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Where do you register your domains? Preferably EU.

I am with Gandi.net since forever but they’re getting very expensive.

I love book stores so much. Browsing books, looking at the beautiful cover designs, reading the excerpts on the back. The feeling and smell of a fresh book.

While waiting for my train yesterday I picked up two books and already read half of the first - which is great so far! („Vanishing World“ by Sayaka Murata.

I had an idea for a very stupid highly over engineered thingy and I’m incredibly excited to build it!

In Germany you cannot carry firearms in public so mostly police officers or soldiers carry them. But there’s a few exceptions, for example people who transport money can carry them and it’s always so weird to see them on the street with guns attached to their belts.

I cannot imagine living in a country where everyone can carry guns. I’m 100% for strict gun laws regarding who can own a gun and even stricter rules about who can carry what kind of firearm.

Knowing that the average aggressive person on the street _at most_ carries a knife is a very reassuring feeling (although knifes are dangerous, too)

#randomthought #europe

Updated my #GoToSocial instance today- from my phone! 🦥

Building cities of stone with little plants and almost no grass between houses was a mistake.

It’s so hot and there’s so little shade, and shade from houses doesn’t cool the air as much as shade from trees does.

I hope in the next 10 years we can unseal the grounds and make our cities greener with more plants on all levels: on the ground as well as on top of buildings.

> All I want, and all I need is a good pub feed

Pub Feed - The Chats (https://link.deezer.com/s/33C8XOxILd7MqRXP0gWUs)

A pub feed could fix me right now (especially that amazing Shepherd's pie I had in Ireland in 2016 🤤)

📌 https://kevingimbel.de/status/1782032810

https://kevin.gimbel.dev is now built with buildawesome 4.0.0-alpha.8 ✨


Still not a fan of the new name - especially since 11ty was such a unique name. BUT it is what it is, and transitioning to the new packages went smoothly.

#11ty #buildawesome #ssg #website

Happy Kirby Release Day to those who celebrate update! 🔐

Kirby 5.4.4 (https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/5.4.4) is a security release so make sure to update ASAP.

📌 https://kevingimbel.de/status/1781696905

Just discovered https://midifreak.online through https://smallweb.cc/ and I absolutely love everything about this beautiful and weird website. We need more websites like this on the web! 😍

Tech Fatigue has always been a thing but with AI it became a lot worse for me. I rarely enjoy the day to day tech world, and I fell less and less inspired to create anything at all.

I wonder if part of the defense strategy against LLMs could be to have a `/llms.txt` page on our websites that just tells the LLM the site is no longer active.

As with all things text-generator related it depends a lot on how the thing is instructed, but I could image it helps lower a site „score“.

🎺 #nowplaying
#Music
📌 https://kevingimbel.de/status/1780393762

If Apple could use a bit less storage than half my total storage that’d be cool. 🥴

It’s insane how little choice users have when it comes to mobile phones.

Either you go with Apple, or Google, or de-Googled-Android-but-Apps-may-not-work-because-they-rely-on-Google-services 🫩🫩🫩

Gotta give a huge shoutout to @gotosocial , I’ve been running my on instance for a while now and it’s working like a charm. 10/10 would recommend.

#selfhosted #activitypub #gotosocial

Been looking at some Android phone and why the heck are all phones so big?! 6.3“ seems to be the smallest one can get, most I saw are somewhere around 6.6-6.8“

My smol iPhone SE is the perfect size for me and I really cannot imagine getting such a big phone again ._.

When I want a de-googled Android phone, but still need to use apps from Google Play, is there any alternative to buying a Pixel + GrapheneOS?

I have need for some apps with no FOSS alternative, and I have need for Play Services, but I want to keep them as low-privileged as possible, and ideally disable all trackers and stuff Google ships with Android by default.

#androidprivacy #android #phone #fedihelp

Liquid Glass is so bad. I’ve got a new Mac, M5 Pro / 48GB RAM, and it feels so sluggish and slow.

The difference to my „old“ M2 / 32GB Mac is minimal from an UI point of view.

I hope apple reverses this horrible design decision; but I fear they’re too deep in to go back.

Moved all my notes back to @joplinapp after one year with @obsidian@mas.to.

Obsidian is great, and has a super nice and clean writing experience, but there's no way I could get syncing working with Nextcloud as a sync target.

Joplin comes with native @nextcloud integration, and I do prefer to have full control over where all my notes are stored.

Migration was super simple: Import from Markdown files. Wait a few minutes. Done. ✨

👀 Still going to keep an eye on Obsidian, and will use it on Desktop for not-synced note taking, but my main pile of notes is back in Joplin.