Really Simple
Cal's notes
Really Simple is where I keep the useful bits from my own tinkering: phone-shaped Linux setups, command-line workflows, AI tools, and the occasional lesson from trying to make a project real.
I am Cal. I like FOSS, weird hardware, retro things and well designed systems. These posts are notes from that work, cleaned up just enough to be useful later.
I have been using a Furi FLX1s as a real phone, which means I have spent a lot of time staring at a modern Linux mobile stack and asking a deceptively simple question:
Why does this thing say the cellular signal is terrible when the modem appears to be on 5G and moving data?
I sent a short screen recording of my Furi FLX1 running Sway to a friend, and the first response was exactly right: "wtf" followed immediately by "thats wild."
My reaction was more "that was easier than expected."
Welcome to my blog! This is just a test post to ensure everything is working correctly. I'm reusing an old Mastodon post to test comments and formatting.
I recently took an NVMe upgrade as an opportunity to try KDE, motivated by recommendations from podcast hosts who praised KDE's configurability and theme support. I like GNOME, but who wouldn't like a little more color?
Shell-GPT is a practical tool for enhancing user control through a command-line interface using LLMs to simplify everyday tasks. The GIF demonstrates a user typing sgpt "toggle gnome 46 darkmode on" into the terminal, highlighting the tool's ability to interpret plain English commands and interact with the system.
It can act as a chatbot with Windows Co-Pilot-like abilities or as a natural language instruction pipeline to simplify the user's life and enable interesting functionality that would otherwise be very difficult to implement.
I have always wanted to start blogging but never saw myself as an author and felt I did not have the time to dedicate to it. However, my perspective began to change when I came across Simon Willison on Mastodon. I started following him because of his awesome LLM tool, which piqued my interest.
Eventually, I found his blog and discovered a treasure trove of useful and interesting content. I was struck by how much he wrote and his reasons for doing it. Simon suggests focusing on two specific types of content: Today I Learned posts and descriptions of personal projects.