This is quite centered around hetero dudes, which I find sad.

Why not use VIM though?

Well it seems they don’t publish a signing key, so that’s a good reason against it.

In my understanding a problem often is that electricity isn’t used when renewable electricity sources can provide it. One solution to this is storing it, another (complementary) one is to adjust the usage to times when there is a lot of renewable energy available. This especially makes sense for big consumers (like factories), but a lot of washing machines also sum up to a lot of electricity demand. So we have to adjust to mainly use electricity when it’s available via renewable sources, and this thing can hopefully help with that.

By saying that it cost around 5€ I meant that the material to build this cost me around 5€. I would happily set them up for free if one gave me the material for free, but the microcontroller and so on do cost some money.

The API and (of course) the source code are free (as in freedom, being AGPL licensed). And since I did my best to document it well and provide easy to follow instructions in the README, I do think I managed to make it free as in freedom.

• Fedilab for Mastodon (an alternative to Tusky)
• Jerboa for Lemmy
• LibreTube for usable YouTube without an account
• FluffyChat for Matrix (an alternative to Element)
• FairEmail for mails
• Molly for Signal (pretty much the same as the original app)
• Forkgram for Telegram (also pretty much the same as the original open source version)
• Aurora for PlayStore apps
• F-Droid
• Fennec for browsing (the opener version of Firefox)
• Aegis for 2FA (an alternative to Google Authenticator)
• KeePassDX for passwords (an alternative to Keepass2Android)
• OpenKeychain for PGP Keys
• Orbot for connecting to Tor and running a Snowflake proxy
• RethinkDNS as DNS with blocklists, firewall and routing to Orbot via Proxy for all TCP connections
• Tutanota as synchronized calendar
• Osmand~ for navigation (an alternative to Google Maps)
• Transportr for public transport (an alternative to DB Navigator in Germany)
• In general the “Simple …” apps on F-Droid are also nice