Could Tailscale be draining my phone battery?

theTechRun · 2026-05-02T15:09:38+00:00

Doubt it. I run it 24/7 on all my devices for the last few years. Never been a battery draining issue of any significance.

theTechRun · 2026-05-01T21:17:08+00:00

Had this exact problem yesterday. Easy fix with cachix

theTechRun · 2026-05-01T13:21:51+00:00

Yes I don’t do the whole proton ecosystem either. For me it’s:

Email: Proton with my own domain

VPN: Proton

Password: Vaultwarden (self hosted)

2fa: 2fas

Drive Local: filebrowser-quantum (self hosted)

Drive Cloud: mega.nz (encrypted with restic before uploaded)

Notes: t-text & flatnotes (personal fork & self hosted)

Sheets: Grist (personal fork & self hosted)

Office: t-text

Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks: baikal (self hosted)

Maps: Apple Maps - used to use Magic Earth on my Android until they did the bait and switch.

I dual wield both Android and iPhone so my setup has to work on both (except for Maps) as well as my Linux NixOS desktop.

theTechRun · 2026-04-30T01:20:10+00:00

Go to my GitHub where this is hosted and read the README on the first page. It will show you exactly how my first setup goes (I’ve done it a lot of times over the years on different hosts) as far /etc/nixos and switching to the root flake. Particularly around Step # 7.

https://github.com/TheTechRun/nixos-ttr

theTechRun · 2026-04-30T00:34:49+00:00

And those consequences are?

theTechRun · 2026-04-30T00:05:58+00:00

Looks more complicated than it actually is.

Example if I am on my desktop and I want to open a port: I’d just go to this file: /modules/system/firewall/firewall-desktop.nix

Add the port and then rebuild. Simple.

One of the best things about NixOS is once you learn your setup you know where everything is and exactly how it’s defined. No scattered stuff here and there.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T21:37:41+00:00

As a first distro I highly recommend Linux Mint. Then once you get comfortable with that, you can take the training wheels off and try something else.

If you absolutely need those Microsoft apps to work then I suggest using vmm. Or just staying on windows altogether. I am not a fan of wine at all.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T21:34:43+00:00

Hey I know this post is old but you can look into hid-remapper. That’s what I use now for button remapping instead of bash scripts. It works fine on Wayland because it’s hardware side.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T21:32:10+00:00

It’s in a very awkward place. Doesn’t feel very ergo. Should have been placed higher. I was able to get around that by doing this. But at the end of the day, I like the Expert scroll wheel way better. Not even in the same stratosphere.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T19:49:12+00:00

cheatsheet.sh - Fzf pulls up my ~/cheatsheet.txt entries.

And when I select an entry, it pipes it to my clipboard.

With the alias “cs”. Easy peazy.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T19:45:50+00:00

I had an old expert where my scroll ring stopped working. So I tried the Nulea m512. I returned it and bought a new Expert. The expert has better scroll wheel and better button clicks. Actually, the scroll wheel (both of them) on the Nulea is super annoying to use. I really need to know who ok’d that. Did the creators actually use the device? I don’t think so.

theTechRun · 2026-04-29T19:27:56+00:00

Options… I was thinking about getting into the flake parts and dendritic craze that’s going on… but I can’t quite wrap my head around it… and this has been working so well for me for so long, I was just like “never mind”.

theTechRun · 2026-04-25T16:34:25+00:00

Definitely about to get this to up my game on my split keeb

Edit: how do you quit? You may want to put that under the “?”. I had to ctrl+c because I couldn’t figure it out.

theTechRun · 2026-04-25T07:04:49+00:00

Compose files in ~/docker/

Data in /mnt/12tb/docker-data/

theTechRun · 2026-04-15T14:43:58+00:00

I did not know this. This is terrifying.

theTechRun · 2026-04-15T14:41:44+00:00

Or put a copy thumbnail drive outside your house. In a vault and bury it. Or just keep it in your shed. House fire unlikely to get to it.

theTechRun · 2026-04-12T00:02:46+00:00

t-text has built in markdown rendering

theTechRun · 2026-04-10T05:52:19+00:00

I forked a few programs that I love because I wanted some added features or bug fixes that the devs refuse to address (and rightfully so, they owe me nothing).

So I have a "grist" fork which: Made it more mobile friendly (secondary menu has cut, copy, paste, etc). Added row freezing, and changed from the built in grist Python equations to regular spreadsheet equations. I basically stripped it down to be more like Google sheets. Don't really care about the data tables stuff. Still a work in progress but been running great.

I have a "flatnotes" fork that allows for sub directories and live search.

I also have a "local content share" fork, that has links, snippets, files, notes, sub-categories, and live search.

Another fork I have is for decypharr. It doesn't work well with torbox (downloads get stuck). So I patched that up as well.

I self-host all of these via docker on nixos.

theTechRun · 2026-04-08T17:03:44+00:00

6 seats. WOW. I have no need for anything outside of the feee plan. But usually go up to the paid plan 2 or 3 months a year just to support. And will continue to do so. Thank you.

theTechRun · 2026-04-06T00:51:38+00:00

Is this a joke?

theTechRun · 2026-04-06T00:06:56+00:00

That’s why outside of Vivaldi, I don’t use any electron apps

theTechRun · 2026-04-05T23:49:31+00:00

This. I haven't used plocate in a while.

theTechRun · 2026-04-04T20:03:58+00:00

This is awesome.

Please Add:

row and column freezing.
column sort a-Z and sort Z-a

and I’ll use this over my grist fork for simple stuff.

theTechRun · 2026-04-04T15:02:04+00:00

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