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  • sunstonedtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldBathroom scale options?
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    6 days ago

    OpenScale works great and kind of does what you want. If you have an old Android phone laying around you can have it persistently connected to a cheap Bluetooth scale. Functional, but at a much have higher power cost than an ESP32 solution. Automated database exports to a local file (on the android device) and Syncthing can move your data around for analysis.

    The good folks over at Gadgetbridge might have a solution too, although their list of supported scales looks pretty short.

    You might also look into making a project like rmfakecloud to trick your Fitbit device into pushing data to a local server.

    Not sure about home assistant though, I’ve never used it.
















  • Relevant :)

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    I think the real question is what do you want to learn?

    If you want to learn Linux for a job I would recommend Fedora. The packages are up there with Arch in terms of being close to latest. SELinux, a security architecture, is standard in the RHEL ecosystem (Fedora is the testing distro for Red Hat Enterprise Linux). DNF gets a lot of flak for being slow but with the recent update to DNF5 in Fedora 41 there are noticeable improvements.

    If you want to learn what’s going on under the hood in traditional Linux, use Arch.

    If you want guard rails so you don’t break things, use an immutable distro like Bluefin.

    Heck, distro hop for a bit so you learn how to answer this question for yourself :) – you can check out separate home partitions so you can change distros, or install multiple, without getting rid of all of your settings / data. Use nix package manager and home-manager so you can reproduce your configs when you distro hop.

    Don’t think too hard about the DE. You can always switch to a new one. I generally keep 2-3 DEs on my system at a time so I can change it up at the login screen if the mood strikes. It takes all of 15 min to get set up for an absolute newbie.


  • That’s a great point. I suppose Framework wasn’t necessarily the one to push for this.

    The fact that they are fine with holding approval authority implicates them in my mind. Though, I guess this is tougher when form factors are open source and all parts are very easy to find. DeepComputing can kind of make whatever they want (with whatever restrictions they want) and naturally be associated with Framework’s brand.