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James

@James@woof.group

30-something, 🏳️‍🌈, 👬, living just outside of Washington, DC. May occasionally toot, boost, or otherwise engage with explicit material (with content warnings)

General interests include baking, cooking, tiki, Irish trad fiddle, cycling, backpacking, starting to get into table top RPGs

Also exploring my sub, kink side. Leather, bondage, tactile, sensory, wax, estim, and maybe exploring hypno

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john, to homeassistant
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Our final inspections are done for the heavy up, EV charger and range outlet, and Pepco has come to connect our new service line, so I could finally reinstall the Emporia Vue Energy monitor in our new panel. It’s working great and now my energy dashboards are working again. 🤓

James,
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@rickscully @john Does the Vue have local access? I had to flash custom on the Vue2 to achieve local access( ...a moot point now because it completely died last month anyway).

James,
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@john @rickscully boo 😕
At one point their cloud service was down for several days, which is what initially prompted me to flash esphome on it. I was hoping they'd have a local API set up in addition to their cloud API with this new version -- but I guess not.

James,
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@john that's another benefit of flashing esphome on it, you can completely customize how each channel is read, filtered, and aggregated: https://github.com/emporia-vue-local/esphome

Just checked and it looks like the Vue 3 is also ESP32-based and so this would flash the same way

gruff, to random
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In the straight world you peak at 24, but in the bear world you peak at 53

James,
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@gruff maybe I'm just more into daddy bears but my preference peak is even a little bit higher 😜

aphyr, to random
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Fun time to buy a Tesla, a car which is entirely dependent for long distance travel on Tesla's charging network, which was maintained by a five hundred person team Musk just fired in its entirety https://www.fastcompany.com/91116692/tesla-lay-offs-supercharger-team-evs-network-automakers-gm-ford

James,
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@john @aphyr Tesla opened up their proprietary charger plug to be a standard (the "North American Charging Standard", NACS) last year. There's a major coalition of EV makers who have both announced they will be adopting the new port and charging standard (SAE 3400) and have also started laying the groundwork for their own major charging network.

I believe the current version of NACS "speaks" CCS and so they're technically compatible, though the presence of an appropriate adapter is required.

gruff, to random
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It should be illegal to message someone at work before 9:30 on a Monday

James,
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@gruff try working on a team with folks in Australia, Central Europe, Western Europe, and California. I regularly get messages at 230 AM! The best solution I've found is pausing work app notifications on my phone outside of my core hours, and also setting "focus time" do-not-disturb blocks on my calendar most mornings before 10 AM ET.

James, to random
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Got the urge to make some mini baguettes for sandwiches this week. Seems like my starter is still kickin!

James,
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I wanted to make good use of the oven time, so I made sourdough bagels too

James,
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@WolfIsMe I have a cheap plastic lame with an old razor blade in it. It works great!

aphyr, to random
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So I've always cooked with a little MSR backpacking stove, but I got a little solar panel and battery for this car trip and holy cow it's really powerful! Been wondering if you could drop the stove and use an induction cooktop instead.

Bringing a liter of water from 40 to 210 F is about 110 Wh, and takes about 3.5 minutes with a 2 kW heater. The Jackery 1000 can do that, and you could manage daily cooking for two with... Maybe 3 peak hours per day w/a 200 watt panel?

James,
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@aphyr you don't need to be at 100% charge to do a 30 mile day trip though, right?

deadliftbear, to random
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It’s about time I remembered who I am and what I do.

Darren in a gym, deadlifting 300kg for 2 reps. Side view.

James,
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@deadliftbear just a bear banging out some impressive deadlifts. 😍

DoctorNick, to random
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In a gym in Washington, NC

James,
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@DoctorNick Little Washington? My old neck of the woods! What brought you to that area?

James, to random
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I signed up for weekly milk delivery from a local dairy. I'm so excited!

James,
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@thickurt I wish 😂

James, to random
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I spent a ton of time automating a process based on a specified set of inputs and desired outputs. Stakeholders seemed happy.

Stakeholders proceed to send me nothing but uncovered edge cases that don't match the specified inputs/outputs, but still expect quick turnaround because "didn't you automate all of this already?"

Not what I wanted to deal with at 1630 on a Friday afternoon.

rob, to random
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My husband keeps showing me puppy videos. I don’t think he realises this means I WILL get another dog without asking him!

James,
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@rob sounds like he knows what he's doing 😜

Furball, to random
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That’s it. I need to find a degree in Technoarcheology. Somebody make it a thing.

James,
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@Furball my partner, a librarian who has his masters in library science, approves haha

brad, to random
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Me: goes to Aldi for cat food and coriander

Me: comes out €124 lighter with treasures including five planters, a bottle of pink wine cos the bottle is faceted and will look cool on the wine rack, and a multipack of pickled onion Space Raiders

Black Friday Nbc GIF by Superstore

James,
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@brad
https://youtu.be/cL7jyXCQ2Zc

gruff, to random
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The answer to "how do I make it taste better" is almost always more salt or more oil

James,
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@thickurt @gruff ¿por qué no los... tres?

James, to random
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The one thing that seemed to be ubiquitous and baffling during my trip between Dublin, Paris, and Copenhagen, is the fact that Carhartt is EVERYWHERE.

When did Carhartt become a fashion brand?!

James,
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@deadliftbear I had no idea!

James,
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@greymusclebear 🤯

thickurt, to random
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Last week I caught my pinky toe on a chair in the office that someone had moved to a place where it isn't normally (I was wearing Crocs don't @ me)

Tonight the toe felt very tender and swollen, I looked close and I'm definitely gonna lose a toenail 😒

James,
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@thickurt ouch! Can you buddy tape it? I did that once when I caught my pinky toe on a bed frame leg, where the toe "snapped" and pointed in the wrong direction. Resetting it and buddy taping it kept me from reinjuring it.

James, to random
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Made it back home!
... Where it's 92°F (33°C)

I'm not ready for this heat. My plants aren't too happy about it either. My transplants almost all died.

I want to be back in Europe with the 50-60°F days 😭

James,
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To be fair, the transplants died because I wasn't here to water them through the heat. But still.

James,
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@thickurt packs bags back up

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