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tjhowse
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mastodon 4.7.2Travis Howse. Brisbane, Australia. Father, husband, engineer, hacker, cancer hadder, FOSS dork, he/him. Currently helping to make the electrical grid more efficient at SwitchDin. BE (Mechatronic)
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Joined November 19, 2022
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@peter@thepit.social Whomst among us hasn't wanted to collapse backwards onto the stage during a dull presentation?
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@jpm@aus.social @xssfox@cloudisland.nz @skyguided@cathode.church @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems I'd bet my bum there's a sine wave on that pin and the external R/C tunes an internal oscillator.
Here's a progress report after two weeks of learning #Morse code using the #Koch method.
Making steady progress with about 10-20 minutes of practice a day. I'm about to start lesson 13/40, where the first punctuation is introduced.
Sleep is excellent for cementing a new character in my muscle memory. Alcohol or tiredness completely ruins accuracy.
#ham #radio
Some rotten cuntery from Roblox:
Youngest played a game and earned enough in-game currency to buy a helicopter. When he tried to use the helicopter he learned he needed to spend real life currency to actually fly it.
Absolutely fucked behaviour. Lower than a snake's belly.
Bodged some lighting into my home-made 3d printer enclosure. I had some white LED strip from my old office, so I zip-tied it to a length of wood and screwed it in there. Now I don't need to shine a torch in through the window to see how the print is going.
The only slight bummer is that when the printer is running there is a slight flicker in the lighting caused by the print bed heater PWM. It's not too bad.
We need to invent a new term, similar to "Milkshake duck" for belatedly discovering something was LLM slop after you've already enjoyed it.
My first pass at the layout of my #kerbal space program controller!
Not completely happy with it, but a good place to start. Gotta print all the keycaps with red highlights on a black background. I want to replace the knob on the throttle slider, it's a yucky yellow. I'm not looking forward to the million wires this is going to take to hook up.
"It's nice to sit in the sun for a bit." weather has arrived.
The massaman was a total success. Everyone loved it. It was still great despite the coconut milk splitting. Needed some naan or something for mopping up the plate afterwards. I made double quantity for lunch packs.
52 solder joins later and all of the button clusters are wired up. I used network patch leads so the end that terminates to the microcontrollers can be a regular old RJ45 socket. I used a 2x13 multiplex system to save on microcontroller inputs.
Picking up our Atto 2 tomorrow at lunch. Trading in one of our corollas. I expect we'll be able to do 95% of our travel entirely from solar power. Gonna be awesome.
Now that I have fully cut windows out of my personal computing life I'm looking for a replacement for VoidTools' "Everything". Under windows I had an autohotkey script bound to F1. I could hit F1 and start typing a file name search. The results appeared instantly, sorted by access time decreasing, and I could press down arrow and enter to select the top result.
Can I replicate this workflow under #Mint Cinnamon? Nemo search is OK, but the UX is clunkier.
I've had the same socket set for 15 years. I've used it a lot and never lost any of it. I'm tired of pretending this is weird.
"Haha 10mm socket amirite"
NO. Take care of your tools, damnit.
Haha! Victory over the night-time low-battery smoke detector intermittent beeping. The battery voltage was so close to the threshold it would only start beeping when the temperature dropped low enough.
We have 10 smoke detectors in this house. I had to apply a binary search to locate the one emitting a beep once every 30 seconds, while trying to will my brain to stay asleep.
#brisbane sunset alert. Get outside now.
#Weightlifting milestone: Increasing the max value for the Y axis of my plots.
Does anyone have any suggestions for changes to my #Kerbal Space Program control panel before I hit "go" on the laser cutter?
The grid in the top left are direction selectors. I'm using knockoff cherry blue keyswitches for all the buttons. The dock/maneuver switch is 3-position. The 3-axis joysticks have a button on top for controlling trim.
This is starting to come together!
I made a making-of video for the infuriating birthday puzzle "gift" I made for a friend recently. I had a lot of fun making it!
I've linked the recipient's solve videos in the description. Good times.
Noooo I cooked the curry too hard and the coconut milk has split. Dangit. I have some frozen cubes of coconut cream. I'll see if they can rescue it.
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@SeaFury@aus.social Hope it helps! Would you mind sharing the recipe when you can? I have lentils in the cupboard and miso paste in the fridge. Soup-weather will be here soon and I want to be prepared.
Now that I'm finally free of mega-series of books (Aubrey-Maturin, Horus Heresy) I'm able to graze on books from my backlog. I really enjoyed "There is No Antimemtics Division" by qntm, now I'm onto "Juice" by Tim Winton. So far it seems a lot like "The Road" lite. The Road harrowed me good, I hope Juice is bit easier on the 'ole psyche.
Me, to child: You shouldn't ask chatgpt for information, you should search the internet. Research is an important skill.
Their search results: Almost entirely LLM-written pseudo-information.
Fucking sigh. The internet keeps finding new ways to suck. How much is a paper encyclopaedia these days?
I would like to install an AC EVSE in our carport so we can charge our EV faster than 1.5kW. There's a good spot on a 180mm square wooden post in the corner, however I'd like to avoid messy surface conduits to provide the power.
I'm now trying to work out a way of core-drilling a cable run from the top of the post through to the mounting height of the EVSE. I just need a lathe with a spindle bore of 260mm...
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@stib That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I've often thought of building something similar for Brisbane, but I don't use trains often enough, and I reckon a bus equivalent would be too visually busy.
If you're in the mood for an easygoing fiddle toy game, check this one out. It simulates those rolling-thing-on-rail toys. Good fun!
Can someone please turn the gravity back down? This arvo's weights were struggle city for some reason.
God I hate being on the receiving end of salespeople. I got some advertising from an old supplier in my work inbox. I unsubscribed from their mailing list. A few hours later I get a *call* from a salesperson, which I ignored, and an email, which I will also ignore.
Scummy behaviour. Take the fucking hint.
I have completed the gift in time for the birthday on Sunday. Excellent.
Are you serious, Microsoft? Can I really not cut and paste, or otherwise reference/transfer, a table from excel-on-sharepoint into word-on-sharepoint? It just pastes in as unformatted plaintext. C'mon, this is a core feature.
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@jago@mementomori.social I've done similarly dodgy stuff in the past, however I do not enjoy the anxiety of losing a $60 wood auger deeeeep down inside a big chunk of timber.
I think I might have to compromise on chasing a groove on a less-visible side of the post to bury a PVC conduit beneath the surface.
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@hajovonta I understand completely. I have yet to try using office365 to do any serious work. Not looking forward to it.
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The whole house smells of massaman and fresh bread. Mmmm.
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@netpraxis It is one of my infuriating steam gift card presents, similar to this one, but with even more bastardry.
https://wiki.tjhowse.com/projects:solid_steam_card:overview
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@jpm@aus.social I mean... that's actually pretty rad. If I still did field control panel work I'd be tempted...
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@wezm@mastodon.decentralised.social It works so great. My butter intake has increased a lot.
Looking for some #linux help:
I'm cross-compiling an out-of-tree #wireguard kernel module to backport to an older v4.9 system. During compilation I get a "WARNING: Symbol version dump ./Module.symvers is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions." warning, and when I try to insmod the .ko file, I get "no symbol version for module_layout". If I include Module.symvers (from matching linux-headers) the Wireguard build excludes the compatibility shims like "icmpv6_ndo_send".