Chat about gadgets and random tech stuff in here.
I’m not in the market for something like this but this looks rad.
oooh this does look cool 
I got tired of using my iPhone out in the dark on walks to make sure Viggo isn’t eating poop, so I looked up wirecutter’s top pick and bought two for me and Andie
These flashlights came with a rechargeable battery that is the size of two AA batteries, kinda cool!
Relevant to a gadget thread
After I started using cloudflared to proxy this Discourse to the outside world, I’ve decided to start consolidating all of my internet networking and storage stuff to Cloudflare.
Up til now I was hooked on using S3/CloudFront to host my static sites, but every domain set up in AWS Route53 costs me $0.75 a month I think, so that’s at least $3.70-ish I can save every month by switching to Cloudflare. I pay less than $2 a month in S3 costs, but that could be because of some old containers I should clear out…
Anyway, today I switched https://bradroot.me, https://staires.org, and https://ihavebeenfloated.org over to Cloudflare Pages. I didn’t want to have to set up GitHub repos for staires and IHBF, so I built Cloudflare Pages support into Postalgic (or, really, Claude Code did), which made it very easy to get the static sites uploaded so I could switch the DNS over.
I also found an article about how to properly redirect WWW to non-WWW domains on Cloudflare, which I referred to multiple times while doing this.
Feel free to use this topic to post stuff about your own homelab / self-hosting / hobby networking + internet stuff.
I’ve been paying $12/mo for years now to AWS Lightsail for my Wordpress instance at https://amiantos.net
Today I…
- Got Wordpress running on my home server in a container
- Migrated
wp-contentand the mysql database over to my containerized WP - Installed Simply Static, a wordpress plugin that generates a static site from your WP site
- Set up a watcher script to detect changes in the static site and then uses
wranglerto upload the site to Cloudflare Pages.
So now https://amiantos.net should be a static site that is served by Cloudflare Pages for free, instead of paying $12/mo for it. Very nice!
It was kind of a pain in the ass but worth it to save $144/year.
Reddit has permanently removed access to /r/all now, it redirects to the home page… how fucking annoying. Now there’s only the algorithmic /popular feed. Not the r/all was perfect or anything but you got more interesting stuff in there… well, not anymore, it’s gone.
Ah there’s even articles about it
What a bunch of bullshit
I guess I am on all subreddits until they shut it down.
Oh it’s been gone for a while! It’s been really fucking annoying, I used it r/all the time (ba dum tss).
Up till yesterday, it was only gone from the menu, you could still go to it directly via the URL
Oh that makes sense. I use the app like a loser lol.
I installed Textual last night so I could lurk on IRC and feel connected to people like in the 90’s. It kinda worked.
I think today I am going to set up https://thelounge.chat on my homelab.
that’s interesting, IRC is before my time hahah
Yeah I was 11-13 during my IRC heyday. DALnet was my server but it died out a few years ago due to mismanagement sadly
What kinda nasty shit did 13 year old Brad get up to in IRC servers 