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<h2 id="ideas">Ideas</h2>
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<h3 id="1-accessibility-ideas">1. Accessibility Ideas</h3>
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<h4 id="11-bsd-accessibility">1.1 BSD Accessibility</h4>
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<p>An Open/FreeBSD driver to make bootup and shutdown (as well as any plain tty) accessible by visually impaired users.
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Speech and/or braille display.</p>
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<p>The console is the perfect interface for visually impaired users,
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as the console is required to be text based (damn you ncurses!).</p>
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<h5 id="inspiration-speakup">Inspiration: <a href="http://linux-speakup.org/">Speakup</a></h5>
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<h4 id="12-bsdlinux-braille-notetakers">1.2 BSD/Linux Braille Notetakers</h4>
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<p>Use standard UNIX tools and command line interface instead of custom
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systems for each notetaker.</p>
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<p>Being able to use standard utilities not only helps with transferable skills,
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but it also opens up the world of Linux tools to visually impaired users.
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Enabling them to use any tool compatible with the command line,
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not just any tool installed on their system or written for their device.</p>
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<p>I have the suspicion that the fancier notetakers are using Windows at this point.
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But for low-cost braille notetakers, it certainly could be plausible.</p>
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<h4 id="13-raspberry-pi-based-notetaker">1.3 Raspberry Pi-based notetaker</h4>
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<p>This could potentially decreese the size and expense of notetakers,
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and if running a *NIX
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system would also integrate well with idea 1.2</p>
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<p>Would need to:</p>
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<ol>
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<li>Find a manual for controlling a braille display.</li>
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<li>Implement a driver within the raspberry pi Raspbian OS using USB/gpio.</li>
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<li>Package it up.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>With the Linux Speakup project already written, would this mean I
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could just plug a RPi up to a braille display and be on my merry way?</p>
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<h3 id="2-nix-ideas">2. *NIX Ideas</h3>
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<h4 id="21-fansensor-driver-for-my-old-toshiba">2.1 Fan/Sensor Driver for My Old Toshiba</h4>
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<p>FreeBSD and Linux both have the right driver for sensing my CPU
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temp/spinning my fan properly.</p>
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<p>OpenBSD does not have this working, and it is annoying to run it this way.
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Full fans at all times on OpenBSD.</p>
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<h4 id="22-zfs-nas">2.2 ZFS NAS</h4>
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<p>I would really like to setup my own NAS with the ZFS file system.
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I’d want to chronicle the adventure of finding hardware,
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setting up OS, ZFS, frontend.</p>
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<h4 id="23-mirror-important-open-source-projects">2.3 Mirror Important Open-Source Projects</h4>
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<p>Setup a mirror for OpenBSD, Arch Linux, and other important projects
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I want to contribute to where I know my level of coding is not helpful.</p>
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<h5 id="also-considering-tor-relay-void-linux">Also considering: <a href="https://community.torproject.org/relay/">Tor Relay</a>, <a href="https://voidlinux.org/download/#mirrors">Void Linux</a></h5>
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<h4 id="24-systemd-service-randomizer">2.4 Systemd Service Randomizer</h4>
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<p>Systemd can start a VPN on startup with the following command:</p>
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable wg-quick@mullvad-ca1
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</pre>
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<p>or</p>
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable openvpn-client@mullvad_ca
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</pre>
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<p>These commands are nice, but why is there not a <code class="highlighter-rouge">openvpn-client@random</code> so that I can randomize out of the possible files?</p>
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<p>I am sure there would be a way to have a systemd service envoked like so:</p>
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<pre class="terminal">
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# systemctl enable random@[wg-quick|openvpn-client]
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</pre>
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<p>This would enable a randomization service for that interface, relinking
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the boot-time process by looking in the directory the VPN interface
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should be looking in, and chosing a random file.</p>
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<p>Very useful for VPN clients. I have no idea if this has currency anywhere else.</p>
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<h3 id="3-language-ideas">3. Language Ideas</h3>
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<h4 id="31-add-zhuyin-support-for-epub-with-pinyin">3.1 Add Zhuyin Support for <a href="https://github.com/TTWNO/epub-with-pinyin">epub-with-pinyin</a></h4>
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<p>It currently only supports Pinyin.
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At the time, HTML <code class="highlighter-rouge"><ruby></code> support was low,
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and so even when implemented properly the characters showed at the top.
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They should be shown on the left hand side.</p>
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<h4 id="312-make-epub-with-pinyin-easier-to-use">3.1.2 Make <a href="https://github.com/TTWNO/epub-with-pinyin">epub-with-pinyin</a> Easier To Use</h4>
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<p>Currently it requires setting up Python and some libraries.</p>
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<p>Ideally it could be a web application, executing in Javascript.
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Storing .epub files on a webserver even temporarily (especially if they are copywrited) is
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a legal risk I am not willing to take.</p>
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<h4 id="32-look-into-linq">3.2 Look Into <a href="https://www.lingq.com/en/">LinQ</a></h4>
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<p>I have heard this system implements something very similar to an idea I had called “Minks”.</p>
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<p>The general idea was that you could save words you knew,
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thus stopping their pronunciation to appear above them (Pinyin/Zhuyin).</p>
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<p>Given my interest in similar things, possibly apply to work for them,
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or encourage them to BSD some of their libraries.</p>
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<h3 id="4-other-crazy-ideas">4. Other Crazy Ideas</h3>
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<h4 id="41-podcast-not-sure-what-about">4.1 Podcast: Not Sure What About</h4>
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<p>I’ve always wanted to interview people.
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Seems liks fun.</p>
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