harshad

harshad, 2 days ago to random

"Linux is difficult!"

Aunt Andrea disagrees: https://youtu.be/YVI6SCtVu4c

"But defaults are what all people use."

She disagrees from 13 years ago: https://youtu.be/mwBvvt5Dbro

harshad, 8 months ago to Cats

Badam

#pets #cats

harshad, 15 days ago to Cats

Guess I'm sleeping somewhere else…

#pets #cats #caturday

harshad, 4 months ago to random

Unboxing Saturday, looks pretty.

#OurDailyThread

harshad, 4 months ago to Weather

Sunny morning in the hills today!

(Also, got a used Nokia 8.1 with Zeiss lenses, this is definitely not a potato!)

#Kodaikanal #weather

Looking up at an acacia tree lit by warm sun against blue sky with wispy clouds and a contrail cutting across the frame.

harshad, 7 months ago to Cats

Chikoo cat has relapsed prolapsed rectum, the vet said two weeks ago to bring him in for surgery if this happens, so here we are, on our way to Dindigul at 4:30am, should reach by 9am.

It has rained a lot through the night, hope the car gets out of the slippery slope up the hill 😅

#pets #cats

harshad, 29 days ago to Weather

Temperature is 30°C indoors in an airy room today. All animals (including me) are feeling sluggish and just want to lie down. I'm ensuring everyone has cool water to drink nearby.

This is not normal in the hills, 26°C is about as hot as it used to get only a few years ago.

I shudder when I recall being passed out in a pool of sweat whole day when temps in plains rose to 45+°C in summer. It is getting worse there.

#Kodaikanal #Weather

harshad, 4 months ago to random

The sun is playing?

harshad, 11 months ago to showerthoughts

Half-tempted to build a private 'social network' between trusted people using SyncThing for connectivity and a GUI that uses the syncthing API to add/remove contacts + displays plain text files and media in a familiar way.

Does anything like this exist? I'm thinking SyncThing because it is by far the most reliable distributed and decentralized system I use.

Concern: each device has a different ID.
A solution: run single instance on a RasPi, use Tailscale to access it from anywhere.

#Idea

harshad, 1 year ago to photography

Woken up at 04:00 by my dogs barking at something… likely a deer on the hill.

Noticed the night is clear, so set up the camera to shoot a timelapse of the home galaxy, as one normally does 😅

Now we wait.

#photography

harshad, 1 month ago to random

After living remotely with only solar (+batteries) to power my home for past 5 years, I have greater appreciation for every watt that's spared - by hardware and software.

My workstation (Mac mini M1) and home server (ThinkCenter mini PC) use <30w between them. The Internet contraption with 4G router, PoE switch, and multiple APs uses another 20w. Laptop is <10w when charged.

Still 🤯 that my computing setup uses less power than an old 60w incandescent light bulb!

harshad, 9 months ago to Cats

Miumiu

#pets #cats

harshad, 8 months ago to Cats

How it started / How it's going

#pets #cats

Looking down from my perspective in bed, there are 11 cats sleeping next to me.

harshad, 27 days ago to random

Riding towards Kodaikanal town and I'm shook. Much of the forest is now ashes. Forest guards are finally here with fire management teams, only took two weeks of raging fires to get their attention?

Sigh.

What's remaining is very much at risk until monsoons put an end to this rampage.

#Kodaikanal

Smoke rising from green cover on hill side.

harshad, 8 months ago to random

You could strip down a Windows XP install to well under 100MB. Losing the themes (and more) brought you back to the Win 98 look, but you got responsiveness in return.

#RandomMemoryAccessed

harshad, 7 days ago to random

When you're not sure what you're experiencing is mid life crisis or midwife crisis 😬 New baby cow didn't have milk for several hours, finally fed her mum's milk with a bottle.

She loves to cuddle already, and dozed off on my lap. Now indoors because it's getting cold with the evening.

#pets #cows

A small calf sitting wrapped up in a blanket on my lap.

harshad, 10 months ago to random

Windy and rainy morning today. Getting ready to take 4 cats for "family planning" to the vet. Today's gonna be one long day followed by the longish week while they all recover.

harshad, 10 months ago to random

Headed to town today/tomorrow. The settlement you see between clouds is Poombarai, about half-way to #Kodaikanal.

harshad, 3 months ago to random

Back when it was called self-portrait

"peek-a-shoot"

Archive/2008

harshad, 2 months ago to wildlife

Saw an Indian Gaur on the way from town today, excuse the potato quality photo, was taken with phone and cropped heavily.

It's rare to see them in the day, this one was a lone male happily grazing away. A family in car stopped nearby and I called them over to have a look, the gaur noticed us talking, gave this nice pose looking at us, then quietly vanished behind trees.

#Kodaikanal #wildlife

harshad, 1 month ago to random

When a site takes a whole minute to load their javashit and presents you with a "Can't show you text because of GDPR" you can be sure they're a very slimy business.

harshad, 28 days ago to random

As the wind dies down, the smoke from smoldering logs around the hill settles into the valley, forming a thick cloud. This is the 4th day we'll be breathing smoke all night. It clears up when wind picks up again in the day.

All because slash and burn agriculture is still a thing and humans are #&%§∆.

😂😭

harshad, 14 days ago to FreeBSD

Strange.

My laptop running FreeBSD 14.0-R-p6 locked up during resume - it's been years since I had this issue. Power cycled it, and now my wireless device won't show up. I think I'm too tired to debug now, will look at it in the morning. Bummer though, hope it's not a hardware failure due to resetting the laptop while the wireless device was being initialised.

#FreeBSD

harshad, 5 days ago to Cats

Sunny morning after many days!

#pets #cats

harshad, 2 days ago to gardening

Yikes, forgot to check on my strawberries sooner

#gardening