Yantra launcher for weirdos who like the feeling of cli.

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unLancher, baby. Just…look at it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jkuester.unlauncher/

Sleek. Simple. Sexy. Salubrious.

It’s sort of a pain in the ass…but worth a shot. Maybe.

So the search engine I use now is searXNG

Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark.

Heh, just making a silly joke. As a home labber, I imagine you’re well across YaCy, so am just name dropping it for the newbies. Yacy, Hister etc etc.

Answering the OP -

Personally, I find myself either going directly to the sites I want, using RSS feeds or (gasp!) using my local LLM agents with MCP adapters, with something like Exa to fetch the info I want (or directly via PubMed etc).

(these are raw CLI; I need to wire this up to XMPP very soon so I have something that’s a little less “Haxor” for the rest of the family to use)

More and more, I am mirroring the stuff I need offline, so that I can point my pet clankers at my local files, Kiwix archives, Recoll etc and then just one-click them open.

I believe Firefox allows you to point your local LLM (that you self host) as the “ai assistant”, so that when you click translate, your own machine (localhost) does the work. I’ve found the Qwen3 series models (Qwen3-4B) to have been quite capable at translation; I imagine the newer ones are even better.

Question: If you’re a parent, how do you navigate social media use with your child/children?

As a parent, I don’t allow my children social media and I curate what they can access otherwise.

Sorry, was that a trick question?

Beratna…if you want full control over T&C’s, you’re gonna have to host your own shit…and that probably includes the nightmare of email hosting.

That, or accept that email is compromised and adjust accordingly.

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XMPP hosted via Raspberry Pi.

The setup is:

• Prosody provides the XMPP server.
• Converse.js provides web client / PWA.
• Conversations for Android clients
• Coturn provides TURN services for calls and NAT traversal.
• Tailscale provides remote access without exposing the XMPP server directly to the public internet.

(nb: also configured Message Archive Management (MAM) for chat history, private multi-user chat rooms (MUC), HTTP File Upload for media, and Jingle signalling for audio/video calls).

The server is designed to be accessible over our LAN. When away from home, family members connect through Tailscale (I really should just use Android actions and geofencing to auto launch Tailscale, but on my kids devices, I just leave Tailscale enabled. I don’t think it hits the battery too hard). Tailscale can only connect to XMPP and we keep our XMPP to family only, with me manually adding devices to Tailscale as I need to.

As for why? Because I get joy from hosting my own shit, having control over it, having it work when other stuff falls over. My stuff falls over too, but I know WHY and HOW to fix it, and that’s how I prefer it. I want to get to the point that if the internet dies tomorrow, I shrug my shoulder and barely notice.

My goal is to replace all cloud based services we use and I’m about 85% of the way there. I have a much larger goal too…but that’s a story for a different time.

PS: I’m mildly irritated about Tailscale use, so I’m looking at getting off that teat as well eventually for a self hosted solution. There are some issues with Headscale and I don’t want to punch holes in firewall if I can avoid it. Still thinking on it.

PPS: Meshtastic, Reticulum etc all seem super cool…but until there’s interoperability simple enough for normies…good luck getting buy in. I struggle to convince the fam to use XMPP (weird issues with android clients, Tailscale drop outs etc).

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“Guide” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There’s an infinity of difference between asking an AI to make something and using an AI to do the scutt work, looking over the code it made, running IRL tests, asking “why X? Why not Y?”, swearing at it like a junior dev, asking it to fix a,b,c then finally getting acceptable code.

And even with all that - when you set it up correctly - it’s still faster than doing it yourself (in certain circumstances).

It feels more like doing project management / “software engineering” than clacking the keys. It’s amazing how different LLMs approach the same task though; I find Codex to be much more by the book than Claude, for example. The Qwen’s are like Labradors - eager to please, clumsy, crash into things a lot. GLM and Kimi are different again. Etc.

You can’t let anything just “make me X, make no mistakes”. By the time you type in a ticket (with GO/NO GO gates, acceptance criteria etc) you might be looking at 500-1000 lines of text (which is why a re-usable template and procedures are important). You need repeatable procedures, acceptance tests - the lot.

And so it goes.

Yeah, I don’t accept PRs any more from people I don’t know. Low trust.

Yeah, KaiOS is dead.

Here is what I have - there must be a local version https://opelmobile.com.au/product/touch-flip/

It’s Android 8.1. I installed a different launcher, small browser (SmartCookieWeb) and a few other essentials (banking app, QR reader etc). If you don’t mind the flip factor (the T9 keyboard is a dream on this one…and with TT9 Whistle, I have the best of all worlds)

EDIT: Found it https://sunbeamwireless.com/product/sunbeam-f1-orchid

US version is more locked down but jailbreak guides avail https://furbreeze.github.io/2025/01/23/sunbeam-f1-root.html

I don’t believe you. Is a shorn scrotum spectacular? Was your mother a French prostitute?

You’re talking loud, but say so little.

Your post history is an argument. You made it - in public. I’m just citing it.

PS: I believe in you too, champ.

PPS: Still waiting on well…frankly anything not resembling a brain fart from you. You can do it! Maximum effort!

You wish, jellyfish :)

Don’t you have a long suffering GF to try to right-think and brow beat some more?

Yeah, that was my feeling on it too. Cute, but too itty bitty. I already have an android flip phone if I want that form factor.

It sounds like the Cubots would be ideal for you…IF you can find evidence of CFW unlocking your regional bands.

Sorry dude. Chin up - they nuked 3G here entirely. Which means none of the good, old phones work at all. I have a Nokia N95 that’s awesome but I can’t do squat with it as a phone any more.