Saturday, 7th June, 2025

Been consolidating VPS applications down to a single server for public items and will have another for private applications. Both Oracle VPS under their free tier. When they first started offering them I was worried they’d take them away and wasn’t sure how much I liked Oracle so didn’t use them that much. However, it’s been about 4 years+ and nothing has happened so I might as well just use them. The free ARM VPS are very generous and you can get two small x86 ones. Think when I first started there wasn’t much for ARM in the repos but now pretty much everything is there. Also tidied up DNS records. Still got the private VPS to do. Although can’t decide if I should just host those things at home.

Been using the Linux (Debian) laptop and have been enjoying it. I stopped using it before has it had a bug where it wouldn’t wake up from sleep. Eventually I searched for the solution and seems it was a kernel parameter on this specific cpu. It’s still a bug in Debian but I’ve fixed it. It’s not quite as nice as a MacBook but it’s much nicer than windows. Did think that maybe I should’ve spent the money on a Mac vs that radio. But there we go. The best part of the radio is that now I have to buy transverters and other accessories for it.

Oh now I have to read and watch all of this content for typewriter maintenance. That sounds fun, and there’s a huge Royal at the hackspace that’s been on the “to fix” heap for ages. Someone is trying but not sure how far they’ve got. I talk like I’ll know what to do and be able to fix things. I can buy tools and stuff at least 😅

I should redo the Fuji film sims to give me an incentive to use the camera again.

I should do a lot of things.

Browsing https://selfh.st/ and seeing lots of neat apps, open source versions of high quality programs that you have to pay for otherwise. However, I don’t really need a lot of these and it’s a bit stressful looking at the all and thinking about using them. The only one I’m tempted to try is immich photo management, but also I can’t be bothered to maintain it and its database for something I probably won’t use. I looked at a couple of activitypub servers (also thought about micro.blog) but I’m not interested in social media, regardless of if I can host it. I just like my blog. I should just close it.