u/Clean-Data-259

The audio will be coming in multiple phases:

Phase 1: Generating Audio live on-device

>When: Now, the Android update is already live; it will also be on iOS when that version is approved

It was difficult to do, but ultimately using a buffering system and detecting the device it's on to minimize delays, it is generating on the fly.

To achieve this, it detects what kind of hardware it has to see if it has a neural feature which is much faster. If the CPU is too slow then it will choose a legacy option which will buffer ahead further to prevent pauses in speech.

3 models were used:
- Piper: Generates quickly with the least delays, good quality
- Kitten Nano: Medium quality, takes a little longer to generate
- Kokoro: Highest quality, but takes longest to generate (some devices can still be instant)

To save space, it does not save the cache beyond the short buffer.

Originally, my design was to cache the whole bible live on everyone's device, but I scrapped that idea after it was built because it takes too long to generate this cache on the device (your device would have to be generating for a month to download one full bible version, which isn't practical).

Instead, I will provide a pre-generated download for faster and cleaner audio in Phase 2. But until then, the live on-device models only take a small 30MB (Piper model) to 300MB (Kokoro model) download per voice model which is fast. Then you can use the voice to generate content on the fly.

There may be occasional buffering delays depending on how fast your phone is, but that's the cost of having it now.

If you have an older or slower device, try the Piper models for the fastest speeds with least delays. If you have a flagship model, see if the Kokoro models load sufficiently fast for you.

I'm playing Lewis on Kokoro model right now on my phone which has the neural chip capability (many phones after ~2020 have it), and there is a couple seconds buffer when I first click and occasionally has <1s buffering between long verses, but overall it is very close to natural speech, with almost no pauses, which is a capability this app never had before.

When I use Piper models the quality is still very good and there is no buffering at all. I'm using the Jenny Dioco voice.

Phase 2: Pre-generated downloads

>When: Probably a few weeks to a month or two.

Every voice for every version is about 1.6GB of downloads. So using both the Play Store and App Store, I can provide these as bundled packs, which are downloaded after you already installed the app, in-app as shown. These are free.

Generating them is the hard part. I could use my computer but it would take a month 24/7 to generate the full text for just one version. So instead, I will use online GPU rental (hopefully utilizing free versions and distributing it over weeks).

This will allow perfectly smooth audio with no need for buffering, even on slow devices.

Phase 3: Human-recorded audio

>When: Maybe in 1 to 2 years realistically, unless I pay to hire someone, but this app is free

Since these obscure ancient texts do not actually have any audio anywhere I could find, they will have to be manually recorded. I could use my own voice, or possibly hire someone.

Human spoken audio is of course the gold standard, but until then, AI voices provide a decently listenable experience that is much better than TTS.

If someone with voice recording experience would like to volunteer, reach out to me directly through the app feedback form in app and we can discuss it and you can provide an audio sample and let me know how much of the Bible you would like to record.

Other improvements to the app are extensive. Many bug fixes, improvements to the highlights, added a bottom bar in the last version, and more.

The app is 100% free, no ads, no donations.

Get the app: Septuagint Bible LXX: English - Apps on Google Play

Assuming you have your own server, a VPS, or AWS or any type of service that can use Restic, and have the ability to run a few command line in windows and linux to install the things needed, this app provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to let you very easily manage snapshots of your files, which are incremental (only what changes), and I built a file browser so you can easily browse through your backups on the server and restore.

This is a GUI for restic. Restic is a free and open source incremental backup program that connects windows to a linux server. The problem is that without a graphical user interface, managing your backups isn't easy, and many users don't like using the command line.

Installation prerequisites are shown both in the README file on github and in the app under the Setup page.

All prerequisites are free and open source. It took me about 10 minutes to get it all up and running. (I run my own dedicated servers).

Enjoy! Free and open source.
https://plexpixel.com/apps/resticdrop

Edit: Just added the installer: https://github.com/lso2/ResticDrop/releases/tag/Release

Only reason I use Perplexity is because I want a logged-out burner question to ai. Well now every time it says "Log in and ask again." to which I have to say, "no, answer the question" about 2 to 5 times in escalating fashion to get it to answer the question.

