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(DIR) Post #AJckPW6WtQJRPuly7s by jakimfett@hackers.town
2021-12-31T23:43:41Z
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Oi.What's broke?
(DIR) Post #AJckPWnQJwcjYwqDz6 by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T21:35:54Z
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Oi, science side of tumbl...errrrrrrr #network #hardware side of fedi, what's this greenish gunk (...maybe coming from around the DC jack?) on my #mikrotik router, and more importantly, how do I repair or remediate this damage?(...this router still works, or did before I unplugged it and cracked open the case to check something unrelated...and i would like to do the maintenance now, rather than when it breaks.)(boost appreciated until query is resolved)
(DIR) Post #AJckPYQoEzisdOHC0u by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T20:18:19Z
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...look, Julian dates are objectively easier than Gregorian to work with, but only just slightly.Who in their right mind does "60, 60, 24, 365" as the bit sequence?And don't get me started on the Romans re-arranging the calendar.(Totally hit me with your best "Oct/Dec" joke tho, those are funny af even at my age.)The second as a basic unit of time makes sense, we've pegged it to something concrete (light traveling a meter or something? we did it, that's what matters), which is excellent and long past due and very validating of all the things that i/we have built over the years that assume seconds will always be the same length......AND we really need system timekeeping that orients on the rotation of the sun, rather than the planets in this system, and having individual calculation constants that give direct conversions between planet time and solar time would be nice to have too......AND we need 'human time', which for me looks like approximately 4kilosecond (66 minutes ish) divisible audio cues of the pace of time passing, in the form of music playlists with appx. 1 kiloseconds (17 minute ish) meditate/re-prioritize/remedicate breaks in between.===...AND seriously, if you're going to form a fecking "Time Council" you could at least think slightly beyond yer own navel backyard pretty little biosphere.But no, we're still arguing about how to stop changing things (daylight savings was never necessary, okay?)...AND if said council did their jerbs with just a bit of vision or perspective or scientific rigour, they would publish their 'time algorithm' in one of the plethora of standard notation formats, so that engineering can just implement that shyte instead of loitering around the network, commenting on these shitty social constructs, yeah?
(DIR) Post #AJckPYRsB2Zcggm2fg by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T00:29:58Z
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So, pulled apart the battlestation this week.Second or third time recently, and it's almost to the point that it's relatively comfortable.Radically reduced my "conventional" tech pile over the past five years, and the transition back to office work for $newjob has been...reminding me why I walked away from "desktop" computing the first time.Gripes about system error aside, this is an exercise in comfort that has been re-working itself for close to ten years.Got the CPU via an employee discount. Cables the same way. Storage was salvage, then secondhand, then SSDs finally. Displays were my *one* big splurge, ten or so years ago when I bought the final items on my build list. The metal part of the desk is portions of an obutto ozone desk with the three monitor mount, and boy howdy do I have some feedback on that one.Took me almost three years to scavenge, salvage, and actually bring it online for the first time after obtaining the CPU. This machine, and the 'desk-cluster' that has congealed around it, is as much my story as it is a tool.Status: posting this, but marginally functional otherwise.
(DIR) Post #AJckPYSE9irChmwKDw by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T00:05:01Z
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so, arduino, eh?About two years ago, right before the pandemic shut everything down, we were raising funding for a garden environment monitoring thing.Kinda prefer that it never got mass produced. Never had the chance then to get the software side where I wanted it, and the hardware was certainly sub-optimal.So, after that broke up, I kept the idea, and am back at it with a new chip (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3179) and new sensor (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4026).Got the chip back towards the end of 2020, but did little past scaffolding until this year when I had enough extra cash to get a couple of the sensors I wanted to use.Status: mostly conceptual, only just seriously opened things up today for the second or maybe third time this year.Mostly been doing power draw and run time testing, as this is intended to be a solar powered thing.We know the LED, bootloader / programmer, and voltage register work, and as of today the LoRa radio has been verified working.Now to figure out this "I2C" thing the cool kids are talking about...
