It’s also important to make sure the code makes sense and is documented so whoever reads it 2 years from now (be that you, someone else, or I guess another llm) will understand what they are looking at.

Fair points, although it seems to me the original commenter addresses this at the end of their first paragraph:

Then review the entire git diff and have it refactor as required to ensure clean and maintainable code while fixing any broken tests, lint errors, etc.

Josh Meissner’s article about the acquisition of bike route sharing app Komoot is a sobering reminder of the risks of partnering with for-profit organizations and the damage done when their owners’ interests no longer align with the communities they serve.

Really enjoyed Rphyrin’s diary entry about their field mapping workflow while traveling along the west coast of Java. I often rely heavily on photos with location and direction data enabled, occasionally augmented by voice memos and GPX tracks, which I import into JOSM for my updates.

Lauren Leek’s post about London restaurants was a good read. Her description of Google Maps as more of a market maker than a simple directory is spot on.

10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man’s NAS with snapraid + mergerfs

How did you end up with this setup? Did you just already have a bunch of SSDs from over the years? That’d be cool af if you posted a photo of it.

For the NAS, what do you use for storage? Do you have an external drive hooked up via USB or something else?

As a fellow surveyor, oldnab’s diary post is so relatable!

Thanks for clarifying. If I understand correctly, you’re saying that in terms of energy usage, a thin client + external docking station for HDDs might have a smaller footprint than an ITX build, but at the expense of future upgradeability. On the other hand, an ITX build would likely draw more power than the thin client + external HDDs, but enables me to upgrade individual components down the road. Did I get that right?

I would only consider those thinclients if AI is something you are planning to run.

Do you mean b/c AI would require a beefy host for the thin client to connect to?

Thanks for clarifying that. One last question if you don’t mind – some listings (such as this one) say “no OS,” and “You must reload the unit to gain original factory functionality.” Are they just talking about installing my own OS or does “reloading” mean something else in the context of these thin clients that I’m not aware of?

Gotcha, although I’m in the US, so would something like this DELL WYSE 5070 THIN CLIENT Intel Celeron J4105 1.50GHZ 8GB RAM 64GB SSD No OS ($34 w/ free shipping) be comparable?

Beelink ME Mini

Would something like this be suitable as a NAS + Jellyfin + Home Assistant box?

That’s pretty slick.

What are the HDDs plugged into? Would you mind posting some photos of the back?

Piefeddites

CAM-Gerlach’s diary entry about options for tagging sidewalk connector stubs was a very interesting read. I appreciate how they recognized the need to balance pragmatism/ease of mapping and interpreting versus technical correctness (two often opposing goals).

I also appreciate that they took the time to post their analysis on their OSM diary so that it can be indexed by search engines and everyone can benefit from it instead of being locked behind membership of OSM’s Slack workspace.

be sure you are installing Firefox through similar means across distros. This will not work with the Flatpak, for example.

Very good point, I’ve picked up on this as well. Installed through the native package manager, the profile folder lives under ~/.mozilla/ whereas for flatpaks it’s under ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/.

I like to minimize cloud services if I can help it.

Why not just keep /home on a separate partition?

My issue is that over time, a lot of cruft builds up in there from apps I no longer use. I like things nice and clean.

Or just backup ~/.mozilla/?

The thought has crossed my mind. Maybe I should try this next time. Thanks for the idea.

try to sneakily make me register passcodes

Can you expand on this? I’m not sure what this means. Is it like instead of a full fledged password, just a four digit PIN or something? Thanks.

How does one find such retired laptops? As an individual hobbyist in the US, would I just monitor eBay, Craigslist, or Facebook?