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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I’ve thought about bodging something together with n8n and Tasker so I can just screenshot something or send it a voice note and have it add an event on my calendar.

    That being said my server is an 8th gen i3 w/ 12GB of RAM and I’m not willing to leave my desktop running 24/7 so idk if I can run a model good enough to handle this over there. Even if it is a supposedly menial “OCR and call tool” workflow.




  • I often help my parents use their phones.
    It is so hard when every app they use has its own garbage bespoke design language and you get such pearls as:

    • Buttons and tabs can be any combination of Colored Square, White Square with Outline or Grey Text on White Background (and they switch every screen!)
    • Modals without a scroll bar so you can’t tell there’s a “Confirm” button at the bottom
    • Awfully confusing share dialogs before the Native system share sheet opens
    • Inconsistent iconography
    • Overflow menus hidden behind 3 dots, 3 lines or neither

    I feel like it’s almost second nature for tech savy people to wade thru this crap but for your average granny this shit is practically unparseable.




  • A bit ridiculous, but maybe the SmartTube app via Waydroid?

    Not sure if that would operate well on a 4GB Pi.
    I suspect you’ll either need to keep the Android System always running in the background and sacrifice some of your RAM or go through a slow cold-boot every time you want to watch YouTube.

    That being said, privacy friendly? Eh? I guess more than the official App but I don’t think they’re explicitly doing anything for Privacy since their focus is making sure the app keeps working amidst YouTube’s constant changes.


    There’s some browser extensions that let you run the YouTube Smart TV UI on your browser but not really private. You get uBlock at best.

    The most private option would be a front-end like Invidious, but it currently doesn’t have Keyboard Navigation, so possibly hard to navigate with a Remote Control, you’d need a mouse or similar device.
    There’s a feature request for it but devs haven’t gotten around it yet.

    Maybe you could try to bodge it with a userscript? Idk.