THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH

Probably best for the people who haven't seen her in a while, but the mortuary prep made my grandmother look more alive than she had for the last year of her life.

Very jarring every time to see out of the corner of my eye.

Sensor-adjusted timers. Dryers have moisture sensors to determine whether the load is dry. Washers have turbidity sensors to check whether the water is running clear.

I may never take you up on it, but the offer means more than I have the words to express. Thank you.

My grandmother was 94 years old. She was a seamstress, a gardener, a homemaker, and a mother who outlived 2 children and her husband of 56 years. She was born a Japanese subject who, at 21, married one of the foreigners occupying her country and followed him home to a country that hated "mixed" marriages. Over the last decade or so she started exhibiting slowly-progressing dementia. Two and a half years ago she suffered a fall and a severe head injury; while on bed rest her dementia accelerated. Earlier this year she was placed in home hospice. A little over an hour ago she stopped breathing. Over the next few weeks she'll be cremated and join my grandfather in the VA cemetery. And then the story of her life will finally close while we pick up the pieces of her legacy and try to fit them together.

My life has changed again.

Of course, it's also a BNIB switch with 4x 10 GbE SFP+ ports and 8x 1 GbE PoE+ ports that I got for $30. And it will lock down all management methods to a single port, which can be MAC-authenticated. Hm.

. . . the fuck kind of switch doesn't support disabling telnet?

Oh. "NSA Certified". Of course.

Apparently it was a precautionary recall - one of those things where something broke and there was no way to account for all the possible pieces - and there are no reports of anyone FINDING glass.

But it's still kind of concerning.

Ours was (potentially) glass-filled fried rice.

At least that's a little more noticeable than bacteria, I guess.

When regularly redeemed by people in voice chat with streamers during setup, collab partners and the like, "First viewer" redeems begin to feel more like a measure of social proximity than a fun competition for the community. It introduces the exclusionary impression of a clique.

3 stickers on a white panel. Ronenn Haustoria smiling and cuddling a joyful Maribro; Rainstorm Wander smiling and touching her index fingers together; and ratmost's pride heart.

New stickies get!

Screenshot of Intel Solid-State Drive Toolbox indicating a drive error at 3% into the Read Scan portion of a Full Diagnostic Scan.

Yeah, that's . . . that's not great.

Potate gently.

Skills learned: threading and operating (poorly) industrial sewing machines. Juki DDL-555 lockstitch and MO-816 overlock serger.

I'm not sitting on a bucket on the deck anymore!

Did I do it right? No.

Did I do it effectively? Yes.

Am I gonna do it over? ONLY IF IT BREAKS AGAIN.

(Which it did as I was writing this. Okay. Message received.)

Odd solution for FFXIV crashing: change from windowed borderless to fullscreen. Then move it to another desktop. Alt-tab works almost as cleanly as with borderless, and it stayed open for ~18 hours without crashing.

GitHub - gromnitsky/endnotes: A tiny, vanilla JavaScript popup footnotes library A tiny, vanilla JavaScript popup footnotes library - gromnitsky/endnotes

I just adore libraries like this. Simple; straightforward; does exactly what it says with no feature-creep; easily-integrated, -trimmed, or -extended; COMPLETE.

github.com/gromnitsky/e...

Fun fact: sometimes the SINGLE BEST THING you can do to a freezer is pour near-boiling water in it.

Once you locate the condensate drain that's blocked, of course. You need water hot enough to carry heat through the line, melting its way through, without ITSELF freezing.

You'll also need towels.

Cropped screenshot from Windows Update reading: "Windows 11, version 25H2 Status: Downloading - 5%"

Final Fantasy wins. Damn you, Squeenix!

If you're comfortable poking around inside (unplugged!), it might be worth just . . . gently making sure all through-hole components are aligned straight and none of them are contacting each other.

Also making sure it's clean inside, looking for solder bridges, maybe reflowing larger joints.

Amplifier circuits can be INCREDIBLY sensitive in strange ways.

The amp for my PC speakers would cause buzzing and clicking through the speakers shortly before I got a text or call for years. I finally opened it up and bent 2 caps apart by about 1 mm - never happened since.

OBS Studio uses libcurl. Home free, right?

OBS Studio 32 still uses libcurl 8.12. libcurl didn't support SENDING through WebSocket until 8.16. I'm not connecting to dumb, unauthenticated feeds.

Fuck.

I know the general shape of the final product. I can PICTURE THE ACTUAL CODE NEEDED for a proof of concept.

I've been stalling for days without even creating a single file, let alone writing anything in it.

Surely this isn't any form of executive dysfunction, of course. I'm just distracted.

Putting more Vtubers in cozy little boxes. ♡
@exaltedemily.bsky.social - @gwynndalf.bsky.social - @alison.ventures - @frogshop.bsky.social - @lizdrawsen.bsky.social - @duskarchivist.bsky.social

In the end I just installed Linux on an old desktop to serve network storage. It's not MUCH slower than local drives in most cases - and in some cases it's faster since the storage system caches things better.

It's just awkward to access so I'm lazy about installing drives in it.

Partly a learning/optimizing project anyway, but I'm still tempted to go with something I already know (CivetWeb, with a browser source) instead of learning how to draw things directly in OBS.

Because then _I_ have to download and cache images.

Disconnected HDD gang.

I could get more efficient access points and switches, but for the same coverage I'd need more of them making it overall a net loss on the purchase cost. The router's about as low as it can go without SIGNIFICANT loss of capacity.

Gotta pick the battles that make sense.

Would I LIKE a more efficient home server? Of course! But for comparable-or-better capacity, the break-even on electrical savings would be 6-10 years AT BEST.

And the network infra draws 5+ times as much, anyway.

And now we have 7 cats.