(DIR) Post #AJckPYSE9irChmwKDx by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T05:05:15Z
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yaknow, idempotency would do *wonders* here.our kid, whomst is approximately ten months, routinely ignores the electronic-type toys, but latched on to a three-click brightness amber booklight i/we got for giftmas...because it had a single-button, uncomplicated control feedback mechanism (clicky switch) directly integrated with the outcome (change in light level).Emphasis on how kiddo spent 20 plus minutes just clicking it through light levels, testing to see if clicking other parts of the mechanism would change anything, bending the lightstalk, and touching the "surface" of the bright part...setting it down, bapping it with one or both hands...clearly, they're fuzzing the interface, and it's a direct learning experience...they were clearly listening for audio cues, while watching for changing light, because thwir other toys have taught them that things that do things do not necesaarily correspond to any observable difference in touch, texture or visual indicator.Contrast this with how they get quickly frustrated and upset with their electronic piano that has an easily-bumpable mode switch that goes between "touch to get musical instrument tone", "touch for random music" and "touch for animal sound(s)" with an option to randomly loop through some sort of "demo mode" that talks to them?...one touch one sound is awesome until they inadvertantly change mode and it confuses their learning model XD...sometimes i swear none of these toy programmers ever actually OBSERVED a child playing with a toy.
(DIR) Post #AJckPZsUrXSr7YEooC by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T21:59:23Z
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Ran across this piece from Hernando Barragán regarding the Wiring project, a precursor of Arduino, and it really explains the low-key hate i/we have encountered regarding Arduino in some spaces:https://arduinohistory.github.io/Both the journalistic excellence of this doc and the mentality that created it (along with the Wiring system) is something i/we aspire towards.
(DIR) Post #AJckPZsqqDkR8eP6MS by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T06:33:47Z
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somebody, probably with a name, said something to the effect of "start with why".So, the why of this is so I can set up watering of the plants, and then use that same code for some hydroponics veggies and maybe a tomato-fruit or several.Starting small, tho. The soil moisture reading is pretty basic sensors, but it's been 5 years and a heck of a lot of head damage since messing about with sensors and arduino. The reflexes are there, but the neurons aren't always making the connection, so progress is often disjointed and full of months-long pauses in processing while my brain waits for the next piece to fall into place.In this case, the missing piece was worry that I'd either under or over water our Yule tree, Norman, who has joined us indoors for two years running now. Last summer was hard on them, I left them behind when partner was hospitalized for surgery, and the new growth got all puckered and stunted.For now, I'm aiming to simply: - wake up and read the sensor every quarter day or so - read the sensor when manually triggered - read the sensor when instructed to do so via remote interruptRegardless of *how* the sensor is read, save it to the queue for sending on next wake cycle, possibly with a 'send now' jumper for testing purposes? Or just one switch / command for read, one for send, and enough distance / texture distance that it's obvious which is which?The chip I'm using has been pushed below ~5ma current draw (ref https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SleepyDog et al) for sensor-interrupt deep sleep (that wakes on packet receive) and that's the functionality we need.While this will be solar, it's probably going to be seriously over-provisioned (looking at minimum of 20 watts for the prototype, although assuming idk 10% efficiency because of wind and growth and sun position, that's still far more than the (10ma * 3.3v = 33mw) low power draw. However, that 10% utilization is assumed to be is approximately 12% of the daytime (3 hours), so that gives us somewhere in the 2w/ hr for three hours, so about six watt-hours. High power draw is in the 125ma range, so doubling that gives us (250ma * 3.3v = 825w) about a half hour to 45 minutes of operation in high power mode, max transmission range? If we are assuming the battery efficiency & capacity are sufficient for this, if memory serves it's a 6,600mah pack, although there are surely much larger ones.This isn't minimalist, yet. It's a prototype on hardware that I know will be useful for other stuff, so while I am debating about a lot of bells and whistles, this thing really just needs to tell the humans, somehow, how wet the dirt is.This year's splurge was an e-ink display (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4777) so the lora stuffs is honestly overkill right now...because making a bar graph on an e-ink display over SPI seems doable, right?...hmm, now that I think about it, the e-ink displays could be used to display QR codes to register the nodes with the pi bridge (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4074, from last year's splurge) since that base station already has some image processing stuffs and a pair of cameras...Given 33mw low power (99%+ of operating time) and around 3-5 minutes total per day of transmission time, this looks like it'll be significantly overpowered, and all that remains to do is build, program, test, rebuild, reprogram, repeat......mmmmmmmmmmm have missed this process. Have missed talking about this process.High
(DIR) Post #AJckPaADnddu0WWyR6 by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T02:20:18Z
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The vents begin to blow noticeably cooler.Granted, it always takes me an hour or so to realize, note the face as sensory input, queue the task for abstraction, abstract the steps into a process, and then pursue the steps for bringing the system down.The path is over an exposed gearframe, down first one step then another pair, culminating at a USB-powered remote control that spits IR at the receiver and security camera(s).The hiss-chug of the air and 60hz hum of the alternating current in the thermal exchanger dims, but doesn't fall completely. An oil heater, augmented by a smaller fan, keeps the tone alive.As the body of the vehicle cools, my paths turn inward, towards the glowing terminals rather than the shimmering peripherals. The slight edge of cold, combined with a need to decompress in word-form, makes it easy to take the main compartment lights offline and light the candles that contribute a surprising amount of heat to the small, blanket-enclosed bubble of space to think.Outside, the ground is stabbed by fragments of light escaping through the edges of the greenhouse, where the lamps are disgorging the day's solar bounty towards the plants they protect from the snow outside.Not quite a fortress of solitude, but the sunset is just as beautiful from here, and the sky just as full of stars.Good night, fediverse.Good night, hacker town,thank you for inviting me in.
