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馃憢 computing, aviation, music, making, exercising for the next 30 years, at least lol
馃實 Guernsey - the first one, in the channel.
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On station we have thumbs:-) might we also have a symbol for empathy, care, feeling sympathy?
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after being ready for a year, mains power connected and on from Wed:-) Solar on yesterday:-) glad to be out of the site shed at last:-)
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found out simultaneous Influenza A and Covid is a thing: rest, fluids, paracetamol, time. doh!
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I was running Debian 11 xfce in UTM on a couple of apples: both upgraded without issues to Debian 12 xfce following the DebianUpgrade guide:-)
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good sea swims this week; yesterday spotted the usual whitbait, but also a rarely seen cuttle-fish, and some bass.
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Haiku in UTM on apple silicon - works. and there was much grinning throughout the land:-) Now, can i get Gobe and Civ CTP running lol having beos working again is it's own use case!
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Too busy to curate my SBCs so they are in storage and i've spun up useful debians in UTM on a apple silicone mini - compiled lagrange in less than 40 secs and won't brick the SD card at some random time:-)
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so, Jeff Beck playlist today.
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so, how many times do we need to watch Tenet to grok it?
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the peripheral season 1 excellent i think - i've just finished re-reading the sprawl trilogy so i think i will continue re-reading the bridge books then just keep going :-)
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took an offer for some aviation instruction contract work:-) so been off station for a week working away from home: mi laboras multe:-)
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my fridge is keeping my cabin heated - fridge sides are 27C cabin 21C oat 17C - heater (set for 18C) did not come on overnight:-)
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so 2 x 400w pv panels connected eventually - cloudy, no visible sun, raining of course: generating 60 to100w :-) frame still alpha stage, of course.
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my wee cabin running on battery power only:-) Chg contrl connectced to 24V 400ah battery bank connected to 3000W inverter then extension lead to cabin - drawing 55watts lol hopfully tomorrow I'll get the PV panels connected to Chg contrl?
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keyboard change time: dvorak layout on iphone and new filco minila-r convertible will **all** the dip and keycap options used lol learning new esc, backspace, and del key positions, the rest remain the same - i long time dvorak user.
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flashback to BeOS days: just cloned rpi sd to emmc and put in a rpi4-4GB - up and ran. eeprom needed update obviously but apart from that cloned:_)
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so day 3 Cvd and able to do a little again as opposed to dozing all day - ran up Pi3B, ioaudio dac+, emmc with sd adaptor, armbian headless, mpv - first up on shuffle 4NB what's up :-)
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learning to love awk:-) Reading The AWK Programming Language; well written, easy to read, and understand:-)
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Recently very much taken with Welsh Prog-rock group Magenta - Gluttony from Seven, a veritable feast of prog themes:-)
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so after one day of buliding labouring my fingerprints won't unlock anything - so much for one method biometrics :-)
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some of us may be actioning gemini://perplexing.space/2022/securing-gemini-servers.gmi - very useful post. some of us are having issues - for agate ProtectHome=read-only works:-) and RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 works - might help others:-)
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views on culture in gemini for using #hashtags as topic hints in post, logs, etc? use or not? any views helpful to me
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learning to use a sewing machine - so really learning how to measure, cut, and iron, iron, and did i say iron, and pin, fabric lol. it seems that preparation is the key and that mm do in fact matter.
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Been backpacking/lightweight hiking camping for the first time in my life - i am very unimpressed with uk 3/4/G coverage: AONB = AOPR (area of outstandingly poor reception). absence of village shops/pubs complicated water/food resupply - i now have a water filter.
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Still re-reading culture novels - Surface Detail finished... again - Demeisen and Lededeje the stars i think. Hydrogen Sonata next.
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smooth, heavy fuel: gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2021-06-29-smoothie-by-neil.gmi
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so having worked in gnome for a few hours i understand why i didn't like gnome - back to the safety of xubuntu!
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So stewed dried Apricots in MW - soak 3hrs, 2 min @ 100%, 9 min @ 40%, added cloves for final 3 min. 750Watt.
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talking is good - tks to figbert i found iina and that got me thinking about mpv - both understand shuffle, and do what they say on the tin. Fixed Linux box - Ruark MR1Mk2 by reducing output to -6db. grinning!
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trivia - but i think that Excession 1-II has to be one of the most interesting chapters of the genre - go Sisela Ytheleus go! reading Excession for the nth time - full culture re-read.