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imwiththecats

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Hey! I'm one of those tech guys that goes for outdoorsy stuff when not doing smart home stuff, e.g.. It's fun to pick up badges through life. Ancient philosophy, full time rv'ing, 3D printing, family hangin', and mentoring, among other badges, are important on my vest.

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imwiththecats, to random
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Yikes. Don’t cave to demands, as others will expect the same.

I worked with these folks through a mutual customer once. Wasn’t impressed with their culture.

https://www.wired.com/story/change-healthcare-ransomhub-threat/

imwiththecats, to random
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Oat art is the new sand art.

Breakfast here for 12 days, baby. Oats, chia seeds, hemp hearts, and cinnamon 👍🏻

imwiththecats, to tv
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For some reason, I always thought Drew Carey and Bob Barker, on , had someone doing the “wheel math” in their ear.

I saw Drew stumble on 75 + 15 today. Mind blown. And can totally relate.

imwiththecats, to Roku
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It’d only be more convenient to fax.

Sending my opt out to tomorrow.

imwiththecats, to random
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Dammit, John Stewart, I wasn’t ready for that segment on Dipper.

imwiththecats, to SmartHome
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My home internet is down, but fortunately I got rid of Chamberlain’s MyQ and replaced it with an all-local option.

Got home. Connected to WiFi. Opened garage door. Bada-bing, bada-boom.

A local is better than a cloud-based smart home. makes it easy.

imwiththecats,
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@moelassus super reliable, and more responsive than MyQ integration ever was.

I went with the ratgdo. You can order the hardware from and support the developer, or you can build one yourself. Install time is like 15 minutes, including getting the ladder.

If you’re into soldering, it’s an esp32 board.

Order: https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/
DIY: https://github.com/Kaldek/rat-ratgdo

imwiththecats, to space
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Little moons around Uranus?

Those are hemorrhoids, Christina. Maybe see a doctor.

https://apnews.com/article/neptune-uranus-new-moons-53028053d8944883cf42647e5196e21e

imwiththecats, to random
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My rural county is starting up a round of “roadside safety checks”. Along with DUIs and speeding, they are targeting “All Illinois Vehicle Code and Criminal Violations”.

This is the stuff that just SCREAMS “opportunity to profile and accuse.”

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It’s February in the Midwest. Of course I’m using my snow shovel.

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The Alexa/Echo hub screen seems to take many design cues from Apple’s Home app.

Does it resemble Google’s offering, too? That is, are they all very similar at this point?

https://www.techhive.com/article/2242874/amazon-echo-hub-review.html

imwiththecats, to random
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I have the redhead gene for poor pain tolerance.

Three rounds of local anesthetic injections later, my eating and drinking hole is worthlessly numb.

(As is my nose. And lower eyelid.)

imwiththecats, to random
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I still get pumped about recess when I see one of these

imwiththecats, to random
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I grew up a Windows kid. Muscle memory starts with CTRL+ALT. IdleWild screensaver crashed our first machine, repeatedly.

Yesterday, I sat down, like that kid I was, again, and troubleshot a Mac issue.

Lessons / Reminders:

  • Not knowing stuff is humbling.
  • Figuring stuff out is exciting.
  • F8 for Safe Mode makes more sense than anything else, ever. Change my mind.
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i'm old enough to remember when netflix mailed out physical discs

imwiththecats,
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@ChrisPirillo The simple joy of receiving, ripping, and sending back the disc the same day can’t be replaced. Ahhh nostalgia

imwiththecats, to random
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You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make your parents listen to your advice.

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Write a really good email

Wow, you did such a great job writing this email

Re-read it a few times just to make sure everything looks exactly how you want it

Send the email

Re-read it again feeling proud of what you've written

...

Notice a typo

imwiththecats,
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@JenMsft Act II: The primary person on the To line replies “Ok thx”

imwiththecats, to selfhosted
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My UPS finally had its first power outage. I’m such a proud UPS dad. ☺️

It’s funny to think that for the last 20 years I’ve just stuck with redundancy and hoped for the best with power and keeping my drives alive.

imwiththecats,
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@redvers Aw man! Maybe that’d fly back in the 90’s when we were still turning our computers off at night :-P

That reminds me of a series of 2a downtimes at a customer’s site. They can’t figure out what was going on. Local IT finally camps out in the server room. 2a. Housekeeping strolls in… They had been unplugging the DB to plug in their vacuum, nightly.

I guess folks don’t know what they don’t know, eh? Ha

imwiththecats, to random
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These are some bad days for EV range.

And great days for having a preheated car waiting in the closed garage.

imwiththecats, to random
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Launching model rockets hits just as good in your 30’s

imwiththecats, to random
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Interestingly, after checking out bluesky a bit, I’ve noticed a lot of “why Mastodon is better than twitter” links over here, and almost no “why bluesky is better than twitter” links over there.

I mean, that’s fine. It just feels a bit masturbation-y.

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Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes

Chamberlain packed its app with ads while disabling third-party access.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/chamberlain-blocks-smart-garage-door-opener-from-working-with-smart-homes/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

imwiththecats,
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@gadgetgav @arstechnica The RATGDO is 33.50 shipped (USD). Look up RAT-RATGDO if you like to solder.

imwiththecats, to random
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A police officer told me today that the driver of a semi truck didn’t need to provide me with insurance info following damage from a small rock falling off said semi truck and onto my vehicle. “This stuff happens,” he said.

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Prescription drug commercials should be illegal.

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