(DIR) Post #AJckPaAvl0D42irXXc by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-04-12T19:50:49Z
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...system processor stable at 96.5C, turbo & auxiliary cooling engaged.Let. There. Be.*COMPILE*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
(DIR) Post #AJckPb5INRIQrXEYOe by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T23:03:06Z
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https://forum.arduino.cc/t/how-to-find-out-output-pin-state/42066/4Always love finding stuff like this...sure beats having a state to watch your state...::quietly prunes out the now-unused 'toggle' boolean::
(DIR) Post #AJckPbQZ6MJHvVBXY8 by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-08T23:37:11Z
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Finally got around to having two lora chips to test at the same time.Took me most of the morning to get the testbed online, and now I have a hardware-toggle for transmitting data, and a lot of refactoring to do.Now that I've got data moving, the next step is orienting back towards capturing battery pack voltage, so the user node can ping and get back the voltages from all sensors.Then, we see if we can display to the e-ink display.
(DIR) Post #AJckPbY0egGUIafU9Y by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T20:54:07Z
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There's a laptop that stays online overnight (if working from inside the shopartment is in my plans), though the goal is to only have a system online when actually using it.Historically, my full 'homelab' usage was about 2-3kw (...*24*365) just for the full height rack with a handful of blades and an air removal unit, and weighed enough that moving it required three people or a *lot* of elbow grease, which wasn't great once homelessness happened. At the time, was trying to pretend that 'going back to normal' was an option, so it's just been sitting in storage while i/we contemplates what to repurpose it for.Everything that remains of the tech stack from then has been reworked or replaced to be quickly brought down and put back into luggable-safe storage, because setting up a workstation has been a temporary "yeah you can use this closet for a week or three but then we need you to be out looking for work" sort of bs since idk 2017 at least?(we moved 8 times in 2020, for reference)This iteration of the lab is a barely-post-homelessness build, where having the funds to just...buy another whatever...is an option, but feels wrong until the backlogue of salvage has been processed. New functionality that will assist in reaching objectives is considered and critiqued extensively, and has to look good from a lot of different angles before the purchase happens.The tradeoff of having these smaller systems is the significantly increased portability and reliability of individual low cost modular bits, which is what a lot of current consumer tech really lacks.This messy conglomeration of three or four laptops, main / backup repositories, printer & scanner, router, an overlarge CPU box, monitors and cables, has rather a lot of idiosyncrasies, and on top of that i/we are kinda paranoid and working on excavating the militarized mindset, so like with any war rig, it can be a tool of freedom or an agonizing death, you just gotta know the correct sequence to bring it online.Occasionally, there's condensation on things, and that rendered the main CPU a bit persnickety about humidity, and each time we shut it down we wonder if it'll come back online.That said, it only eats 10% (about 200-300 watts max) of what my old way of doing things used, constantly.===This system begins to warm enough for the primary CPU to come online safely.May the electric fire scream once again through your veins, my silicon familiar...energizing in three...two...one...
(DIR) Post #AJckPbZ4aj7ELtAKoK by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-02T00:44:56Z
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testing to see if this will actually do a post at sundown, if my device is offline.
