quixoticgeek

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

This tram has quite a few empty seats. You wouldn't know this when first trying to get on tho. Cos the area around the entrance is packed. Push through them tho, and a choice of seats await...

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

Four day weekend has begun. Am starting it with a trip the the supermarket, cos I fucked up the grocery delivery earlier this week.

Shopping while hungry. What could possibly go wrong...

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

There needs to be a website where you can put in two films of TV series, and it tells you all the cast and crew that worked on both...

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

My downstairs neighbour is either torturing a cat, or torturing a guitar, I'm not entirely sure which, but either way, I'd really like them to stop.

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

Dutch, what are you smoking this time?

De vork, de mepel, de mes, so logically it follows... Het bestek...

Grrr

This toot bought to you by getting it wrong in Duolingo again...

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

Everything is prickly. And I'd like it all to fuck off.

quixoticgeek, 1 month ago to random

I now have the use of a vinyl cutter. I've little to no knowledge of the possibilities of things I could do with it.

Anyone else got a vinyl cutter? What do you use it for ?

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

"my computer isn't working properly"
"Have you tried turning it off?"
"And back in again?"
"No".

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Fediverse help me. I boosted a toot in the last week or so about UBI with 160 trials all being a success. Can anyone help me find it ? Search is not great.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Oops.

Just set a password for a user. Forgetting it was on a system that doesn't do easy copy paste...

It's 240 random characters...

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

"erm, why does auth.log not exist?"
"Cos you're trying to view argh.log"

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Last may @X31Andy came over to visit. Being a renewable energy geek, when I asked what he wanted to do for the day, he asked to go see some wind Turbines. By pure chance it was national wind mill open day, which gave us a crash course in 400 years of wind energy. Starting with a post mill, then a smock mill, before entering Flevopolder and visiting 3 generations of wind Turbine.

What amazed me most of tho was that the quietest of the turbines were the newest. 1/n

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Success. Had a lovely ride. Took a bit of a circuitous route to get to the hardware store, and an equally circuitous route back. Got almost everything I needed. Only thing I didn't get is something to clean the algae off the balcony. As they only had huge bottles of it. And my balcony is tiny.

Now sitting enjoying the fresh air, flowers, and sunshine.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Well and truly screwed...

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Cool. Now do the noise from cars...

https://nltimes.nl/2024/03/18/doctors-concerned-noise-pollution-caused-wind-turbines

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Tomorrow I need to go buy more screws. And try to find a way to get the broken screw out of the wood. But for now. I'm gonna curl up under a duvet with a book. Just as soon as I work out which book from the 5 stacks of books on or around my bed to read.

The observant among you will notice that it was 6 stacks when I tooted about them earlier this week. I've since discovered I could merge two of the stacks without a substantial reduction in structural integrity...

I hope.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Well fuck. Screwed and not screwed, at the same time...

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

There are 11 people in this screening of dune 2. The cinemas could fit about 300...

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Look mum, no clamps.

It's finally starting to look like a work bench.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Ugh. I wish people would stop assuming email is instant. It isn't. Has never been. It sometimes is by chance. But it isn't by design.

Currently waiting for a 2fa code that was emailed to me to arrive. Bets on if the code has expired by the time it eventually gets here ?

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Boing continue to do well...

Starting to question the safety of living under the Schiphol flight path...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68584134

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Watching @TechConnectify second channel follow up video about the heat pump sizing. There's mention that an air co is a heat pump that is only of use for 6 months of the year.

The crazy thing is in some countries, the grants for installing heat pumps can only be used on equipment that does not have a cooling function. It has to be heat only.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Bah. Despite both my housemate and I being home. PostNL decided we aren't in, and instead will be taking my package to a parcel shop. Grrrr.

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Watching the @TechConnectify video about heating sizing. The thing I find hardest to understand tho is the idea of measuring heat pumps in tons.

What's wrong with measuring them in kW?

quixoticgeek, 2 months ago to random

Ok. Now do cars. Go on.

I wonder how those accident stats look if we take out everything where a car is involved.

Our blindness to the harm of cars, while happily targeting any and all micromobility devices is disgusting.

https://nltimes.nl/2024/03/12/amsterdam-testing-system-can-remotely-slow-e-bikes