the-water-cooler

[forest edge]

people abuse it

[umbral cliff]

They really don't

[forest edge]

they really do

[umbral cliff]

The rule of thumb is nothing over 3 hours, and not many times in a single week unless you provide proof. Not hard and fast rules for it

[forest edge]

those systems were put in long ago for a reason

3 hours?

[umbral cliff]

This system was put in place 5 years ago and found to boost morale

[clear ferry]

The abuse level is so low, and we have had the system for 5 decades

[umbral cliff]

Covers most medical appointments

[forest edge]

when people here go to the doctor they generally either take the whole day or several hours

[clear ferry]

Capitalism wants to squash workers though

[umbral cliff]

You don't need several hours for a doctor, 30 minute appointment and 20 minutes commute at most

[forest edge]

short visits generally are done on a extended lunch break

[umbral cliff]

Fuck wasting my lunch break on that

[forest edge]

exactly, but since employers don't require a dr's note it's he said she said

[umbral cliff]

Americans think the workers are always out to exploit what they're given

[glacial knot]

I'm amazed you have a difference. Only makes sense when there's a limit D:

[clear ferry]

If I need a doctor i go when I feel like it, noone cares as long as I do my job

[forest edge]

not just american's

[umbral cliff]

I personally don't care about sick leave, never use it (probably will end up using it as carers leave instead) but for people who get sick often the slow acrewal sucks

[clear ferry]

I've used 8 days of sick leave in 15 years, damn I'm abusing the system

[umbral cliff]

Previous project was like that. This project the management clock watch half the time

[forest edge]

if someone has an established condition then there are things put in place to address that. but a 16 year taking sick days every friday of the month is a little suspicious

[glacial knot]

acrew? 😂 implies a set limit

[umbral cliff]

I know someone who's used all their sick leave this year just because they're constantly sick

[forest edge]

jobs don't prevent people from going to the dr

sick days are paid days, nothing stops a person from taking a non paid day

[umbral cliff]

Yeah there's a base amount you earn each year acrewing. As mentioned is fine if you don't use it often. Not fine otherwise

[umbral cliff]

They certainly are a barrier given both of them only operate during business hours usually
Having the ability to still get paid whilst going is great. Given employees health is directly related to how well they can work

[clear ferry]

Imagine, getting paid to go to the doctor's

[forest edge]

well there is a flip side to that coin

[clear ferry]

And to take days off work

[forest edge]

imagine an employee who dosen't ever work cause they are always sick

[clear ferry]

They are extending our wellness Fridays to be one Friday per month now instead of every other month

[forest edge]

I would hate being a supervisor/manager during these times

[umbral cliff]

Then that would show in their performance review. And if they can't keep up with job requirements the employer should see if they can help. Otherwise let them go

[forest edge]

the crap i see on youtube scares the hell out of me on how people think anymore

[umbral cliff]

Because you have to be inclusive and nice to people? And not just say "oh sorry you didn't get this done, therefore I won't pay you"

[forest edge]

that comes apparent pretty quickly, usually before one eats up all thier sick days

[forest edge]

nice and bending over and offering lube is two diffrent things

[keen bridge]

Nice!
We don't have that, but when I turned up to work and was just brain dead my boss told me to take the day off and not worry about it which was more or less the same thing.

[umbral cliff]

Workers rights are good for an employee. But doesn't stop an employer from letting an employee go if they're not doing their job

[keen bridge]

Imagine not having to kill yourself trying to work and infecting all your colleagues because you're so ill

[forest edge]

that's a joke right? have you not seen the shit that goes on out there for the past few years?

[keen bridge]

I'd like to point out that nearly every other country actually looks after workers and is much more productive than the US.

[forest edge]

the sad reality there is, you already infected all your fellow coworkers before you even knew you were sick

[keen bridge]

Maybe, maybe not. But coughing and sneezing over them is not going to make them well. Let alone projectile vomiting.

[clear ferry]

Yeah we just do that on top of everything else

[keen bridge]

And the number of mistakes you make that then have to be corrected is ridiculous.

[forest edge]

these days, yes I agree more productive than us.. what ever happened over the past decade or so really shifted everything

but that wasn't always the case

[clear ferry]

Probably the main reason we don't have Amazon in Norway, we have worker rights

[keen bridge]

Workers are also better off monetarily. Not being bankrupted by a simple visit to the doctor or the hospital is ace.

[forest edge]

isn't ikea the same thing?

lol

I truely hope something blows up here to maybe put things back on track

but i fear it will get worse before it gets any better

[keen bridge]

I broke my ankle in 3 places and fractured my wrist a few years ago. I was off work for 6 weeks, then 2 more at 50%, and then back. I think I paid €10 or something for all of my hospital visits.

And I got full pay the whole time.

[forest edge]

at work?

if you get injured at work workman's comp pays for it all, including your leave

if you fall off your apt balcony before going to work then you are sol

[keen bridge]

Nope. I broke my ankle on holiday.

[clear ferry]

One of my colleagues lost his drivers licence for 6 months for speeding, at the time we were 90% at customer sites, no worries, just ride with colleagues for 6 months

[glacial knot]

breaking the ankle at work is preferable. Gets the employer's insurance on the hook for a bunch of fun

[forest edge]

older american's believe in work ethic. I can't speak for states like california or anything but here people loved thier jobs, efficiency and quality and pride all mattered very much. as tech grew though manual labor shrinked and somewhere in there people got lazy imo

[keen bridge]

There's work ethic and "I have to work even though I really shouldn't be working". The first is fine, the second is not.

[glacial knot]

damnit, I was waiting for a command to finish and I failed to start it 😦

[clear ferry]

Digital edging

I like it

[glacial knot]

luckily it's just the corpa laptop doing corpa tasks 🙂

[forest edge]

the "reasons" for that "I really shouldn't be working" is the issue.

[glacial knot]

I try to work from home when sick, and go lie down when I feel like it 🤷

[clear ferry]

Exactly

[glacial knot]

where "sick" is a cold with a headache

anything worse, and I get more days at 10% performance out of trying to force work

[clear ferry]

If I work a few hours when feeling ill without going to meet people

Perfection

[forest edge]

a cough never stopped someone from wanting to work, but these days a sniffle makes someone want to call out the whole week

what i hate is the reality that fewer people want to get into manual intensive type jobs. there are less people wanting to be plumbers or carpenters or even mechanics then there are people retiring from those positions

soon you'll have to buy a new car just because there won't be anyone around to fix anything that breaks.. well unless the whole world dives deep into robotics lol

[glacial knot]

pay me within 50% of what I'm paid for ass on chair and I'll do carpentry and general wood working tomorrow
I like both, but one gets me well off as average guy, the other only at the far top in the field

[keen bridge]

Having to deal directly with the entitled public who won't accept "the part for that will take a week to get and a day to fix", or who don't show up when they should, or who complain about the bill. I can't imagine why people don't want to work a physically draining job with that as the cherry on top 😂

[forest edge]

not possible because if that were the case, noone could ever afford you

how does having the oil changed in your car equal to a months pay? that sound peachy to anyone?

[clear ferry]

Pretty sure there are wood workers who make more then me

Or labour people overall

[forest edge]

master carpenters.. maybe

not sure

[clear ferry]

After all they tried to charge me $5000 for service on my A8L

[forest edge]

talking about people who make inlays etc by hand, not with a machine

[glacial knot]

there certainly are. But they will be in a higher percentile in their field

and while I'm good at what I do, I know that depression and general anxiety issues will make it very hard to move into top percentiles

[clear ferry]

I could double my income probably, but I don't want to work more and have to deal with people

[glacial knot]

do you know the feeling when you can't find the stupid terminal some task runs in? I shouldn't use the IDE integrated one to run VMs 😄

[clear ferry]

Lol

Yes

I should do that more too

[low harness]

The kids got a board game for Christmas that has a section where you have to whisper. Genius!

... except when they finish that section they compensate...

[glacial knot]

sounds like a nice game to me

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/sml-billy-hello-i-would-like-to-play-a-game-i-want-to-play-a-game-games-gif-25872153

[finite atlas]

uh yes! which one?

[clear ferry]

Antibabypilleschpiel

[shadow prawn]

Wat

Its spiel

You eggman

[clear ferry]

😦

[midnight adder]

Thats my favorite game. I'm going for the highscore in February.

