IcedRaktajino

I've always joked that coding as a hobby is just digital knitting lol.

Literally me for decades. My astigmatism wasn't diagnosed until 2-3 years ago despite yearly (or semi-yearly) visits to the optometrist. Thought that was just how lights looked in the dark lol.

I've gradually weaned off of smartphones over the last 18 months. Currently daily-driving the Minimal Phone and loving its distraction-free (or at least distraction-lite) ways.

I may not be analog like the article is highlighting, but I have basically eliminated the doom scrolling and have reignited my passion for reading (the one "distraction" the Minimal Phone does well is being an e-reader since it's got an e-ink screen).

Roughly 1,600 TikTok posts were tagged #AnalogLife during the first nine months of 2025

I'm just going to ignore the irony of that and appreciate it at face value 😆

HomeAssistant is great if you can source locally-controllable accessories. I've got smart bulbs and plugs but they all run Tasmota and never leave my local network (not that they can on their isolated VLAN lol). They're just getting more difficult to source. Last I checked, Zigbee is the way to go.

I've been playing with an OrangePi zero 2w the last week and a half. Definitely fun if you don't mind occasionally frustrating lol.

100% this.

But also "We're shutting down the servers for iMow 1 after which it will become unusable and we will not release an SDK or OTA update to allow 3rd party firmware. Please visit your nearest retailer to purchase iMow 2 and we promise we won't do the same thing to it in 2 years.

I'm sure we're past that now and firmly in the "you're just gonna have to deal with it" phase.

Thanks. Now I'm gonna start calling AI news summaries "tAIbloids" and make fun of the people who use them. 😆

Mine is also from the "Born to be a Bureaucrat" song but it's the "born to be all obsessive and snotty. I made my friends and relations fill long applications to get into my tenth birthday party" part.

Exactly. I've got so many half-finished ESP-32 projects laying around, but at least they're mine and work for me.

Same energy:

(Cries in Rich Hall)