After 1 year, 8 months, and 9 days of being outside taking a photo every 5 mins for a timelapse, and being largely unmaintained (I added a few in-field upgrades such as a relay to restart the camera remotely) I finally took down my timelapse camera. The […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Welp, used up one of my 9 lives today... came very close to a life ending event, due to my own stupidity, I left a loaded drill with a nice pointy drill bit on top of a ladder, and then proceeded to move said ladder. The very heavy drill fell and landed right beside me... :mitzi_wtf:

It's annoying, I can see notifications coming in from bsky, but I cannot open the app to see them.

I don't think I talked about it here but I migrated my docker based cloud provider to K3s the other week. It's a little more expensive (more overheard), but the benefits in management far outweigh that. Anyway, because of that move I had to find an alternative […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Oh no... Bambu has a new dual nozzle printer... and it's relatively affordable (when compared to the 3x the price H2D and H2C) Gib pls.

I potentially solved my UPS problem, I got another one, but instead of another expensive Eaton UPS I've decided to risk it with the new Unifi UPS despite its mixed reviews. The main reason I decided on it is because it only cost $400, and it is just running my […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Birthday kitty. She had trouble figuring out to eat one of these tube things, she's not that adventurous for food, but she knew she wanted it. I handed it though, I find the smell of Tuna revolting, and I just about did, I also got a bunch of it on my hand, but she was happy 😸

Love when watching something set in LA and they throw up a shot of traffic the characters are stuck in and it's definitely Toronto... (the TTC wheel-trans and Beck taxi give it away, also prettysure that's a Canada Cartage truck in the back).

I am so fed up with this goddam model, I think this is like the 6th time I've tried to print it, not even exaggerating, I've wasted so much filament on this stupid thing, and I've tried so many different settings. I just gave up on printing it in silk, I think […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Stopped by the new Canada Computers store again today now that they've had some time to stock up, and that they certainly have. They actually have Bambu filament now, not much, but the essentials. And they do have lots of other filaments as well which I could […] [Original post on higgy.social]

One of the things I took over as part of the recent reorg are the ESLs (Electronic Shelf Labels) in our stores, there is a _lot_ I don't like about them, and I've tried to avoid them because of that, but I recently came across some flipper zero tools to program […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Yay, it's discount bunny day! I didn't know that they had Strawberry bunnies this year (I got two of them). (I will neither confirm nor deny that I just spent $100 on chocolate)

I've spent the last few days migrating my cloud services (secondary email and website hosting) from docker to Kubernetes. I've gone from paying $12/mo for it to $28/mo... just to get Kubernetes, IaC, and gitops... definitely worth it, definitely wouldn't have been more cost effective to find a […]

Seriously, again Canadian Mint, I want it, but no You didn't even release a standard coin for this one.

Linus finally dropped the private jet video, and you know I'm a sucker for private jets. Unfortunately, just like the fire truck, I know they're not going to go into as much detail as I'd like. And it's a Falcon, which I'm not a huge fan of (mostly due to their past history with the flight sim […]

I thought "Vibe coding" was a derogatory term... did they appropriate it?

I stood at the base of one of Toronto's new super tall skyscrapers today... it big... but I thought it'd be bigger... (I have actually been here before, but last time it hadn't surpassed the neighboring buildings yet)

Love the eternal struggle of guessing if a site is giving me the price in CAD or USD. Although usually when they don't say it's USD.

That's cool, not very often these days that a company will LOWER the price of a subscription, especially by $90/yr. Almost suspicious that it's an April 1st thing.

Why are all the cool coins always so expensive :blobcatfluffpout:

That's cool, the poster with the air date overlay shows on the thumbnail of my remote. It's a little thing but I like it... I think, still not sure if I'm happy having an overly at all, but it sure is handy.

Yesterday I migrated Plex from a dedicated VM to Kubernetes. I'm now down to three dedicated VMs left before I've migrated EVERYTHING running on my EWXi/VSAN cluster over to Kubernetes. The first one is easy, it's a Windows server running DNS. I haven't decided what DNS server I want to go […]

Corridor's latest video was really cool. I've known about Gaussian Spats for a while thanks to past videos from Corridor and Tested, but I love seeing all the other uses for it. Probably highly relevant to @syrusdrake, especially the historical preservation parts. THIS is the Biggest Thing […]

It's not often that I stop and appreciate something on a website. Today it is the new 3D viewer on Ubiquiti's website, they have glare on the screen... I don't think it would be that difficult technically, but it's that somebody thought about it. I think this […] [Original post on higgy.social]

There's this developer at work that I've been tangentially working with and I keep having to explain the most basic and fundamental kubernetes concepts to them. It was fine at first, but it's starting to get a little annoying now. Also after reviewing their helm chart and deployment pipelines I […]

One of these was printed with the 0.4 nozzle and took 3 hours, the other two with the 0.2 nozzle and took 12 hours... I can barely tell a difference sadly... I was hoping I'd see more of an improvement, even something really. And the two 0.2 prints ended up having print issues too.