[last cedar]

@clear ferry I canceled the Octavia today

Sick of waiting and lack of info. Going to be a lot of fallout though haha

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/finally-homer-simpsons-india-gif-20845337

I can print you a car

[glacial knot]

do it

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/piracy-download-a-car-piracy-its-a-crime-download-a-handbag-download-a-computer-gif-17133478

[last cedar]

Will probably be better quality than the VW bits

Even in PLA

[clear ferry]

I'll print it in 0.30 and it will still hold better then a tesla

[last cedar]

More than likely

Going to be so pissed though, it has gone 2 years over lease already and like 60k km haha

Not my problem though thankfully

[bitter pecan]

anyone have a recommendation for a lightweight linux distro to turn a raspberry pi into an HA kiosk?

i have a pi zero and a touchscreen that i wanna tape the pi behind but the pi obviously lacks a lot of power and i feel raspbian may be too heavy

[clear ferry]

I just do raspberry pi os and a 24" spare monitor

Non interactive

[bitter pecan]

true

[orchid rose]

So the new DJI Mini 3 is apparently out. How have we reached a timeline where vertical video is not only acceptable, but the main selling point for a new camera system. I hate it.

[last cedar]

Just like you! ❤️

[clear ferry]

[prisma briar]

I wonder if there's a VR HA interface

So I could walk through my house in VR and turn on/off lights or something

[keen bridge]

Why would you want that? 🤔

For the time being, the floor plan card might serve as a 2d stand in

[bitter pecan]

if i walk into your house and see you with that, i'll be amused but will then absolutely bully you for it

[proud ore]

imo, a smart home has to be so smart you forget you smartyfied it

[orchid rose]

There are some VR implementations of real world in unreal engine iirc. Maybe you can integrate HA into it

[proud ore]

lights just turn on/off where they're needed, blinds open-close based on time of day / what you're doing, ventilation adjusts based on CO2 and/or TVOC etc

[orchid rose]

Too ez

[proud ore]

hah, if that was easy smart homes would be the norm 😓

it's easy-ish for me, as I live on my own

but even then, something like presence detection is already difficult

most fool-proof way currently imo is facial-detection or other "human detection" camera based stuff

but that's.... not cheap

microwave sensors are also interesting

[last cedar]

Great for detecting if you are coming towards or away from it, and keeping you warm if something goes wrong. What is there not to like?

[last cedar]

Were you thinking the blinds would close if you were running around naked at home?

[proud ore]

Lol, that's an option

was thinking more like, if you start playing a movie on the TV and the sun-angle is XYZ, close the blinds

[keen bridge]

I have a shower button which plays music in the bathroom, but it also closes some curtains/blinds to avoid letting people see in 😂

[finite atlas]

alpine linux is as much lightweight as you can reasonably get

[bitter pecan]

weird, i have the same one but instead it opens all the curtains / blinds.

my neighbors haven't talked to me in months!

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/chris-farley-chip-and-dale-dance-gif-15922526

[proud ore]

three double-shot espressos in an hour wasn't my greatest idea

[umbral cliff]

✨Tiktok✨

[umbral cliff]

We do that using humidity. When enough humidity is there lights dim (since we shower at night), and blind closes

Handy

[proud ore]

we shower at night? That's news to me

morning showers all the way, or I'd have the wildest bed hair xD

[umbral cliff]

By we I mean my partner and I lol

But yeah it's great. Get into bed all clean

Means more sleep too before work the next day

[proud ore]

Sounds great 😓

I'd have to re-wash my hair in the morning if I didn't want it working as a sun-dial 😅

[umbral cliff]

Luckily all mine needs is a quick comb and I'm done 😂 (advantage of being a guy with short hair lol)

[keen bridge]

I have very colourful hair, washing it daily is a recipe for sadness. But washing my hair daily is a recipe for not greatness anyway. And waiting for the humidity to rise takes a bit too long for things to kick in for me. But I should look at it as a backup.

[prisma briar]

I have mine set so if there's high humidity it turns on the exhaust fan and doesn't automatically power the lights down after a few minutes.

[prisma briar]

Novelty and amusement? lol

I was considering some actually useful ideas like having my setup automatically lower my room temperature or turn on a fan when I'm playing VR and thought of that.

Hmm, I wonder if I could get wind speed out of VR games and make it control a fan

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/vr-run-vr-battle-vr-vr-headset-vr-treadmill-gif-25719083

[prisma briar]

I want to try one of those treadmills

I don't think I'd want to own one but it'd be fun to try.

[rapid plinth]

I know a guy with one of those. He... never put it together.

[midnight adder]

Anyone have any opinions on the catalogue for higher tier Ps Plus vs Amazon Luna+ ?

[forest edge]

@last cedar get off my farm!

and take your BF with you!

[prisma briar]

Ask him if I can have it

[last cedar]

Have to scope out potential doormat stealing locations

[forest edge]

you've come to provide food and filament you say?

[clear ferry]

I should buy joking hazard to have on my desk just to make small stories during meetings

[forest edge]

I dunno, you seem rather touchy anymore. not sure that type of humor wouldn't just offend you lol

[clear ferry]

https://i.redd.it/sdmd1tj98l8a1.png

Yikes

[orchid rose]

I'm pretty sure it's a thing for racing games. I've seen people install fan ducts to their rigs so I assume that's what it's for

[clear ferry]

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/zwxcl6/any_exsouthwest_admins_want_to_chime_in/

This whole thread is amazing

[keen bridge]

Anytime people try to blame IT, IT usually have plenty of proof for "yeah, so we tried to upgrade you and you refused to give us the money for it"

[clear ferry]

I have quite a few customers still running COBOL stuff

Which is hilarious, since they have to call 85 year old people to fix it when it breaks

[keen bridge]

Hehe, I considered learning COBOL

[clear ferry]

I'm not surprised Rose-My

[keen bridge]

It's the sort of thing I'd do

But I already have job security, and I like being able to say "get someone else" 😛

[clear ferry]

Just like me who is the only one who does 15 products in country, i have enough job security currently, dont need to learn a dead language

すごいい

[keen bridge]

I considered learning SAP

But then I realised I don't hate myself

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/yikes-alexis-alexis-rose-annie-murphy-schitts-creek-gif-20774183

[prisma briar]

Damn, someone sat a box on my AC remote control yesterday and now it's really cold in here.

Going to make an automation to force that off if it gets turned on

[keen bridge]

Take the batteries out of the remote? 😛

[prisma briar]

An automation would cover all means of controlling it

It's already connected to HA, I just need to add an automation to turn it off when cold gets turned on.

[clear ferry]

Reminds me of when I needed to write a cronjob to run NTP every 5 seconds

When running Debian on a quad socket Pentium 3

[glacial knot]

wouldn't a high time skew influence cron?

[clear ferry]

It worked

The clock did like 5 minutes per one minute

So basically it would trigger Cron even more often tbh

[glacial knot]

amazing. Should have done 25 minutes just so it races against kerberos

[clear ferry]

Shiiiiiet

Make it a game of odds

[umbral cliff]

For the airline industry they're stuck using Amadeus or sabre for booking systems. They're ancient and held together with duct tape. Whenever shit hits the fan, it's usually because of one of those systems failing
There are no drop in replacements and no one wants to spend the money (especially with many airlines using the same systems it makes bookings, changes, etc far easier to manage)

[glacial knot]

and they still don't do it well 😦

[keen bridge]

Yup. It's both astounding and totally expected 🤪

[umbral cliff]

Best part is your passport details get stored in your Amadeus booking record (unsure about sabre) which is not encrypted and is protected just by your last name and booking reference

As what happened right here: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

(great read btw)

[low harness]

I've bought two devices recently with upside-down USB A ports. What's up with that?

I know about the jokes with turning things over twice before they fit and all, but IT'S SO INCREDIBLY WRONG

You know those pictures of faces with the eyes and mouth upside down? It's like that.

Also makes my yubikey impossible to use, obviously.

[clever mortar]

USB C Yubikey solves that, with a USB A to C adapter

[low harness]

Yeah, because that sounds like something I'd want hanging from my keychain.

