NetBird not very useful

Not on iOS, VPN On Demand, doesn’t work. Have to sign up for beta to even get it. Jetbird works on Android.

Well, that Moto phone, is complete crap, so no thanks. Custom ROM on it means no incoming calls. No custom ROM, and it’s complete crap.

Not wasting time looking for a third party NetBird client for iOS. The iOS app store is junk, just like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and so on.

Can’t even get a working browser in iOS. Would have to live in Europe.

Updating it to the newest version was a big mistake. The big update is complete crap.

I wonder, can I go back to whatever I had? Probably not.

This iPhone 15 might be worth over $200, that’s enough for a shitty ass refurbished Google Pixel phone on Backmarket. Sounds like a lot of work though. So not really worth it.

Setting up my own VPN on a server of some kind, would be less work. Assuming the WireGuard client works.

This is what everybody gets when companies only care about money. A bunch of useless junk.

And all iOS 18 versions no longer signed. Why would I ever buy any Apple product if they can’t even make working software?

Screen protector has a nice rainbow effect too. But phone is junk, so no point in doing anything about that.

Apparently ntfy app in iOS is useless as well. Text only. Have to use the web app, and configure it right. Well, too much work. I’ll enjoy the broken VPN.

And openSUSE Tumbleweed froze on laptop

That didn’t take long. Maybe the drive is bad. Cause I was restoring data. Tried opening Local-WP in Distrobox too. Maybe Distrobox also freezes it. But not on desktop. Drive is too small. Cause I hoard files.

And probably restic caused it to freeze. Or me, for restoring incorrectly.

Need to delete everything in folder again. First to –dry-run restic, to make sure the exclude options work. Might need a -v option too.

And then I’ll need to delete everything in home folder again.

Nothing CMF Watch Pro 2

No notifications with iOS anymore. I did update my phone.

Still the best watch I’ve had. Like the round big screen. Just use it for time then, since Apple is a dick. If I lived in Europe, the watch could work better.

Worked fine with Gadgetbridge and old firmware on Android.

Well, guess I can’t switch to Boost Mobile. Says something went wrong when trying to order it.

So the money people just block it if I accidentally have a typo in my first name? Well, maybe I can’t use that card at all now, then. Goodbye Philo then, and any other online bills.

And Boost Mobile just doesn’t work. Well, bummer. Sent a dollar using Apple Cash, from the same card.

MacBook Neo

Only 8 GB of RAM. That’s fine for Linux. But I don’t bother using my Mac mini M1 cause it only has 8 GB of RAM. Want to use some proprietary software? Well, it’s going to do a lot of swapping. Video editing, photo editing.

Probably could edit a photo with 8 GB of RAM in Linux though. Maybe do some small video editing too. I don’t know what I’m doing with photo or video editing, but the Mac mini doesn’t help me.

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            31Gi       7.4Gi       2.0Gi       546Mi        22Gi        23Gi
Swap:           33Gi        27Mi        33Gi

That’s my old desktop. Never needed more then 32 GB of RAM. Still doing just fine. $600, should get at least 32 GB of RAM.

Well, not from Apple.

USBIP doesn't work

Rebooting the server might fix it, but not worth it. VirtualHere might work, but not paying $50.

I’d plug the RTLSDR’s in my desktop, but no USB 2.0 ports free. No idea what the two ports under the 2.0 ports are.

Well, guess I have to just stream it from the server. My script has issues, and don’t want to fix it.

Oh those two ports are HDMI and DisplayPort, so I guess with the right CPU, I could use those. Thought it was too ancient to have those.

Wonder how long openSUSE Tumbleweed will work on laptop, without freezing. Apparently I can’t enable adaptive sync, maybe that means it won’t freeze.

Or install GUI and Pipewire, and send from it directly, but seems like a pain in the ass.

So with Icecast, I might have to add every station. Not a good solution. Might as well fix my script. Or maybe USBIP doesn’t work because of script running. Broken script disabled.

This might work.

Now looking for a frequencies list.

And maybe use JavaScript to format it, so I can spend less manual work doing it. Or look for different site, that gives me a text file.

Or use the FCC site.

Damn it, have to make a script now.

So what, I have to run it more then once? How do I change the frequency? The code doesn’t make it obvious.

Hmm, it can only be tuned to one thing. And it needs a way to change it.

Good idea, make a shell script to do it.

/usr/bin/rtl_fm -d 1 -p 55.153 -g35 -f 105.7M -M wbfm -r 64k - | play -t raw -r 32k -es -b 16 -c 2 -V1 -

Installed Pipewire on the computer with the RTL SDRs connected. Now to make a script, to play the MHz sent to it. No more fucking around with HTTP, all I need is a simple shell script.

#!/usr/bin/env python3
import sys
rfile = open("radio.txt", "r")
n = 0
for line in rfile:
    l = line.strip()
    fsp = l.find(' ')
    c = l[1:fsp]
    sp = l.find('|', fsp) + 1
    se = l.find(' ', sp)
    fm = l[sp:se]
    print('ch' + str(n) + ' =  ' + fm + ',FM,' + c)
    n = n + 1
rfile.close()

To convert FCC radio freqs to the Icecast thing’s config file. Not needed for me. No more USB IP crap either.

