RickRae

@RickRae@fosstodon.org

"Somewhere between Cosmo Kramer and Sid the Sloth."

Embedded systems specialist since forever. Got my start in the days of cassette tape storage and hacking Friden Flexowriters into DIY printers. Long ago earned my Olde Phart certs and currently doing post-grad work towards Curmudgeon.

:linuxmintnew: :cinnamon: :android: :arduino: :pine64: :raspberrypi: :firefox: :libreoffice:

Not to be antisocial, but:
#NoBot #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoArchive #NoScrape

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basil, to random
@basil@sarcasm.stream avatar

🤔 user bound keyword filtering would be really useful for mastodon I think.

As in - in general, I want to see posts about Thing.

In the same way, I'm happy to see posts from UserX.

But I know I don't want to see anything that UserX has to say about Thing.

Either because they talk about it a lot in comparison to everyone else

Or I think they're talking out of their arse on the subject of Thing

Or even because it's actually a different Thing they are talking about with the same name.

RickRae,

@basil

Agreed.

swelljoe, to transit
@swelljoe@mas.to avatar

I bought a JBL Bluetooth boombox type thing (I don't know what you call what used to be a boombox...portable audio...thing?) and was struggling to come up with how to hang it on my bike. Searched for a holder or bracket or something, found one, and thought, "Wait a minute...that looks like a water bottle cage." Sure enough, it drops right into a regular old water bottle cage. So, I will not be spending seventeen more dollars to hang it on a

RickRae,

@swelljoe

Clever of you. Makes me wonder if it was part of the design requirements, or perhaps someone on the design team was a cyclist.

Quite surprising what they can squeeze into/out of small packages these days. I bought a cheap waterproof "hockey puck" Bluetooth speaker to safely listen to podcasts while showering. I wasn't expecting much but it's surprisingly loud with a solid bottom end.

blogdiva, to random
@blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

shut down my phone because i don't want that national emergency fuckery scaring the beejeebus out of my ass. it doesn't matter if i know it's happening. these things always catch me by surprise and then it takes me the rest of the day to calm down my heartbeat.

RickRae,

@blogdiva

It came through here a few minutes before they said it would start. :ablobcateyesflip:

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
@timixretroplays@digipres.club avatar

Today's update: the baseplate is now totally modular, with the tower now made from separate pieces, rather than being slowly printed in place on top of the base. At the cost of a few extra threaded inserts, the tower is now tall enough that the handle is above the centre of gravity, and the whole thing can now be easily picked up and carted around. No longer does moving this around on my desk feel like arguing with a petrified octopus.

A photo of those parts attached together, revealing the bridge is a tall handle for the whole unit. A spool of soldering wire has been slotted in between the towers, near the base.
A photo of a fully assembled soldering station, made from mostly 3d printed parts. There are four articulated arms extending out from the corners of the base, with various implements attached to them.

RickRae,

@timixretroplays

I need to try those some day. I've only ever used trilobe thread-rolling screws (which do work great).

onat, to LearnJapanese
@onat@masto.ai avatar

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    RickRae,

    @onat

    Defitely go back and check your older lessons. This most recent update didn't affect me much, but the last Japanese tree update not only massively changed what I supposedly had already learned, but also jumped me ahead past stuff I'd never before seen.

    Probably affected me more because I'm very early in the course, but I had to go back and "review" all the material that was new to me.

    RickRae,

    @onat

    Thanks for the screen grabs. Wow, that second half's new. I guess I'll see it eventually; they seem to roll changes out in waves/stages.

    I suppose I've gotten "used to" the tightly controlled singular path (as much as I can), but I still miss the old system in which one could more easily skip around, there was a separate tab for stories (which you could read any time you liked!), and so on.

    And, maybe just my imagination (or coincidental), but tree updates seemed less disruptive, too.

    RickRae,

    @onat

    The app informed me last night that my Spanish course has been "realigned" and my position adjusted accordingly. Haven't dug into that yet, but when I went for Legendary on the S3/U8 closing lesson, it threw all manner of stuff at me I'd never seen before.

    I bailed out of it and switched to Japanese until I have time to go back through the old lessons to see what they've done.

    (I'm on S3/U16 but ever since the switch to "path" I've been diligently Legendary-ing old lessons for review.)

    RickRae,

    @onat

    That's not far different from what happened the last time there was a major Spanish update; in that instance they moved me quite a bit forward along the path and marked everything behind me as completed.

    When I checked, I found there was a lot I'd not been exposed to. I went back to a point that looked reasonable and "retook" all the lessons.

    I don't mean to be totally down on the updates; the early Japanese lessons have greatly improved. More focus on sentence construction now.

    RickRae,

    @onat

    Ack! They just hit my Japanese course too!

    I always dread seeing the phrase "new and improved". :blobcatglare:

    RickRae,

    @onat

    Oh man, I really miss the question discussions. I often went to them for insights and understanding.

    First they killed voting in the app, which I didn't mind too much. Then they locked the discussions completely for everyone. Not so bad for Spanish since the old stuff was still there, but the Japanese course is new and some questions had no discussion at all.

    And then they deleted them altogether. :blobcatfacepalm:

    pfred60, to random
    @pfred60@aus.social avatar

    Chewie update: Day 526 I still like carrot & apple.