[clever mortar]

Just switch to a USB C Yubikey then... and wait 5 years for all the rest of the kit to be upgraded

[prisma briar]

I've got a USB-C Yubikey, it's really touchy and disconnects from my thinkpad with the slightest vibration.. I ended up going back to my USB-A one.

[clever mortar]

I bought two. One mysteriously just stopped working. My much older USB A one has never let me down...

[prisma briar]

I've got two A's from work and a C and an A that are mine that I got with their CloudFlare promo a couple months ago.

The C one won't fit in my phone unless I take my case off and is unreliable on my laptop so I basically don't use that one

[clever mortar]

The NFC version is nice, if expensive

[low harness]

That's the one I've got. I'd say that's the only one that's actually useable with an iphone.

[prisma briar]

I got the C one because I had plans of setting up a secure environment with Knox on my phone and submitting it to work to get approved so I'd only need my phone with me while on call

And the SSH auth we use at work needs it plugged in

But I ended up hitting some roadblocks that meant I was going to have a convoluted solution with some self-compiled libraries to get the Yubikey to work with Termux.

And just didn't ever bother submitting it for approval

[umbral cliff]

I've got the USB C + NFC yubikey, has suffered abuse on my keychain and is still my primary yubikey. Works fine for my phone, laptop, ipad, nfc stuff, etc

[umbral cliff]

How does the cloudflare promo work, I went into the zero trust dashboard yesterday and clicked the link but I haven't received a link yet

[low harness]

From what I heard it can take quite a while. Apparently they got quite the backlog due to unexpectedly large interest.

[umbral cliff]

I thought it would be an automated process given its cloudlfare lol

[prisma briar]

Yea, that was what I did. They e-mailed me a link and I ordered 6 of them, two for myself and some for friends/family. I think they lowered the number you can order though, it was 10 when I did it.

I signed up like the first day it started, we'd been tracking it in Slack at work beforehand.

I think it took a few hours for me to get the e-mail with the link to buy them

[umbral cliff]

Given the time of year I've chosen to request it, I probably will need to wait lol

[clever mortar]

Took a couple of days for mine to show up - you prompted me to check 😄

[clear ferry]

Last mail I got said delivery January

[twilit lagoon]

is there a way to connect a r pi 2 with a screen to my main home assistant server to act as a control panel

[forest edge]

home assistant is headless. the only UI access is through browser which in that regard you can access from anything that has a browser

dosen't need to be directly connected to the server, just connected to the network

[midnight adder]

Is there such a thing as a security camera that screws into a light socket?

[shrewd veldt]

https://www.amazon.com/light-socket-security-Camera/s?k=light+socket+security+Camera ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[deft vector]

I'm proud I just got this to work. Had like 20 separate automations for each button type. Now it's all in one per scene controller. Learned templates

209 lines for my living room scene controller automation

[forest edge]

then you learned you could do all of that with just 4 lines of code

[deft vector]

Please do tell

I'm all for minimalizing

[keen bridge]

Do you not have events for "button 1 single press" or similar? I'll grant all my buttons are #zigbee-archived and I use Z2M so I get to cheat with an action sensor to listen to, but the templates seem... extreme

[deft vector]

I have 12 different key buttons on my scene controller set, 5 buttons can do 1-4 clicks and even hold

This scene controller is zwave

There was no way to do that like my zigbee buttons. It's a device and doesn't have any entities for the buttons

Only values

If I do condition, there's nothing related to the type of trigger for the scene controller. And I didn't want to make 30 trigger IDs so I just got the data manually with 1 trigger per button

[keen bridge]

Fun. Did you look to see if there's a blueprint? https://community.home-assistant.io/c/blueprints-exchange/

[deft vector]

I did but there wasn't one for mine

This is what I'm using: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B6S4TSL

I think I found one, https://community.home-assistant.io/t/zen32-scene-controller-z-wave-js/292610

Oh well, I learned the backend of this blueprint. Same thing just a bit more complicated

Yea, that blueprint worked right away lol

[forest edge]

i've seen some ugly cars in my time but I glad I never knew (till now) this one existed

https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBVsG0i.img?h=351&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f

[static schooner]

looks like a cross between the pope mobile and a minivan

[forest edge]

fiat Multipla

someone made a thomas tank front end for it lol

[finite atlas]

man that took you a long time

[forest edge]

cars exclusively sold in in other countries don't exactly come across us American's unless we go looking for them

[finite atlas]

you certainly missed plenty good cars

[forest edge]

like what?

[finite atlas]

google CityEL or Audi A2

[forest edge]

lol yea that kind of stuff would feature on something making fun of other countries, not in the general flow of information

[finite atlas]

the audi a2 looks "funny", but its a pretty great car besides the looks
fully aluminium, audi brand quality, very fuel efficient and a variety of durable engines
there is even one version that gets you around at 3L/100km (78 US MPG), keep in mind that car was produced in 2002

or Smart for two and Smart for four, look them up :D
1958 Fiat 600 Multipla Mirafiori is interesting aswell

[forest edge]

we have/had those

the smart fourtwo whatever they are

[finite atlas]

fart balls

[forest edge]

I have seen a couple, but there is a huge diffrence in taste beween the two sides of the pond

those smart cars didn't even last

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a27310639/smart-fortwo-discontinued-usa/

without fail around here people called them roller skates

people see them as death traps

[rapid plinth]

I've seen enough in the red and yellow "little tykes" paint scheme complete with B-pillar badges that I'm convinced that was either a factory option or some paint shop was offering it as a service

[finite atlas]

their chassis is pretty stiff, but its made for the european market, where the average car does not weight >2 metric tons

it got a b-pillar badge, it must be fäst!

BMW C1 is nice aswell

[rapid plinth]

an interesting case study in ugly cars: "ZE0" aka 1st gen Nissan Leaf is just... fugly. "ZE1" aka 2nd gen looks like a taller, two-tone hatchback Altima, very generic

[finite atlas]

i'd prefer the 1st gen over the 2nd gen, when only taking looks into consideration

[umbral cliff]

Smart cars didn't sell well in Australia either. But hatchbacks are still very common. Again due to the not gigantic cars on the road
Hell state I'm in doesn't even have a registration cost for private vehicles over 2500kg (annual registration/ road tax is based on weight of car here)

[finite atlas]

probably better than engine size in germany

[umbral cliff]

Weight actually makes an impact on condition of the roads lol

But to encourage EVs rego is free for them

[forest edge]

lol yet ev's weigh the most

[finite atlas]

but are more ecological than ICE cars

encuraging more people to buy such cars

[forest edge]

i dunno. my personal property taxes went up 60 bucks this year cause my old 2006 truck gained so much in value lol

[finite atlas]

too bad many EV's i see on our roads are still giant boxes :|

[rapid plinth]

Your property taxes include your vehicle?

Here property taxes are only on real estate

[forest edge]

it's seperate but yea

[rapid plinth]

There's an annual registration but it's based purely on the class of vehicle and whether it's a hybrid/EV

because I guess Prius owners don't buy enough gas to pay their fair share of taxes for the road

so their registration is $150USD more than for, say, a diesel truck weighing twice as much

[umbral cliff]

Once you have enough EVs you can start taxing them the same. But reduce the tax to promote purchasing and then the cycle with start

They're going to change the rego system to be emission standards in the future eventually. So only EV will be free, followed by hybrids costing some, then ICE going up from there

[forest edge]

wouldn't they have to tax them more to deal with the offset of the extra damage they cause to the roads?

stuff dosen't get cheaper.. just always more expensive

[umbral cliff]

No because the lesser impact to the environment is worth it

Plus long before EVs they basically gave up with caring for the roads

[forest edge]

thats not how it works lol

[finite atlas]

just increase it for ICE cars, problem solved

but many ev's arent that much heavier than normal ICE cars

[forest edge]

yea that makes logical sense

tax more for the kids who ride bicycles on it too

[finite atlas]

yes!

[forest edge]

not those "smart" ones heh

[umbral cliff]

I prefer cleaner air. Roads are already fucked

Some in my state people put Christmas trees in potholes. Celebrating their second or third Christmas for the pothole lmao

[forest edge]

pretty sure in the end people will be blaming ev's for ruining the earth as well

[finite atlas]

they certainly dont help the earth directly, but they worsen it less than ICE cars

[finite atlas]

just badly fill the hole yourself, so the state must fill it properly themself

[glacial knot]

https://www.eta.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ice-truck.jpg

[finite atlas]

he needs a cup of hot chocolate in his ICE car!

