If you are going the phone way and care to make the battery last longer, you can also install an app that keeps waiting to receive a keyword by SMS, upon receiving which it turns the GPS on, locates itself and sends the location back by SMS. It has dual benefit of not needing a data pack and making the battery last longer since the GPS or data is not on constantly. On the down side it’ll be tough to do live tracking by this approach.

https://www.theonespy.com/features/track-location-with-sms

https://youtu.be/FknRti6n_F8

These are just two links that came up using a basic search to do this. There are multiple listings on f-droid to help you not just get location but control the phone remotely over SMS.

Find My Device (FMD) (Locate and control your device remotely) https://f-droid.org/packages/de.nulide.findmydevice/

Simple sms remote (Control your device by sending text messages) https://f-droid.org/packages/tranquvis.simplesmsremote/

Finder (Remote mobile phone searching via SMS requests.) https://f-droid.org/packages/ru.seva.finder/ Cheers!

Yeah, this is why our AI image generators create kooky images sometimes. /s?

I’ve only tried edible cannabis a few times but one of the fun things is the feeling of epiphany once you realise something when you’re high. It could be a mundane thought otherwise, but when you have that thought in the high state, it just feels so mind boggling. Your message makes me wish someone told me this while I was high.

That Mason Jar light looks like a good project to dip your toes into. You can always tinker and improve/modify, for example by adding the microcontroller into the mix. In the initial stages you can use jumper wires and breadboards which are great for learning. When you know you have it right, you can go for soldering the circuit. Trying to solder everything in the beginning can be a little frustrating if you want to change things and experiment. That’s not to say you can’t do it that way though. If you think you’ll have more fun learning to solder, then go for it.

I’ll respond since no one has commented yet. Maybe it’ll trigger more responses. I’ve seen these lamps and they are super cool to look at.

I’m not sure where one could find these optic fiber strands but if it is the lights on your previously working lamps that have failed, you can look at replacing the existing circuit with a microcontroller based one. Look for nodemcu (ESP8266) or ESP32 ones. They are super cheap and super easy to program (connect to computer over USB) and can run RGB LEDs to create colors of your choice. You can also find GitHub repositories for code you can directly use to let you control the light and color over WiFi.

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Cool! Another rabbit hole to explore. Thanks for posting.

Learned about two cool tools through this article and the comments posted there:

1. https://www.autohotkey.com/ for automating tasks on OS level
2. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy for Android screen sharing/ recording and control

Using these together would be a very powerful toolkit for such purposes.

I’m really sad VR went the way it did over the past decade. I was blown away with the simplicity and affordability of it when Google Cardboard launched. The standalone VR devices of today could have been just our current phones put inside head mounted brackets: easily available to most of us for cheap.

Besides gaming, VR has loads of cool educational uses. I find myself repeatedly going back to Google Earth VR on my Vive just to explore (both in 3D and street view mode) random places that I might never visit in real life.

Lol, i was going to post the same question one of these days. I too am almost on the same version and I was hoping some kind soul would help me out.

On top of it I’m not very well versed with docker backups so I’m doubly scared. What I am going to do is to take a mirror image of my whole OS drive in my zfs mount that I use as backup, give a release notes a glance and go YOLO based on what I can make out.

Your post gives me a lot of hope. Thank you!

I used to use Selenium extension on Chrome to test my applications for Chrome compatibility. Chrome said they are disabling it now. Do you not want web applications to be easily tested for Chrome compatibility, Google?

Asking a person with a sweet tooth to choose between sweet dishes is unfair. I sided with halwa because of its versatility and relative ease of cooking. Basundi is mostly condensed milk so it is more of a dessert while halwa with its carbs can make it a complete meal. But why compare? Let me cook halwa, you cook basundi… let’s share and double the fun.

Indian with a sweet tooth here. My vote goes to Halwa. It is a broad category of sweet dishes that can be made using different ingredients and each one of them are delicious in their own ways. They range from quick ones made of whole wheat flour, samolina or gram flour to tedious carrot and dry fruit ones. A bowl of home made Halwa is the very definition of comfort food for me.

I hope it works out for you. It would be nice if you put in a comment back here in this thread once you do for someone in future to know if it works or not. I’ll be curious for sure.

One of my favourite YouTube DIYer NightHawkInLight has a detailed video on it. I’m not sure if it will work for your exact case, but I think I would have gone the same way if I was in your shoes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HedRbIsM75M

Good job! I watched a lot of tutorials on wet on wet techniques and attempted somthing. The paper warped badly and it did not turn out at all like I was hoping for. I too will get there someday. The learning posts in this community inspire me. Your post inspired me.

You may also look into Link cables that are sold for VR headsets like Quest/Oculus. I had one at office for a VR project and while I did not use it for charging phones specifically, the build quality is great and takes physical abuses quite well, besides being not all that expensive.

Since no one has commented, let me be the first to say that the photo you shared looks really cool!

I have that exact same setup but with 4 TB disks on zfs in mirrored mode. Have not noticed any performance issues in my home lab setup mainly being used for immich and media serving. I had purposely chosen disks of different brands specifically for this reason. My vote goes to this setup.

What I’m looking for is a way to take backup of Docker containers so I can restore them in case things go wrong. Doing so with VMs is so easy. If nothing works, I’ll make an image of my OS disk. Unless some benevolent self hoster tells me a simple way, which was my hope when posting here :D