    Chewie is in verandah slot #2 nearest the tree. She has had a quiet day. Woke up at lunchtime when I was chatting to the butcher birds & kookaburras at lunchtime. Got a sliver of apple as a treat. Now off on possum business.

    RickRae,

    @pfred60

    Your (generic "your") possums are so much cuter than our opossums here!

    During Covid lockdown I set up motion-detecting "package cams" to alert me when something had been delivered (zero visibility of the front porch from inside the house). Every now and then one'll detect and record an opossum waddling by in the night.

    @purplepadma @dgar

    foss_android, to foss
    @foss_android@mstdn.social avatar

    Notify
    a simple note application

    Notify is a simple note application. It features a clean and simple Material UI, offline capability, Dark Mode, backup/restore and more.

    Download: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.aritra.notify

    RickRae,

    @foss_android

    Thanks for the lead! Installed and will test.

    For recording simple reference material, I've been a happy user of Panagola's "Notepad Pro" for years. Maybe worth a look-see?

    NorcalGma2, to random
    @NorcalGma2@sfba.social avatar

    Summer is so back to her old cuddly self now that the blue cone pillow is gone.
    We waited patiently together over a picnic of kibble and steak with a side of steamed sweet potatoes. My dinner will be later.
    The wait paid of with a spectacular sky.
    We are thrilled to share our view with our Mastodon friends who expand our horizons and help us to feel like we aren't alone.

    RickRae,

    @NorcalGma2

    A beautiful sky. And you are not, are never, alone.

    sheepnik, to random
    @sheepnik@toot.wales avatar

    From the time that the local bus company had some fun while being the rail replacement service.

    Night time at the bus station. There's a double decker bus parked at one of the stops, and the display board on the front of the bus says "Choo Choo".

    RickRae,

    @guncelawits

    Indeed! I used to live around the corner from a bus stop and it was lovely. I miss the convenience.

    yurnidiot, to random
    @yurnidiot@mstdn.social avatar

    end of week plop

    a gray/white kitten walks over to a hand resting on the floor and falls over landing it's body/head on the hand

    RickRae,

    @yurnidiot

    Exactly how Cat of Unknown Name deposits herself under my chin at night when she decides it's time to snuggle. Thank you! :ablobcatheart:

    sustainrelease, to zerowaste German
    @sustainrelease@mastodon.social avatar

    I've got no clue who actually started doing that in my household, but using old toilet paper rolls to prevent cables from entangling inside the storage boxes is actually a brilliant idea! 💡

    RickRae,

    @harce

    Paper bin... "litter"al... snerk. :blobcat3c:

    (OP: Great idea, thanks for sharing! For less bulky cables like USB, I store them individually in zipper sandwich bags. With identifying info on the bag - e.g. "USB A to C 15' ".)

    @bjn @schmuckerem_it @sustainrelease

    RickRae,

    @gonta

    Is that mostly due to a lack of critical mass of users, or are there other factors?

    @JCreazy

    RickRae,

    @gonta
    Thanks for the reply and clarification. Fingers crossed that numbers will increase until such communities are viable.

    RickRae, to random

    Dear assorted Websites:

    Please stop asking if I want to add you to my home screen.

    Thank you!

    mappery, to random
    @mappery@mapstodon.space avatar

    Maps in the Wild: Zermatt: Here’s Armand in a Just2Numbers t-shirt in the pub after the recent Geomob meet up.

    More on Mappery. https://mappery.org/zermatt/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=zermatt

    RickRae,

    @mappery

    You know what might be interesting is a shirt something like that, but which always displays the lat/long of where onr is at that moment.

    Geeky, yeah, but a great conversation starter, I'd bet.

    dgar, to random
    @dgar@aus.social avatar

    Now listening to:
    Bring Me To Life
    ~ Evanescence

    https://youtu.be/3YxaaGgTQYM

    RickRae,

    @dgar

    Nice. If you like that style, maybe poke around the RWBY soundtracks. There are a number of songs therein with a similar "feel".

    RickRae,

    @Anticorp

    There are so many computer terms like that! Gnu, which is the closest parallel to Gnome. SUSE Linux. Gif. Lib.

    Me, I apparently learned most of them incorrectly. But those (mis)pronunciations are ingrained and comfy now.

    Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1fzk-4TJk&t=125s

    @HughJanus

    randahl, to random
    @randahl@mastodon.social avatar

    If you were previously disappointed with the search function on Mastodon, I highly recommend you try it again, as it has improved considerably.

    We used to only be able to search for hashtags, but now it feels much more like normal textual search.

    RickRae,

    @randahl

    I tried it and found one, but there may just not be others in my feed. The match was against a raw word versus a hashtag though, so it does seem to be working in Fedilab.

    [Edit: Added screenshot.]

    @n1xnx

    GrantMeStrength, to random
    @GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io avatar

    It’s the longest day of the year! Typographically anyway. Been looking forward to see how this sign copes and as hoped, it didn’t.

    RickRae,

    @GrantMeStrength

    "Always test your edge cases."

    andrewducker, to random
    @andrewducker@mastodon.scot avatar

    Link Post: The Plot of All Objects in the Universe https://kottke.org/23/09/the-plot-of-all-objects-in-the-universe

    RickRae,

    @mrsbeanbag

    Isn't there a theory floating around that there's a universe inside every black hole?

    (Of course, that'd mean it's turtles all the way down...)

    Fascinating discussion, all; thanks!

    @andrewducker

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