I can always hear snakes, they move in short hurts before they run away. If they’re stressed they have an obvious smell as well. Dangerous snakes are rare where I live, so these are not useful skills aside from catching them while hiking.

I’m running openWRT on a nanopi R5S. It’s tiny, robust, cheap, and uses very little power. It came with FriendlyElec, a fork of openWRT designed specifically for the device, but if flashed the standard version onto it so I could get more support from reading forums. I don’t know if that was the right move.

It was a bitch to get set up right, but that’s due to my lack of experience, not the device. It didn’t help that there was a major update to OpenWRT/LuCI right in the middle of my figuring out the program, that drastically changed the GUI. It also didn’t help that I was setting up a NAS, and a proxmox server at the same time, so anytime something broke I had 3 system to troubleshoot.

All that aside, it’s been working great since setup with zero maintenance. It does get hot enough that I don’t set it on any other device, but it never throttles itself or overheats.

I took a retired enterprise switch from my office, and can finally make use of the dual ports on my homelab, downloader, and PC. Holy shit is it nice. It’s like 20x faster than my wifi was. I transferred 2 TB of movies to my server in like 35 minutes.

Fun idea, but to the majority of passersby who won’t look closely, it’s just an ad for Walmart.

Regardless, they were playing Enigma

I’m more okay with China spying on me than US companies. China doesn’t really have a way or motive to effect my life.

This seems like the pinacle of sensationalized bullshit. You’re going to be fine. Flushing the toilet has never killed anyone.

There are people who literally eat shit as a fetish. If you’re afraid of the possibility of errant molecules, you need to go outside.

When we had home games in high school, varsity players could play an intro song over the PA.

I went with the intro to The Salt in Our Wounds- Thulsa Doom Remix by HIM.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQBU9PMuHY

I was super-heavyweight, so I was always the last match. That was my final-boss theme. I thought I was such a badass.

Edit: my best friend at the time, who was undefeated since 8th grade, went with the choral part of the greatest man who ever lived by Weezer. It was funny every time.

“Robbers steal $2100 in aluminum scrap. Also some beer.”

After writing that out, it occurred to me: isn’t the truck itself worth a shitload more than the beer?

Who the fuck measures beer in pounds?

Lead makes you dumb, plastic makes you gay, asbestos makes you fireproof.

There are some damn fine manufacturers that know that and are working to change the perception. Zen-Wu toolworks makes some of the best chisels available.

One espresso shot is roughly 60 mg per ounce. The mocha has a measurable amount of coffee in it. Theresa no reason for the number to be exact. You’re not doing science, you keeping a rough tally. If you get 430mg instead of 370, it’s not going to make that much of a difference. Just get a good approximation to make sure you’re not getting like 700.

Coffee averages about 12mg per ounce. A quick estimate is better than nothing, so you can assume you should keep it below 36 oz per day, or 4 mugs, size dependant.

Basic math? Are you unaware of how much coffee/tea/soda you consume in a given period or did you forget the /s?

Nothing hugely important. I don’t usually have Tuesday off, so I’d like ti get to the habitat restore, and a local antique mall has a guy who sells antique chisels and hand planes who is only there on Tuesdays.

Otherwise, i need to fix permissions on my suddenly broken nas, rebuild my proxmox server I broke when transferring parts, install the last five panels of privacy fence in my backyard, run service cable through a buried conduit to my garage, finish stitching my chisel roll, pick up some gate hardware for the fence, move a pallet of vintage specialized bricks out of my neighbors yard to use on my porch, renew my car insurance, check on my current 3d prints, design some drawers to hold lens blanks at my offices, and sharpen all my planes, chisels, spokeshaves and striking knives.

Quality of life upgrades, nothing particularly pressing. Gotta finish my coffee and consider eating something first.

Maybe in January of 2020 we should have told everyone to stay home and pray for three or four months.

I woodwork, set up servers, build guns, garden,play guitar, design furniture, and teach others to do each of those things.

I try to do anything that regular people have figured out on their own. If someone can do something without training, I can probably figure it out in a few weeks.

I don’t watch things, and I don’t use social media outside of Lemmy on occasion. Because of that, I seem to have far more time than the average person.

I read her books and sing to her. Sometimes I play rain sounds or crickets if I intend to make noise after she’s asleep.

I feel like that describes half of Elton john’s music