Godnroc

joined 2 years ago
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You are allowed to take an extra 15-minute break.

But it has to be used this week. And during quiet times. And not within an hour of any other break. Or the start and end of your work hours. And not on any day that ends in Y.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (9 children)

If I gave you $5 and then you gave it to someone else and then they gave it back to me we've done nothing but can call it $15 in business transactions.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It's been my experience that the areas most often referred to as "bad parts of town" are the areas with the most people squeezed in without consideration for anything else. Small homes can be fine of there are other outlets in the area such as community centers, parks, libraries, stores, etc. Without those you just concentrate too much human suffering in one area.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's the funny thing, you DO release them. Alternatively, you have 6 with you and within range of the 'dex or stored and cataloged in a PC. The whole thing is tracked.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sounds like a Doctor Who plot.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Every towel I have ever used has a tag on it, that's the crotch end, dry your face with the other end.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's a surveying tool. It logs the creatures you encounter and provides relevant information as a reward when the special capturing device registers and tags the creature. From this data they can understand populations, territories, genetic variations, migration habits, etc.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Here's what you do: get a bike rack and bungee core a milk crate to it. Bonus points for a milk crate that looks well worn and like it lived an entire lifetime before it took up residence on your bike. The look is timeless, a classic of style, unquestionable. From there you can store anything you want, hat included.

Or don't. You wouldn't ask a stranger on the street for their opinion, so why care what they think?

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Story on this one. As a young adult I needed gas to drive to my second job a town over, maybe 12 miles. I had $75 in my account which was plenty to fill up.

When I started the process, my card was declined. I tried and failed a few times, then went inside the store and had them try there to no success. The cashier mentioned that the hold amount was set by the bank.

Hearing this I went down the road too my bank and asked them what the fuck was going on, to which they said it was normal and that my funds were locked until the transaction went through. The 0$ transaction.

I managed to scrounge up enough change and a single $5 bill I had in my wallet to buy like 2 gallons of gas which was just enough to get to work and back. Shortly thereafter I closed my account at that bank and transferred everything to a credit union I have been much happier with.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Now? They literally haven't been Worth fishing out of the couch instead of just vacuuming up and toss the lot for years.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

My ability to zone out and get lost in my head is legendary.

Although, I have used headphones for grocery shopping during busy times because music helps keep me from becoming enraged at stupid people.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So, the minimum number of anything you can order would be zero fingers or 1...

 

A few years ago a friend gave me an "Urban Shop" glitter lamp as a gift. It was a neat twist on a lava lamp that used LEDs and glitter with a motor that spun the fluid using a magnetic string bar.

While it was a great vibe, it used three AA batteries and the stirring would cycle on and off regularly causing the noise to start and stop, which I found more distracting than just leaving it on.

I found that the on-off switch was actual an on-on switch without a second connection, so I took an old USB cable and hardwired the second switch terminal so that I could power it from a power supply or batteries.

This was a drastic improvement to me, but I didn't like the cord always being attached and the motor cycling was still annoying. Eventually, the lamp ended up on a shelf for a later date.

Today, I pulled the lamp down because I finally tried ESPHome because I keep hearing about it in other people's projects and wanted to finally try the full smart conversion of this lamp. After several hours of trying to reuse the existing surface-mount LEDs and wiring, I gutted the whole damn thing and installed my own 5mm LEDs, rewired the motor, and added a button for controls and wired everything into a Raspberry Pi Pico W I had bought years ago.

Now I have a lamp that can be controlled locally from the button, can be reprogrammed from my computer without moving the lamp, can be controlled from Home Assistant, and performs exactly how I want.

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