Capacitive Touch screens are proof all modern tech comes from southern California where "winter" means overnight lows in the 40s. Some of us are racing frostbite to send a text in the rest of the world.

Capacitive Touch screens are proof all modern tech comes from southern California where "winter" means overnight lows in the 40s. Some of us are racing frostbite to send a text in the rest of the world.

The Bitcoin vibe on Twitter is so sad. All this forcing others to take pills or bend knees 🤢

I’m a big hippie y’all, I’m not here to “dominate” others. I’m just trying to build some cool shit that makes life a bit better… for everyone 🫶🧡✌️

What’s next? Size of our underwear, sexual partners, health records…

Outrageous.

Which group are you?

Me?

#IKITAO #GunMemes

The air to go up the chimney has to come from somewhere.

Personally I think if the house is that well sealed an external intake should be built into the fireplace with its own seal the same as the flue on the chimney.

Heat from a fire is actually 3 things. The air that has been warmed by the fire, the infrared light coming off the fire, and the thermal mass of all the masonry that gets heated.

The air does mostly go up the chimney, of course because otherwise your room would fill with smoke. The infrared and thermal mass are where you make your gains.

There are also losses from sucking cold outside air into your home. This matters in a newer airtight home where you have to crack a window for your chimney to even work. On a drafty older home air was coming in anyway so not as big a tradeoff.

Semi lost piece of historical technology that may be worth knowing about.

A Fireback is a simple steel or cast iron plate placed against the back wall of a fireplace. It serves a double purpose. It acts like a mirror for the heat of the fire in front of it, reflecting it out into the room before it can go up the chimney. Second it is a large thermal mass putting heat into the room long after the fire has burnt out.

Mine is a 1" thick 200lb piece of steel. Adding it doubled the comfortable sit in front of the fire distance for my fireplace. Since it is not my primary source of heat I do not get up to feed the fire overnight. The next morning hours after the fire is gone the fireback is typically around 200f and still warm enough to feel it when you walk past.

💯 Growing up, I had my own experiences with field dressing, and I agree with you—it’s much easier to buy the “product” than face the truth. People use language to soften the reality... It’s not a baby cow, it’s veal. It’s not a deer, it’s venison. It’s not the flesh of a loving sentient animal, it’s “steak,” etc. Factory-farming conditions are horrific. Extreme survival is one thing, but in most civilized societies it’s not a necessity, it’s a choice.

Lmao what a joke

As long as your OS has decent window layout tools.

That also takes away the 1 wide and 1 tall option which is awesome for certain workloads.

You can temporarily destroy an OCD person's productivity by giving them dual monitors.

Getting them physically aligned and color matched is not for the faint of heart.

The regular keyhole doesn't work on kwikset if the battery is dead?

Can anyone recommend a pin code exterior door lock that isn't junk?

Kwikset seem to have a very short lifespan with stupid failure modes like "impossible to open this door from the outside if the battery dies"

Schlage don't seem to come with any security pins so that is a no go.

#asknostr or #locksport or #pickstr people?

I need somewhere to document my predictions so I can check my accuracy.

What do you think would work? Just a Google doc + some Google calendar events set like 2 years in the future?

Mosquitos love me.

The other night it was uncomfortably hot and no AC (Europe lol). Anyway this bugger somehow finds her way into my AirBnb on the 5th floor and makes a goddam meal out of me. It got to the point that I put on clothes to shield me.

Of course I can hear micro dracula buzzing about do I'm on high alert all night not getting any quality rest.

As the sun begins to rise I spot the faintest shadow on the ceiling. I leap off the bed and nail that fucker in the greatest acrobatic smackdown I've ever delivered.

Small win, but justice was served. Slept beautifully after.

Picture this. One day you go to use your ThinkPad with the Lenovo dock you always use, and you find your screen blacked out. You panic for a moment because it seems like your computer is broken, then you unplug the dock, and the screen works again.

This happens after a kernel update. If the dock is plugged in, the screen goes black—meaning, you can't use your dock and all the peripherals and hardware you have plugged into it that you need to work.

Two kernel updates go by. It's still not fixed. It is a common issue. Wayland is the future, but its still buggy. Switching to X11 works fine, but I have a super high-res display (like most modern laptops), and X11 is legacy software, so it doesn't automatically scale the way it should, and it's frustrating to deal with inferior archaic interfaces when you know better solutions exist.

I can hook my LND node up to Primal using Nostr Wallet connect? ...not sure I want to do that 🤔

If I were half as smart and insightful as LLMs keep telling me I am I wouldn't need to use an LLM.

I think all my fellow #atheist can agree that if we lived in a world ruled by an intelligent designer who loved us, the natural way for our wrists to turn to flip bacon wouldn't be the direction that maximized burning ourselves with grease splashes.

some bullshit