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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
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.
💬 2 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 4 months ago
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 · 5 months 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 · 5 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.
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 6 months ago
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 · 6 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
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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!
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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.
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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 · 7 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
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i figured out the matcha dosage issue. it is palatable now. progress!
💬 0 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 7 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?
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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.
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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
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january 1st. the gym is full of new people which are not necessarily following established etiquette. luckily, this usually only lasts two weeks and a lot of the new guests will have disappeared. it’s a new year’s thing. every year 😉
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 7 months ago
happy new year, fellow geminimauts!
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 7 months ago
i discovered ham radio a few days ago. used citizen band as a youngster and loved it. damn, ham radio is soooo cool. have my technician exam tomorrow, got a handheld receiver as a last minute gift for christmas, and i got sucked into reading ham radio books. now looking for printed(!) magazines for beginners, e.g. a years worth of “over the air” would be awesome to find somewhere. very excited for my first exam and studying like crazy under the christmas tree.
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after three days of cloud and rain my shed‘s battery died and the solar panels are now clean but they haven’t been generating any power. so all sensors and monitoring is offline until the sun returns. living with the seasons…
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 8 months ago
got a fcc license to operate in the gsmr spectrum. nothing special, $35 for a ten year license and no test required. even got a call sign assigned. naturally, the rule loving german in me is excited to receive an official government document stating my permission to transmit on a regulated frequency. i am horribly easy to excite!
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 8 months ago
fixed my photovoltaic inverter. now let’s hook it up to modbus and see what we got…
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
took my video clips from one year of owning a bare piece of land and edited it into a 2 minute trailer for youtube. but since i have a hard time with the narrator track and as a late in life immigrant my english pronunciation is sh*t, i tried an ai voice thingy. very very useful and unlocks my creativity. hope people are ok with that. noticed that some really hate when human creativity is amended with technology but prefer a „pure“ form of expression, whatever that means. trailer to be released around xmas on my channel (@danrl)
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 8 months ago
did my first maintenance on a diesel engine. thank you, youtube! next up: hydraulic system maintenance. i didn’t know owning heavy equipment is so much fun. i enjoy this!
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i bought an excavator. pretty beaten up, used machine close to 2000 hours. will now show it some love, replace all the filters and fluids and give it a good greasing. welcome to the team, bobcat!
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 8 months ago
considering buying a mini excavator. but how to make sure i don’t get scammed? there is “ironcheck” which sounds very promising. i never bought machinery of that size. not sure how to approach this.
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after years of preparation i was finally allowed to file my immigration paperwork. so many obstacles on the way. and now it is unclear if the paperwork has been received or if they were lost by the courier. to the very last step, this process filters for the mentally strong and those willing to with uncertainty and knowing how to take action at every step. i wonder if that is by design? it is a great filtering function, after all. wish me luck!