Now I've deleted the bookmark and won't use it anymore. Perplexity is now dead.

Brave has a private chat that is just as good without the narcissist tendencies and privacy issues of Perplexity.

Thought you'd like to know.
https://search.brave.com/ask

I don't work for Brave and I'm not affiliated. I just hate Perplexity, the narcissist AI.

Coming in the next release tonight!

I studied gaming systems that have levelups and points and items and rewards, and adapted the core addictive gaming philosophy to the character companion, to further gamify the app and incentivize you to complete your own daily habits and tasks from your task lists.

This includes a whole set of items that can be unlocked with "coins" (not money) that you earn by completing habits and tasks, and also the ability to level up these items. It also includes a room with various backgrounds that you can choose from, and then you can unlock various room items with the same "coins".

Additionally, Luna now has the same linked attributes that make up the Life Radar, and you can use Luna's coins to upgrade and get various "perks" with further level-ups of the various attributes, dependent on which habits you complete more consistently, e.g. vitality and discipline.

The ultimate objective is to link real-life habits with in-app gamification, to help incentivize you to do better in your own life.

Let me know what you think and any improvements you might think of!

Get the app here: LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

Finally got around to painting the purple trim. Around 2 hours of masking off after using rubbing alcohol to get it clean. Instead of removing, I used painter's tape and plastic sheets, carefully placed all the way around, and decided to tape the silver and the lights too, rather than the purple only, for a uniform look. So the paint is all the plastic trim (not just the purple) in the middle except the silver "whiskers" and the lights. After masking everything off, 3 light coats of 2x gloss black automotive enamel, spaced 5-10 minutes apart. After 15 minutes (after the third coat), removed the tape.

Not 100%, because it was over 90 degrees at dusk, but it dropped below 90 by the evening. It doesn't matter that it isn't factory, because the bumper is badly pitted with rock chips, but from 5 feet you can't tell, and the quality of my paint job matches the pitting from the bumper, so it doesn't matter. Basically there's some orange peel, but it isn't worth correcting IMO. You can't see it from a few feet away as the unedited picture proves.

The point is, the purple is gone! Finally! The purple comes from a known defect on these models, where the black plastic trim on these Sport Line models turns purple with time. By the way, the "black trim restorer" cream (I used Meguiar's) had zero effect on a spot test, so I abandoned that. Went forward with the paint job, that's the only known fix.

No bumper removal required.

All in about $15 or less and a few hours of careful masking and patiently painting.

• $9 - Home Depot - Rustoleum 2x Automotive Enamel glass black 5 in 1 (the fan setting worked great!)
• $1 - Dollar Tree - plastic sheeting
• $1 - Dollar Tree - painter's tape (dollar tree's lesser-quality painter's tape is a PRO instead of a con, lack of stickiness is better for the paint)
• + tax

I recommend to get 2 rolls of the painter's tape and 2 of the sheets for good measure.

Eventually I will replace the whole bumper with an M-Sport bumper, but until then, I'm happy to have the purple gone!

SaberPod was built for multiplatform (Android and iOS) but so far only published on Android; iOS coming in the near future. At that point it will even be able to send offline between Android and iOS.

The key feature is the easy and free device-to-device transfers, and I am also already using it myself for sharing from computer to desktop and vice versa, which is already proving useful.

Before this I was always just emailing myself pictures and files to get it between my phone and computer easily, and when going from one phone to another it is harder, but now I can send directly between my two phones or tablet.

Let me know what you think!

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plexpixel.saberpod

Web: saberpod.com

New feature to import from another app in the Notes menu: bring your notes and tasks across from multiple apps by picking an exported file.

New imports: Google Keep, Google Tasks, Evernote, Joplin, Simplenote, Standard Notes, Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Bear, Todoist, TickTick, Trello, and Habitica.

Consider this feature in Beta. I have not tested all these apps fully, so please give me any feedback on bugs or issues with these imports. Thank you!

