For the last nearly two weeks, almost all of my computing tasks have been done with my iPhone using NVDA Remote RC connected to one of two laptops back home in New York 500 miles away.
It's just so cool to pull out a bluetooth keyboard and connect to a familiar environment from anywhere, but it's even cooler what you can still do without a keyboard if you don't have one, thanks to the custom gestures and presets for them.
If you use Voiceover Announcements instead of AVSPEECH, you can even use a braille display, though it is nowhere as extensive as using a display direct with NVDA. So, if you absolutely rely on using a braille display, this is not the best way to work, but you are not completely without the ability to get an idea of what's going on.

I just did another small editing job remotely using Reaper on my laptop at home, and TeamTalk on a server running on a Raspberry Pi at home connected to Tailscale to connect the audio. Yep, it's an old TeamTalk server. I don't think there are rPi builds of modern ones anymore.
Not the best way to do it, there is some lag, but considering I'm using Airpods Pro, which adds more lag, internet latency, etc. it worked pretty well, all things considered. Sonobus for iOS is, unfortunately, very jittery most of the time, probably because it hasn't been updated since 2023, and iOS has changed around it.

I have still not quite gotten fully comfortable with editing stuff on Reaper under Mac OS, at least with the same speed and efficiency, especially when it comes to envelope automation, and I have some plugins installed on the Windows laptop that I don't have on Mac OS that I need for this small weekly project, so it's nice to just be able to remote in and manipulate that existing environment. The fact that I can do that from my phone from anywhere, provided internet connectivity is good, and latency and jitter is reasonable, is just fantastic.

Right now, I have the second eSIM on my phone using AT&T, and amusingly enough, latency is almost the same to my stuff at home whether I'm using WiFi or AT&T.
Jitter is worse on the mobile connection, but it's still perfectly usable, even for audio editing. I forgot that I had WiFi turned off for three days, didn't really notice.

So, anyway, technology is still cool sometimes.

Tuta #wrapped: our top features of 2025

🎉 10x faster due to Fast Sync
🎉 Key Verification
🎉 Labels
🎉 Calendar Widget
🎉 Mail Import
(+ A whole lot more)

What would you like to see in 2026? 💭

PS: Please don't say Tuta Drive - it's coming soon! 🥳

Sneaker auf der Bühne, aber ein Weltbild aus den 50ern?

In meinem neuen Artikel analysiere ich den „Hochglanz-Fundamentalismus“ moderner Freikirchen. Ich zeige auf, warum deren dualistische Weltsicht („Licht vs. Finsternis“) strukturell der Neuen Rechten in die Karten spielt.

#ExEvangelikal #Freikirchen #Evangelikale #AfD #Rechtsruck #Fundamentalismus #Kirchenkritik #Dekonstruktion #Politik #Religion

open.substack.com/pub/heinerm/…

Hochglanz-Fundamentalismus: Ein Brief an das System

Von der Simulation der Moderne, dem Pakt mit dem Kulturkampf und dem Verrat an der Mündigkeit.

^{Heiner (Heiner's Substack)}

I have a first laptop with HiDPI screen and trying to set GUI scaling in #Gnome.

I enabled experimntal fractional scaling, and set 166% scaling factor in Gnome settings.

For GDK apps there is no problem.
But many other apps are not scaled, or are scaled partly - window header bar is small. Is there universal solution to this? Or how do you set scaling on all GUI toolkits like GTK2, Electron, QT, Java?

UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in talks with Canada and Australia in an effort to muster support for a potential international ban on social media X. It comes after the platform’s integrated AI assistant, Grok, was used to generate sexualised deepfakes of women and children.

euractiv.com/news/uk-prime-min…

UK Prime Minister Starmer seeks support for international X ban

Canada already ruled out a potential ban but Australia's prime minister was sterner in his rebuke of Grok, calling the AI-generated sexualised images "completely abhorrent"

^{Claudie Moreau (Euractiv)}

I put my mouse in the microwave !!

Seriously. I have a bluetooth mouse that wouldn't enter pairing mode. It was connecting to *something*... maybe a smart switch or whatever. This cheap mouse has no way to enter pairing mode if it's connected to something.

So anyway, a microwave oven is a faraday cage. I turned the mouse on, tossed it in, shut the door and waited. It entered pairing mode quickly, and boom, connected to my tablet.

A+++ life hack by yours truly. Just don't start the nuker or magic smoke will come out 😆

#lifehack #bluetooth

"…muss ich bekennen, dass wir alle […] nicht ein Hundertstel, nicht ein Tausendstel dessen für möglich gehalten haben, was dann immer wenige Wochen später hereinbrechen sollte."

- Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern

Ein autobiografisches Werk Stefan Zweigs.

Das Buch entstand kurz vor Zweigs Tod in den letzten Jahren (von 1939 bis 1941) seines Exils und erschien postum 1942 in Stockholm.

archive.org/details/StefanZwei…

Diejenigen, die wollen, dass wir bis 70 arbeiten und diejenigen, die uns mit 50 nicht mehr einstellen, sind dieselben Leute.

Ein gehirnfressender Wurm würde in deren Kopf elendiglich verhungern.