Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the “na na na nah nah nah na” parts of the Three’s Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • It hasn’t started here yet, but I topped off the pantry at the grocery store on Tuesday and made sure to grab some stuff I could eat in case the power goes out. All my appliances are electric so that’s what I’m most preparing for.

    It’s supposed to drop to single digits Sunday and Monday and with no power, I can’t run the furnace. So this is gonna be fun. I’ve been wrapping towels around pipes since Thursday afternoon and coming up with a plan to stay warm and fed. So I’ve basically been meal-prepping all morning.

    S/O is with family this weekend so it’s just me and the dogs.








  • I use the web version rather than the app, but I want to say the app can store the library on the SD card if you have one of sufficient size lying around and if the Redmi has the slot for one. But as someone else said, there are smaller versions you can download if you can’t fit the full one.

    Not trying to push Kiwix on you, but I just can’t emphasize enough how handy it is to have offline Wikipedia always on hand.


    • Termux has lots of possibilities
    • Pair it with a Meshtastic node and make it a dedicated communicator
    • I run HomeAssistant and Emby and have several old smartphones to work with, so one lives in each room and act as remotes for those
    • Setup Asterisk and make a VoIP system using old smartphones and SIP clients as handsets
    • Check if PostmarketOS supports it. I haven’t used it, but it basically turns your phone into a Linux machine if I understand correctly
    • Use it as your “ugh, I have to use an app for [THIS]?!” phone. Basically things that require an app for setup or one-off apps you can’t avoid using.
    • Make your own little portable Library of Alexandria. Install Kiwix and download a bunch of ZIMs from their library. If you’ve got at least 130 GB to work with, you can even fit the entire Wikipedia dump with images and have that locally.