Hi, I'm Christin. (aka Criz or Chrislo)

#trans #activist, #politician, #feminist, #blogger, #author, #tutor, #teacher, #sexworker and a proud, post-op trans* #woman living near the Black Forest (Schwarzwald), Germany.

Three things you'll see me do here a lot: yell about antifascism (always), boost #queer and trans voices (also always), and talk shop about #linux, open source, self-hosting and the Fediverse.

I run Linux everywhere I can since 1998. Daily driver is CachyOS (Arch-based) with KDE Plasma on Wayland, my phone is a #Fairphone, and the only proprietary OS in this house lives in the car. Open source isn't just code to me, it's a way of pushing back against systems that treat users as products.

I write, I argue, I organize. Antifascism isn't a hobby, it's a baseline. My blog runs mostly in German with a voice somewhere between Wut und Kraft, because I refuse to be polite about people who want us gone.

I founded and run lsbt.me, a #Mastodon instance for #queer and #LGBTQ folks and their allies. A space to exist loudly, safely, and without apology.

I also build #FediSuite, an open-source (GPL-3.0) management platform for the entire Fediverse. Multi-account, smart composer, scheduling, thread-splitting, analytics, accessibility, plugin system. Supports #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Vernissage, #Misskey, #PeerTube and more.
fedisuite.com · app.fedisuite.com · liberapay.com/fedisuite

When I step away from the keyboard, I'm in my self-sufficiency garden (beans, kohlrabi, potatoes, strawberries, fruit trees), tinkering with #HomeAssistant and #ESPHome, or trying to shrink my CO₂ footprint one decision at a time.

More about me, including TV documentaries:
christin-loehner.de/en/about-christin
Blog (German): christin-loehner.de

This is all me. All of it.

#introduction #fedi22 #fediverse #lgbtq #queer #antifa #blackforest #selfhosted #opensource

🔧 Deel jouw smart home setup, stel vragen en help anderen verder! 🏡

In de Huizebruin-community draait het om slimme oplossingen, automatiseringen en gezelligheid. Van Home Assistant en ESPHome tot UniFi, energie monitoring en DIY-projecten — alles komt voorbij.

📸 Laat je setup zien
💡 Ontdek nieuwe ideeën
🛠️ Krijg hulp van anderen
🇳🇱 Gericht op Nederland & België

Iedereen is welkom, van beginner tot fanatieke tweaker.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/huizebruin

#smarthome #homeassistant #esphome #huizebruin

In some parts of #HomeAssistant I mixed YAML and Jinja2.

Today, in #ESPHome, I mixed YAML with C/C++.

Hard to tell which was worse.

Having this "fun" problem with #esphome on Raspberry Pi Pico W / Pico 2 W.

The boards can't connect to my Wifi. ESP32 and everything else works, the rp2040's don't. Tested with four different boards so it's not a hardware issue.

I tried all kinds of settings in my mikrotik AP. (no band steering, wpa2 vs wpa3, 20mhz vs 40mhz, many other options). No success. Sometimes it connects and then the data connection is extremely unreliable.

I suspect some incompatibility with my AP. 👀

🔥 𝗛𝗼𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗽!

Check this page full of 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗦𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 & 𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗛𝗼𝗺𝗲! And more... This repository is a 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧-𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘!

Link in the comments 👇

#homeassistant #claude #ai #esphome

#Vitocal_262-A #Wärmepumpe ohne Cloud in #Home_Assistant -

Die #Vitocal262-A wird mit #ESPHome und #CAN_Bus lokal in #Home_Assistant eingebunden, ganz ohne #Viessmann Cloud.

Bei Geräten im #Smart_Home ist es immer wieder das gleiche Thema. Die Hardware steht im eigenen Keller, die Daten entstehen im eigenen Haus, aber ohne Cloudzugang sieht man oft nur einen Bruchteil davon. So war es auch bei meiner #Viessmann #Vitocal262-A #Brauchwasserwärmepumpe...

https://gnulinux.ch/vitocal-262-a-ohne-cloud-in-home-assistant