Mike Bell

A list of my default hardware and software for 2024, taken from here and expanded on. Hope you enjoy! 📨 Mail Service: Gmail 📮 Mail Client: Gmail 📝 Notes: Joplin ✅ To-Do: Google Calendar & Vikunja 📆 Calendar: Google Calendar 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Google Contacts 📖 RSS Service: Hugo 🗞️ RSS Client: FreshRSS ⌨️ Launcher: None ☁️ Cloud storage: Gdrive & Synology Nas 🌅 Photo library: Google Photos & Immich 🌐 Web Browser: Firefox & Librefox 💬 Chat: WhatsApp 🔖 Bookmarks: None 📑 Read Later: Wallabag 📚 Reading: Kindle Paperwhite 📜 Word Processing: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📈 Spreadsheets: Google Docs & Libreoffice 📊 Presentations: Google Docs & Libreoffice 🛒 Shopping Lists: Mealie 💰 Personal Finance: None 🎵 Music: Navidrome/symfony/feishin 🎤 Podcasts: AntennaPod 🔐 Password Management: 1Password 🤦‍♂️ Social Media: Mastodon 🌤️ Weather: Weather&Radar 🔎 Search: DuckDuckGo & Google 🧮 Code Editor: VSCode & nvim 🖥️ Distros: Win 11, OSX, Arch, Debian, Ubuntu 📱Phone: Google Pixel 8 Pro 💻 Laptop: Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Gen 📜 Document Management: Paperless ngx 💾 Remote servers: 1 💾 Home servers: 3 📱Tablet: Samsung Galaxy Tab 9

Potentially a long one this time round. Lot’s of changes/updates/additions to my homelab. I’m also still managing a second homelab for my parents which brings it’s own set of challenges but is a lot of fun.

It’s been about 2 weeks since I was in hospital and things are starting to sink in. Firstly just how serious things got and secondly the trajectory my life is/was taking.

The title pretty much sums it up, BPEs suck. How did we get here # For most of the year I’d been feeling a bit off it, dizzy spells and being exhausted, I put this down to ME/CFS being a pain as per usual.

I’m half writing this for the people mentioned at the end and my own records since when I say the past 5 days has been crazy I really mean it. You can read a bit of back story here.