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👋 network engineer building an off-grid home and reconnecting with nature
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https://www.youtube.com/@danrl/videos
for giggles, i tried to convince my wife that the government is hiding aliens from us. went on for a while and she got really annoyed. i claimed that the intransparent handling of the alien issue by the government poses a problem. she told me that the only problem there is might be a husband who went insane. it was fun, but clearly she was annoyed af.
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i can get carried away with things and ignore everything around me when digging in. including basic needs like, drinking water. recently i added a reminder on my phone to take a quick 10 minute walk every afternoon. that has been a game changer. i loose some time, but get mental energy in return. why did it take me so long to take a break? (context: my work happens on a screen all day)
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i tried to catch my drone out of the air. one of its legs was not properly fixed, so it glitched out of my hands and the propeller blades slit my finger joint three times. can’t type on a computer, but thumbs only typing on the phone works. 🙃 that’s a first for me…
💬 5 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 4 days ago
just wanted to let you know that i appreciate you all and the geminispace in general. a friendly, diverse yet accepting crowd with a tendency for peaceful coexistence. that isn’t a given in many places, and some big communities can only get there with a lot of policing. we can be very proud of what we built here! thank y’all for being excellent! let this be a appreciation thread for that reason. post your own capsules, your favorite capsules, nice words about your fellow geminauts!
💬 3 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 1 week ago
going to houston, texas for a week. never been to texas. what to expect? must see things? food? (no politics, don’t care about that one)
💬 3 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 weeks ago
thinking about joining the volunteer fire brigade in two years or three (after house built). visited them today and liked the trucks and camaraderie and helping others. anyone a firefighter here and has opinions?
💬 3 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 weeks ago
the fcc assigned me a new four letter call sign for my ham radio license: kilo-six-romeo-xray given how hard it is to get a four letter call sign these days, i am very happy. it all luck of course.
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my awesome wife has been doing our u.s. federal and cali state taxes. including foreign tax credits from two other countries with unaligned fiscal years, because why not. i just look in amazement how she navigates about 100 pages of forms and attachments in two languages. also: moving internationally is tax hell. beware!
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someone i worked with more closely than before over the past few months (due to a shared project at work) has decided to end his life recently. it is very hard to understand their decision.
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recap: year one of building a debt-free, off-grid, zero energy home. if you are blessed with long enough attention span you can watch us struggle for two hours. did we bite of a project too big to chew? https://youtu.be/ZUllUyql0-I
💬 6 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
the three most important life improvements i made in the past year: (1) eat much healthier (2) kill all social media except station (3) disable youtube watch history and the awful shorts “feature” my focus went into the relationships and projects i deeply care about. best trade ever.
💬 6 Replies · 10 Thumbs · 1 month ago
work was weird yesterday. and it is weird today. somehow a lot of politics is happening around my project. not sure if that is good or not.
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performed my first maintenance on a piece of heavy equipment: my excavator. i’m not saying it’s easy peasy, but i will also say that i have seen software that was orders of magnitude more complex than such a machine. enjoy the struggle at https://youtu.be/bU2RnwAF1u4
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 month ago
every time i see young couples with a stroller passing by i peek into the stroller. just to see if they are trying to squeeze in one last purely biological incarnation of intelligent life or if this is just one more overfed, dressed up silicon valley pet that can’t be bothered to walk on its own. from dogs and cats to bunnies and birds, i have seen it all. for a welcome change, today i saw not one but two strollers occupied by human offspring. not all is lost…
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what a eventful week. got frustrated at work. also slightly underpaid. found a new way to build my house. changed all the plans. excited to learn more there. listening to someone who i thought was mostly stupid and learned that they are not that stupid (but still disagree with them on many topics). ate a lot of fast food for some reason. very unusual for me. wild days. but coming home and being greeted by my wife made my day, every day. life is wild right now.
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healing the forest: we've been planting three kinds of redwood trees, including the rare dawn red wood which changes color to red. https://youtu.be/9YS9_WcE6Ls
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 months ago
major breakthrough in house design yesterday evening. after over a year of moving walls and roof rafters on paper i found a combination that looks affordable, requires materials i can actually source and transport to the building site, and can still carry all the solar panels i need to get through the darkest winter days without ever needing a generator. the all electric, full solar, off grid home is getting closer. i will have to ask my structural engineer about my new plans. a bit worried about one of the load bearing walls and the high seismic counterweight of the excessive amount of panels i will have to install.
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cleaned up a trashy section of my land (so much junk from the previous owners) and then planted six redwood trees in the place instead.
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i need vacation 🤪
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a drug addict intruded our property while we were away. scouting for things to steal. luckily my cameras caught it and pinged me when they detected a person. I quickly called my neighbor who stopped by with his truck and caught the guy. since the suspect tried to start a fight, even the sheriff came, which is a bit of a hit and miss out here. that scared the tweaker and hopefully he will never return. the “no trespassing” signs are huge and i put them up every 50 feet or so. the lack of respect for other people’s property pisses me off. he was lucky i wasn’t there myself…
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
in my latest video i integrate a wind sensor into prometheus/grafana via a raspberry pi pico w microcontroller. nothing beats open source software! https://youtu.be/oT1HWP1ZnYU
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 3 months ago
bright light city is setting my soul on fire! greetings from las vegas from someone who doesn’t drink, smoke nor gambles. still, forever in love with this place. if we ever have a gemini conference or a station user meeting, it should take place in las vegas i think. it has something for everyone!
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i have seven forms pending with the government in an immigration matter. the forms together make up a single case. they approved one today, which is great news. at the same time i am wondering why not approve them all. they will have their reasons i suppose. they also have not necessarily had a stellar track record on in terms of being organized or consistent or, dare i say, fast. stay classy!
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 3 months ago
unpopular opinion: @martin should build a battery rc car, launch a toy rocket from the backyard, have in that same backyard a small tunnel dug, and then claim publicly: in terms of achievements i am kinda like that other guy who runs a unprofitable social media site for fun, but i did it before it was cool and my users actually like me.
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 3 months ago
someone translated - ignorama - one of my favorite german punk rock songs. here's a snippet for your entertainment: you’re dancing with me, the world is beautiful // when you dance with me // i couldn’t feel any better // you’re dancing with me, the end is near // when you dance with me // i’m spared this whole misery
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
ladies and gentlemen, fellow geminauts, we got ourselves an excavator. i can not overstate how much fun it is to operate heavy equipment and shape your future home, extract trash and restore nature. a game changer! https://youtu.be/xwqyvc4tww0
💬 0 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 3 months ago
i figured out the matcha dosage issue. it is palatable now. progress!
💬 0 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 3 months ago
had my first matcha ever. not sure i like it. looks like i overdosed, apparently one has to use less than a spoonful per cup. friend brought the stuff from japan and i didn’t understand the instructions since i can’t read japanese. anyway, feel pretty awake now. maybe i should try regular green tea first and slowly work my way up?
💬 3 Replies · 1 Thumb · 3 months ago
a manager at work opened an important career door for me today. it won’t be the most exciting project, but it is something special and new and thus worth pursuing. will have to learn a few new skills to get it done. excited and grateful. i have been asking for such an opportunity for a while.
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 4 months ago
the storm tipped over one of the neighbor’s huge redwood trees and we got the biggest chainsaw available to cut it into 10ft lengths (~3 meter). it was fun to cut a coastal redwood on the u.s. west coast using a stihl chainsaw made in my origin country germany. https://youtu.be/YtXuYN63uUU