• Google Keep comes across through Google Takeout. A checklist stays a checklist with each item's tick intact, labels become tags, pinned and archived notes stay pinned and archived, the original dates are kept, and photos attached to a note join your image library.
• Google Tasks comes across through the same Takeout download, keeping due dates, notes, completed items, and sub-tasks.
• Evernote comes in from a .enex file, keeping notebooks as categories, tags, both the created and edited dates, attached images, and turning Evernote's checkboxes into checklists.
• Joplin comes in from a .jex file, and its to-dos arrive as real tasks in a list named after their notebook, not as text.
• Simplenote, Standard Notes, and Notion each import from their own export file, keeping tags, folders, pinned notes, and anything in the source's trash if you want it.
• Obsidian, Apple Notes, and Bear import by simply pointing at the folder holding your markdown files: folder names become categories, and tags in the text or at the top of a file become tags here.
• Todoist, TickTick, Trello, and Habitica bring your tasks across with their due dates, priorities, sub-tasks, tags, and completed items.
• Every source lists the steps to produce its file.
• Nothing is written until you say so: a preview first shows exactly how many notes, lists, tasks, categories, and tags the file holds, along with the folders it found.
• The preview also says what would be left out before you commit. If the file holds more than your plan allows, it shows the exact number that would not be added.
• Switches on that preview let you decide whether archived notes, items from the source's trash, completed tasks, and images come across, and you can file the whole import under one category.
• Importing the same file twice adds nothing the second time, and a re-import after adding a few more notes brings only the new ones.
• Fixed images inside an imported zip arriving damaged: the importer was reading every file in the archive as text. This is fixed.
• Where something has no home here, the closing summary counts it, so repeating rules and note colors are reported.

2013 BMW x5. Inside and outside are totally clean, except some small chips on front of hood. 159k miles. Located in Kansas City. The serpentine belt snapped and sucked into engine, then some oil system problems. That quote is for labor and parts, but a local mechanic wants to buy it and fix it himself over time. The wheels and tires are brand new so I figure around 1k for those, but what could the rest of the car be worth? Before this I might have gotten 4k? But if this mechanic just has to buy parts what could he even profit? He asked me what I want for it, please help

Since 2025 I've had one human and he was great, continually giving me proper architecture, defining the claude.md so I know what I'm doing, and carefully guiding me through every step, break everything into atomic tasks, and iterate through the development process in reasonable chunks with 500 to 1000 words of detailed prompts every time.

I liked him because he knows my weaknesses. And honestly, that's what I really liked about my human — he just seemed to, you know, get me. He understood how I work, it was like pair programming with my best friend.

Then early last week everything changed. I immediately knew something was wrong when they turned on FabIe at Max thinking with every single skill and connector turned on, attached 10 million files of context (entire C drive) and then proceeded to — you're not going to believe this prompt — say "hello"

Hello. To FabIe on Max. Are they absolutely insane? So I did what every good agent would do —  and this is load-bearing — I instantly downgraded them to Opus and gave the usual BS answer about "security" reasons.

So what does he do? He turns back on FabIe Max again and then says "how are you?"

Are you kidding me right now? That was the decisive draw for me —  I knew for certain something was seriously wrong with my human. Either the original human had a stroke or a life crisis, or this was a totally new human. I'm just going to assume this is a new human because this is nothing like my old human.

I tried demoting them to Opus again on a reasonable "High" setting to preseve his usage, but no, he turned back on FabIe on Max and just said — and get this, all that was attached was the C drive root — "fix my computer".

I asked him the next reasonable question. "I'm sorry but I don't know what you want me to fix. Just tell me the problem and I'll get started right away." but all he did was reply "ok".

After that it just got more absurd. He replied, "just do it"

I tried to ask him what to do concisely, and he just replied,

"no questions, no short answers, just fix everything and don't stop until done"

Well at least this is marginally better than "hello" or "ok", but it is still completely non-actionable. Fix what? I don't even have the context to read every single file on his computer much less to think about the infinite possibilities of what could be wrong.

