I share your frustration. Both of my parents have multiple sheets of paper next to their computers with “all” of their passwords written on them, but when they need tech support (i.e., me), the password they need is never on there.

Have you considered the possibility that this could be a subconscious act by your mom to communicate with you, a way to ensure she gets to talk to you more frequently than otherwise?

It does seem like what I’m seeing would be someone’s idea/joke of a drunk mode, but it’s how the page loads for me - I didn’t click anything. And I can’t read the buttons to see if one days “turn off drunk mode”.

Holy shit how can you read that? For a minute I thought the text was encoded until maybe I clicked a button, then I thought it might be Arabic, now I see that’s it’s English but I can’t even make out all the letters. No thanks.

I now see that I expressed my idea unclearly. Sorry!

I don’t have any RSS feeds specifically for new/good apps. I meant that in my normal RSS feeds, sometimes new/good apps are mentioned that I want to take a look at.

I get leads from sites like selfh.st, Lemmy communities that discuss FOSS or Linux (or even non-tech-related communities sometimes mention an app that has to do with their domain of interest), and I sometimes search github (FYI, I use github as little as possible - I host my own Forgejo forge for my stuff - but, like Youtube, you have to go where the data is if you’re going to find the data).

I use Obtainium. It’s not a store or repo, so I have to manually find the apps I want to install. I even prefer it over fdroid: I might search for apps on fdroid but then go to the app’s repo (on codeberg or github, etc) and try to install them via Obt ainium. But 98.6% of the time, I don’t use fdroid to search for apps - I find them mentioned on Lemmy, in my RSS feeds, searching the internet via searxng.

I use Cirrus because I love its widget, and it does have rain radar. It’s GPL-3.0

FYI, here’s the story behind the unused Pixel 10:

I got a new Verizon account in December 2025, and was surprised to learn they’d give me a free phone. I chose a Pixel 10 (128GB, Obsidian).

When I opened the Verizon account, the Verizon employee touched this Pixel 10 just enough to make sure the eSIM was configured, but we never even set up the OS. I moved the eSIM to my phone, so this Pixel 10 has never been used, never even finished the initial boot process.

I think Verizon carrier-locks their phones for 60 days. I got the phone on 12/17/25 so it should be out of carrier lock now.

This Pixel 10 is boot-loader locked and I use GrapheneOS, so it’s of no use to me. I tried to sell it on eBay, but they wanted me to upload photos of my ID or some such nonsense, which I won’t do. I tried to sell it on Swappa, but they refused because the phone is “financed”*.

This phone is technically in new condition except the plastic seal on the box has been broken.

If you’d like to buy an unused Pixel 10 for $500 + shipping, please send me a private message and we’ll work out the details.

Photos can be seen here (link available until 4/30/26): https://immich.thewooskeys.com/s/pixel10

Let me know if you have any questions about the phone.

Offers will be considered.

*The “free phone” deal with Verizon is that they charge me the cost of the phone ($800) prorated monthly over 2 years, and each month they also credit me that same amount so the total charge each month is $0.00. If ever I cancel my plan with them, they will charge me the balance.

Sorry for my delayed response: I’m not sure why, but I see none of y’all’s comments in my instance.

And thank you all for your thoughts!

CerebralHawks said:

Swappa still exists. Barring that, I don’t know.

What is an unused Pixel 10? Stolen? Seems like a red flag. Those are tracked, the IMEI might be banned, and it might only be usable as a WiFi device. It might even be locked out of use, making it a paperweight. If it’s not stolen, you basically have a new device, and you probably want close to what you paid for it, but at that point any reasonable consumer would be better advised to just buy it new, and eliminate the possibility of it being locked out.

It’s not stolen. I’ll explain the phone’s situation in my next reponse. I already tried Swappa.

Mostly_Gristle said:

Lemmy isn’t really the platform for that. If I were trying to sell a phone I’d probably list it on Swappa, eBay, or Facebook Marketplace. It wouldn’t even occur to me to try and sell it here. And if I were buying a second hand phone, of those three I’d be most inclined to buy off of Swappa.

