UI/UX seems to be a nightmare though, plus missing software

I’d be fine with just a shell prompt if there was a usable keyboard to type in commands. Similar to a BlackBerry Classic. I’d just write shell scripts to do all the things I like to do.

I also like the idea behind the Planet Computer devices. But I rarely need to do serious work while out and about nowadays to be willing to lug around such brick.

MacOS and Panic Nova

I’ve got a so-called “Asteroid” with UberSpace. You just have to bring your own domain and configure DNS to use their servers. Unlimited mailboxes, unlimited aliases, Sieve scripts … and SSH access.

Apart from that, I’ve got a free account with disroot for emergencies.

Have you tried Settings --> Accessibility --> Reduce transparency? It is my understanding that this basically changes everything back to how it was before Liquid Glass.

There’s also a new Liquid Glass “Clear” vs. “Tinted” toggle in Settings --> Appearance.

Items are tracked using IDs. But if a movie was imported from Douban, NeoDB only knows the Douban ID. Same with IMDb. However, since TheMovieDB records often have IMDb IDs as well, it’ll import both identifiers if you import from there.

And there’s a feature to merge duplicate imports into one. This will make that resulting record available under all the different IDs.

Yes, whenever you mark a movie or an episode as “to watch”, “watching” or “watched”, this gets published like a Mastodon post. You also have the option to automatically retoot this from your main Mastodon account. Others can follow you from Mastodon and react to your events. (For some reason, they don’t properly show up here, though.) And, of course, it all shows up for other users on NeoDB.

You can always join one of the mainly English instances like Eggplant.place or ReviewDB or host your own. But as long as the majority of NeoDB.social users are Chinese, the dominant language there won’t change.

OTOH it’s easy to use the API - so, instead of doing it manually, I’m tempted to write a small tool that you can throw a link to a movie or show at and it’ll change all Chinese actor names to their English counterparts.

Have you tried it with the original GL.iNet firmware? There might be some optimisations in there that are missing from plain OpenWrt.

To quote myself:

There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

The author of the app is Chinese (but speaks English, too).

The actors get imported upon the very first import of a movie/show. And when a movie is imported from Douban first, the actors will all show up with their Chinese transliterations. If you import a new movie from TheMovieDB, they’ll show up with their English names. But as mentioned above, you can edit the names - which is what I usually do for US-movies. Descriptions support multi-language, though. Once an English description has been imported, it should show up for you while Chinese people will continue to see the Chinese description.

And the more English-language users start to use NeoDB, the more initially-English content will pop up.

After Trakt changed to a subscription, I’ve went with NeoDB. This is a federated network, so you can also host it yourself if you like. All entries there can be published into the Fediverse, too. It tracks movies, shows, books, and games. And it automatically imports from IMDb, TheMovieDB, Amazon, Steam, and many more. There’s just one little quirk: since this app started out in China, many actors show up with their Chinese names - but can be easily edited to their English names.

There’s also eggplant.place which is the development build of NeoDB and might be unstable but has more English content.

https://neodb.social/@mbirth/posts/522457362146719720/

Yep, same here.

https://mandse.dk/en/2025/04/13/hot-take-iterm-is-still-my-preferred-terminal-application/

E.g. the 272 going North on Wood Lane has to cross the A40 intersection. But due to roadworks, the traffic going North is extremely slow. People coming from the A40 fill any gap that opens up and when the lights turn green for the bus, there’s nowhere for the bus to go. I’ve once spent like 20 minutes there without the bus being able to go.

Apart from the stuff already mentioned, never stop shouting into the void about stuff that interests you or projects you’re working on. Add a few relevant hashtags so your toots can be discovered. It may take a while, but people will come. Don’t give up.

My home folders on any OS have a Development folder (which conveniently sits right next to Documents and Downloads) and in that folder, I’ve also got subfolders per programming language that have the respective projects in them.

The other folder I usually have is SyncThing with whatever synced folders are relevant for that machine.

What is this th → þ replacement going on in your text? Trying to bring back the thorn?

I believe Infuse has Jellyfin support on Apple TV. But they want like £100 for a lifetime license or £2 a month / £13 a year.

¿Por qué no los dos? Make Home Assistant your master automation system because it supports a huge amount of devices. And then expose those to HomeKit using the HomeKit Bridge service.

This makes all compatible devices (i.e. everything HomeKit can interpret) show up in Apple Home, too.

That’s how I do it, so I can ask my HomePods to turn lights on and off or lower the blinds.

Let’s Encrypt is. But tools to keep 100s of certificates up to date sometimes are not.

I’d still like some algorithm in my RSS aggregator. One, that detects articles talking about the same thing and groups them.

Then there’s the older way of checking CRLs which any tool of the past few decades should support.