Tailscale. Based on WireGuard. This is nextgen VPN/tunnel/secure way to expose your service. Works out of the box and can be customized as you see fit. Forget expensive cloud vpn to site, you can run 100 clients for free but I would recommend paid services if you are serious. I don't get a dime from them, just happy to share what I use and consider actually useful....

The Creality 3d printer is pretty cool. Its open source, and you can print upgrades for the printer. My next printing project will be printing household items and organizing the stls in my nextcloud. Would be cool to see a huge swath of plebs designing and manufacturing their own products at home.

We're probably 3 years away from plebs printing tables and chairs at home using plastic bottles, assisted by a 3d printing LLM hosted on their Start9. The pleb will sell the stl on a thriving nostr marketplace for sats over Ark, lightning, or ecash.

stand mixer

it has changed the game for cooking_ from mashed potatoes to baked goods, the stand mixer. was always a hand mixer maxi but the handsfree aspect of the stand mixer is chefs kiss

Mevo cameras

Got a handful for bitcoin++ live streaming/recording and I’ve been really happy with the form factor and software/phone integrations.

The 3 packs are really fun 🤩 for multicam https://a.co/d/gV3Ym0h

Drum scanners.

Ever wondered what the highest image quality in photography that is achievable at all?

It isn't an expensive full frame camera. It isn't something only companies and never people use. It's plain old analog photography on 8x10 large format and then not scanning them with normal analog photography scanners - it's these crazy drum scanners.

Protonmail's "Proton Unlimited" package: Encrypted email, VPN, data storage, password manager & calendar.

This Swiss company built a suite of essential digital privacy tools that are 'good enough' for many threat models. Currently around $8/month with multi-year subscription.

I love this small YC business, Nasdisc. They are a marketplace for vinyl and CDs. Started by a couple of Google Engineers. Makes for great gifts: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nasdisc

Frigate is a free self-hosted alternative to Amazon Ring cameras.

i am kind of de-teching because the world is less of a meritocracy than ever. Incompetent people are stumbling into positions of power and influence every day. Its literally not safe to even take the train anymore. Homesteading & family ftw?

this is something i heard about from their launch at SXSW last year, but it’s a cool concept that is worthy of being shared.

it’s basically a smart chicken coop, designed to help more people get into backyard farming.

the last thing my dad taught me was open dime, and to me is the best option for children like me, so my favorite tech product is open dime which I set up with out his help and sent some sats to it really easy.

has anyone here ordered a ‘humane’ ai pin?

they got a ton of attention a month or two ago, curious to know if anyone has tried it yet.

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