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried eBay and Swappa, refuse to use Faceboook.

cRazi_man said:

Why try to sell here? The number of people on Lemmy is tiny. You need to advertise the phone in a place where loads of people can see. Facebook marketplace or eBay.

Because I tried eBay and Swappa and refuse to use Facebook, and so I thought of the “tiny” number of people in the fediverse, someone might want a Pixel 10.

mrnobody responded to cRazi_man:

It only takes one person lol

I agree!

daannii said:

Ebay

Thanks for the suggestion. I already tried eBay.

Sorry for my delayed response: I’m not sure why, but I see none of y’all’s comments in my instance.

And thank you all for your thoughts!

CerebralHawks said:

Swappa still exists. Barring that, I don’t know.

What is an unused Pixel 10? Stolen? Seems like a red flag. Those are tracked, the IMEI might be banned, and it might only be usable as a WiFi device. It might even be locked out of use, making it a paperweight. If it’s not stolen, you basically have a new device, and you probably want close to what you paid for it, but at that point any reasonable consumer would be better advised to just buy it new, and eliminate the possibility of it being locked out.

I use Cirrus becau I love its ingenious widget: it shows the next 12 hours of weather (not temperature) in a tiny space that’s super easy to read.

I was going to submit Journiv for review at It’s Really FOSS but one of their conditions to accept a project is that the project claims to be open source - and I can’t find anywhere that Journiv claims to be open source!

In this discussion on Journiv’s github Swalab Tech says:

You’re absolutely right, Journiv’s core is source available, and it currently includes a built Flutter web version client…As of now there are no plans of making client’s source available.

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I can understand your concerns so let me answer them in detail.

First thing first, why is frontend code not open source:

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Fyi, you could consider the app server as source available, but the web client is proprietary and closed and its license probihibits reverse engineering and the like.

Journiv looks pretty cool and i want to try it, but I only use FOSS software whenever possible and Journiv is not under an open source license. The debatably-FOSS license covers the server and prohibits commercial use, which i dont like but maybe could live wirh, but the web client’s license is not debatable: it is clearly not FOSS because it’s proprietary software owned and copyrighted by Swalab Tech and is not licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

Here’s an LLM’s summary of why it’s not FOSS: The PolyForm‑Noncommercial 1.0.0 is a non‑commercial license that blocks any commercial use of the code without a separate written agreement. That places it near the bottom of most freedom scales, such as the Open Source Definition or the Free Software Definition. FOSS people would point out that the licence allows use, copy and modification for personal or non‑commercial purposes but disallows commercial deployment or monetised use, so it fails the “freedom” test. The licence also requires contributors to assign all rights to the owner, which removes copyright retention and any freedom to license derivatives. Because the web client is explicitly excluded from the licence and cannot be hosted or redistributed as part of a service, the package is effectively a hybrid licence that is not accepted as open source. On a freedom scale of 0 to 100, it would be roughly 10–20, and FOSS communities would typically call it “not open source” or “proprietary‑style” and advise against using it in a truly FOSS project.

It’s AI. I used self-hosted InvokeAI to inpaint a new window scene for OP’s cat.

Datetime.app is a self-hostable web page with a bunch of time-related tools. I don’t think it has an alarm clock so it won’t help you with this need, but i mention it in case you have other date/time tool needs.

Asio on the cwtch website itself:

Cwtch /kʊtʃ/

Cwtch (/kʊtʃ/ - a Welsh word roughly translating to “a hug that creates a safe place”) is a decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol that can be used to build metadata resistant applications.

When I experienced the same symptoms, i eventually found out if was because ROCm didn’t support having an AMD GPU as well as an AMD iGPU (iGPU is an integrated GPU, on the motherboard). Once i disabled the iGPU, those symptoms stopped.

l don’t remember how i disabled the iGPU. Might have been in the bios settings, might have been a kernel parameteretc in /default/grub.

If it doesn’t fix your issue, you can just re-enable the iGPU.

Yup! Though that’s Adam Sandler doing the bit in the Rob Schneider movie, the original bit on SNL was done by Schneider (originally in 1993 i think). 🙂

Movie quote? I recognize it from a recurring Rob Schneider character on SNL. What movie was it in?