesive credit card holders that has obviated my need for to pay.

I have an old car and just have my phone in a holder if I need to see turn by turn directions. Unfortunately the credit card holder fucks with the phone stand a little bit, but it mostly still works. The few times in my life I used android auto I disliked it.

I most often use voice assistant to ask for a song to play on Spotify. This was really convenient with “hey google” while I was driving or had my phone in my pocket listening to headphones, but I live without it these days.

I don’t get it, I thought it allows all browser with JavaScript enabled.

You could maybe do this with tailscale: all your devices will be reachable from each other, and you can specify that you want the external one to be the exit node. It uses wireguard under the hood.

Seconding this, it is very convenient if your router supports a good provider. But it is better imo to use a good provider with a helper script on your server than to stick with your router defaults if they’re not that good.

I recommend afraid.org, you get everything that you need for free dynamic dns, and they’re a cool project so someday you may like to do even more with them or send them a little donation.

I started with noip first, and the monthly re-up was so annoying.

Wait so does the client install the game on the local machine, or does the game run on the server like steam link?

Why cap the scooter at 15 mph? It seems like that would make it too slow to ride in the same traffic as cars.

I would second kubuntu as I use it daily, but I don’t mind the snaps.

He lost me at “Public Webproxy” I don’t know how to do that and it sounds expensive.

Dude I wish USA had this.

If I’m going for Ryzen 8 core first Gen, can I find that in a dell optiplex or Lenovo thinkstation? Or should I search something else?

I could get by with 2 HD bays – it is more because I would like to use RAID if possible, and have an easier time to upgrade to larger capabilities as time goes on.

I’ve also just appreciated larger cases with more room – with small cases sometimes it’s hard to work in there.

Internal redundancy would be nice to have with a file server, but probably not necessary if I can have redundancy with regular backups instead.

Thanks for the ideas!

Cool, so this puts yt-dlp on Kodi and downloads videos before watching them. Hopefully this works better for older hardware than the YouTube plugin, which I think has to use more computationally expensive methods to stream from YouTube directly with the cat and mouse game between yt and them.

Do you know, does it keep the video files it downloads, or does it delete them automatically?

How do you get sponsorblock to integrate? You’re talking about anxdpanic’s YouTube addon right? https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases

I think maybe YouTube a/b tests us so it works better for some people. For me it often crashes, I assume due to overheating on my raspi 4.

YouTube support is unfortunately spotty, via the YouTube addon that they are in a constant cat and mouse game with Google. It often makes my pi overheat because of the nonsense it has to do.

I wish libreelec could launch a browser with Firefox, ublock, and sponsorblock

I’m a vim novice. I basically know just enough to save files or quit, paste with formatting, and “insert” changes. I think I used to know how to find within a file, and I’m sure I could learn again in an instant, but I haven’t had to do that in a long time for my noobish tasks. I know it is way more capable than that, but I haven’t had to learn more features yet since I use it at a ‘nano’ level.

I agree it only takes 3 minutes to learn these things, but personally it took me a bit longer to make them muscle memory.

I get it if someone were to be annoyed that things they knew how to do in another program they had to re-learn in vim, but this kind of thing it seems like you would just accept that you’re going to be frustrated and then put in the work to learn it so you can work more easily with your coworkers or whatever. Like you said, vim has serious advantages, and it seems a little short sighted to not be willing to learn from people that want to train you up in a tool to be more effective.