@danielsiepmann Something deep in the back of my memory tells me that you might get the same message if your disk had run out of inodes . The nix store must generate a lot of directory entries, so I guess that’s possible. You could try df -i…
@StarkRG@jeffjarvis A favourite of mine: “An apostrophe is the difference between an organisation that knows its shit, and an organisation that knows it’s shit.” :-)
@notjustbikes I was on a boat tour in Leiden yesterday. The guide was telling me about life in the Netherlands and mentioned a YouTube video… turned out he’s a NJB fan. 🙂
@notjustbikes Very good , and I think Leiden is one of the prettiest large towns I’ve ever visited. of course, it was sunny yesterday, which also helped. 🙂
One of the most annoying things about being an English-language content creator are the Americans who insist that everything must be about them.
I can make a video that never mentions the US once, and I will get hundreds of responses about the US.
I will get people claiming that I'm wrong because of some issue unique to the US.
I will get Americans telling me that I have a moral responsibility to help them fix their cities, despite the fact that I'm not American and I don't live there.
@notjustbikes I remember, at 9-11, the instantaneous shockwave that went around the world. That was a very different scale of incident, of course, and entirely appropriate, but I found myself pining for pre-telegraph days, when you would only be able to hear about such incidents once a boat had crossed the Atlantic, bearing the letter from the newspaper's special correspondent. I suspect hearing about world tragedies a couple of weeks after they occur is a more healthy model.
For AA and AAA batteries, I've used exclusively rechargeables for about 15 years. (Eneloop). But today I discovered that rechargeable coin cells are readily available - e.g. LIR2032. Anyone have much experience of those as drop-in replacements? I must have 2 or 3 dozen coin-cell-powered devices around the house now...
It occurred to us the other day that we have lived 10 years without owning a car.
This didn't happen intentionally, we just moved to a walkable neighbourhood and living car-free just made the most sense.
In this episode of the Urbanist Agenda podcast, I talk with Mrs. NJB about what it's been like to live without a car, how it made more sense for us even with two kids, and about why we'll likely never own one.
@notjustbikes We have a car, a campervan, three small boats, three bikes and an electric unicycle. So we can’t match your minimalism, J, but at least it’s not just bikes . :-). Greatly enjoying the podcast.
I caused great surprise at lunch with friends recently when I mentioned that I hadn’t been into London since Covid, nor felt any great desire to do so. (We live about an hour away.)
Does this mean I’m tired of life? 🙂
I didn’t think I needed Nextcloud, but I installed it on my NixOS box and put the syncing client on all my devices, and gosh, it does work rather well, doesn’t it?
@balazs@Edent Yes - people may not have realised that you absolutely refuse to have anything non-USB-C-powered EVEN IF some of the non-USB-C powered things offer significant advantages, which might, for most rational people, outweigh that minor benefit :-)
@Edent I actually wondered whether, given your precise specifications, an LLM might be a better source, at least of possible candidate devices, than a social network. But Bard, at least, couldn't come close. It could suggest devices that could run HA, or devices that were powered by USB-C, or devices that were compatible with Zigbee and Matter, but a Venn diagram of those sets would, I think, have an empty bit in the middle.
Another post that doesn't answer your question. 🙂
@Edent Oh, and here's one more, which might just conceivably be helpful but probably not: I now use a TubesZB network-connected Zigbee bridge. So it's not a built-in solution, but it's not a dongle you need to plug in to your HA box, and you can position it for the best radio location rather than where your HA box happens to be.
@Edent Mine ran on a Pi3, but I moved it a few years ago to a VM running under Proxmox on a Celeron-based Gigabyte Brix. I like the fact that my entire HA world is snapshotted over NFS to my Diskstation, several times a week.
I'm about to move it and a couple of other VMs to a refurbed HP ProDesk 600 G3 DM, which I bought on Amazon for 130 quid.
@Edent If you're using a set-top-box-type device, the apps associated with Plex and Jellyfin are usually a nicer experience when using a remote control. I wouldn't want to be on a PC or similar in the sitting room when I can have an AppleTV. (If you ARE on an Apple device, though, InFuse is an app which gives a nice experience just from a filesystem share.)
And I'd put my NFS share behind something like Tailscale, if you aren't doing that already...
This book is outstanding. It's the mid 1980s, you're administrating a nascent fleet of UNIX boxen, and you are tasked with accounting for a 75¢ billing discrepancy. Naturally that eventually leads into an international conspiracy involving the FBI, NSA, and an excellent recipe for chocolate chip cookies. It is…
@Edent I loved this - I read it soon after it came out, when modems were pretty exciting things.
And I remember "No hacker is worth missing a Grateful Dead concert for". 🙂
I wish there were a way to dual compress an image.
I've got a screenshot of an app which is showing a photo.
I want the photo to be a JPG and the surrounding app to be PNG.
Are there any weird hybrid image formats which can do that?
@Edent Not sure about now, but it reminds me that back when I worked for AT&T I played a bit with their DjVu format: promoted as a way of compressing, for example, scans of important historic documents, because it could use different compressions for the background of the page from the foreground text. Kept your copy of Magna Carta looking like the Magna Carta while compressing it very efficiently.
After a weekend of boating activity, I found myself using moisturiser on my hands last night. This is slightly concerning; I am a bloke, after all!
But I know that without it, my touch ID devices may not work during the week :-) Tell me I’m not the only one…
