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Does anyone else proudly display the what they self host on their laptop? The hardest part is removing old stickers when you port from one project to another (Trilium and Obsidian for example). People ask me all the time what's this or that sticker. I'm impressed when they can pick one out on their own.
FOSS source is here.
No, hardest part was obsidian livesync
Setting up self hosted live sync was super easy. Fixing it every time it brakes is a huge pain in the ass.
I am so thanlful for that japanese person that made it, but it is so fiddly! At least for me with the cors, the couchdb administration and all. Did you use some other backend?
these ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/SoHexy ?
I think I'm in love. They have such great variety, and the artstyle is so neat. And I love stickers because they are such great conversation starters.
TIL nano editor has its own logo
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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Old HA logo but neat
I'd love if there was a Gravatar-style thing you could choose hexes like these to display as a digital badge. Even better if it was self-hosted.