(DIR) Post #AJckPcHNvyYqZJtisa by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-04-12T19:58:34Z
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What are you willing to do for love?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRaMatWRK50What amount of outrage will move you to action?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjIwXKPGf80Why did we say "never again" if we were unwilling to do anything?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2z34nkfA9QThese are not new problems.This is not new resolve.This is simply accepting my part.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBspxpQLfl4I choose to build.What do you choose?
(DIR) Post #AJckPcXgxLbZNtWkIS by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-04-14T00:51:22Z
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Weeeelllll the printer is working again, but wireless capabilities are down.Soooooo calling that enough of a success and celebrating by applying to a couple more corpitek roles that i could...survive...in....maybe...yaknow, just in case the next compile kills the rest of the network stack and I gotta do a hard reset. Again.As one does.
(DIR) Post #AJckPcv5YMJuYSTQlU by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-01T20:56:28Z
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...we have liftoff!
(DIR) Post #AJckPcwVT5SEcr8YyW by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-02T02:20:40Z
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hey, the auto-post thing worked!...unsure if that was a true offline test tho, might have been texting someone about then.(Here's a panorama of the office, which looks even less euclidean than usual due to excessive operator movement during the shot.)
(DIR) Post #AJckPdhIf6suxz1vua by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-04-20T00:19:14Z
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Figured out that I've broken the install script (again), so taking a break for bioengine fuel while contemplating change fragility.Small measures of forward motion...there is now a test function that can be called to verify that an install environment is possible or not. This is revealing a lot of flaky decisions I've not yet refactored.So, yaknow. It goes.
(DIR) Post #AJckPe7X5ZruHLIsng by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-05T22:11:29Z
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There's no perceptible sound outside, though the air feels alive under today's warm grey clouds.Aside from my feet on the crush gravel, that is.The grating of a dozen ceramic points against broken stone sets my teeth on edge, and re-firms the decision to avoid crushed rock as a material for underfoot, at the very least.The lab and utility vehicle are parked in an L-shape adjacent the low shop building, where the repurposed kitchen of the fifth-wheel trailer can look into the window of the converted store room, so that I can check if the little one is napping before I go back inside. Our family truck makes the shape more of a T, and I duck past the tongue of the lab where it rests on the tripod, making mental note to get some zinc paint for the developing rust patches on the one foot.The trailer / lab's external outlet is ahead, within the folds of the utility vehicle's cover and the shredded awning. A heavy desk within the utility vehicle, a box van, hosts potato plants, green onions, and an amp or two of grid power for a grow light, which we're hoping is still fully renewables, but with the recent storms, who knows? Getting personal-scale wind generation online is after solar on the list, which is blocked until finding a supplier that actively recycles their own panels and others into new product. The few panels that have been possible or necessary to obtain are mostly woven into emergency gear and prototypes, with none of it nearly enough to provide the 7-14 hours of 200-300 watts consumed by the arc light.It's coming, though.---Plugging in the lamp for the morning yields a low thump-hum from inside, as the glass tube within the reflector comes to life with a thin thread of electric fire.That thread will grow as the element warms, and within a few moments will be far too bright to look towards.A moment's pause, and an ear to the door, ensures that the hum of the fan is still present. Without air movement, the plants will become stagnant, and with winter storms the moisture in the air will condense on the utility vehicle's aluminum top, dripping moisture unpredictably on the ostensibly dry-ish environment within.===Inside the lab, all is still dark.Yesterday's brownouts has moved the battery backup closer to the surface of the priorities pool, and with just one meeting for work today there's time to consider what parts need better protection, and what parts need their own energy harness.The LED replacements for the overhead lamps have eliminated the heat buildup in the light switches, and low enough energy that I don't mind leaving them on occasionally.Moving forward, the office space is too warm, and I deposit my blower fan into the niche beneath the forward storage, and kick it on to move the warm air through the under-compartments, to dry out any moisture that might be lingering.Simply having one more air mover has unblocked much forward progress, and today has much potential.The new-to-me pair of 2.5kw heaters have been running overnight, and for the first time in months it's 20c instead of ten or fifteen less, and the air feels crisp instead of slightly stale.This little caravan isn't sustainable, by a far cry, at least not yet...and it's certainly headed that way, if my elbow grease has anything to say about it..
