He asked employees to print out their code so he could review it.

If you are looking for FOSS, I highly recommend joplin. It’s simple but works well. I used it for many years until recently I switched to Obsidian. I dislike that Obsidian isn’t FOSS but I’m using the free tier and the community plugins really make it so much more powerful than Joplin. They both store things in Markdown so I’m not locked down to their ecosystem which I think is a requirement for any note taking app.

I did, I couldn’t seem to get it to work. Mobius just didn’t seem to be able to connect to the obsidian app folder. Maybe I’m just doing something wrong but this would be ideal for me because I already had syncthing syncing to my NAS as well. Maybe I’ll revisit it at some point.

Nice, last night I self-hosted a couchdb server and setup https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

So far it’s working well though I had forgot to set the encryption key on one device which caused it to try and sync the encrypted version so I had a bunch of conflicts to resolve. Once that was sorted though, it’s been working well and I can sync stuff to my iPad now. We’ll see long term how it works.

I haven’t, I’ll have to check it out. I have an iPad but need to figure out a good way to sync notes without paying $10/month. (The iPad doesn’t working with Syncthing or google drive :( )

Yeah, the MD at the end stands for Markdown which is the format it uses to store it’s notes.

Agreed, there are a bunch of great videos out there but she has a bunch that really started to show me how powerful this app really is.

Nicole van der Hoeven has some great videos on using some of the plugins. I’d recommend checking out:

• Templater
• Dataview
• QuickAdd
• Tasks
• Natural Language Dates
• Calendar
• Advanced Tables

I have a few more plugins I’m using but I use the above daily.

I’d recommend just using whatever cloud backup tool you have access to (Dropbox, google drive, whatever Microsoft’s thing is, iCloud) or setup something like Syncthing. I use Syncthing and sync it to my NAS which seems to be working well so far.

I’ve been using Syncthing to sync my notes… it doesn’t work on my iPad (because of the way the iPad file permissions work) but I’m able to sync between my phone and my personal computer and work computer. (I also have Syncthing running on my NAS so it’s automatically backed up!!)

Syncthing doesn’t cost anything. You could also use dropbox or google drive or whatever so you don’t have to pay. I agree, it’s a pretty steep fee for what it is.

So I have a folder called people/ that contains a note per person that I work with. (I have a template that helps create what I’m about to describe for each person too so creating one of these people notes is as simple as typing their name). In there I have what you’d expect, name, email, position along with maybe some personal notes I want to remember about them but then I have a dataview table that lists all the meetings I’ve had with them since I started taking notes.

To do this, it’s a simple dataview table in the person note and then I also have a meetings/ folder where I add my meetings. In there, I just have an attendee’s section where I put people’s names (just using the [[name]] notation) and obsidian links them and the meeting will show up in the table.

I can also add todo items right in this meeting template and using the tasks plugin, I can create a list of tasks that it pulls in from all my other notes. So I have a daily journal note and this has a list of all my uncompleted tasks. (Again, all this is templated so I just have to open today’s journal entry to see these things)

And to top it all off, it’s all in just plain text markdown files so I’m not locked into some proprietary format.

I just think as someone new (like the OP), setting up vanilla pihole is a little easier.

I currently use Syncthing and it works with the exception of syncing to my iPad (and I imagine iPhone but I have an Android)… need to figure out something else for that. I did see someone somewhere mention CouchDB combined with https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync so I might try that and see if it works.

Not all I self-host but pihole, plex, & homeassistant are certainly my most used.

1. Use Linux
2. It’s probably not a static-ip and I wouldn’t rely on it as such. I’d use http://www.duckdns.org/ to handle the dynamic IP issue (or something else, https://freedns.afraid.org/ would be another option)
3. I’d look to pihole to start with for DNS. It blocks ads and you can add manual DNS entries. If you need something more complex, you can always migrate to something like unbound but pihole is a good, easy start.
4. Setup https://letsencrypt.org/ You didn’t mention HTTPS/SSL, but you should really set it up. let’s encrypt makes it easy and free

Yeah, but now a lot of people I convinced to use it, no longer use it because they just want to use one app.

Currently? No, because I quit reddit.

But when I was on reddit, I used Relay For Reddit Pro.

Yeah, the mesh features is really nice.

I’ve been using Home Assistant for a while now. I do recommend setting up a VLAN that can’t communicate with the internet which is where any wifi devices live. However I really like ZigBee and/or Z-Wave devices as they don’t require any internet connection.

Lights alone are a game changer. Timers never really worked well for us because we’re pretty far north of the equator and sunrises/sunsets have a pretty big swing. I currently have the lights come on 1 hour before sunset so it adjusts to this swing without me having to do anything. Then I have a button on my nightstand that turns off all the lights that aren’t night lights.

The downsides are that it can be expensive. You start with a couple of light bulbs, maybe a couple of outlets, next thing you know you are pricing out how much it will cost to change all your switches and trying to figure out if they all have neutral wires or not. You’ll start watching youtube videos of people’s setups and looking for ways to do more with your smart home. It’s a fun hobby but can be a lot of work.

Before I got my EV, all my vehicles were manual transmission vehicles except for one truck. That truck’s transmission was such a piece of shit and I had to have it rebuilt 2x while I owned it.

EVs have no transmission (well, I’ve seen some conversions that do but that’s a little different). At first I thought it would be like driving an automatic but it’s really not.

In an automatic, the transmission starts pushing you forward as soon as you let off the brake. In a manual and EVs, when you take your foot off the brake, nothing happens.

In an automatic, there’s not really a good way to decelerate without pressing on the brake. In a manual you can downshift (I know you can kindof downshift in an automatic but it’s really not the same) and in an EV you have the regenerative braking.

Accelerating in an EV is just better than anything because it’s just smooth acceleration right to wherever speed you are going to. Manuals can be fun to shift but I would say that EVs are better in this regard. Automatics still shift, they just shift for you and will often do it at the wrong times and can sometimes feel jerky if trying to accelerate quickly.

Really I think some people are just hesitant to adopt something new, especially if they feel like it’s being forced upon them as some sort of agenda. I think as they drop in price and more people try them, they will like them. Then there’s just the issue of range. I think if someone could get a $20-30k car with 300+mi range, it would be super popular.