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bishma

@bishma@mas.to

I don't sell pajamas or play basketball. I make servers handle a lot of traffic and in my free time I play with micro-controllers and melt plastic.

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bishma, to Cat
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Here is an #introduction post for the newest member of the family, Timber.

He is a 4 year old long haired ginger lap buddy #cat adopted this morning from the Twitchy Tails Rescue in #Springfield #Oregon.

His interests include scritches, noisy baths, and losing access to his only brain cell while watching leaves blow around through the window.

Large, long haired, ginger kitty looking forward
Large, long haired, ginger kitty stretched out and sleeping

bishma, to Amazon
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I buy from as little as possible these days. But I've noticed lately, when I do, that when I get the message telling my package is out for delivery, that means it'll arrive tomorrow. Anyone else?

jake4480, to Cartoons
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A Bob's Burgers alignment chart that nails it

bishma,
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@jake4480 I like it, but Linda (who liked so smash windows then run away laughing, throw rocks at passing cars, knock off side mirrors, and throw water on pooping girls) should probably swap places with Bob.

bishma, to random
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Every year we take a quantity of sugar and chocolate that would have made any monarch the talk of Europe 200 years ago... and we shove it in a sock and hang it from a hook.

nixCraft, to linux
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who made this one? lol

bishma,
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@nixCraft The first thing I thought of is the poor vet's office that's using some old command line software.

bishma, to Eugene
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Bob's Birders wasn't spared from the first currently pointed at , but a little elbow grease and it's good for Teddy, Kathleen, and Mort, our 3 regulars.

Valiant effort, roof
The restaurant is clean and full of seeds
Full shot of cleaned restaurant

TechConnectify, to random
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I, for one, think we should still be measuring data transfer speeds in CD-ROM Xes.

Just moved some files from one drive to another at 2,400X speed!

bishma,
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@TechConnectify This conflicts with my master plan to make "baud" a common term again.

bishma, to 3DPrinting
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I'm excited to announce that, after a months of design (and weeks of delaying the write-up), my latest model, "Bob's Birders," is now available! Inspired by , this colorful and feeder is sure to liven up your . It certainly has livened up ours.

https://www.printables.com/model/493447-bobs-birders

@3dprinting

bishma, to Eugene
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ONA is conducting a letter writing campaign to draw attention to the hospital closure.

Folks of and @eugene: Our only hospital on this side of the river is closing. The ER's last day is set to be Dec. 1. The Oregon Nurses Association has started this letter writing campaign to hopefully draw the attention of the OHA and Governor.

Please consider sending, even if just the pre-prepared form letter. https://actionnetwork.org/letters/save-eugenes-hospital

bishma, to Eugene
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I never bothered to hunt down eclipse classes because I assumed we'd have exactly this weather in today.

But at least it's slightly darker!

TechConnectify, (edited ) to random
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An observation:

Many people seem to be under the impression that series hybrid drivetrains (where the ICE powerplant turns a generator which powers a motor) are superior to parallel hybrid (where the ICE can spin the wheels directly).

I think a lot of this comes from knowledge of diesel-electric locomotives, and trains are known to be efficient. But, in fact, those trains would be even more efficient if they could parallelize the diesel engine - that's just really hard, and isn't the point.

bishma,
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@TechConnectify I'm curious, does that hold true for the whole power curve?

I've been led to believe that, in addition to the electric insta-torque, you get the benefit of always running the combustion engine its the most fuel efficient RPMs (RsPM?). I guess I assumed that made up for power conversion losses.

bishma, to Taskmaster
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It's day, y'all!

bishma, to random
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One in every 46 American have right now, so we can't even smell our pumpkin spiced lattes!
https://fortune.com/well/2023/09/16/united-states-covid-levels-approach-first-pandemic-peak-2020-who-urges-vaccination-boosters-high-risk/

frogglin, to random
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Good Morning Tiny Dancers.
We use google chat at work (and it suuuuuuuucks) and this morning Gchat is telling me to JUMP RIGHT IN and FORM CONNECTIONS.
No. Can't make me. Bugger OFF.

bishma,
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@frogglin They won't ask as nicely next time.