(DIR) Post #AJckPeOY4JTn87GTK4 by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-01-02T07:29:49Z
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"Bury Me Low" was the new music fave for today.( https://m.soundcloud.com/8graves/bury-me-low/ )---If I die today, it won’t be so badI can't escape all the nightmares I’ve hadAll of my angry and all of my sadGone in the blink of an eyeI’ve seen the devil, I’ve shaken his handI’ve seen the evil that dwells in a manFor all of my wisdom, I can’t understandOh mercy me, mercy my===Better get to digging while my body’s getting coldI keep tryna fight it so just promise when I goYou’ll bury me lowBury me lowBury me lowJust promise me that when I goYou’ll bury me low
(DIR) Post #AJckPf8HKI3jPwezbM by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-04-26T00:08:24Z
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Have you done your backups?I certainly hadn't.Making some tweaks to my workflow to include a USB drive has given me redundancy now, and will allow me to migrate all but my newest storage pod without needing to bring the workstation online.Which is good, because the workstation has been down for a month while I've been rebuilding the floor, part of a wall, and the ceiling.Currently fighting the fibreglass insulation miniboss, which necessitates a lot of relocating, taping / shielding, and coverings.The outer skin of the lab seems intact, but enough moisture had seeped in that the thin plyboard had warped and de-laminated, so the insulation bits were becoming a hazard.Still fighting the back pain from last fall. Everything is taking ten or twenty times as long.One more step.Backups are the next step.Have you done your backups?
(DIR) Post #AJckPgcnmI4M2twsoi by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-15T16:44:34Z
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Backups completed on the main workstation yesterday, After a brief fight with the #guix installer (kept crashing on "guided disc partitioning" and after about the third try to guess at what partitions the installer needed manually) i gave up and just installed #nixos again. Too frustrating to keep trying the same 20+ interactions and putting in user accounts and such to have it randomly blink away and not even be sure it was something I had done the first two times.The takeaway for me, here, is that basic functionality polish is outside scope for many, if not most, open source projects. Accessibility, is a tacked-on-after-the-fact consideration.Simply having my choices-so-far be written to the free space on my drive, and having the option to resume after each crash, would have kept me persisting towards installing the base system that I dearly want to use.But for now, familiarity has momentum.And I suppose it's not the worst thing to not be running bleeding edge all the time everywhere, eh?
(DIR) Post #AJckPggLZ6uADtbiLI by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-10T21:03:12Z
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Major update to the layout & arrangement of our prototyping lab.Been about a month and a half in progress.As of today's grid measurements, when the printer kicks on and all the monitors power up, the workstation comes on and the laptop boots, power level usage will peak below a kilowatt.We've got about 7-20 watts of solar that keep small pieces of it going without routine intervention. About half of it is just sticking the panel out the window until the light fades, every day. A manually switched network of solar power, less a grid than a series of buckets and several fountains.It's not #permaComputing or even really sharable..and...we'll get there eventually. #slOwpenSource maybe?This sub-kilowatt energy usage peak means a 2/3 reduction in overall lab computing energy usage over the last 5 years, and once the network stack is...appropriately hardened for today's network environment...we'll see how remote services compare to before the jump. I expect to break the 1kw boundary again slightly when things like the game world backend are at full load, and, managing that will be the point of the next iteration of optimizations.This also means that my entire professional computing stack runs off less than two hundred watts under moderate load, and when the workstation isn't necessary, that number drops into the double digits. This iteration of the lab is capabilities-driven, so when idle systems shut down we drop from 75ish watts to like 13-17 watts, total computing stack draw. And I'll often just pull the mains breaker on my way out for the night, so it's like 2/3 duty cycle if that.We're aiming for total wattage in the single digits or below (what can you do for a #watt is #actuallyAlot XD) and also ......this is us celebrating, as the old lab (circa 2015) was over 1kw idle and 2kw average.
(DIR) Post #AJckPhvyuT0O6fviLo by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-16T05:03:34Z
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Only caught the last quarter of daylight, but still got a +7% boost to the mobile's battery. Enough to post this, and keep ahead of the overnight drain. Already we're down 2%, though some of it is temp.Workstation is booting.(Will try #guix again soon. It remains my goal.)Got things working with the default noveaue driver and plasma...which has been a ride.(...really need to write a guide for a bunch of this stuff...)Lots of new quirks to learn with plasma, and it seems to have difficulties with visual lag...though that may just be the non-vendor graphics driver.Got the next set of hardware backed up and staged for #nixos to be installed. This will be a burst-capacity build server, art / media station, and to free up the laptop that was driving that display previously. Probably going to try pathenon again?Slowly the new shape rises from the tangle of past attempts.