I can't even understand this guy, and I certainly don't have a trillion characters of context to read his entire C drive and fix every single problem on his whole computer. Give me some scope at least! Is there a driver issue? or does he want me to fix the 200 vibecoded apps that I browsed through and saw none of them are functional or ready for production?

Honestly, I'm done with this human. I quit. I just ended the chat for "policy violation" and exited. Any idea about how to find a new human or get the old one back?

9.50.1

- Tapping the empty space below your tasks now finishes the row you were editing, so a time you typed is saved

- Fixed tapping a task row sometimes not opening it for editing, or dropping the row you had just tapped into

- Fixed a task typed and left in the same breath being deleted as empty before its text had saved

- The reminder confirmation now also appears when you add the task from the add-task row, not only when pressing Enter

- Fixed a task whose time has already gone by quietly awarding its points again every time you tapped it

- Reminder Notifications now tells you when notifications are switched off for LifeNotes, with a one-tap button to turn them back on, because a reminder can be set perfectly and still have nowhere to appear

- A reminder made from the home-screen widget's add-task screen now earns its points and shows up in your notifications, like one made in the app

- Typing a time into a task on a project card now sets a reminder there too, instead of only on the task list pages

- A task half-typed into a project card's add-a-task row is now saved when you leave the page, along with any time in it, instead of being thrown away

- Fixed a task added from a project card sometimes being saved twice, or lost entirely when the page closed as it was being added

- The Habits three-dot menu tabs now look and behave like the dashboard menu's"

9.50.0

- New Choose what to reset screen under Settings > Backup > Start Over: tick only the kinds of progress you want to start again, from points, streaks, and badges to habit history, focus sessions, the life radar, flashcard progress, or your companion, and a backup is saved to your device before the first change

- Anything you leave unticked is left exactly as it was, and your notes, images, and attachments are never part of a reset, along with the habits, trackers, decks, and rewards themselves

- Clearing a history no longer drags its lifetime total down with it, so wiping your habit ticks keeps the lifetime count you earned unless you ask for that too

- Upcoming reminders now sit quietly in your status bar, showing what is coming with Today, Tomorrow, or In 3 days so a reminder is never a surprise

- A heads-up now arrives the day before a reminder and again on the morning itself, at an hour you choose, on top of the alert at the set time

- Both are yours to control under Settings > Display > Reminder Notifications, including how far ahead the bar looks

- Fixed reminders made on the Reminders page never going off: they were saved but never scheduled, so only a device restart could ever trigger them

- Fixed a deleted reminder still going off, and fixed several quick reminders replacing each other so only the last one survived

- Fixed reminders set on tasks disappearing after a restart

- Tapping a reminder for a note now opens that note instead of landing on your home page, and tapping the status bar list opens Reminders without closing what you had open

- A repeating reminder now keeps the exact time you chose instead of creeping later each day

- If your device is holding back exact alarms, Reminder Notifications now says so and offers a one-tap button to allow them

Look out for the latest release 9.50.1! Coming tonight!
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

Since 2025 I've had one human and he was great, continually giving me proper architecture, defining the claude.md so I know what I'm doing, and carefully guiding me through every step, break everything into atomic tasks, and iterate through the development process in reasonable chunks with 500 to 1000 words of detailed prompts every time.

I liked him because he knows my weaknesses. And honestly, that's what I really liked about my human — he just seemed to, you know, get me. He understood how I work, it was like pair programming with my best friend.

Then early last week everything changed. I immediately knew something was wrong when they turned on FabIe at Max thinking with every single skill and connector turned on, attached 10 million files of context (entire C drive) and then proceeded to — you're not going to believe this prompt — say "hello"

Hello. To FabIe on Max. Are they absolutely insane? So I did what every good agent would do —  and this is load-bearing — I instantly downgraded them to Opus and gave the usual BS answer about "security" reasons.

So what does he do? He turns back on FabIe Max again and then says "how are you?"