[glacial knot]

small one though, so he keeps the car :probsLUL:

[umbral cliff]

They'll probably just tell you thanks for doing their job

Some fun ones. The latter one has been decorated by residents

[static schooner]

those aren't...uhhh..potholes

looks like a section of road was removed and just not replaced

and instead had dirt piled onto it

[forest edge]

lol yea

[umbral cliff]

That's what happens if you leave a pothole to get larger and larger

[forest edge]

aussie got a strange understanding of what a pothole is

[umbral cliff]

They are genuine potholes, just left to be neglected

[static schooner]

the potholes around here that I despise are the ones that you don't see until you're just about to drive into it, and it's just big enough to let your tire completely fall into it

[forest edge]

rim breakers

[umbral cliff]

Better shot of the top photo

[static schooner]

my tires are pretty low profile and they give a bone jarring WHAM! when I do

[forest edge]

looks like some kind of damage that was further demo'd but never came back to repair

[umbral cliff]

State Government has paid out at least 50 claims totalling $43,000 on pothole damage for cars this year. Probably more as the article I found was old

[static schooner]

I mean, nobody would drive through/over that on purpose, right?

[umbral cliff]

They would repair it fast if they did the damage. This is pure rain destruction

[forest edge]

people don't pay attention lol

[umbral cliff]

Helps we've had a lot of la Nina rain

[forest edge]

where the dirt come from? unless that's bubbling up from underneath

potholes around here usually indicating an actual hole, not a volcano rising up

[umbral cliff]

Dirt from underneath the road/ rain run off

Or residents trying to make it more of an obvious sign

State gov is shit at repairing potholes. One nearby me had 3 repairs in 6 weeks. And it was still going bad when I was last there

They only repaired the pothole the first time when it got so large it started to damage a speed bump

[static schooner]

I blame the kangaroos jumping around

[forest edge]

potholes here are tricky cause liability and duty or maintenance can fall under state, county, city or private and since so many side roads especially in and around shopping centers etc are actually privately owned people don't know who to contact and generally blame the city or whatever

just had to help a lady on nextdoor find who owned the road that has a pothole around here cause she and others started spiraling down blaming the city when the city has nothing to do with it lol

[static schooner]

We have an app here where you can report them with location info. It's actually been fairly effective

[forest edge]

even for privately owned ones? communication between all the above generally seems to suck

[static schooner]

after my car has nearly been swallowed, of course

no, these are all public roads

so goes to the city

[forest edge]

you report something to one entity but then that never gets relayed to the right entity

[umbral cliff]

Luckily for the state I'm in it's small enough that there are no councils or anything. Everything is one gov.
Don't think I've really encountered any private roads (or ever thought about it apart from carparks)

Got a neat website to report potholes, too bad they're just slow

[static schooner]

get those IT guys out there fixing potholes

[forest edge]

I don't get why we don't institute more jailed community service type jobs

[forest edge]

wonder if these sold out

https://www.amazon.com/Doorbell-Packages-Doorstep-Adjustment-Doorbells/dp/B07H9JRH26/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

[forest edge]

heh the HDD in my NVR in the barn is working again

I thought for sure once it stopped it was going to be toast

[umbral cliff]

Heh I think I use a lot of docker, plus a lot of ls

[forest edge]

command line? what is this? 1978?

[static schooner]

Insufficient vi usage

[umbral cliff]

Convenience

[forest edge]

pretty sure that sentiment is the very reason UI was created lol

[shrewd veldt]

A GUI is sometimes more convenient. There's plenty of things that a CLI is just easier for though

[tender jewel]

Ha! My street gets them all the time. They just come and slap in some ashphalt which lasts a few weeks at most

[umbral cliff]

But to bring a docker container up, or to update its just ssh auto (auto configured as a ssh config entry) then ./dockerConUpdate

Updates everything

[glacial knot]

imagines someone clicking through 100 dialogs to get docker configured

[umbral cliff]

Windows users

[glacial knot]

or you get the one back form the 90s with >100 options on one page. What was the name? super encoder? iirc. it was just a frontend to ffmpeg

[polar dagger]

bla bla bla, you can also use command line for windows x.x

[midnight adder]

Bring back the windows 10 search bar, except it's for command line instead of search

Hell, I'd take a taskbar command line on a linux gui too now that I think about it

[glacial knot]

is [Win]+R not a thing anymore?

[polar dagger]

i would prefer first open cmd or powershell and then do your stuff

[glacial knot]

I don't remember windows every having a cmdline in the taskbar or start menu. Just a search that didn't suckk like win10's

[midnight adder]

It was just an exaggerated idea

[dusky plank]

Neither cmd nor powershell have a proper version of curl, not even starting about the retardness of these utilities

[umbral cliff]

I hate how windows has proper ssh, except doesn't have ssh-copy-id. I want to be lazy god damnit 😛

[polar dagger]

you're in 2015, aren't you?

[dusky plank]

Windows is

Heck, they didn‘t even come with ssh until 2018 or sth

[polar dagger]

it was always installable, but not as part of the os.. so what?

[glacial knot]

powershell is quite interesting. And curl can be installed on windows. It's not a shell builtin

[dusky plank]

It is a shell builtin

It can be replaced

But thats not the point

[polar dagger]

ongy: curl is allready included now

[glacial knot]

no it isn't

in which fucking shell do you find curl as builtin?

[dusky plank]

Powershell

[polar dagger]

powershell

[shrewd veldt]

You have to use some wacky PowerShell command

[glacial knot]

bash has some basic tcp support, though I don't think it supports anything interesting

[polar dagger]

cls

[dusky plank]

Yall need to get ya facts straight

Curl is retarded in powershell

[polar dagger]

cause you have to use another syntax`? please go get some whine..

[glacial knot]

because it's not curl 😂 And wow, that default alias is ridiculous

[dusky plank]

No, lots of stuff is missing.

[glacial knot]

default aliasing a well known command onto a lacking builtin is just stupid

[polar dagger]

even if there is a problem you can use linux curl in wsl

bla bla bla bad windows

[glacial knot]

you can even use curl on windows

[dusky plank]

I never said otherwise

[forest edge]

that's two clicks in ui

i can click that faster than you can type it

and i'm slow

people keep thinking cli is easier, faster but what it really means is those people haven't figured out how to ui yet lol

[umbral cliff]

I run one single command to update all my docker containers across all my servers. It takes me about 5 seconds to type it

Then let it run

[forest edge]

and what if you want to leave some containers out?

[umbral cliff]

update-docker (tab at update-) and then enter

[glacial knot]

don't worry about poeople that seriously try to say that UI is faster than composible cli

[polar dagger]

in unraid ui its also just a click

[umbral cliff]

I usually don't

[forest edge]

I would dread it too

[umbral cliff]

Nah I just only update when I need to

Otherwise its a docker pull for what I need

I should make a script let me select lol

[forest edge]

or just use ui and presto

[polar dagger]

hrhr

[forest edge]

your not that youtube guy that does 3d printer videos are you?

[umbral cliff]

Don't have a UI for my docker stuff. All a headless server

[polar dagger]

no i even have no 3d printer, @forest edge 🙂

[forest edge]

ah

[forest edge]

remote/headless = made for ui lol

[glacial knot]

Now I kinda want to see that happen over our mix of kubernetes clusters on real hardware, google cloud, vms in google cloud and some vms on local hardware

[forest edge]

build a local webpage with hot links to control all

and presto

[polar dagger]

thats a bigger thing that needs a bigger ui. i just speak for my homeserver with several dockers. my point was: it is easier with a ui than cli

[forest edge]

lol

[dusky plank]

You all nasty

[finite atlas]

i know

[shrewd veldt]

I can run a script across 3000 servers in parallel via a CLI faster than it'd take to do the same thing in a GUI on 1 server

[glacial knot]

No it doesn't need a bigger UI. It needs composibility. And unless you are using visual testing frameworks, you won't have that with guis

[finite atlas]

if you skip the part, where you'd have to google what that command is, sure

[forest edge]

not if you say, make a button on a local page that does the same thing

[shrewd veldt]

🤦‍♂️

[glacial knot]

yea, GUI is better for discoverability

[forest edge]

it's better for almost everything

[glacial knot]

I'm personally a big fan of applications that have both. And can export the graphical clicky config into a cmdline for scripting

[forest edge]

just checked out that marlin web firmware builder.. so neat what people can do

[umbral cliff]

Scripting is a lot of fun

[glacial knot]

with google cloud it's:
console(web-ui) to discover and figure out things
gcloud (cmdline) to document and script things

[glacial knot]

strong disagree on ffmpeg parameter guessing

[umbral cliff]

So basically take a 6 character command into another webpage you have to wait to load, then press a button to start the process

[umbral cliff]

Just script over ffmpeg

[forest edge]

wait to load? just how bad is your local network?

