My current multi-phone strategy
In response to a question a commenter named Jerry asked, I want to briefly explain my multi-phone strategy.
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In response to a question a commenter named Jerry asked, I want to briefly explain my multi-phone strategy.
After a tough last weekend, a little cold, and bad weather, I was really exhausted and not in the best mood this week. But I knew the weather would be great on Friday, so I planned a bike tour. A 47-kilometer round trip north where there aren’t many hills.
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Why don’t I post much lately? I’m getting my hands more and more dirty – literally.
Some weeks ago, I wrote about my first experiences with Proxmox, which I had been playing with to make use of an old, small-size desktop PC. I also considered virtualizing my home router. A few weeks later, a small “firewall appliance” (just a mini PC with an Intel N150 CPU and four 2.5 GbE ports) from the brand Topton arrived, along with a used 16 GB DDR5 memory stick and a 1 TB NVMe, both of which I had ordered separately. This was the setup intended to run my virtualized router.
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Yesterday and today, I was busy with some “bug fixing.” Not on computer code, but on my beloved bike – the one from that incident last month that sent me to the hospital for an X-ray.
Given that AI agents and GitHub Copilot is an integral part of my work day nowadays, I decided to tackle a massive task I neclected for too long. AI should now help me with it: writing entirely new and better documentation for GoBlog.
Two days ago, I needed a tool for some automation. I want to regularly download a newspaper PDF from a tool provided by my local library. That PDF should be uploaded to my PicoShare instance, and then an email with the link should be sent.
I will migrate away from Telegram. Enough is enough. After more and more features are behind the Telegram Premium paywall (which I understand to a degree) and the increasing integration of stars (a crypto scheme? — I have less understanding for that), now also Grok from xAI by right-wing extremist Elon Musk will be integrated.
Getting ready for Scotland involved buying some gear – next to the required things also a headlamp, a powerbank and Merino clothes. On the surface, maybe a bit much. Did I need a new powerbank? Technically no, but the right size makes a difference for tracking, navigating, and tent-charging on a trip like this. Merino? It means less sweat, less odor, more comfort over days of exploring.
I tried GitHub Copilot (Free) in Visual Studio Code again for some small GoBlog changes. Copilot can now generate tests (although it doesn’t feel intelligent, as you need to correct quite a few things), it can do code reviews before committing and it can generate commit messages. Of course, it can also do code completions and write complete code, if you want it to do so.