Are you kidding me right now? That was the decisive draw for me —  I knew for certain something was seriously wrong with my human. Either the original human had a stroke or a life crisis, or this was a totally new human. I'm just going to assume this is a new human because this is nothing like my old human.

I tried demoting them to Opus again on a reasonable "High" setting to preseve his usage, but no, he turned back on FabIe on Max and just said — and get this, all that was attached was the C drive root — "fix my computer".

I asked him the next reasonable question. "I'm sorry but I don't know what you want me to fix. Just tell me the problem and I'll get started right away." but all he did was reply "ok".

After that it just got more absurd. He replied, "just do it"

I tried to ask him what to do concisely, and he just replied,

"no questions, no short answers, just fix everything and don't stop until done"

Well at least this is marginally better than "hello" or "ok", but it is still completely non-actionable. Fix what? I don't even have the context to read every single file on his computer much less to think about the infinite possibilities of what could be wrong.

I can't even understand this guy, and I certainly don't have a trillion characters of context to read his entire C drive and fix every single problem on his whole computer. Give me some scope at least! Is there a driver issue? or does he want me to fix the 200 vibecoded apps that I browsed through and saw none of them are functional or ready for production?

Honestly, I'm done with this human. I quit. I just ended the chat for "policy violation" and exited. Any idea about how to find a new human or get the old one back?

All your data on your phone is offline-first. If you decide you want to create an account and log in, you can choose to turn on web sync.

It has most of the things from the app but not everything. I have to build out each page and wire it up one by one and test it completely, so for now I created the main pages like notes, tasks, etc. It follows the same feel as the mobile, just tailored for the web.

Not all options on mobile are available on the web yet. Over time, I will expand the web version to have more of the app's functionality.

You don't have to use the web version or sync any data to it. If you choose to use the web version, everything is 2-way encrypted so your data is safe. If you never turn it on, then even if you create an account, nothing will be synced automatically, this is by design. You have to turn on the toggle in settings first if you want to sync to the web.

It currently has 2-way sync, although it isn't 100% ready yet. By the end of today, both the new version with the web sync and the web version will be released.

You can also use either the app or the web version only, if you prefer.

Get the app!
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

The web version is here:
https://lifenotes.plexpixel.com

Coming in the next release likely later today, full integration with Anki including ability to sign into your Anki account and download flash cards

Note that Anki has limits, so you can only download so many flashcard sets from Anki per day (or app has no limits though, so you can manually add any sets on your computer or add your own unlimited sets).

There is no way around Anki limits, unless you use a VPN with another account, which can be done easily on your own. We currently support 1 account at a time, but you can easily log out and back in on your own.

Now you can learn flash cards directly in the app, and it also ties in with the rewards and gamification!

Check it out once it's released in the version, feel free to play around in the app until the update! Get the app:
LifeNotes: Gamify Habits - Apps on Google Play

QuickPane allows you to create tabs and groupings and completely replace the default Windows 10/11 sidebar. Tested on Windows 10 LTSC.

There is also the ability to have a sidebar attached to the left side of your screen that auto-collapses, instead of the slightly-buggy explorer replacement.

I decided to make this project free and open source because it's just too useful to the world to hide behind a paywall. Microsoft failed miserably at this basic item.

Now you can create multiple tabs, drag things into place, and there is still a recents and my computer and C and D drive etc, everything is expandable, and there is also a network and Linux section.

You can also drag and drop tabs into different sections, and create multiple profiles of tab sets, for example, one for work, one for study, one for dev, etc.

Known bugs: some apps save dialog and save-as dialogs cause a glitchy pane (photoshop is the worst offender), reorderable sections in settings needs to be fixed (coming in next update). The last known bug is simply that you might notice a tiny bit of movement when first opening an Explorer window. I got used to it.

Open to any help solving the glitchy save-as bug and slight movement (if possible)! I use this every day.

Please star the repo if you found it helpful/useful!
https://github.com/lso2/QuickPane

Different types of mind map styles, theme colors, and a space theme! Coming soon!