[umbral cliff]

Its slower than opening a terminal

Thats instant

[forest edge]

you can not only do just that, but you can add other functions as well so you could have 1 page that does it all

even for shit that isn't remotely related if you wanted

[glacial knot]

hey, my .zshrc takes around 100ms on the corpa vm

[dusky plank]

prime example would be a OS upgrade

[glacial knot]

most of that is a request to our auth server to check if I need to renew tickets

[forest edge]

click one button to update your servers and another to see atx dancing with a thong gif

[dusky plank]

want to click the settings menus in windows or just stubmit 2 commands? (or heck, 1)

[glacial knot]

on modern windows you just reboot and it's integrated o.0

[dusky plank]

haven't touched that garbage in 10 years

[forest edge]

win11 was gross, but it's growing on me now

[glacial knot]

my current example would be photoprism import. Sure, it could be a feature in photoprism
But with composible cli, I can just do an inotifywait -r $importdir -e close_exec ; photoprism import
With gui I'd have to check if something changed and then find the import button in another UI

oh, and the composibility allows me to wrap the command in a while true (my real command is inotifywait -mr | while read file)

[polar dagger]

some kind of masochistic to use cli for all easy shit you can do^^

[glacial knot]

I use what's convenient to me. Which is 80% cli. I could write more GUIs for the stupid stuff I do. But ssh composes well 🙂

[dusky plank]

i want photoprism to use my coral 🤬

[glacial knot]

I think there's some WIP PR around?

[dusky plank]

none working afaik

[glacial knot]

which reminds me, I wanted to see if I can get my hands on a coral

[forest edge]

they been back and forth but the price increase every time

[umbral cliff]

I dual boot windows and popOS. Windows terminal is a PITA, but windows supports scaling far better than linux. Overall linux is my go to now, but windows there if I need it

[forest edge]

something that started out around 60 bucks is now like 160

is mint not popular anymore?

[umbral cliff]

I know one person who runs it

So probably not as much

[forest edge]

thats the problem with linux

no unity

I have a friend who changes OS's like it's shoes

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/linux-chad-arch-arch-linux-chad-user-gif-21904978

[umbral cliff]

You mean like windows 10 vs 11?

[clear ferry]

I have a spare

[umbral cliff]

But honestly I love the choice. Happy with PopOS right now

[umbral cliff]

me me

[forest edge]

update is not the same thing as flavor

[glacial knot]

On dedicated hardware or one TPU on the dual unit? 😄

[clear ferry]

I have a single m2 in a pcie adapter that I don't use since I have the dual tpu on custom pcie board

[forest edge]

turn one into dealing with license plates that drive by

oh wait

[umbral cliff]

True, far more choice with flavours

[forest edge]

as well as headaches and lack of support and the list goes on and on and on lol

[umbral cliff]

I don't have any lack of support

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/just-one-of-the-guys-80s-jock-strap-ew-ugh-gif-16416397

[umbral cliff]

Only issue is just programs being weird with scaling, which windows had until around 2018 I think?

[clear ferry]

I just don't scale anything tbh

[forest edge]

scaling? no idea wtf you are actually refering to

[clear ferry]

Except terminal on 4k resolution

[glacial knot]

do you actually enable scaling on them, or just font size?

[umbral cliff]

Windows does it by default, on high DPI displays it has to scale to make it viewable. 150% is whats comfortable for me

[clear ferry]

Just font size tbh

Yeah, i hate the windows scaling by default

Always set it to 100

[forest edge]

you like to make things bigger?

[umbral cliff]

Yes because 100% is too small

[umbral cliff]

I hate that. Windows scaling works well tbh. 150% is great

[forest edge]

I can honestly say since my time on windows (since 3.1) i cannot recall one time that being an issue

[clear ferry]

I have very good eyesight to be considered half blind

I enjoy triple 4k monitors

[forest edge]

but as far as i know scaling has always been in the settings

[umbral cliff]

Do you ever use a high res display, or just 1080p display?

[forest edge]

was on a 2k monitor for a few weeks

but yea, mostly 1080

for gaming

[umbral cliff]

Yeah 1080p doesn't need scaling

[clear ferry]

1080 today is 320x240 of old

[forest edge]

I mean yea.. but no

[umbral cliff]

Give it a little bit more

[clear ferry]

640x480?

[umbral cliff]

Since 1440p is a decent enough standard, with 4k being a bit too much

[umbral cliff]

Yep

[clear ferry]

I wish I had 3x8k tbh

[forest edge]

with monitor advancement 1080 is still the primo

for gaming

maybe not for watching movies

[umbral cliff]

1440p is the best in my opinion. Works great for a working display + gaming + youtube

[glacial knot]

eh, 4k on laptops is mostly fluff, but it's nice on 30"+ displays

[forest edge]

i guess eventually one would become numb to the blur lol

[umbral cliff]

What blur?

[forest edge]

never ran the ufo test?

[umbral cliff]

Yeah, no blurring on my display

High res doesn't mean blurring

[forest edge]

what type of panel?

[glacial knot]

forced scaling for legacy GUI can force blurryness because it's done on pixels

[umbral cliff]

2k on laptop displays is the sweet spot, more dense than 1080p, but not overly dense to be a waste like 4k

[glacial knot]

you know, because GUI doesn't compose and hacks are horrible 😂

[umbral cliff]

Thats x11 on linux

[clear ferry]

I hate whenever I come to a dock with a 1080 monitor

[glacial knot]

wrong

X11 does support scaling, the way it's plumbed through Xwayland is a bit dumb though

[umbral cliff]

Its blurry for discord on linux for me. Because its running on x11 and doesn't support anything but 100 ro 200

*or

[glacial knot]

win32 applications that didn't get updated get that treatment on windows. It looks like ass

[umbral cliff]

You rarely see that though

[forest edge]

pretty sure it's the panel

[glacial knot]

for some time that was even the old settings windows of windows itself 😂

[forest edge]

even those high priced odessys blur

[clear ferry]

何

[forest edge]

some people can't see it though

I can

[umbral cliff]

Can't remember. But its a nice gaming monitor. Not terribly expensive but it doesn't blur. Not as much as my old samsung 1080p monitor did anyway lol

[forest edge]

smear/blur whatever they call.. ghosting

[umbral cliff]

Yes I know what you meant

Better results for me on 1440p than 1080p

[forest edge]

need to find what type fo panel.. cause i have never heard of ghhosting on a lower resolution vs higher

[umbral cliff]

Maybe I just had a shitty 1080p panel

[forest edge]

probably

I just went through all of this over black friday cause I really did like that 2k.. but the ghosting drove me nuts lol

I settled on a smaller panel running 1080 cause it's something that is still done right

i never even heard of this lol https://youtu.be/PVrm8hkNT38

[clear ferry]

I saw a 85" on sale yesterday

I was tempted

And now I'm browsing

[glacial knot]

monitor? D:

[clear ferry]

Well, technically yes

[forest edge]

wtf

[glacial knot]

you should just get 19" ones and rack mount them

[forest edge]

I see someone screwed up permissions for this channel(at least) lol

[clear ferry]

Upward monitor racked in a 42u rack

Long monitor is long

[forest edge]

interesting

[glacial knot]

sounds good. Massive code view

[clear ferry]

Finally I can see my entire configuration.yaml at once

[dusky plank]

mood

[forest edge]

disgusting

[clear ferry]

Suicidal you say

[forest edge]

how can you treat those rpi's like that especially with what they are going for these days? lol

although that rpi1 isn't worth shit

isn't there some 3's? or are those others 2's?

i see what looks like a 4?