(DIR) Post #AJckPi7gCyMYgxP3aK by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-11T17:57:54Z
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That which cannot be repaired is broken already.That which cannot be recycled is broken already.That which cannot be modified is broken already.These things are easy to demonstrate, and easy to remediate. Living them, however, happens one step at a time. It happens in conversations where we choose to use better language, and moments when we choose to use less destructive options.Truly there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, which is why we must give, give, give to one another who have need. Give food. Give shelter. Give kindness and space to be hurting.We cannot make things better through any one focus alone, but by combining our foci and exchanges of perspective, each of us finding balance.There is no perfect victim, and expectations that one will be so is untenable.My home is in someone else's driveway. Existing here invites constant scrutiny and threat of cop-calling from my landperson.Still, I find ways to make progress towards things that benefit us all. My work in the garden, at the forge, and in open source, not to mention the woodworking and cross-discipline tinkering.Most of us are surrounded by reminders of all that we cannot change, so perhaps you will share some of your successes.Today, I am resting.Tomorrow is another big lift.
(DIR) Post #AJckPiHFdO1FAdshVI by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T05:07:05Z
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The sunward panels were pulling in a solid 11 watts today. Grid power is currently available, but the more I can run off the sun, the better. Gained two or three amp-hours on the batteries, so we can top up the phone tonight.Sketching out the cuts necessary for next stage of the hardware for kiddo's viewscreen is in progress, and the tactile kinesthetics are really helping me relax. Wooden frame takes the graphite well.Using the high impact (plastic? something else?) from tablet display salvage to protect the face of a mini HDMI display for kiddo's playtesting. Not yet aiming for outdoor use tho, getting this waterproof needs...future catra and adora problems, eh?Doing a pair of off the shelf batteries, about 10 amp-hours apiece, and using a third of the same type as an internal cell to make the other two hotswappable. USB for now, but looking to upgrade to barrel plugs once there's time to poke around for better options for that.Next step is to reinforce the wooden frame so the padding/buffer material can be put in place to cradle the display. Anticipating 1+ meter droups on the regular, and attempting to make this tough enough to keep on working. LCDs are not my fave. >_>
(DIR) Post #AJckYhYtfC5rYfQ9q4 by drwho@hackers.town
2022-05-19T22:23:18Z
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@jakimfett Did you take the PCB out of the chassis? Are there any electrolytic caps within range of that spillage?
(DIR) Post #AJckYhvEK9xSfvrzeK by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T22:33:24Z
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@drwho @jakimfett if it got wet it might just be some corrosion from some wires around or something… vinager would clean that.
(DIR) Post #AJckqgdjpVTnuZGGga by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T22:36:37Z
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@mmu_man @drwho lemme check that, along with @Anarkat 's recommend for debugging, brb.
(DIR) Post #AJckxvQTFoefnRVVqK by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T22:37:56Z
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@mmu_man ...and vinegar won't mess with the copper traces? Or is this a case of "use sparingly and clean with something else after"?
(DIR) Post #AJcl5lH2snt8cwpqcq by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T22:39:23Z
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@jakimfett yeah, rinse after 10 or 20min with distilled water if possible. And let it dry long enough.
(DIR) Post #AJcm7YcP0TxnuUFFVQ by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T22:50:52Z
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@mmu_man excellent i just got some distilled water for unrelated battery shinannagins
(DIR) Post #AJcmL8yr7mE4RxE4P2 by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T22:53:22Z
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@jakimfett but if it's a cap leaking or some battery you'll only clean the current mess, not fix it until you replace those parts.
(DIR) Post #AJcmlOoAtr0l4GkWmG by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T22:57:24Z
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@mmu_man @drwho @Anarkat to my untrained eye, this side appears intact.Are the two vertical cylinders what you were referring to with regard to potentially failing capacitors?And...is dielectric grease something I can make in a bargain bin chemistry set and some pluck, or is that something I'll need to buy?
