Jeena

What we did in my dads house was just to repurpouse old wifi routers as access points and put them everywhere where there was no coverage. But we pulled Ethernet all the way to each of them. Then we put the same SSID and password so everything would just switch to the one with the atrongest signal automatically.

Isn’t omarchy just a preconfigured Arch + Hyprland + Dmenu?

I never went that route have always been using Arch with gnome until I like you liked what I saw with Hyprland (it was before Omarchy blew up) and just configured it myself over time and pushed my configuration public once it was stable enough: https://git.jeena.net/jeena/hypr-dotfiles

It’s just dot files (configuration files) anyway.

In the beginning I sometimes had to log in to gnome because some things didn’t work but over time it happened less and less.

Yeah, actually once I realized how much they have I turned it off in panic first, but then I realized, turning it off only disallowes me access to it, they still have it, so I turned it back on.

OK, I didn’t read the full text but I saw self-hostable alternative to Google Timeline and Hona Assistant and I’m sold!

Google timeline once genuenly helped me get my Swedish citizenship, but it also freaked me out how much data Google had about me.

I had to write down when I left the country and when I came back for the last 5 years or so, and without timeline it would not been possible because during that time I traveled abroad at least twice a Mont for a year.

Anyway it sounds very cool especially because I’m already having Home assistant set up for this but it doesn’t have this timeline functionality.

Right now https://jeena.github.io/recoder/ which I just released and here is why (copied from the website):

🎬 Why Recoder?

I used to edit family videos in Kdenlive without a problem — it handled footage from all our devices without complaining. But then I switched to DaVinci Resolve, and suddenly nothing worked right. My Sony Alpha 7C, my Galaxy S24, and my wife’s iPhone all produced files that Resolve couldn’t handle without transcoding.

😤 Too Much Fuss, Too Many Steps

Every time I wanted to edit, I had to hunt down the right ffmpeg settings and manually run them on each video — a frustrating and repetitive task.

My typical workflow is simple: I create one folder per event on an external HDD and drop in videos from all our cameras. A script renames the files based on the date and time so I can easily sort them. But for Resolve, everything has to be transcoded to DNxHD — which only supports resolutions like 1920×1080 and 1280×720.

🔄 Vertical Videos? Extra Pain

That also meant vertical videos couldn’t work. So now, I rotate them during transcoding to preserve resolution and rotate them back in Resolve during editing.

✨ Enter Recoder

I built Recoder to automate this annoying step — so I could spend more time editing memories and less time fiddling with command-line tools.