When I first saw the fluff I was about 10 hours into a 12 hour print, decided to let it continue. The bottom surface turned out less than ideal for sure. Since the print only uses 13g of filament I decided to try again, even if it does take 12 hours to print. Sadly it resulted in the same issue.

I've avoided setting up Kometa (formally Plex meta manager) for so long because I really don't like the idea of adding extra things to the posters in my Plex library, it's just useless clutter imo... but I've gotten fed up with having to go through shows to try […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Just noticed my cat finally somehow ripped a hole in her litter box's liner... on one hand I could get a replacement liner for C$100, after all I did choose this brand because their proven history of offering replacement parts... but on the other hand I could […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Yikes, I spent some time to improve the monitoring of the energy dashboard in Home Assistant to get it working properly (a few of the sensors weren't reporting proper metrics). And I knew my servers used a lot of power, but not 80% of all the power I use... And […] [Original post on higgy.social]

O M G... I can buy a crane... I want a crane... cranes are cool...

Arghhhh. My power went out for a few mins today and my UPS immediately overloaded and shut off, completely defeating its purpose. I so regret getting the one that I did. Now I'm looking at UPSs again and they are so damn expensive, which leads me back to: is C$1400 worth it for the 3-5 times a […]

Did I need all 3 versions of the stargate? No. Did I get them anyway? Yes. The OG and Atlantis gates arrived last year (I think), but the SGU gate just arrived today. Now I can say the collection is complete.

I got annoyed at how hard it was to keep track of what apps I've added network policies to and what ones I still had to do... so I wrote a script... it's pwitty. And now I can see how much I've already protected and what I still have to do. A lot of these will […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Ahh, Master Replicas is over here again releasing more Stargate stuff... I really do want this one, I've wanted a ZPM for a while, but this one does give me pause because it is something I could probably print... but it'd take a lot of effort to get acceptable […] [Original post on higgy.social]

I transfered a couple of my domains today, and since I couldn't decide which registrar to go to I transfered one to Web Hosting Canada and one to Cloudflare. Honestly it hasn't helped, they seem equally capable. The difference really comes down to if I want to be charged in CAD or USD. Meaning […]

I've been doing a lot of work and learning lately about increasing the security in my home lab, particularly within my Kubernetes cluster. So I've been leaning all about NetworkPolicies. As of now I've added policies to most of my externally facing apps, and it makes me very happy. Now in the […]

YAY! I broke my mastodon instance AGAIN! It's fixed now, but this time it took me a while to figure out what broke and why, turns out it was a random thing in the minio helm chart that changed the bucket access policy back to private.

RE: https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116224095464086764 Fun fact, seamless branching is still very much a thing on bluray and there is a very annoying bug in Google's ExoPlayer where Dolby TrueHD audio cuts in and out on rips from a bd that uses seamless branching... which you would know […]

Default Deny All firewall to be exact. @Theeo123 https://mastodon.social/@Theeo123/116212796720356451

Ive always found the layout of this Purolator dropoff/pickup location extremely odd. It's a long hallway enclosed in glass and at the very end are the package lockers.... like why wouldn't you put the door at the end where the lockers are... it's probably a […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Super cool, a new Canada Computers is opening right at Yonge and Dundas, where I transfer every day, and it's massive. They're not fully open yet, they are still stocking, but they are letting customers in to the lower level. Product wise it's pretty much what […] [Original post on higgy.social]

In Hoppers (new Pixar movie) I think it was the first time I've actually seen a realistically portrayed fire sprinkler. In the scene something hit it and broke the glass vial, and this was in close up shot as well. I was impressed, none of that "they can be set off remotely" BS.

As per usual Samsung took out the big billboards at Y&D Square for their new phone.... and it's not helping me resisting the urge to upgrade for half price. Also shoutout to Project Hail Mary, super excited for that next week.

I ordered another cytrence Kiwi since it is so very useful and relatively cheap. I also used my first one in a semi-permanent install, so I needed another for my tech bag. For the unaware it's a USB KVM that let's you turn any computer into the monitor mouse […] [Original post on higgy.social]

Currently looking to switch my Domain Registrar since the reports of my current one doing sus things (like selling already registered domains) and non-existent support have increased significantly recently after they were acquired by private equity. I'm looking for suggestions, but I have it […]

Don't stereotype me. https://www.reddit.com/r/EhBuddyHoser/s/0UmoAPK3bg

New term I came across on tiktok and I will now appropriate it: Tangerine Terror

I tried using my phone without a case for a little bit, it's so nice, like a whole new phone. But now my hand hurts because I've been using an iron grip with my it since I feel like I'm constantly going to drop it.

Currently looking to switch my Domain Registrar since the reports of my current one doing sus things (like selling already registered domains) and non-existent support have increased significantly recently after they were acquired by private equity. I'm looking for suggestions, but I have it […]