Mostly written that way for ease of reading by (non technical) family and friends.
Not vibe coded, no, but am I’m very upfront that AI assistance was used. More than happy to answer code questions. You have some? Ask.
Vibe maintained? Hardly. I need to keep on top of this for about half a dozen people, not least of which is immediate family.
Ah, there we are. The peanut gallery has arrived.
iT’s ViBe-CoDeD sLoP! OooOooh!
Six months of work, a functional offline archive, multiple unit tests, code reviews, 7 installed TVs, and a verified update system.
And your counterargument? Three words and a superiority complex because I mentioned I use AI assit? Fuck off.
Devastating peer review. I may never recover.
Anyway, how’s FreeTube working on your Android TV? Oh right.
To anyone else - feel free the ask questions. To this donut - suffer in your jocks.
Better :)
The issue with stuff like TubeArchivist, pinchflat etc is that they have great curation and downloading (spoilers: its mostly ytdlp under the hood) but really bad at getting the content onto your TV.
Plex, Jellyfin etc can be press ganged into it, but it’s clunky.
Smarttube was designed for big screen, remote control navigation etc.
What I did was make SmartTube play YouTube videos you download (I like MeTube because I’m not a sadist) alongside live sources.
Use MeTube, Pinchflat or whatever to download your videos. Use SmartTube LOCAL to then play them offline thereafter. It’s android native, so it should work on Chromecast, android TVs, AOSP, Firesticks (maybe?) etc.
Crunching the numbers, using a mix of 720 and 480p, I can store somewhere around 5000, 20-25 minute videos in 500gb. Stick that on a hard drive, plug it into your compatible travel router and you have offline YouTube on a boat, in an offgrid cabin, camping etc - anywhere you can install the app. You don’t need a server per se once the catalogue has been generated.
We did something similar with NovaPlayer when we went to Tokyo last year (I brought the Google cast with USB pass thru and stuck a 128gb thumb drive to it. Plugged that straight into HDMI and off to the races). I’ll likely graft that onto SmartTube LOCAL also.
Anyway, right now it’s configured for TVs but I’m sure I can figure out a way to have it display on android tablets or phones. That’s probably the final buy in step for the kids.
Oh - there one other impetus for this. My eldest keeps nagging me about wanting to be a YouTuber. Well, now she can film her skits, songs, rants etc and we can share them locally on our LAN via syncthing.
Later, if I hate myself enough, I’ll figure out how to use TailScale to share her masterpieces privately with the extended family. YouTube career, minus YouTube.
Also, she got this stuck in my head 3 days ago and I hate how catchy it is. It’s the one piece of brainrot we agreed she could add to the share.
Yantra launcher for weirdos who like the feeling of cli.
Red 5, standing by
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:
(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
Curious. Woke up to find my post removed at almost exactly the same time you posted this, complete with an accusation of “slop”.
The post had 31 upvotes, a 98% positive vote ratio and genuine discussion, for a project with a 6 month history behind it and a freshly repopulated repo. That doesn’t read like an unwelcome contribution.
To be clear, I’m not asking nor am interested in reinstatement of it.
Speaking plainly, !aials appears to be a tar pit for projects the mods deem guilty until proved innocent. Cool - your room, your rules.
But I suspect this approach will lead you exactly here:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/78050871/29108982
IMESHO, there may be some merit in approaching things the way !selfhosted does, vis-a-vis [AIP], [CBH] tags.
There’s a significant difference between those categories and a catch all rule that assumes the worst. The latter leads to things like this. The proxy signals you’re proposing would have tar-pitted something like the venerable cURL if it had come out today and been accused of “slopware” (whatever that means).