Open source

Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.

After over four years, I am simplifying the UPDC to make it more lightweight, more portable, and less in the way. This is a status update on the Ultra-Portable Data Center.

“Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
– Linus T.

Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.

The Google Pixel 9 has just been released, making this probably the best time to snap up its predecessor, the Pixel 8 – a solid phone with years-long software support – and switch to GrapheneOS along the way!

A brief write-up on how I’ve set up my Linux desktop environment to be minimal yet functional, to let me work and use the computer as efficiently as possible. All without using Xorg.

Project updates from the current consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.

Would you like to have ChatGPT summarize YouTube videos for you, but without OpenAI knowing the lewd content that you’re watching, or paying them an arm and a leg for it? You can, and it’s actually fairly straightforward.

While Git is decentralized by design, in many cases it still depends on a classical server-client architecture. Many projects rely on GitHub, GitLab, or another centralized platform to host their repositories and thereby make them available to everyone. What if we could have Git, but without depending on any centralized servers at all, and instead use it peer-to-peer?

A build log and brief review of the Corne V3, as well as the Kunai case.