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kwf

@kwf@social.afront.org

Engineer who converts solder, Ethernet cables, and firmware into entertainment.

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I'm thinking about just ripping autotools out of this project and if your environment can't handle an 8 bit char I'm going to just tell you that your environment isn't supported

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When my parents bought their house, they took Boysenberry cuttings from my grandparents house to start berries all along the back of their house. Growing up I've always enjoyed the jams and pies resulting from those berries.

As a house warming gift, my mom gave me several cuttings of their berry vibes to propagate to my new house. And now I'm about to get my first berries from it. 🥰

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@gummibunny that's my doggo Millie. She's in a lot of pictures I post

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@gummibunny Millie is asleep on my foot and approves

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I'm such a sucker for four hour long video essays about corporate train wrecks in 20 parts. https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4

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Remember the good old days when dimensional lumber was only half an inch shy of their nominal dimensions?

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I had this weird realization while nailing the double top plates on my shed that this structure very well may sit there for 50 years, and even if someone came back and majorly remodeled it, most of these nails I'm driving into the framing are just always going to be here.

Right where I put them. For decades.

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Or the whole thing will burn to the ground when I wire up the electrical. Who knows.

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Me: walks to door to pick up delivered package

S: "Is that for you or for me?"

Me: "Well... it's 3600 nails, so..."

S: "Ok, so it's for you."

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My partner has put over 800 miles on her new plug in hybrid, and she still has over half of the original tank of gas from the dealership.

PHEVs are seriously the best of both worlds if you're not ready to take the leap to a fully electric vehicle.

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@phpete I wouldn't start worrying about gasoline in a modern car gas tank for probably something like 9 months.

Modern cars have MUCH tighter tanks than things like lawn mowers, so you don't need to worry as much about moisture contaminating the gas.

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That being said, charging a PHEV or full EV at home is no joke. Even just the PHEV is tripling our total household electricity usage.

Being in freaking California means the cost savings is only maybe 20% vs gasoline, but the convenience factor of plugging in only taking 10 seconds when she gets home is a huge win compared to visiting gas stations.

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My only two electric related complaints for the Volvo XC90 are:

  1. The on-board charger is only 3.6kW, so even at level 2 it takes a long time to charge and any public chargers which charge a fixed "per session" fee take hours to amortize that fee across enough kWh to make it worth it.

  2. Volvo removed all of the charging management UI that seems to be available in the full EV models, so I have no in-car control over avoiding peak rate time charging. I have to implement all of my desired logic in the EVSE.

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@ChuckMcManis I could only fit 3kW on my main roof. I'm clearly going to need to come back and add panels to all my out buildings

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@m0vfc We have an EV TOU rate plan, which saves you a few cents per kWh... https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/residential-electric-rate-plan-pricing.pdf

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@keiko I'm planning on expanding my solar myself. I just need to build the roof to put it on first

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https://circleid.com/posts/20240523-unexplained-glitch-disrupts-root-server-raises-security-concerns

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@woody Cogent not being a solid steward of C root? Someone fetch me my shocked face.

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One of the fun parts of being a mirror operator is that you get to deal with China Mobile using ISO download mirrors to fix their traffic ratios with other ISPs at peering points.

Looks like they've moved to using Slackware now...

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@iaintshootinmis the larger Internet carriers have agreements where they will exchange all of their network traffic for free, as long as the volume in both directions is roughly the same.

So if the traffic isn't naturally the same and China Telecom doesn't want to start paying to send their traffic to other carriers, they can just synthetically create a bunch of extra traffic towards their network to even out the ratio

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@jloc0 I need to set up some easy tooling to ban hammer it faster. I found it easier to just throw 40G at our mirror and weather it.

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So I've got this empty concrete pad on the side of my house.

It used to have a rotted out 12x24' shed on it, but I demolished that last fall and figured I could do something better... 🧵

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I'm at that moderately stressful part where I need to make a final decision on the final roof line, and then make 16 copies of the first rafter I cut.

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@morgan hehe. Just think of how nice it will be in the end.

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Pat came by this morning and helped me finish up cutting out all 19 rafters and nailing up all the hurricane ties to hold the roof on.

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At that point we were ready to start putting rafters in the air, so why not?

The palm nailer was amazing for driving the hanger nails 11 feet up on an extension ladder. Easily the best $30 I've ever spent at Harbor Freight. Anyone who has an air compressor should pick one up; they're just so handy for driving nails in awkward tight spaces.

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@szczys thanks! It's going together faster than I had expected!

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@bobmcwhirter the two end rafters are different from the 17 in the middle

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