[dusky plank]

1s, 2s, 3, 4s

[forest edge]

should sell those 3's

while you still can

hell may even be able to sell the 2's

[dusky plank]

I did sell 5 of the 3

also 4 of the 2

this is leftovers

[umbral cliff]

Investments?

[forest edge]

those 2's are going for $70 on amazon

so gross

[dusky plank]

yes, HODL

[uncut schooner]

me, when there is a new AQI sensor installed in the neighborhood.

[brisk glen]

i guess i should sell my 3 sitting in my desk drawer for 2+ years

I need to browse ebay for some thins with hardware watchdogs

[forest edge]

i just saw the micro center store here which is one of the official outlets for rpi's had an rpi3 for 34 bucks

[brisk glen]

pi has some upstream issue where it will fail to reboot randomly

gets in a stuck state where the hardware nic is still blasting away but cant ssh in etc

[forest edge]

hardware faults on rpi's is pretty rare. likely going to be a power issue or something off with your sdcard

[dusky plank]

that... sounds like a kernel bug

update

[brisk glen]

fedora 37, I am running the latest kernel 😛

[glacial knot]

uname -a or it didn't happen

[brisk glen]

poe hat also has this issue across multiple known good cards

6.0.15-300.fc37.aarch64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Dec 21 18:09:20 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

is that new enough for you?

[dusky plank]

downgrade

[brisk glen]

been an issue across a few kernels

[dusky plank]

I don't see rpi os having 6.0 so you might hit some bugs for sure

[brisk glen]

rpi os also has its own set of issues due to old ass packages

plus I am really happy with ostree

[scenic radish]

what are ass packages

[dusky plank]

but no reboot issue 😉

[brisk glen]

true, but I fell in love with podman

[glacial knot]

No

$ uname -a
Linux ongy-tux 6.1.1-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:27:55 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[clear ferry]

sudo ass upgrade

https://tenor.com/view/itchy-picazon-culo-te-pica-horse-gif-21915059

[brisk glen]

what is wrong with systemd and podman @clear ferry?

[clear ferry]

Redhat exceptionalism

https://tenor.com/view/special-ralph-the-simpsons-football-gif-5491308

[brisk glen]

true but docker has been shit for a few things

[clear ferry]

Yes, and red hat of course has the solution to everything

[brisk glen]

opensuse is also good... I just like how i can basically use a container image as my os

[scenic radish]

openSUSe

[brisk glen]

microOS is nice

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/vince-mcmahon-money-vince-mcmahon-money-wwe-capitalism-gif-23623669

[finite atlas]

https://vid.pr0gramm.com/2022/12/29/36d6cb745dbea8c4.mp4

[orchid rose]

That white powder isn't snow

[last cedar]

❤️

[clear ferry]

Currently printing some stuff for @last cedar

And I just rescued Tyr from Svartalfheim

[last cedar]

Still?!

Are you doing it by hand

[keen bridge]

Raccoon armies are tricky to print.

[last cedar]

1 atom at a time?!

[clear ferry]

Yes, i got distracted for a few days

[last cedar]

Don't spoil the surprise!

[clear ferry]

Busy chasing some creature that stole my doormat

[last cedar]

No worries at all ❤️

[clear ferry]

[last cedar]

You get it back when the prints are done, but I promise I know nothing about it

[clear ferry]

Sending the invoice to [e-mail]

[last cedar]

Lol

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/how-dare-you-greta-thunberg-gif-15130785

[last cedar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/zya1ro/i_built_a_discord_bot_for_controlling_docker/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=13&utm_content=share_button

[keen bridge]

Oh heck.

This reminds me of someone who told me their team had a physical ball to be able to push their code and they had to pass it around and get in a queue.

[last cedar]

That is like using a hypervisor to make a truenas vm, where the truenas vm holds all the vms

But I love (platonically) people who push the envelope

[last cedar]

Absolutely excellent, like being at school, putting your hand up lol

[keen bridge]

The problem is you had to put your hand up before you knew what the question was 😂

[glacial knot]

I want that domain, and it goes free in a year

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/do-it-gif-26049397

[last cedar]

https://www.reddit.com/r/trashpandas/comments/zy5rco/a_few_days_late_but_is_my_favorite_christmas_pic/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=13&utm_content=share_button

🦝

[silent dove]

Paste the following code into the Template Builder in Developer Tools to list all Z-Wave devices and their status:

{{ \"_\".ljust(90, \"_\") }}
{%- set domains = [states.zwave] %}
{{ \"Entity ID\".ljust(50) }}{{ \"Entity Name\" }}
{%- for domain in domains -%}
{% for item in domain %}
{{ \"_\".ljust(90, \"_\") }}
{{ item.entity_id.ljust(50) }}{{ item.name }}
{% for attrib in item.attributes %}
{%- if attrib is defined %}
  {{attrib.ljust(50)}}: {{ item.attributes[attrib] }}
{%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- endfor %}
{%- endfor %}

[glacial knot]

wrong channel?

[keen bridge]

#botspam is the place to test bots 😉

[forest edge]

https://youtu.be/MtlhU0wu5x0

[umbral cliff]

Kookaburra!

[forest edge]

shoot it

[umbral cliff]

Fuck no

[last cedar]

Very nice looking birb

[finite atlas]

give it snacks!

[umbral cliff]

Don't worry we did!

Such a cute bird

[finite atlas]

indeed!

[forest edge]

this is kind of interesting https://youtu.be/i3sP2jwG9jc

[dusky plank]

America cannot bread 🍞

[clear ferry]

I have never eaten bread in America

Just loaf

https://i.redd.it/dvhc5blcf19a1.jpg

[forest edge]

you see the part where they talk about how euro bread is diffrent because the yeast is weaker

I never would have in a million years even think about anything like that.. bread is bread lol

[uncut schooner]

The big question is... Is there a HA compatible, affordable Bread Maker / Bread Machine? Are we there yet?

[clear ferry]

Well

People have made some

With esp and soldering

Saw one three years ago

[glacial knot]

I'm currently building my own esp based smart IR remote

mostly for fun, could buy it for ~20€, but that's boring

[dusky plank]

ir is weird

[glacial knot]

hardest part was getting a LED strong enough to be picked up across the room

[clear ferry]

That's why you have five

So they bounce around

[glacial knot]

what?

[umbral cliff]

You wire Atx up with IR LEDs, as he walks they bounce

[glacial knot]

sounds good to me

[clear ferry]

Five transmitting ir diodes at once

Alles pfand züruck

[last cedar]

PANT

https://imgur.com/gallery/2KcGywn

[clear ferry]

Doormat returns are the next thing

[forest edge]

when you find a roku remote you lost 2+ years ago in a strange unusual pocket between the couch cushions

[keen bridge]

Do you never clean your sofa? 🤔

[forest edge]

I mean how do you clean pockets you never knew existed?

[keen bridge]

I take all the cushions off my sofa to swap them around and vacuum every few months

[forest edge]

my cushions cannot be removed

it's a reclining couch

[brazen spire]

Hi can we use a 6pin type c female for programming esp?

[glacial knot]

hm? 6pin is probably power only, so you won't be able to

Oh, no. It's USB2 compatible without CC it seems
Should be possible then

[clever mortar]

#diy-archived is likely the best place to get help with that though

[umbral cliff]

Don't we love the USB C spec

[glacial knot]

no

it's really cool how much we can shove over a single cable
but trying to do anything with it that's not just plug and play is....

