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👋 network engineer building an off-grid home and reconnecting with nature
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welcome to gemini @florianl :)
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visiting switzerland 🇨🇭 once again
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welcome @picasso!
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coughed a lot recently, all day and night. even a little blood in there every now and then. it is getting better, finally. sucks to be sick.
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on a trip through my old home town talking to old friends. observation: the mood has shifted and i hear quite some negativity about germany’s future specifically and europe in general. been away a fee years. a lot has changed, but then again, much has remained the same and problems remain unsolved. what to make of this?
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over the last 5 years i was very lucky in that all my transcontinental flights have been in business class or better, and only once did i have to pay for it myself. the golden times are over and i am flying economy class to europe in an hour from now. i am grateful for having been able to experience the pinnacle of aviation short of traveling in a private jet. i also anxious about being crammed in a small seat for 11 hours. it is so easy to get entitled and quite hard to let go of comfort. will put my newfound curiosity for discomfort into practice… 😑😶
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drop ur fav nex sites in the replies, my friends! 👇👇👇 i like to explore the nex space but don’t know where to start.
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@martin station feature request: when someone replies to my log and mentions me at the same time, this should result in only one, not two, notifications.
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 3 weeks ago
a 1 3/8 inch diamter and 15 inch long steel pin on my excavator broke. it was a custom part, to enable a retrofitted thumb to the bucket arm. now i have to produce a replacement part. it took me almost a day to figure out which alloy steel i need. long story short, i have a piece of 42crmo4 steel coming my way. time to brush up my metal lathe "skills". a new challenge...
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reading this book titled “the comfort crisis” and it speaks to me. a lot. great book so far (60% in). typing this while camping, fittingly. what’s the most uncomfortable thing you have experienced recently?
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i will travel to europe next month and also stop by in good old munich. excited!
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this place is wonderful. @whixr made me rethink my phone use even harder, with the result of me having trimmed down my phone even more, removing more and more attention-grabbing or less useful apps.
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after a long day out it san francisco watching the fighter jet air show and navy fleet ships and boats, my wife and i decided to order food delivery when we finally arrived back home late at night. she used a popular ride hailing app that also integrates food delivery. the amount of dark patterns in the selection and checkout flow was absurd and placed with predatory precision. tired us ended up paying 30% more than we thought while coming close to also subscribing to some unwanted membership. it took both of our brains, four eyes staring at the screen and scrutinizing every click while being very tired.
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i went a bit above and beyond lately at work, but when i asked for a small favor in return it was denied. somehow this isn’t the two way street anymore it used to be. makes me a bit angry, actually.
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a new generation is entering the workforce and, like every generation before, this brings interesting new work conflicts as expectations and work approaches clash. time to ramp up my mentoring, there needs to be some guidance to get the team through this safely.
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there always was, is, and will be war. -furiosa unfortunate truth.
💬 4 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 month ago
once again benefiting from the amazingly good (albeit perversely expensive) healthcare. feeling very grateful that this is available to me and the people that work in healthcare and patient support. a blessing!
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 months ago
watched an interview with a well known entrepreneur who said “we don’t have slow weeks“ about his endeavors. got me thinking: is this hustle culture on display or should i maybe push myself a bit more since i have a lot of slow weeks?
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back from burning man. had to leave early b/c the wife got sick badly. amazing event, even for someone who neither drinks nor does drugs. had a ton of fun, some dancing, lots of time in heavy equipment during buildup, several trips into the deep playa interacting with art pieces or just enjoying solitude. made 700 sandwiches which we gave away to people. got coffee and breakfast for free. the giving economy is a fun experiment in this affluent bubble. only few pictures were taken. would probably go again, but boy is that expensive all things considered!
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find me at 2&h in camp deoxidized, if any of you is at burning man. see ya in the dust…
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a lucky coincidence plus an incredible generous friend and suddenly i find myself going to burning man for the first time. always likes the idea but never thought i would have a chance to actually go. excited!
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i am in the “i gotta run my own 2g network” stage of onboarding the dumb phone. i will have to stop myself right there and reconsider life choices. do i really want to maintain basically a mobile network just to operate a 12 year old phone on my premises? notwithstanding the license issues of spectrum use…
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snatched up an old dumb phone (sony ericsson w350i) from 2008 only to realize that there is no 2g network anymore. so small, so perfect. wish there was something like a 5g dumb phone that actually works and has open source firmware (not android). back to the stripped down iphone mini in the meantime.
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ah, the absence of drama. everything is boring. the government being slow like a snail in approving my paperwork, work project slowly coming to an end, the next one lined up, investments slowly grow despite recent market turmoil, reforestation is slowly moving along. how long will it last? will trouble find me again? better enjoy the break while i can. have a good day everyone!
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i need to learn about forests and planting trees. 2/3 of the coastal redwoods i planted survived the summer (with plenty of watering) but it becomes too expensive. how do i reforest my land without spending hundreds of dollars each month on water? we have rain season coming up in november. enough time to learn about forests? which books to read? anyone has an idea?
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i accidentally started a record collection. don’t even have a turntable, but the idea of having vinyl records somehow got me. now saving up for a decent turntable and amplifier. still not sure how this all happened.
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oh no, starlink is running fine but my openwrt router just died. now i have fast internet but can’t use it because my main router, which i trust more than the starlink router, is dead in the water. sad day.
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this string of characters has been posted via space and satellites, thanks to my just set up starlink dish and router. i am very excited, my fellow geminauts!
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was bored and started reading mark twain’s “life on the mississippi”. got so hooked that i can’t stop it and put all other evenings activities aside yesterday. books are the best thing since sliced bread and wild honey!
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i ordered a starlink kit to see how that works at my location. it is expensive but there isn’t really any alternative. so my gemini will actually go through space, technically speaking?!