JL Johnson

Sooooo. A nice IBEW fella came, knocked on the door said we’d have a small blip in power while he confirmed the install AND added the extra meter. Today we formally add solar to the list of things we harvest here at #MacJohnsonFarm, phase 3. Exporting power even with it being super cloudy out. Weeee! #SolarPower #Solar #DisOldHouse #RenewableEnergy #RooftopSolar #KC #Missouri

Today our rooftop solar generated ~75% of our power. I bet we would have been >100% had we not charged Jillian’s car and not washed (and dried) multiple comforters. None of this is a problem, just excited commentary. So much fun. #RooftopSolar #Solar #DisOldHouse

It was supposed to be sunny today. It is thus far, not. However the still 100% cloud coverage is the thinnest it has been all week, except for a few very brief Sol Peekaboos yesterday. We’re on track for our best solar production day ever. Yay! #Solar #renewableenergy #DisOldHouse #KC #RooftopSolar #Resist

Our solar panels are generating 300 W of juice despite it being morning, still pretty dark, and surprisingly foggy. Looking forward to our first full day of these guys with the naked sun. Maybe this weekend? Maybe? #RooftopSolar #SolarPower #SolarPanels #Solar

@Mastodon@mastodon.social While I know other options have existed, it's great that you now have an official solution. THANK YOU for your continued efforts to liberate folks from for-profit algorithmic garbage SM. This I think will be a big step in the right direction.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116228686072308466 Oh noooooo. Anyway… #AIshit #AIslop #MicroSlop

If you are looking for a distraction, or just wholesome anecdotes derailing the entirety of our first bluebird experience, the thread is below. I hope to make a similar thread this year. Last year was a success, but very disjointed and poorly documented. https://vmst.io/@User47/112186500199386632 #EasternBluebird #BackyardBirding #KC #Missouri #NestWatch #EABL #Birding

We just found an unopened foot massager we bought off Amazon years ago. Way before we decided to avoid BozoCorp wherever possible. The manual is something else! #Chinglish #TranslationFail #LostInTranslation #BadTranslation #Engrish

Picked this up from @arthur@rosafamily.social. Excellent news! https://www.theverge.com/transportation/890202/united-airlines-headphones-policy-contract-of-carriage #UnitedAirlines #AvGeek #BusinessTravel

@cynblogger@sfba.social Nope. Love some cali, but Missouri is home.

In the unlikely event anyone here likes #ShinyToyGuns, Lindsey has Carah Faye Charnow for vocals on the Where Do We Go track from the Brave Enough album. Yay overlap! #BandcampFriday #CarahFaye #LindseyStirling

I spent most of the day digging through and sorting junk in the basement. It is 🤯 how much crap Grandpa and his buddies managed to cram down there. And then we complicated things when we dumped a garage worth of stuff there when we hastily moved in, too. Yeesh! #DisOldHouse

@rpmik@avgeek.social hello happiness

@debread @rpmik nice to see private equity can’t crush the Southwest flight attendants. #TWU #UnionPride #TWU556

@grammargirl@zirk.us I had no idea, but certainly didn’t think of it bully as in jerk kid. I just assumed it was deprecated language. But now that you mention it, I have heard bully for you and bully good time. I just never put it together. Fun!

Apparently the makers of Claude stood their ground against the DOD, and ChatGPT caved? As an AI skeptic and someone who believes this is all a bubble, I have absolutely no loyalty so I’ll happily switch. #AIshit

@djwfyi@vmst.io Bring it! #PermanentDST, please.

@angelfacealien@mastodon.social I’m more of a Western medicine guy. I thought I bought a foot vibrator, not some snake oil cure all thing 😅

https://share.joinmastodon.org is a tool that allows you to put a "Share to Mastodon" button on your website.

Very interested in a programmable motion sensing sprinkler for creeper deterrence. Hmmmmmmmmmmm 🤔

Shop-vacs (wet/dry vacuums) have always existed in my lifetime. I hope when they were invented folks were absolutely blown away. Because I’m still amazed by them as a middle aged fella who has had the same one for ~25 years.

