For various reasons I have 8 calendars across 4 hosts that I aggregate to work out if I am free or busy. It’s a pain.
Ideal world I think is either:
A calendar that shows my “free” blocks only as event chunks. (Like one of the booking services such as simplymeet, but with an ics feed of the availability spots)
a free/busy view of my calendars but with the individual events glommed together where they are adjacent. (So instead of 4 blocks of 15 minute events, it just shows a single busy block of 1 hour)
an “inverted” view mode of a calendar. Huge events, show empty spots only.
something else I haven’t thought of.
Printing, calendars, time zones. Problems that are complicated.
But I have solved the aggregation problem (get all selectively redacted events into a single calendar).
What I don’t have is the piece that lets me just show the non-scheduled times, or a piece that takes all of the busy events that don’t have a (big enough) gap between them and lump them together into a single event.
I didn’t see anything on Morgen (or anywhere else) that could do this for me - within a calendar - and not just in an external scheduling app.
@AusSocialMods Thank you for all that you collectively do.
I have never seen you in action, which I reckon means that you’re very good at your role!
I appreciate you, each and every one.
We have “AI” out there deriving art and literature and assessing science journals and reviewing test reports for evidence of cancer and dreaming up nonsense to inject as facts.
And here I am, numbly clicking the “I am not a robot” box and trying to identify which squares have a bicycle in them, so that I can enter a form that will send an email into a ticketing system so that my enquiry can go through some routing software until it can be reviewed by an auto responder to determine how urgent it is.
Been reading up on regular burnout vs autistic burnout vs adhd burnout and so if you need me, I’m just going to be sitting over here for a while reprocessing my entire life.
Strategies for recovering for one kind can be triggers for another kind and I’m just… like… 🤯
@mattcen Right?! Right!!! I know you get it. It’s like some sort of weird midlife crisis but just running a bit late (either that or I’m going to live to an overripe old age)
@nnye As somebody who feels existentially late for so many things (especially realisations about myself, and to a lesser degree, when my systems fail, late for appointments etc), I definitely get it!
Fediverse: what’s your favourite edutube person for videos on crochet basics? A friend’s kidling is wanting to learn crochet and her mum needs to stay one step ahead but both of them are total beginners! #craft#crochet
A very merry (mildly malevolent) Aussie magpie Christmas to you. (This thing is as tall as I am)
Australian magpies have a beautiful carolling song, are very intelligent (they can recognise and remember individual humans) and will murderously swoop you if you go within the No Humans Allowed zone of their nest, in spring. (Or if they just don’t like you) The zone is not signposted.
They are also a protected species. Wild magpies are not usually seen with Santa hats.
Is BookWyrm sufficiently great that I can move off GoodReads? (I do not Amazon)
I hear Outside of a Dog has an awesome admin and a good choice for someone in AU. Confirm/deny?
Is there some other book reviewing platform that is a healthy alternative?
@nnye I love the idea of BookWyrm; the only reason I haven't properly switched over to it yet is that it doesn't have a plug-in for Calibre (or a sufficient API with which to write one). I could change this, but writing either of those things is not where my head's currently at. I believe @hugh has been doing the odd bit of work on BookWyrm, and I'd definitely pick @futzle as an instance admin!
A friend has terminal cancer. She loves the beach. A lot. I want to convert a corner of her garden into a mini beach. (Her husband is on board with this plan)
Hit me up with your ideas on how to do this, cheaply, with local community support, in something we could complete in a day.