I have broken two French presses this year after owning both for over a decade. Glass is just borrowed.
That means I'm down to making #coffee in the džezva today. I still have a moka pot but this reminds me of my time in Croatia. It's a slower, more thoughtful brew.
Might help me cut down my caffeine consumption before the big tournament in August, too. I learned at the last tournament that I won't be able to have coffee mid-day so I need to be prepared for that.
Taking a minute to appreciate how damn resilient my services/servers in the house are at the moment. They're all deployed slipshod and manually, too. Despite some annoyances, we've come a long way with software.
The mail server on which the power supply died had been rebooting spontaneously and hanging on startup a couple of times a day, and I spent a lot of time sifting through the logs to see what might be triggering it. I finally scripted a bunch of startup scripts to send an alert, circumvent the hang, restart the mail services, and just let it do its reboot thing.
With the new PS it seems to be stable. Was it a bad power supply all along? We'll never know now...
anyone using #beeper? how do you like it? how's their storage of credentials? that's the only bit that really makes me nervous.
i'm also curious how well #matrix works for it. my general experience with matrix as an end user with "normal" people has been overall terrible, even with great projects like @element
@hobbsc@element depends, you login on the client and they scrape the session ID's and store them on their server.
But they also work on new version of the bridges, currently in Android there is a local Signal bridge where they keep the session ID locally. That was possible with SMS too once, but they didnt add that back in the 2.0 android app.
They have merged with texts.com which is fully locally so who knows what will happen there.
I think I might end up on the job hunt again due to some recent news. Doing what I can to avoid it but just in case I figured I'd cast this post into the void.
I've got a varied skill set. Mostly infosec, devops, and backend dev type stuff. I prefer smaller shops but I can find a stride almost anywhere. The only thing I avoid heavily is JavaScript and frontend webdev.
Anybody have recommendations for a decent computer (laptop or small form factor) that can withstand some abuse and a mildly hostile environment?
It should be able to run Linux and be fast enough to play YouTube videos at 480p without stuttering. Bonus if it'll run off of a 12vdc power supply and is easily repairable.
I need a new garage computer and I'm about to start scouring eBay.
Booked my work flights a couple weeks ago and had my seats selected. Go to check in for my flight and I don't have a seat selection. Managed to get decent seats for the trip out to work (naturally I had to pay extra for them) but I'll have to ride in the middle row for the whole five hour flight home. Real awesome for a tall dude in cattle class. I love air travel.
@hobbsc ugh. I think I'll print out my seating confirmation before my next flight to avoid something like that. I've had that happen with the train a few times but worst case with the train you end up sitting on the floor. Can't really do that on a plane.
I need to figure out some way to control the media on my desktop when I'm across the room. Maybe with my phone? I know I can use #spotify for that but I also like to use #shortwave (the gnome frontend for radio-browser.info) and sometimes YouTube but I don't use an account for that. Also the occasional streaming service like ESPN+ or fanatiz for soccer. Maybe I could rig up something with #kodi and do like a remote start feature for it.
I mean I could also pry my ass off the couch but #cats.
What are some popular #rss services? I'm not looking for standalone applications, I already use one of those. I'm more curious about things that currently exist that were like google reader or like newsblur?
It seems to me that the reselling craze that happened in the sneaker world appears to be happening in the gaming world, too. I wonder what other little hobbies/subcultures have this problem.
There is so much going on in #diabloiv and a ton of mechanics. It's got a d2 feel to it but I'm a little overwhelmed with the endless options. Heavy decision paralysis. I'll keep messing with it for a bit and see how things go. #xbox#gaming#blizzard
@hobbsc huge same. Played some 3, didn't feel it as much as 1 or 2. 4 is a great combo of all 3 really, it really feels like it makes sense. Some stuff has taken a while to figure out, some has been accidents, some I look up, a couple builds, overall it's just amazing. I hear in the next season (4) it's gonna be really cool, there's not gonna be constant inventory sorting and trying to figure out what stuff is the best, it will automatically do that somehow? Will be cool to see. I actually bought a physical version for Xbox after many months and after my wife insisted, I can be frugal and wait for sales but I played the beta and then the free release for that weekend or so- so I guess buying it made sense. 🤣
what #mastodon#client do y'all like on #linux? the web-ui is cool and all but it might be neat to have something dedicated. for reference, i am a #husky enjoyer on #android.