chrome update wtf, if you're not running with "use system titlebar" enabled, the minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons vanish when you maximize the window. Between this and moving the tab finder button back and forth, my faith in disabling auto-updates has been renewed, yet again.
for filling watering jugs, I'm trying to find some simple float nozzle thingy that would allow a few jugs to be filling from the rain barrel while you are watering plants with one or two (used 1gal milk jugs) but I'm not finding such a thing for less than $32 each fancy fuel nozzle, that seems to have a spring/trigger thing. It's going to fill with algae and get clogged with junk / a pain to clean if it's anything more complicated than a floating ball in a slotted tube
USPS from the other side of Portland to SW, package was sent on Wednesday... the status, last updated Thursday, is "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late". 😒 wtf #FireDeJoy
Oregon lawmakers 2024 statewide listening tour to gather input on how to fund and invest in #transportation in 2025, first stop is happening in #Portland on June 4th, at 5 pm.
😒 trying to teach kids to use the table / counter instead of spilling stuff down the front of the stove 🤦 The ceramic top is easy to clean, but have you ever taken those doors apart to clean behind the glass front?
The UPP battery I got for the tandem #BikeFriday project has been okay, afaict (or might be part of the hangup that happens in regen braking), but I hate that it has this XLR plug with that fiddly sliding plastic cover, also seems to lack a fuse, unlike the previous generation of generic downtube pack (dolphin) that had a barrel connector charge port. I can see the argument against the barrel connector, but why have a 3-pin port and not include a thermistor? #eBikes
chromebook unlock screen... WTF is it doing that it can't take input? If you just woke up and the screen is still locked, you only have that one job. Yes there are 150 tabs in the background, why are they activating first?
I'm thinking air-to-air heat pumps are not actually a great answer to the heating problem. Blowing around warm air isn't terribly comfortable to start with, and even if you have an inverter, you can't lower the outlet temperature so much or it feels chilly, so it has to run hotter in cycles, which means short-cycling, which means not running when you have free power from solar & also needing higher currents (for the hotter cycles) while running when you don't have solar, and the source is cold
I've been running ubuntu with the default gnome desktop for a week on one computer, and the clock in the top middle of the screen... cannot be moved? I cannot ever find it without looking at the bottom right, top right, and top left corner first. 😒
Why spend so much on roof structure + decking + surface and then punch holes in it to add solar panels? I'm thinking of a solar porch/deck roof that's mostly just panels on structure, with gutters underneath. But what if you had insulation + waterproof membrane / house wrap on the roof and a similar system on the house? Thermal bridging vs structure through the foam, and gutters full of slime under the panels are a couple reasons why not, maybe the panels need airflow below?
hey petromasculinity dudes, RIP your sperm counts, LoL, PVC
"Microplastics found in every human testicle in study
Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world"
