TrenchcoatFullOfBats

Man, people really don’t like systemd

For funsies, I once asked Claude about some obscure software I was reading about in a Lemmy post that was about an hour old. Its reply referenced a different post in the same comment thread of the Lemmy post I was already reading.

If you’re neurodivergent and also sell on eBay, you can justify a BoxLibrary and enter all of those nice FREE boxes into a self-hosted open source inventory management program that also lets you easily print qr code labels that you can tape to each flattened box (sorted by size, obviously) that you can easily scan to take that box out of inventory when you use it to ship stuff.

And then you can buy new boxes anyway because BoxLibrary is too far away (in the garage) because your partner didn’t want all of those lovely boxes in the house, but you can’t stop adding to it now, because it’s infrastructure and also, hey, that’s a nice box - I’m gonna keep that, because I might need it later.

“Is there anyone here who has a genuine medical problem?”

Just recently set this up, but with a zigbee energy monitoring smart plug. I recently got a Technivorm Moccamaster for $175 that has a physical toggle switch for power and another for the hot plate. Turn them both on, grind the beans and fill the water tank the night before, then set up an automation to turn the smart plug on when the lights go on in the morning, and boom, coffee is ready by the time I stumble into the kitchen, narrowly avoiding death by tripping over hungry cats.

Since it’s an energy monitoring smart plug, I could add a bit to the automation to cut the power when the watts drop after the float switch in the water tank automatically flips and turns off the boiler, or I could just tell the automation to cut the power 5 minutes after turning on, OR, as I discovered when I messed up the automation, the Moccamaster can actually physically FLIP ITS OWN POWER SWITCH OFF automatically if it’s been on for over 100 minutes because it has a freaking tiny SOLENOID built into the power switch assembly that will mechanically move the toggle switch into the off position, physically cutting the power to the unit, which you’ll want to account for in the automation, because it won’t work if the power switch is turned off.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk. I mostly just wanted to tell someone that my coffee maker has a tiny solenoid, because no one in my house really cares.

We had an avocado tree in the backyard growing up. It was so large that it hung quite a ways over the roof, which had terracotta shingles.

If we didn’t pull the ripe avocados off the tree it would sound like a small bomb going off every time one dropped and hit the roof, which usually happened early in the morning for some reason.

Well, I heard that Eddy is in the space-time continuum, so maybe that’s the problem with this entire timeline?

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Everything would be orange and sticky and there would be wonderment about the mystery of how springs work. Probably.

And it shall be called “Sproing” and will glow when orcs are near, or when elven ears can detect the musical stylings of “Jump Around” by House of Pain

I’ve always wanted to give a bowler hat a try, but it seems like a slippery slope - bowler hat this week, tricorn next month, then we’re into powdered wigs…where does it end? Do we even want it to end?

The goblet is a lie