Jgmeadows, to apple
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Interesting price comparison: I am seeing online sale of some older Thinkpads (a few years old, great for Linux). To go from 8 gb RAM to 16gb is an extra $30. Contrast with an Mac Mini M2; to go from 8gb to 16gb of RAM is $250. What a rip off.

bishma,
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@Jgmeadows Cut them some slack, it take a lot of extra work for them to solder the memory to the SBC to prevent you from upgrading later.

bishma, to Taskmaster
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We have a reason to look for ward to 21 again! Thanks to https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/taskmaster-season-16-release-date-confirmed-newsupdate/

stooovie, to 3DPrinting
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Any good tips for printing TPE (88)? I see a lot of contradictory info - some say heated bed, some say unheated, some say textured PEI is thre worst material to print on but that's the only material I managed to print something at all on (smooth or textured glass is worse). 10-20mm/s, no difference, it just loosens on layer 2, and is generally gummy and disgusting (even dried in dryer!).

Please only direct experience, articles contradict each other.

bishma,
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@stooovie When I'm working with anything that's new to me I usually check the prusa material table.

Based on that and what you describe, it might be worth the cleanup to print on PEI with gluestick.

https://help.prusa3d.com/materials

mz4250, to 3DPrinting
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One of my patrons rocked it my Dragon Turtle model!

Free stls here: https://www.printables.com/model/47935-dragon-turtle-updated

I like their color choices too :)

bishma,
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@mz4250 At least, the intersection of my favorite things. , , and

is really neat! Gamera is filled with meat!

SinclairSpeccy, to debian

Let's see how this goes.

What was the first version of you ever used? This can count for distros too that are based on Debian.

My first usage of Debian was using Mint. Was one of the distros that runs well on my iMac after I removed Lion from it

bishma,
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@SinclairSpeccy It was either 3 or 3.1.To run a website I set up for my college roommates.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Trying my hardest to make more friends on here. Please boost to help me socialize. My hobbies include:

-screaming "STOLEN VALOR" at Revolutionary War reenactments.

-counting the number of leaves on a tree until I get bored, typically around the 2-3 range.

-editing the Muppets Wikipedia page to state that the Muppets were responsible for both starting and ending the Cold War.

-trying to get unbanned from Wikipedia.

bishma,
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@lowqualityfacts Don't forget Cookie Monster's role in Iran Contra. Arms for cookies was no joke.

bishma, to fediverse
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Considering a server move.

The Lemmy server I belong to also hosts just about every other service too. And I've been thinking about giving a try because the feature set looks nice.

People who have moved from one server to another (or Mastdon to Firefish/Calckey): are there any pain points to look out for?

bishma, to Taskmaster
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"James. Dear dear... dear god!" is one of Greg's best reviews of a task on

feditips, to random
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Anyone can set up and run their own server on here.

This is great for lots of reasons (outlined here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/) but it also means that a small minority of servers may be run by nasty people, and potentially contain nasty content.

Fortunately, most server admins use server blocks to prevent their users having any contact with rogue servers.

If you see something bad on here, it's important to report it so that your admin can take action. Click on ⋯ and "report" to report a post.

bishma,
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@feditips Are their resources to help admins keep up with rogue or otherwise problematic instances? Like is there a group that announces or maintains a list of problematic servers admins might want to block or defederate with?

TechConnectify, to random
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If you live somewhere that offers no-questions-asked mail-in voting, and your election commission gives you the option to automatically get mail ballots with each election, I would highly recommend doing this.

Earlier in the year a ballot just showed up in the mail. It was for the very local elections like school board, parks commissioner, stuff like that.

I almost certainly wouldn't have realized the election was even happening, but having the ballot in-hand made sure I voted in it.

bishma,
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@TechConnectify 100% Mail In voting is one of the best things Oregon ever did.

Though I've voted in every election this millennium and I've never gotten an "I Voted" Sticker... I am a not a tiny bit bitter about that.

qlp, to oregon
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Watching the latest "The Logistics of" video which covers Depoe Bay and Sam pronounces it as "du-poe". I've always heard people say and thought it was pronounced like "dee-poe" like the word "depot".

🤔

bishma,
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@qlp Keep us posted if he mentions "Yeah-chets"

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