Saw this on X today today. User Marshall Richards shows Minecraft server running off of a cheap $30 Straight Talk android phone.
This was just too cool not to bookmark. This gave me the idea to pull out some of my old android phones and find a Linux distro to throw on them.
Also, I want to drop this link to Marshall’s GitHub. He reverse engineered the API for those “toy” drones.
My wife bought me one last year, but I hated the proprietary controller app it used.
I’ve been trying to change how I consume online content, so I went back to RSS feeds.
I started by looking for blogs to follow, and had some success. Rediscovering old anime blogs was a nostalgia trip, and I added a few that are still active to my RSS reader. But things really started to click when I began adding news sites.
X has been my main news hub for the last six months, and I don’t like it. It’s great at delivering news quickly, but it also forces everyone’s opinions into the mix. Being able to see a headline and read it without commentary felt… freeing.
Just browsing headlines aggregated by my RSS reader was a game changer: no ads, no calls to action, just the articles. I can open what interests me and then move on.
A couple of my favorite feeds right now come from Polygon, GamingOnLinux, and EcommerceBytes for work.
Right now, I’m still collecting feeds using QuiteRSS. Once I get more situated, I’d like to check out some self-hosted options.