Replace 105.7 with $1, and then run ssh xxx@xxx ./radio.sh 105.7. Problem solved. Now to make a script for 105.7, since I got a bad memory. Or make a script, and list radio stations, then enter it.

There’s duplicates in my radio.txt or the output from script.

#!/usr/bin/env bash
cat ~/stations.txt
read -p "Enter radio station:" freq
ssh xxx@xxx ./radio.sh $freq

Nice and easy.

Don’t really need a script on the RTL SDR server.

Radio sounds worse now.

Just keep messing with the options, and it’ll sound funny.

To get 48Hz: /usr/bin/rtl_fm -d 1 -p 55.153 -g35 -f $1M -M wbfm -r 96k - | play -t raw -r 48k -es -b 16 -c 2 -V1 -

Don’t ask me, how that helps playing on headphones though.

Want an even better solution?

rtl_tcp -a IP -p 8181 -d 0

And put it in a service file. Use Gqrx.

rtl_tcp=192.168.2.41:8181,bias=0

I want Stereo FM, the rtl_fm_streamers don’t support the V4 RTL SDR Blog thing. And too lazy to figure out how to update librtlsdr.

SteelSeries - Rival 3

Forgot I had that mouse. The Zowie mouse I have, was having an issue with the scroll wheel. Then it went away. Bought the Zowie in 2017.

This one has barely been used, was using it with a laptop most likely, but was probably a pain using it on a lap desk. Works fine using it on a desk though.

Uses triple A batteries, I think. And no need to plug the mouse in or set on a charger. Got plenty of rechargeable batteries. Having to remember to put the mouse on charger, would be a real pain.

Zowie’s out of my price range now. Their wireless ones are cheaper refurbished on eBay, but no removable batteries.

This one is even cheaper, was just sitting on a table.

Works with the USB switcher too, just click a button on mouse after switching. Using the 2.4GHz adapter. And that USB switcher has four USB ports, so I left the other mouse plugged in for now.

Synergy 3

Bought the upgrade, had version 1 pro. Only $9. But then realized, should have made sure laptop is working first. Well, it should work with Steam Deck, there’s a Flatpak. Maybe only in desktop mode though, not sure. Wayland is experimental, didn’t know that either.

There’s probably a free thing to do it as well.

Well, get to test it anyways. Laptop seemed to be freezing because of AMDGPU. If it’s the driver, using openSUSE Tumbleweed could help. If I could disable the iGPU that could help too.

Might not be worth buying. Keep getting crap added to text files in Kate. Not sure if it’s Synergy or me though.

How about Input Leap? Free and might work better then Synergy. Only wasted $9. No clipboard sharing, not with Synergy either. If using Wayland. Is there a fork of it, that is more updated? Plenty of pull requests.

Maybe deskflow. Nice, no Flatpak needed either.

Asshole pics

Where are the asshole pics somebody said you get after getting a colonoscopy? Or maybe I should say colon pics.

Well, the digestive place, requires a pin to login, which requires contacting them. Well, too lazy to do that.

If I want to see the inside of a colon, all I’d have to do is go to Wikipedia.

Multitasking

Trying to listen to a talk show on radio and do something else, doesn’t work right now for me. Then I just hear annoying sounds in the background.

Well, finally realized, I don’t have to keep turning receiver up and down. Make it loud enough for radio, then use software to make the volume less for my music. The MPD client has volume control. And volume control in KDE too. The Atari VCS sound card shows up just like a local sound card. All I need is Pipewire to do that.

Want to get distracted? Get a cat, bond with cat, leave for 16 days, then go back. Distracted from my mind, sure is nice.

Pink Floyd not loud enough.

Well, I could make a script to change volume when it switches to Pink Floyd.

Putting openSUSE Tumbleweed on laptop. If it freezes too, then the laptop hardware is bad, or it hates Linux. And I’ll be getting rid of laptop in that case. Don’t want Windows.

Woke up tired. Think my body just likes waking up at 8 AM as well. Got a sunrise sleep thing coming, possibly the cheapest one. It’s the iHome one, the cheapest one, that’s on sale for $25. Think it said it helps fall a sleep, and wake up. Better then $180 or whatever the Philips one costs. There’s a Hatch one, and to use all features, I’d have to subscribe. Have to subscribe to something to sleep better? No thanks.

Comfortably Numb, sang that in funny farm, while doing Karaoke.

Speaking of multitasking… Oh wait, that goes on a different domain.

How does one find out what their sexuality is?

Well, the only person that knows, who they like, is the person. How does one figure out who they like? Don’t ask me.

But I know what OCD and anxiety is now. All I had to do, was get near the flight or fight response. Don’t recommend it.

I do want to know something though, why can’t the doctor feel numbness on me? Pretty sure I asked somebody that at hospital. Or asked them something, and said they couldn’t feel numbness on me. Don’t know what I asked them though. I’m guessing something felt numb. No idea what.

Apparently in the funny farm, some people change their names. Either that, or I need to get my hearing checked. My ears do ring, which apparently means the fibers are damaged. What good will getting my hearing checked do? Hearing aids require batteries. Also, if my hearing is bad enough for hearing aids, that’s surprising.

They should have apartments in the hospital, that way, I wouldn’t have had to leave. And my insurance would get to pay for me to live there. Hmm, I wonder how much the bill was. Too lazy to look.