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quixoticgeek

@quixoticgeek@v.st

Geek, Dyke, Brewer, Rider of Bikes, Archer, Quixotic, Generally Curious, Mostly Harmless, she/her

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Now the EU has fixed small device charging standards. Maybe they could mandate a single battery standard for power tools... or at least make it so manufacturers have to make adaptors to other makes of battery.

quixoticgeek, to random
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It's almost the end of September. And the outside temperature at midnight is 20°C.

Wtf.

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Finally achieved food.

TechConnectify, to random
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Would you like a short thread on a weird internal conflict I have regarding a fairly widespread issue Hyundai/Kia E-GMP cars are having?

That question was rhetorical. Strap in.

OK, so my car can (in theory) charge at 48 amps. With our Freedom voltage, that's 11.5 kW. A fair number of owners are having problems charging at this speed because the charge inlet overheats.

Now, initially, Hyundai had a very stupid strategy for this occurrence: stop charging entirely. That was awful.

quixoticgeek,
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@TechConnectify what voltage is the 30amps at ? I'm used to charging being expressed in kilowatts.

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Does anyone make decent quality usb-c flash drives ?

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd how much power does it draw ?

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd do you know which model it is ?

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I now have a usb-c hub with 4 ports. One of which is power input. So I can now do 3 devices plus power.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Wait. Did I have breakfast yet ?

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Does the ICD train to Brussels count as high speed, or low speed? It only does 160kph. But it's running on the high speed infrastructure...

quixoticgeek,
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@pillenknick ec8 doesn't run on high speed infra tho.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Finding it reassuring that there is actually someone with even worse form for Burpees than me...

quixoticgeek, to random
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Getting a lot of spam from mastodon.social and mastodon.world.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Watching Americans trying to pronounce den Bosch is most entertaining.

quixoticgeek,
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@pillenknick or Scheveningen or Schiermonnikoog...

quixoticgeek, to random
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It's starting to look like a bench.

Two leg assemblies plus the lower stretcher of a small work bench.

quixoticgeek, to random
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One joint completed. Just need to do the other leg and this whole leg assembly is finished.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Back in my "workshop". Continuing with project workbench. Want to get the legs finished by the weekend so I can epoxy the ends.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Where can I get 6mm acrylic CNC milled ? Ideally in the Netherlands. Or even 6mm thick aluminium.

quixoticgeek,
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@Marrekoo alas not big enough. It's a sheet of acrylic I want some holes cut with precision. And a couple of counter. Bores.

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I'm in this toot and I don't like it.

https://wandering.shop/@cstross/111137326430811596

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“I sent the maintainer a small patch that represented hours of work and he spent 3 minutes rewriting it and checked it in with himself as the author” - one of the many reasons I quit Linux kernel development. It’s an excellent technique for discouraging new developers from joining your community https://ariel-miculas.github.io/How-I-got-robbed-of-my-first-kernel-contribution/

quixoticgeek,
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@vaurora I've basically given up on any kind of contributions to foss projects, this is just another example of shit behaviour in the way Foss projects act to keep out new people.

ION at the open source summit in Bilbao one I'd the kernel big wigs said they are reducing lts support to 2 years from 6 cos they don't have enough people willing to work on the kernel...

quixoticgeek, to random
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Postnl: we will deliver your package today between 1100 and 1500
Also postnl: we haven't actually received your package ourselves yet.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Looks like while I was on holiday MS redesigned the azure ad dashboards. Argh.

Also, is it just me, or does the change of name to entra feel like when royal snail tried to rebrand as consignia ?

quixoticgeek, to random
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The rocks in this video are not hostile architecture. For they you need to get on a train to say... Schiphol. Where the benches are missing. Instead there's some instrument of torture you're supposed to lean against...

These are also found at a lot of Amsterdam tram stops... and GVB metro stations...

Hostile architecture exists in .NL. it's not as common as in other countries. But it's here.

https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/111133489551993829

quixoticgeek, to random
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Looks like mastodon.social have a spam problem tonight

quixoticgeek, to random
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Ooh. Spam on Mastodon. The fediverse has Landed

quixoticgeek, to random
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note to self, check space in fridge has space before ordering groceries

quixoticgeek, to random
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Grocery delivery on its way. Which means I need to dig out all the deposit bottles and cans to return.

jon, to random
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Hmmm. Something slightly odd is going on with ticket prices through the Ruhrgebiet towards Berlin on 10th October…

Despite this being a fortnight from now, and these evening trains on that route typically being medium full, there is no Sparpreis anywhere west of Essen

So I have done a ticket split - Normalpreis Köln-Essen and Sparpreis from Essen, but it is a little odd…

€51 for Essen-Berlin

quixoticgeek,
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@jon Essen spiel is that weekend. Many thousands of board game geeks trying to get away from Essen.

quixoticgeek,
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@jon ok. So I was looking at September... I'm clearly not awake.

helenczerski, to liveaboard
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Science/coastal hivemind, I need your help. We’re working on the underwater acoustics of small all-electric boats (almost certainly far less underwater noise pollution than engines). We would like to do some trials - just measuring the sound near an electric boat - but we’re struggling to find someone in (or very near) the UK who has an electric boat we could use/hire. Has anyone got any ideas or know anyone who owns an electric boat?

quixoticgeek,
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@helenczerski dunno if any use. But there's loads of electric boats you can hire in Amsterdam. 3 hours is about €90.

Gemeente Amsterdam has pushed for the removal of dinosaur burning boats from the canals so there's lots of electric boats about here.

quixoticgeek, to random
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Well fuck. For once it wasn't DNS.

It was ntp

quixoticgeek, to random
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Incidentally, as you all enjoyed the previous geolocation games so much. Where was the photo in this toot taken from. To within 100m.

https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/111130658486211629

quixoticgeek,
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@bracken spot on congrats

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd so so so close. But no

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd heading in the wrong direction

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd you are incredibly close tho.

quixoticgeek,
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@wmd bingo

quixoticgeek, to random
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Back at work after my holiday. My inbox is not as bad as I feared. Still not great tho. Can I be back in a cafe by the med again please?

quixoticgeek, to random
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Back at work after my holiday. Took 4 goes to get my laptop password right...

quixoticgeek, to random
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Aaah. My own bed. I've missed you.

quixoticgeek, to random
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It's nice to be somewhere where turning the lights on or off doesn't involve solving an escape room challenge

quixoticgeek, to random
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My OV chipkaart expired. I renewed it, and they sent by bank transfer the remaining credit from the expired card.

So tell me. What shall I spend my €0.03 refund on...

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Laundry has gone in the machine so that I can get it hung up to dry overnight. Kinda needed as I'm out of underwear. Now have about an hour to vegetate before it's ready.

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Wanted to be home by 2200. Wrang doorbell at 2159. Perfect.

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Of course the lift at Sloterdijk station to get up from the platform is out of order. And I arrived at the only platform without an escalator... fnnnggh. Just the metro to go

kapellosaur, to random
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Eating cheese and crackers not altogether that long before bedtime... is that the best idea?

Eh, my dreams are plenty weird already, what could go wrong?

quixoticgeek,
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@kapellosaur I dunno. But this feels like a perfect thing to experiment with. Do you have different cheeses ? What variable do we control for ? How do we measure this ?

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