[umbral cliff]

That's my point. USBC somehow manages to make everything confusing

Like how devices are made with USB 2.0 USB c

[clever mortar]

Are you talking about the connector, or one of the many generations of communication standard 😛

[glacial knot]

the hundreds of USB protocol versions on the connector already exist with USB-A

[umbral cliff]

(like Samsung and the z flip 4. No clue why the heck that's USB 2)

[glacial knot]

and then some funky colouring to try and signal what port does what

[umbral cliff]

Could've tried to simplify it with type C though

[glacial knot]

that went down the drain somewhere between 2.0 and 3.x when they started with proprietary PD

[umbral cliff]

Nah the Samsung phones use USB pd

[glacial knot]

because the port is primarily for charging and the data lines are expensive 😂

[umbral cliff]

Just the z flip 4 just got shit as the only non USB 3 in their current lineup

[glacial knot]

I'm looking forward to even more weird scuff around docking stations with USB4, when DP is switched, not on dedicated lines

[clear ferry]

With kids i do that at least once a month

[keen bridge]

I don't have kids and I do it about once every 6 weeks. It's how I avoid buying new hair ties 😛

[clear ferry]

With three girls in the house

The number of hair ties and clips I find

https://tenor.com/view/too-damn-high-jimmy-mc-millan-rent-is-too-damn-high-party-gif-15213958

[green inlet]

You better also get used to cleaning p-traps with three girls……are p-traps used outside of the US?

[clever mortar]

They're pretty common everywhere with plumbing

[glacial knot]

siphons?

[clever mortar]

The primary purpose being to stop gasses from the sewer coming into the house

[glacial knot]

Gases, and raccoons

[last cedar]

No worries with raccoons, my fat ass barely fits through the main pipes

https://tenor.com/view/anime-raccoon-gif-18000918

Like that but with bum

[rapid plinth]

Doubly hilarious because they used to get hate for using a "proprietary" connector that in reality was just the USB 3 version of micro B

(C wasn't a thing at the time)

[glacial knot]

USB 3 variant of Micro B is whack

but at least USB2 Micro fit

[dusky plank]

windows 12 when?

[glacial knot]

2026

[clear ferry]

Yesterday

[scenic radish]

That was one of the first things I noticed when I saw a microUSB 3.0 port for the first time. I thought that was clever.

I'm pretty sure I only ever had one device with that connector though

[clear ferry]

I've had like two

And my wife's old Samsung phone had it

S6?

[clever mortar]

I've only seen that used in external drives

[clear ferry]

Maybe

The S5 actually

[glacial knot]

yea, we had a couple USB3 external SSDs with the Micro B

[last cedar]

It was popular for a while

[low harness]

Oh I remember those things. Ridiculous.

[clear ferry]

I'm becoming a senior

At this rate I'll be an alumni soon

[glacial knot]

actual new title, or joking about how long you've stuck with them?

[dusky plank]

ready for that new avatar

[clear ferry]

We get pins per five years

But i am probably changing role

[glacial knot]

you mentioned, upgrading to dev?

[clear ferry]

Nah

Moving to master technologist role

More of mentoring, and working closer with engineering probably

[glacial knot]

not even evangelist

[clear ferry]

No, i can still to higher though

Distinguished technologist

Then Alumni

[night zodiac]

eventually he just becomes a robot

I AM THE TECHNOLOGY

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/view/muppets-muppet-show-link-scooter-fozzie-gif-24959028

[clear ferry]

I’m glad to see that rail services are also providing those useful “your year in review” summaries - https://i.redd.it/wgav7xgt209a1.png

Damn UK

Japanese would commit seppuku

American managers hate this one trick

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/zyxvzo/fourday_workweek_going_well_globally_study_says/

[last cedar]

I like the idea that they would take it that seriously, but I don't like that they would be happy to take their life if they didn't perform

[finite atlas]

JA pfand, gutes atx

[clear ferry]

Good thing you don't abide by Japanese work culture, you would seppuku every day

[glacial knot]

they are trying to reform their work culture to something more sane. But since it's mostly their actual culture and not bullying bosses...

[clear ferry]

So just like the US

Never gonna happen then

[glacial knot]

found atx's reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/zz08ht/comment/j29ddmn/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[clear ferry]

Well yes

The Tesla door quality is as good as a lada that's been in the Baltic sea for 40 years

Funny how often you see a Tesla X where one of the rear doors are a little off in the colour compared to the rest

But at the current rate Tesla will probably be bankrupt in two years anyway

Bought up by some Chinese investment fund

Quality will soar

[glacial knot]

You mean, with an obvious sign that a part got replaced and they don't have QC?

[clear ferry]

Yes

When the parts get replaced

Long lead time for everything too

Saw an article about a guy that waited over a year for parts, still haven't gotten it

Tesla refuses to use spare parts from used cars too which is great

Even more fun in Norway, since EVs are tax free but replacement parts aren't, a lot of cars get totalled for small repairable damage

[finite atlas]

so there is my chance for a free EV ?

[clear ferry]

Well, yes, a lot of people buy totalled EVs

That only have frontal damage

And reuse the batteries to make battery walls

[finite atlas]

exactly my thought

or to use the drive unit to throw it into a old car

[last cedar]

A youtube channel I watch started with 2x batteries from teslas, they were 24V

Not the entire module, I guess 2 modules?

Would be sweet tbh

[glacial knot]

still sounds low. Stuff tends to be 40V or 50V since that's the cutoff for higher worker protection regulation

[orchid rose]

I love hating on them as much as the next guy, but people don't buy a Tesla because they care about how flexible the interior panels are or how large the gaps are between the doors

There's a good reason they are selling relatively well that other manufacturers have to catch up to

[glacial knot]

they caught up to everything that's not a deathtrap

[clear ferry]

yeah, and other brands have caught up a long time ago, and tesla is just respinning the same shitty design over and over now

if only the chinese brands were let into the US tesla would be desimated

[glacial knot]

the only feature Tesla got is that they enable more features in their autopilot
while it's unreliable as fuck and a deathtrap investigated by the feds

though afaik in the US their charger network is larger. But that's US only

[clear ferry]

The latest numbers are that norwegian counties are buying 79-91% of all new cars are EV only excluding finnmark which has 27% because they have perpetual winter

tesla is still on top, just because they have stock

[turbid stirrup]

That's actually a pretty decent idea.

[clear ferry]

The chinese models are gaining a lot of traction now, I would say at least every 10 EVs I see now is a hongqi, nio or byd

Since Volvo is now going full EV, VAG is stopping selling ICE engines in 2025 and the other brands are not far behind, tesla will have to distinguish themselves

and tbh they don't

[glacial knot]

we constantly have two polestar and usually one tesla in front of the office

[last cedar]

They had them in series for 48V

[clear ferry]

We constantly have 70% EVs in the office @glacial knot

[glacial knot]

yea, the 48V module should be what's one unit in production o.0

[glacial knot]

we actually barely have parking, since Munich has working public transport

Salesforce has 80% of the garage or so. We only have 8 or 12 spots

but all of the bike cages 😄

[clear ferry]

we have fair amount of parking tbh, we are 100 people roughly in the NO branch, and we have probably, 60 parking spots

[glacial knot]

we got 1.7k people in the office

and the two times I parked in that garage, I saw 1 other car. Accumulated

[last cedar]

Do you ever wonder like, if there are 1700 people, how many did something, or didn't something

Like how many not wearing underwear or something

Sorry for the random thought

[glacial knot]

At most 1699 😉

and now you get to wonder if I like free range sausage, or we got pea smugglers 🙂

[last cedar]

Going without is far more comfortable

[clear ferry]

1.7k in the office, I need to come to DEUTCHLAND and visit you

[last cedar]

But when you have stuff hanging around, the support would be nice

[glacial knot]

there's usually not everyone in the office

but if you want to visit, give me a ping a day or two ahead

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bXcaL.gif

[glacial knot]

found the pingpong table just 2 weeks ago

[last cedar]

Who is the cat playing with

[clear ferry]

HALLO, JA, ES IST MICH, JA, ATX, JA, HALLO, ICH KOMME GLEICH

[static schooner]

silly raccoon, cats can't play ping pong

[clear ferry]

Playing with himself

classic cats

[static schooner]

they have built-in paddles and don't need a table, net, or opponent

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/biwfb.gif

[last cedar]

Wait, if that one is playing pong

[static schooner]

kitty paws are especially squishy

[clear ferry]

oh, need to unclog my hotend

[last cedar]

Is the other cat playing ping?

[clear ferry]

michelle got stuck yesterday

[last cedar]

EROTIC

[last cedar]

OH

[clear ferry]

https://tenor.com/bOps5.gif

[last cedar]

Nothing worse than a clogged hotend

[glacial knot]

can I stick that hot end somewhere?

