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mathiasx

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I write code, ride bikes, and read books. Vegan, maker, boatbuilder. He/him #solarpunk #retrocomputing #fp #linux #foss
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rasterweb, to random
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@mathiasx Is there a bike ride tomorrow?

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb yep! Weather permitting https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Kp8uzOWli/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Cafe Hollander / bridge, meet at 8:30am, roll at 9am

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb get well soon! There will be plenty of chances to ride this year.

rasterweb, to random
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For the past few days I’ve just felt exhausted every morning… besides my bike ride and short walk over the weekend I haven’t had any energy to got out and do anything. I did yard work Sunday and that exhausted me. Maybe I should see my doctor…

mathiasx,
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@ottaross @rasterweb same here too. Yard work really takes it out of me — I did the same thing this weekend.

Even like 5 years ago when I had an online barbell (strength) coach, he acknowledged a few times, yeah, a few hours doing yard work will add up fatigue that disrupted the otherwise cyclical exercise-recovery curve, and so we had a few missed workout days after weekend yard work hours.

mathiasx, to random
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Never read the comments now includes a thread started by anyone on Mastodon with more than 200 followers. I don’t make the rules.

mathiasx, to random
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Trying to install Windows on a laptop that had Linux on it (and worked fine), for a nonprofit office that needs Windows, Word + Excel + Powerpoint, and a browser. Bringing it in with Linux was a nonstarter, even on Ubuntu with the various FOSS alternatives as icons on the desktop.

So I have to ask if anyone has advice. I’ve tried Windows 10 and 11 ISOs. It always fails when I do “custom install,” delete partitions, and tell it to install. Secureboot is on & keys reset, TPM on. BIOS is updated.

mathiasx, to Lisp
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Lisp Badge LE

“This is a self-contained low-power computer with its own display and keyboard that you can program in uLisp, a version of the high-level language Lisp for microcontrollers”

http://www.technoblogy.com/show?3Z2Y

mathiasx, to random
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Making software that runs repeatedly or continuously, like CI jobs, more efficient also means less energy. If you’re working on OSS or internal projects at work that you can make similar changes to, please look into it! It’s not exactly but it feels like a tangible computing thing that we all can help with in corporate jobs.

https://developers.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/05/09/improving-ci-test-execution/

mathiasx, to random
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Every time I see one of these “waste product makes concrete N% stronger” posts (and there have been several, see also the link on waste fly ash) — it makes me ask, is concrete just a really bad material? Because it seems like if you add anything to it, it gets better.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/green-tech/a44892538/engineers-use-coffee-to-make-concrete-stronger/
https://www.thespruce.com/fly-ash-applications-844761

mathiasx, to eink
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I need to work on an eink display editor/terminal theme that uses font weight, italics, underlining, highlighting, etc. rather than colors for syntax highlighting.

rasterweb, to MountainBiking
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I did my longest bike ride yet… 10 miles in about 60 minutes. I’m exhausted, but pleased.

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb great work!

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb the miles start to add up quick once you’re riding regularly! I’m pretty tired from yesterday’s 8 miles but I hope to be doing my usual 25-30 mi weekend morning rides soon! This weather being perfect helps too.

mathiasx, to solarpunk
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In news, there’s someone locally on our Craigslist selling used 315W solar panels for $80 each. They have 30 of them — that’s 9.4kW! I just don’t have the space to store them, nor a vehicle to move them; and we already filled our roof with solar. I don’t think our tiny urban lot can host more large panels, just some small accessory lights.

mathiasx,
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@feld it is just wild that prices on panels have come down so much

Theblueone, (edited ) to random
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That time in 1982 on an episode of CHiPS where the guy from ‘Happy Days’ played a satanic glam rocker and the guy that would grow up to actually be Metallica’s bass player was “Flippy”, a kid who needed some mentoring from Ponch.

mathiasx,
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@Theblueone what a weird timeline.

rasterweb, to Milwaukee
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I did 7 miles this morning and the hills were killing me!

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb glad to see you found the Oak Leaf!

mathiasx, to random
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Big downside of the new Ozlo sleep wireless earbuds (which were spun off the Bose sleep headphones) is that the iOS app eats battery with background processing for no apparent reason. My Battery app says it user 20% of battery in a day. Likely just needs more optimization?

The hardware is great though, and doesn’t need the app once paired with the phone. Two nights now, I’ve used them, and they very comfortable. Most importantly, they actually get quiet — other sleep headphones are too loud.

mathiasx,
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@neurovagrant still the first week, and I don’t have it play audio all night long. Might want to find someone who has reviewed them over a longer time period to see how the battery holds up — I think some of the Kickstarter backers have had them for a month or so now.

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@rasterweb have you ever used lace as a spray paint stencil? Just curious, have a project where I might try it.

mathiasx,
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@grimmy @rasterweb laser cutter stencils might work better in this case too just because I wouldn’t know how much paint to spray to get the desired effect until I did it, and layers of paint would make lace more opaque each time.

mathiasx,
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@grimmy @rasterweb as an example of the kind of effect I was looking at for a guitar finish: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0NAUptye0W/

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb @grimmy have you ever done a rigid stencil with posts to stand off the surface to be stenciled, so that it gets a little “overspray” through the stencil, making it a bit fuzzy?

I don’t have an example of this, but I know some people do the opposite with a burst finish where a shape held up off the body blocks the spray in the middle and causes that gradient past the edge https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nKNbdryilOY/Wgi-IUocp7I/AAAAAAAAGSs/bkYkoJXN_FMZyDgJrk0nqCDoyb_EV1xPwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/20170716_222615.jpg

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb @grimmy very cool! I’m wondering if I could 3D print something upside down on the printer, that raises a stencil off the guitar body a bit to get fuzzy gradients. I would keep the pattern simple, like diamonds or retro-Formica-boomerangs. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/a7/85/8aa78500094dc6f2bed5fc4dc006de85.jpg

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb @grimmy I’m guessing it only needs a little gap to get fuzzy edges that are nice. Otherwise I’ll have to worry too much about angles and not spraying too much.

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb @grimmy I’ll do some tests with cardboard as well — thanks for that idea! Before I go down the path of modeling a stencil in OpenSCAD or (haven’t learned it yet!) Fusion360

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I guess I’m in Palm Springs again…

mathiasx,
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@rasterweb is this a joke about the Groundhog Day-style movie?

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