Coffee all morning, because sleep. Iced tea all afternoon, because Atlanta.

fd00:: is the new 192.168

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_Chicken_Inn Black people and chicken was like leprechauns and breakfast cereal for a while.

My brain definitely focuses better with environmental cues. I mean, I can work just about anywhere, but if I’m not in the mood, then having the environmental cues displaces alternatives. Subjectively, I feel more productive at work. Never had a really bad commute, so I was never motivated to try to set up a ‘work-only’ space at home, but I’d only do a 70 mile one-way drive for very special occasions.

The US Libertarian Party was founded in 1971. Not saying there’s a causative link…

I can see that. Most of my house gets enough light - or streetlights at night - to walk through with the lights out at midnight. Add in a lumen sensor, though, to dial lights up when it’s cloudy and down when it’s sunny…

When I think of automations, it’s either things like coordinating big power draws to cheap electricity or trivial quality of life enhancements, like turning out the lights in an empty room. The latter, I have trouble justifying to spend on occupancy sensors and smart switches if it’s only going to save 20 Watts of LED or five steps. Once it’s become your hobby, it’s much easier to say, “I’m going to buy these sensors because they’re fun to play with and it gives me joy to see them work.”

I didn’t think I was. I got sucked in by sensors to monitor indoor temp, humidity, air quality… A smart switch to turn lights on and off when I’m not home. Now I’m thinking of how to turn the HVAC fan off when IAQ is good and temperature is comfortable. I’m not ready to have the house turn lights on when I enter a room or start the oven when I get within a mile of the end of my commute, but it’s been growing, one $30 gadget at a time with no subscriptions and no data leaving my LAN.

If you’re going to have any non-linux clients, samba will be an order of magnitude easier. MacOS handles nfs pretty well, but Windows just wants SMB

On the login page, if your existing password is less than 10 characters, the password-validation script will not let you log in.

acetic acid is almost as volatile as water, and the atmosphere contains a lot less of it. If you evaporate vinegar, you’re likely to lose about as much - maybe more - of the acid than the water. So, evaporation is probably not a good way to concentrate vinegar.

I think about the Vision like I think about a new Gucci bag or a new set of Air Jordans. There’s a small, but very visible, community that is super into that product, probably for reasons not related to its actual functionality. The difference is that there’s a lot of overlap between Apple fans and broader technology enthusiast groups, where we’re more isolated from the Gucci and Jordan communities. There are lots of brand-based fan groups who will happily accept branded merch or content, but not interpret that as ‘advertising.’

The rest of the world tolerates spyware and especially ads if they feel like the product is worth the intrusion. There’s a reason Meta doesn’t have a logo watermark foating in the corner of Quest view field. There’s a reason VR is still very niche, almost entirely limited to gaming.

Maybe Vision’s AR experience will change that. Maybe viewing your entire life through a video camera with overlaid graphics has real-world value beyond privacy in co-working spaces. I doubt that value is $3000 and think Vision is more like Apple’s Newton than Apple’s iPhone.

This is exactly the kind of semi-ridiculous thing I like about home automations: the power to answer one’s most trivial curiosities.

I’d probably add a logger, so I could follow the history of Mohkno’s food thievery, then try different techniques to discourage her. Have ha also play a recording of you saying ‘Mohkno, no!’ Some activity to distract her during the critical food-stealing window. Or go all-in and get those microchip-reading pet feeders.

I have a ‘roll-your-own’ using an adafruit SCD-30 module https://www.adafruit.com/product/4867 IR-based CO2, temp & humidity; I2C with python libraries, so integrating it with an RPi is easy. Sensor is self-calibrating over time, so if you leave it in a higher CO2 space with no exposure to fresh air, it will eventually drift such that the lowest observed CO2 reports as 420 ppm. Newer SCD-40 is only $45, but different sensor technology.

Dunno about their shipping outside the US.

I do wonder if not having to ‘hear’ words changes the rhythm of reading.

Hadn’t thought of this…what’s your take on poetry, especially meter-forward? Like, Robert W Service or Robert Frost, I feel would be less interesting if they didn’t have their beat.

I don’t do voices or accents when I read. Everything is in the same ‘voice,’ which isn’t quite the same as my spoken voice. My internal voice enunciates much better and slightly lower pitch. It’s more like the voice I wish I had than the voice I do have. :)

No, that’s the way the fediverse is supposed to work. It would be sockpuppeting for both of your accounts, say A@A.social and B@b.social, to have a conversation with each other on a third instance, say !politics@c.social, with which both a & b are federated.

My usual drinking vessel is a souvenir cup from the 1992 Miramar Air Show. I still use a “boom box” style radio and clock timer from 1985 as an alarm clock. The tape player on the radio is long expired, but it still plays radio.

If you make it to 62, your life expectancy is 21 more years. that mean 21*0.7 = 14.7 years worth of social security payments. Full benefit at age 67 gets you 16 years worth of payments. If they’d raise full retirement age to 70, you’d only collect 13 years of payments.

In the US, social security is a tax on poor people earning less than~$160k. That’s the bottom 90% of earners.

The top 10% of earners collect about half of the country’s personal income. Each of them does have to pay SS tax on the first $160k of earned income, but clearly there’s a huge pool of income that doesn’t pay into social security.

The stars are out 4am. And 5am. If you’re up anyways, take your coffee out and go have a look.

They’re not thinking about these things as games, generally, but specifically how they’ll be perceived by the Xbox audience. It looks to me like they discounted BG3, at least in part, because it couldn’t split-screen on series S. They’re thinking about games you play on the couch, in a group, maybe during a party - not games you play solo for hours or days on end.

That may end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy. BG3 isn’t out on Xbox (officially) yet. We don’t know what their advertising will look like, and it well turn out that everyone who wants to play it will already have gone the PC route.