[clear ferry]

my tubes are clogged both IRL and in 3d printer

[last cedar]

https://tenor.com/view/rip-coffin-black-ghana-celebrating-gif-16743302

[clear ferry]

but thanks to good old socialist healthcare I have two healthy kids

and not a lifetime of debt

[last cedar]

YEAH

[clear ferry]

Atx the weirdo, working for a capitalist company, living in a socialist country, voting marxist communist

[static schooner]

3D printing beer is like the endgame

next you'll be doing raccoons

[forest edge]

someone broke or clogged their hotend

[glacial knot]

bio printers D:

[static schooner]

https://tenor.com/view/weird-science-kelly-le-brock-80s-eighties-the80s-gif-24111662

[last cedar]

Printing or drinking?

Drinking is probably what Sonoma would do

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/bang-fingerlicking-good-eddie-murphy-gif-20448552

[clear ferry]

Back in business @last cedar

Or not, first layer is trash

[last cedar]

Oh no 😦

Hope I am not causing you lots of problems

[glacial knot]

still printing those raccoon balls?

[last cedar]

They are some big balls

[clear ferry]

Yes, tanuki figurines for @last cedar

[last cedar]

Almost as big as the printers

[rapid plinth]

If Tesla does crumple and eventually get consumed it'll be by one of the big automakers, one that's struggling with EVs. Honda maybe?

[finite atlas]

vw maybe

[glacial knot]

VW already got a full palette of EVs stretched over VW, Audi and Porsche

[last cedar]

It wouldn't hurt tesla to have vw reliability though

Going from 0% durability to 1% durability would be a huge increase

[finite atlas]

the main issue with tesla is the false promises made my musket and the assembly quality

while vw makes falses promises aswell, they make fewer and the assembly quality is a lot higher

• vw currents ev vehicles are either shoeboxes on wheels or very pricey

[keen bridge]

The "I tried to open the door and the handle came off" problems need fixing at Tesla

[last cedar]

I hate to say it but I almost dare say that Kia/ Hyundai are the leaders in evs at the moment, seems like although they are all catching on fire, none of the other evs are immune either

People seem to love the ioniq 5 is it called? And the EV6

As long as we are getting innovation, it is all good, energy density needs to improve though, obviously

[finite atlas]

efficiency needs to improve aswell

which is where tesla leads

[last cedar]

Would be nice if you didn't need cobalt and copper from child labour in Africa too :/

Honestly I haven't compared efficiency between EVs, I should at some point

[finite atlas]

just look up real world kWh/100km consumption, there are many websites where people can keep track of their statistics publicly

[umbral cliff]

I was shocked when I heard someone say thats an actual issue

[glacial knot]

as long as they come with door handles

[static schooner]

Trying to get in and out of a Tesla makes me feel dumb every time

[keen bridge]

I know two people that happened two

One person counts twice as well actually, because it happened in two different Teslas (in two countries no less)

[umbral cliff]

"Ah yes my $100,000 car that I cannot get into because the door handles came off"

[keen bridge]

Well, these were "couldn't get out of" 😛

[static schooner]

The doors seem unnecessarily over engineered, apparently badly

[umbral cliff]

#JustTeslaThings

[umbral cliff]

That seems to be tesla in a nutshell though

See the no stalks, so to change wiper settings you fiddle on the screen

Whilst in rain

Or this abomination where the indicators are capacitive buttons on the wheel

[static schooner]

I had to move over and stare at the door of my Uber for a minute to figure out how to get out

It was a button 🤷

[finite atlas]

Its just a issue of willingness :p
Break the windows and you can get out. Outsmart your car, not let it outsmart you.

[umbral cliff]

See I thought BMW was unnecessarily complex where if the car door is locked it takes two handle pulls to open it (one to unlock, another to open)
Then tesla goes nah fuck this

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/vaadi-pulla-vaadi-locked-stuck-let-me-out-gif-17513698

[forest edge]

should watch that video i posted about the I7.. 3 ways to open the door from inside and out lol

[scenic radish]

Time for homemade sausage pizza

[static schooner]

Tesla fails at the Principle of Least Surprise

[forest edge]

I wonder if anyone will remember that this whole kick start to EV's is because of tesla though

[umbral cliff]

It'll be one of those brands relegated to history

Like all of the british motoring brands

[static schooner]

It really has. That's why I tend to hold back on Musk-bashing - it's one of several things that he's helped push forward and will have a lasting impact

[scenic radish]

https://youtu.be/QQh56geU0X8

[forest edge]

was his goal all along.. hold out till the idea stuck then give up and let go lol

3d printing is such a pain.. you fiddle and get everything just right and 90% of your first layers stick just fine then all out nowhere some asshat small section is like, Nope! don't wanna stick, no reason other than to piss you off

[keen bridge]

Sounds like a draft, an improperly levelled print bed, or a dirty print bed. Or incorrect use of supports.

I have to pop my glass plate in the fridge to get prints off right now

[forest edge]

sounds like a lot of things.. but said small portion is never in the same spot lol

I think imperfections in the filament just happens to be strategically placed so perfectly they only come into play once each print

@last cedar damn unreliable racoon filament amirite

Like wtf lol

[static schooner]

Yep, that's raccoon crap

[forest edge]

Makes no sense

same damn spot same print, restarted and it stick fine

but now, i just know that 10% will end up somewhere else

[night zodiac]

pizza cut in squares? /s

@scenic radish looks yummy

[night zodiac]

@forest edge is your filament dry?

[scenic radish]

That's an awfully personal question

[forest edge]

not old enough to get to that point. it's just random decisions to not stick in very small places

too bad @clear ferry has me on block. like to talk to him about that movie Troll and their most prized vehicles being a late 60's model chevy truck lol

[night zodiac]

is it getting thoroughly hot?

the picture focused all weird and I can't see the actual fucky

klipper lets you specify where your bed screws, pretty neat. https://www.klipper3d.org/Manual_Level.html#fine-grained-bed-screw-adjustments

we talked about bed screws that one day

[forest edge]

yea my build plate dosen't have any surface indents or anything for the leveling screws. it's perfectly all flat

@tidal bronze shouldn't you be shopping for lifejackets? You are running out of time for noah's flood lol

[tidal bronze]

Great wine but meh name

[forest edge]

I swear everytime i meet a californian online they ask me if i am from there

[static schooner]

Is it the tractor?

[tidal bronze]

Well, that's fair since you are 95% Californian

[forest edge]

I'd like to report you to a mod for insulting me

[tidal bronze]

Report away my man.

[forest edge]

atMod this soon to be drowned person is using hurtful language and remarks

[tidal bronze]

5 days, 9 wineries. I should not be driving.

[forest edge]

celebrating the end of the world?

[tidal bronze]

Best times ever. What end?

[forest edge]

there is something going on around now that has something to do with the two suns people see in the sky.. like end of the world 2025 or something

[tidal bronze]

Raining cats and dogs and loving it. What sun?

[forest edge]

https://tenor.com/view/banjir-floods-indonesia-usaha-gak-gif-12174780

gonna be you

[boreal vortex]

Heh, I actually saw a bunch of kids doing that at an elementary school as I was passing by.
Trying to throw water over a chain link fence…

My Dad once told a blond joke in an office about how you can tell when a blond has been using your word processor - white out on the screen. Everyone in said office became very quiet. The manager explained she just fired someone 2 weeks prior for doing that.

We didn’t feel it was appropriate to ask if the person was blond.

[last cedar]

Leave me out of this

[last cedar]

This is why you don't use raccoon as filament

[forest edge]

saw a fox on my farm cam, but I think the two racoons i saw out there the other night might be alittle big for it to tackle lol

[last cedar]

Lol, I would think so

I think foxes like smaller stuff, not sure if they can learn to hunt fat raccoons

[glacial knot]

I know cats that hunt foxes 😄

[forest edge]

foxes also hunt cats

i forgot he's got me on block too lol

[last cedar]

There are big cats that eat like crocodiles or cayman or such, I guess anything is possible really

[glacial knot]

nah,, a friend's common house cat

I'm not talking about tigers

[last cedar]

It obviously thinks it is a tiger lol

I think was a jaguar btw

https://youtu.be/DrY4EUirqgE

It was a caiman apparently

So almost as a large as a fat raccoon

That mouth tho like wtf

[forest edge]

crazy how well cats do in water