@rpmik@avgeek.social be right there

@spacemagick@mastodon.social greetings over a year later. Did you get an answer?

@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net @rpmik@avgeek.social This is amazing! As I’m presently going through the basement of my childhood home, there’s a non-zero chance I find my clickwheel iPod. Man, that’d be a hoot.

ALSO don’t tell me phasers aren’t additive and then add them anyway #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

One in three Gen Z boys are dumbasses. https://ground.news/article/31-of-gen-z-men-believe-wife-should-obey-her-husband-study-finds?utm_source=fediverse&utm_medium=mastodon

@JimHindsKC@mastodon.social oh, that’s very well done. The comments are interesting as well

@grammargirl@zirk.us thank you for being an early adopter and frequent presence here. Happy Grammar day!

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org some years in the future, American auto industry, “no one wants our cars! Government please help us out, we had no idea.

I saw a post yesterday with a drought map and the KC area had some color. There is no way we're in any sort of drought. We were over average rainfall in Jan and Feb. Nearly over our March average just 6 days in. It's been low and slow w/ storms in between for nearly week. Deep, soaking rain. Not all at once. I don't think the account that posted it was intentionally being deceptive but it was another reminder to be deeply skeptic of everything. #KCWx #Drought #RainRainGoAway

@shibaprasad@mstdn.party yeah there was a lot of talk about a project I think was called nightshade that could totally wreck AI. For example somehow have an I wanted scrape of an image of a car but walk away with it convinced it was an asparagus. Same with text somehow. It was so cool. Also there were like…. traps? An AI crawler could get stuck processing nonsense

One thing I don't understand about dems is this: Our team gets a real boner every time Don Whoreleon does something that upsets the right. And then the right whines. Sure, it's fun to point and laugh and say "we told you so." But it's not like they are suddenly going to start voting for level-headed, actually qualified women or minorities. At this point they are codependent. I don't see any chance of them abandoning ship until the Big Beautiful Day.

@twcau@mastodon.social I spotted on one that it can be programmed for animal size as well as time of day. Good for rabbits and squirrels. And im sure our mailman would appreciate it too

We drove all the way downtown to get yummy dinner. Every single gas station is at $2.99. Normally there is variability. It seems no one wants to be the $3 pioneer. I bet this doesn’t last long.

@rpmik@avgeek.social I love how you are ~1 month ahead of us. How is the future?!

@Leszek_Karlik@circumstances.run @arthur@rosafamily.social Do they deserve one? 👀

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org what a looker!

@waystation@sunny.garden it’s the stuff I wanted the future to deliver. Instead, we get #AIShit. 🙄

@Av8rdan@squawk.mytransponder.com @rpmik@avgeek.social beautiful wood!

@mlanger@mastodon.world I don’t. But this place had one at one point. I love our Miele

@jenkins@social.lite.red hi Jenkins. Pretty sure we have a tool at work named after you. Hope you’re rolling in royalties

I'm sorry to see the division in Texas on the Talarico vs Crockett situation. They were both great candidates. Imagine that, we FINALLY have good choices. This isn't the end for Crockett, she is FIRE. I've become a fan and she has an awesome future. But I think we lefties especially here on the fedi forget how unwilling folks are to embrace women and minorities. It's Texas, y'all... That said, I really hope it's Paxton vs Talarico. Paxton is garbage and even Republicans dislike him and his slime.

@jonostrower@mastodon.world soooooo the test didn’t work, orrr?

@rpmik@avgeek.social yes!!!

@elaterite@mastoart.social @ikluft@avgeek.social @denise@twit.social Yup. And both Leo and Steve have been at it for eons. Steve is one of the best in the space. Dude’s over there writing stuff in assembly. And there’s a copy of his software on the ISS 🤩

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org counterpoint: Yes