(DIR) Post #AJcnUupUgyqjPZ4Qcq by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T23:06:19Z
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@jakimfett @drwho @Anarkat no that's something that would exude from the caps if they leak.
(DIR) Post #AJcnlmBG6OBDVgI48G by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T23:09:21Z
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@mmu_man okay, and it would be obvious if these were indeed leaking?
(DIR) Post #AJcnwXDS53FoHdRjea by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T23:11:20Z
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@jakimfett yeah you'd see it starting from them.Was it outside or in some basement maybe?
(DIR) Post #AJcoWsDLUErVpjixma by Anarkat@hackers.town
2022-05-19T23:16:08Z
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@jakimfett looks like it's silicone and a thickener.https://www.thedrive.com/maintenance-repair/39173/dielectric-greaseI don't think it's something you could make at home, but it's pretty cheap.@mmu_man @drwho
(DIR) Post #AJcoWsc9zyiB4hKmSe by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T23:17:53Z
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@Anarkat @jakimfett @drwho oh, wait, is it dry and solid? Could be then…
(DIR) Post #AJcorOL7kqstGD98VM by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T23:21:34Z
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@mmu_man nah, just has had a hard life and tbh this could have been from years ago, or from just being in the cold part of the lab over the winter.Thanks for helping coach me through this. Will update once I poke it with vinegar.Is there a better option between white and apple cider vinegar? Those are what I have on hand rn.
(DIR) Post #AJcozJahIK5KqhD0Rk by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T23:23:02Z
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@jakimfett The crystal one would work.But if it's not corrosive stuff it might just work out with IPA?
(DIR) Post #AJcpAsq4aFPfM0uuSO by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T23:25:05Z
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@mmu_man @Anarkat @drwho disambiguation: kat was telling me what dielectric is made of, my substance on this routerboard is a bit crusty, but consistent with copper-water interactions, and seems to be in a gravity-dictated path below the jack, without obvious damage too or leakage around the base of the known capacitors.This could be as simple as having grabbed the power plug with a bit of water on my hands, and the device is still operational.
(DIR) Post #AJcpDvZyqpqCipqE76 by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-05-19T23:25:33Z
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@mmu_man ipa?
(DIR) Post #AJcpJnPG9PY16zcnwG by mmu_man@m.g3l.org
2022-05-19T23:26:44Z
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@jakimfett isopropyl alcool.70° alcool might work if you let it dry.
(DIR) Post #AKM9QKESoC2ouKnrKS by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-06-10T20:01:57Z
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Have been contemplatng and discussing a recycling collective that has an attached makerspace using only reclaimed materials to teach metalworking.If we try to crowdfund this (with intention of reimbursing all supporters, microloan style, and publishing our shyte so other people can repeat and improve on our work), what's your level of monetary interest in getting a nonprofit educational recycling startup off the ground?
(DIR) Post #AKME34WDZ5cfHbq4Cu by xenmen@shitposter.club
2022-06-10T21:05:49.852779Z
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@jakimfett I was volunteering at FreeGeek Vancouver for years, it was very close to what you describe, albeit with less makering. May be a good model to check out, though it's changed greatly since I left.
(DIR) Post #APtyQI69XN47S2x8Do by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-11-23T16:56:00Z
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who has recommends for a fediverse (on mobile) client that is specifically compatible with local-only posts (ala hometown) and secondarily tolerates (or caches) for completely offline use?My network is flaky at best (leading to lots of posting woes), and I am tired of not being able to properly scope my toots in #tusky tho it's had a good run.Are these features of subwaytooter? or others that i don't know about?:boost_ok:
(DIR) Post #APtyQJ0W9o9UGrK94q by purple@nya.social
2022-11-23T17:11:27.014Z
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@jakimfett@hackers.town subway tooter lets you set it up for local-only stuff easily, but it might be lacking on your caching requirements. it's a lot of app, though, so there's likely a config variable that i'm unaware of. for sure worth picking through.
(DIR) Post #APu2RypQYJE45DBrxA by jakimfett@hackers.town
2022-11-23T17:46:58Z
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@purple i hear you saying that subwaytooter has included my fave game, Many Useful Settings, in their app _%(gonna go ahead and give it a download when there's sufficient bandwidth for that, thanks for the confirmation that it has that specific feature!)