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Zach Shames

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Tailscale + BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex Let Tailscale set up the encryption and permanent IP, and avoid port forwarding, for a BlueBubbles server.

For improved connectivity, we highly recommend setting up TailScale with BlueBubbles: tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

As for the RCS issue, I would definitely open a GitHub ticket for it. The hard part for me is replicating it as I don't have RCS setup with my Mac. But we can always look into it

24.01.2026 15:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stay tuned for a full app rewrite update coming soonish. Progress can be followed on GitHub. The app will be silky smooth 🔥

24.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tailscale + BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex Let Tailscale set up the encryption and permanent IP, and avoid port forwarding, for a BlueBubbles server.

iMessage on Windows, Android, or Linux? BlueBubbles on a Mac makes it possible. And it might not be as tricky as you think, if you use Tailscale to hook everything up securely. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

22.01.2026 15:23 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 3    📌 3

Ahh gotcha. I was trying to avoid using a 3rd party service since this was all just for my self-hosted home lab. I instead went with using a private Discord server for sending myself notifications. But also means I can't do email analytics or anything using AI or my own algorithms

12.08.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How did you give persistent OAuth access to n8n (or whatever automation software you're using). In my experience, non-production GCP apps have a 7 day access token expiration. The only way to get around that would be to get the sensitive scopes approved by Google. But u can't for personal projects.

10.08.2025 19:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Unless you are a trusted verifier, I don't think it is a point

26.04.2025 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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26.04.2025 11:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And while technology does make certain jobs easier, it doesn't mean people will actually benefit from it. Things will just be done differently, and their work will be reallocated somewhere else. Some people won't be able to reallocate their work. It doesn't mean we will be working less...

16.04.2025 12:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Doesn't help that all the CEOs love to talk about how their AI will soon be doing everything under the sun. Pretty much to just drive hype about their product and raise the stock prices. When did Elon say that we'd be colonizing Mars again?

16.04.2025 12:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

People are so stressed about their day to day lives due to constant news cycles and fear mongering, that they just don't have the drive left to focus. So it gets offloaded to AI, and we slowly lose the ability to actually think about things. We are just waiting for someone to tell us what to think.

16.04.2025 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In the 2000s, we experienced a time when an education was valued incredibly high. Now, when information is most readily available, the value that the general public puts on education is at a low point. And as a result, so is critical thinking...

16.04.2025 11:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Android auto

11.04.2025 17:02 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Right, but you also have to take into account the dirty air. And the fact that McLaren probably doesn't want to risk the points loss if a mistake is made while in the dirty air. It's a shame it affects the cars so much. I would have loved to see some actual wheel to wheel racing...

07.04.2025 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He was faster, but I think they didn't swap them because it takes A LOT to overtake @ Suzuka's 1 DRS zone. Piastri was faster but he would have needed to get within .400 of Max to pass, and he couldn't even get there with Norris. Closest he got was like .600 once. They def played it conservative tho

07.04.2025 11:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Bitwarden 👉🏽
Or self-host it + Tailscale

07.04.2025 00:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only thing we can do is play the long game

04.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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a man in a suit and white shirt is asking " oh and who pays for it " ALT: a man in a suit and white shirt is asking " oh and who pays for it "

Expense it, perfect 😝

02.04.2025 14:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ok nevermind ...

02.04.2025 13:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is pretty cool, didn't know it existed. If it's not too pricey, it's definitely a good option. Especially since all the new GPUs don't even have that much VRAM

02.04.2025 13:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Are you gonna use your PC for it or buy something dedicated?

02.04.2025 12:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The downside is it's pretty heavy with the wallet stand, but I've gotten used to it. And you can kinda use the stand part as a pop socket, to alleviate some strain

21.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Phone Cases | Peak Design Official Site

I'm a big Peak Design fan for phone cases: www.peakdesign.com/collections/...

I stan the wallet stand case. Never carry a separate wallet, ever.

21.03.2025 21:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love me some n8n. Definitely a top tier open source project. I wish I had more projects/uses for it in my daily life. I've thought about spinning up a server dedicated to it at home though

21.03.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I grilled some backyard burgs today, and they hit 🍔

20.03.2025 01:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It is, yep. I wish it had a bit more analytical data, but I'm sure someone has created an integration with grafana at some point. But that's a project for another day

14.03.2025 15:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yeah, just WiFi enabled... I don't think they go to sleep tho. That said, they are a menace to my network, as they're constantly pinging their mqtt broker. Both domains were in the top 3 blocked everyday (right behind my Samsung smart TV). So I eventually whitelisted them to hopefully fix the issues

14.03.2025 14:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nope, just Wiz, and tbh the connectivity is iffy, but for some reason the native Wiz app is worse than HA. I hear shelling out for the Philips hue bulbs + home base works best

14.03.2025 12:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah but it turns off my Wiz lights faster than the actual Wiz app 😎

14.03.2025 12:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, what people want, probably isn't super feasible without a lot of R&D

24.02.2025 19:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish I had a good solution... I was just thinking of a built in rechargeable battery. Maybe include a dock that you can use to charge one at a time. Maybe some battery sharing capabilities when connected to each other, with the new battery tech that's coming out now

24.02.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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