Martyn's random musings

Remote video and microphone on linux pipewire: bin/always-disconnect-mic-from-speakers: #!

I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI.

First and foremost, I really dislike the term because it’s laden with all sorts of militaristic and anti-free movement and all sorts of other problematic baggage, but it’s the term the industry is using, so we go with it I guess until the current push is…

I use ntfy.sh (self-hosted) for notifications on my degoolged android device, and forgejo (fork of gitea, which is a fork of gogs) for my source control.

Here I'm documenting the steps (in varying level of detail) for posterity and others to get an e-paper price tag with the next event of my day merging multiple calendars together.

So, When I first read this article about using Apple's Airtag network to notify that post had been delivered, I was super intrigued, but as I investigated, it required a mac to run the server side and I got disheartened and didn't look at it again until r…

Recently I was asked about my android phone setup where I don't have Google Play and yet seem to have no real issues with life without the Big G.

I've split the list into some sections : Useful for most folks interested in self-hosting cryptpad – Collaborative “office type” suite, entirely clientside encrypted drive, docs, spreadsheets etc. very useful when sharing info with my parents that really…

Do you want to try an Owncast stream but don't have a VPS and don't want to spend money on it?

I'm gonna be doing a stream on Owncast soon and probably co-streaming to twitch where I already have some connections.