Godnroc

joined 2 years ago
[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Cleaning, organizing, and documentation are high priorities.

Every job I've worked at has had mountains of "The last guy didn't..." that you walk into and it's always a huge pain in the ass. They didn't throw out useless things, they didn't bother consolidating storage rooms, and they never wrote down any of their processes, procedures, or rationals. I've spent many hours at each job just detangling messes because the other person was to busy or thought it unimportant and didn't bother to spend the time.

Make it a priority, allocate the time, and think long-term.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

This story lives in my head forever as a perfect example of everything pointing to a theoretical answer but reality not caring.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The term for the material removed to make a cut is kerf. You hear about it a lot with woodworking as not taking into account can lead to inaccuracies in the final dimensions of your materials.

I would think separating a material by passing another through it is cutting while separating materials with only force would be breaking if it happens along a length or tearing of it happens gradually from a single point.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey mate, I think someone swapped your space and return keys.

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

Well hell yeah, I just had instance to check and it does indeed offer the option!

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That fully sounds like a program a literal vampire would implement with wild success. Parents selling their kids for money happened in the past, so not even that much of a stretch. It does sound like a potential cobra problem though.

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

I don't want to naysay you, but I have yet to see that in practice. Is that fairly recently added or in an upcoming release that isn't on F-Droid yet? I'd love to know more!

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I've been using the Fossify messenger for a while it is is largely fine. It does not offer proper reaction support, showing "🤣 to 'MESSAGE'" or some such, and it doesn't offer to copy authentication codes from a notification. Other than that, it works well.

[–] Godnroc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.

 

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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