jamesoff

jamesoff, 10 months ago to random

Made a quick Toggle Tailscale shortcut for iOS so I can do it right from my Home Screen. Wasn’t immediately obvious how to interrogate the connection status but it turned out to be straightforward enough

jamesoff, 9 months ago to random

EE data SIM cancelled; backup internet is powered by an @aaisp SIM \o/

Need to figure out routing the cable for the external antenna so it can mount outside, the signal inside is a bit weak.

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

Today in “how hard could this be”

jamesoff, 6 months ago to homeassistant

Inspired by @neil, ordered a couple of old NUCs off eBay. Will probably relocate my #HomeAssistant install from a VM on my Synology to one (mostly so I can do things like Bluetooth and other radio protocols easier).

The others will be #FreeBSD servers for homelab-type stuff; my current FreeBSD NUC has a bunch of stuff not in jails so I’ll redo those services properly.

jamesoff, 2 months ago to random

Watching the All England badminton Championship #yae24

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

Blood donation cancelled due to technical issues (needle/vein interaction), but was far enough through the steps that I can’t retry until after standard three month timeout :/

jamesoff, 26 days ago to random

A now toy has arrived

jamesoff, 11 months ago to random

On an internal presentation:

<moderator> Thank you for that, we have some time for questions if anyone has any
<presenter> oh no

jamesoff, 1 month ago to random

“The optician said I looked nice today”
“Mine said I should expect my vision to fail in five years because of my age and that the style of my glasses was out of date”

jamesoff, 4 months ago to random

Brother has arrived for Christmas so time for a new (to me) beer of his.

A beer (can) from Cloak + Dagger, called Holy Calamity. Session Pale, 4%, citrus pale.

jamesoff, 24 days ago to random

Hello old friend (paging @danieldurrans)

jamesoff, 9 months ago to random

Deck, before (file photo) and after. What a difference :)

Now for a sit down.

The same deck, minus the table, after cleaning and treating. The wood is no longer grey and is much more wood-coloured. The cat is not in the photo, but was attacking the photographer’s feet.

jamesoff, 1 month ago to random

Haha, not happening

jamesoff, 6 months ago to random

My new-to-me NUCs arrived today; two seem ok but one seems unhappy about POSTing and blinks its power led three times in a loop before bringing up a message about failing to POST. The Visual BIOS works ok once you get in to it - except the SSD is missing in the device list, and if I convince it to boot from my USB stick it can launch the FreeBSD installer ok. Flashing the BIOS seems to succeed but doesn’t help and none of the assorted reset options have helped.

jamesoff, 1 year ago to random

Think I might have solved the mystery of our limping cat: previous owner of our house, who reportedly did not like cats, left these along the top of one of the fences!

jamesoff, 8 months ago to animals

Sonic, Tails and Chaos enjoying the garden (although less keen on the heatwave)

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon

Tails, a dark ginger tabby, walking towards the camera on some grass
Chaos, a light ginger tabby, looking at something in the distance while sitting on top of a wooden fence. There’s a bunch of blackberries from the hedge behind him hanging over him.

jamesoff, 7 months ago to random

Found an actual working—I assume, I have no coins—BT payphone at a remote Scottish beach!

jamesoff, 3 months ago to random

Old injector carriers cleaning up nicely with Brasso #corrado

jamesoff, 3 months ago to random

Turns out the result of not drinking enough milk can be more serious than playing for a football club you haven't heard of :o

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/22/accrington-stanley-milk-advert-actor-jailed-for-liverpool

jamesoff, 10 months ago to animals

Out: lamp
In: watermelon

(He’ll be fine, abscess thing on his back) #CatsOfMastodon

jamesoff, 11 months ago to random

Just joked about using a <blink> tag in something and one of our younger team members thought it was something I'd made up

jamesoff, 6 months ago to random

What do the four lights on a contactless card reader mean? They seem to be standard including virtual ones shown on on "all-screen" payment terminals. I assume they're indicating the stages of energising (for cards) and communicating with the chip.

jamesoff, 25 days ago to random

Toilets outside

jamesoff, 25 days ago to random

@danieldurrans thought you might like this - every time I see a Figaro it reminds me of your wedding :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39C8iHcXW0c

jamesoff, 1 month ago to FreeBSD

Installing a Linux VM in bhyve on one of my #FreeBSD machines so I can run Plex in it, to try out the Sonic Analysis feature on my music library, as it’s Linux-only