Here here! Three cheers to ink! To a very well moderated event! You’ve brought me a lot of joy at a very stressful time. Thanks for your kind words and organization efforts.

Ew my old waterbed used to have a green slime inside, I had to put in this liquid to kill it off.

I’ve been hosting Home Assistant now for about nine months very smoothly. So far the only outage has been when I moved the server into a different room last week because it was cluttering up my office. Feels good to have it tucked away in a closet. I’ve got my thermostat, and all my upstairs lights running through it. I keep trying to get these moisture sensors to work for my plants but they just keep losing signal or something and rtl433 just stops seeing those but meanwhile detects every other damn hardware on the whole block. I’ve got 500+ entities that aren’t my three sensors lol. Once I figure that out my Plant Cards dashboard will work again which is super cool.

Other than that, I’ve been hosting Jellyfin for home media and digging it. Much less success with the 'arr suite, it works and stays up but it really struggles to automatically find the weird-ass old niche media I’m looking for. I generally have to handle that part manually, but at least they are good as wishlist of what I’m looking for so I can use that just to keep track.

All in all these two servers (home assistant OS on an old laptop, jellyfin and arr on my former Ubuntu desktop) have been great and just work really without any issues.

Oh last week when I moved them into the closet, they got assigned new IP addresses, so I figured out how to lock them so my clients and bookmarks still work.

Yessss ink, you get it!

I just really liked the idea of someone wandering into the back of the trophy shop, past the unusually heavy iron door that wasn’t there last year and pointing to this inside a shadowy display case with a big thick padlock.

“You want it engraved?… Okay, uh, well what text?”

all that fiber keeps you regular

I’ve always assumed it was based on an older siege meal, General Tso’s Horse

Walking, and add a weighted vest or backpack. Start light, like 5lb/2.5kg for a week or two, then increase by that much a week until you get to 40% of your body weight in a few months.

I find that 30lb/15kg is a great place to stop though, much more feels pretty rough.

Then just walk around. You can listen to music, podcasts, nature, bird sounds.

Do that 45 a day and you’ll be significantly healthier in a few months.

I seriously hope it’s like the rendering at the bottom of the article with two physical button areas (4 each), two physical joysticks, and two touch pads. That feels like the best of all worlds.

I want to love the Steam Controller 1 so much but the missing right joystick and the touch pad for the left dpad just feels so bad for so many games that were designed for two joysticks. It’s so hard to get the muscle memory right. I’m always trying to use the left pad as a dpad and tapping it wrong.

I wish someone could show me what I’m missing but it feels so frustrating

A friend of mine worked as a dev at an adult video provider (not Pornhub) and they… didn’t care for their coworkers. The office vibe was similar to working at a strip club. It was so seedy they expected the floors to be sticky

But also maintain an older car for as long as possible, shop at thrift stores, do your own cooking, garden, save meat for special occasions, collect rainwater, get some older used solar panels, and have a small monthly hobby budget. You’ll find you can live so well on so little. For some reason we’ve all been conditioned to act like we’re wealthy for no reason at all. True wealth is freedom from the grind, not a stupid new toy or status symbol.

Become Hobbit pilled and realize the good life isn’t about isolation and stupid stuff but deep connections with friends and the earth.

React has changed a lot with the addition of contexts but that’s the modern way to handle it without using some kind of state management.

I think most state management libraries are far more expensive to use than people realize. Contexts are pretty straightforward and Just Work so I’d keep using them unless you have a very good reason to switch.

I honestly am to the point that I wonder if all our automation is catching up with us and we need to collectively bargain for a 20 hour work week. Now we need twice as many skilled laborers because we’ve automated so many jobs.

Or an automation tax that’s paid back to every citizen as a dividend. If your company uses software or AI then it’s taxed more aggressively.

If we don’t do something in thirty years there just might not be hardly any jobs left.

The face on the Owlbear is hilarious. Like a big grumpy muppet

Ah ok, we’re getting into Coq proofs. I’m trying to work through Software Foundations but it’s so tricky! I feel like I need an intellect potion to get it

That is so frustrating. That is outside my wheelhouse unfortunately, so I don’t have anything to give other than sympathy for the legitimate frustration that we have an economy that cannot seem to employ every talented, educated person. I don’t get it, it feels like we’ve reached like a moment where labor (even skilled labor) is lower in demand than ever before. A hundred years ago we could just walk up to a building project and start adding labor on day one, and knowing how to read and write meant an instant job as a clerk. But now we toil for decades to learn skills that just… suddenly aren’t needed? Sure, some folks win big in tech but that’s just as fleeting, I know a dozen out of work senior engineers. It’s a strange and baffling time to try to earn a living. Something has to give.

Ok you got me so hype I decided to do a little BP themed art for inktober

https://lemmy.world/post/37916979

What’s the big thing that enables, I’ve played with so many languages but I’ve never actually used OCaml enough to understand that feature

Dunno, I mean even this decorative part looks like it’s getting warped from the sag

You’ve got so much ahead of you! Lucky! I wish I could start over again where you are but wipe my memory.

Definitely keep grinding on the antechamber. You’ll figure it out, if you want some hints

the game is extremely long, just do loops for the heck of them and you’ll start to put clues together. It’s not a few loops to figure out the antechamber, it’s A Lot.

also you have to write

“spoiler spoiler” after the :: like in the image or it doesn’t work

Yes, F# is such a sleeper hit language. Basically Ocaml++ with a bunch of cool extra goodies. Open source, high performance runtime and tons of great libraries.

I’ve been using it at work and it’s excellent