You fuckin nerds are gonna love that this channel exists: youtube.com/@uscsb

My finest work

Finally get to share this. My maker Discord has a gift exchange in Jan and this is what I made -- Introducing the Demon Core Disco Ball www.clomads.com/personal-pro...

Calm down bro, this is a Safeway. The desert is like a block away.

Fuck your mechanical keyboard

I’m gonna do a longer post about this soon, but I think 2026 is the year I need a business partner. Someone to manage my chaos and mainly focus on the tasks needed to release my existing designs. Return on your time investment will be seen by the end of the year if not by summer + % ownership.

I've considered myself to be pretty apathetic to this portion of the calendar, but I'm starting to notice a pattern of existential dread coming out of the solstice every year.

Anyone else already expect they were gonna fuck up the redactions? I didn’t take the time to think how, but we’ve seen this before lol.

I literally had an ex orchestrate getting me her building’s old PBX after she found out they were updating it.

Have any of you nerds actually used a passkey yet?

The threads on this one popped and I punched myself in the face. I just wanted a some cool pics of me doing weird shit to my microwave in the desert.

This thing actually slaps with a decent holder. Finally got the right idea with a 3d print and stuff I already had around.

Been watching Rudan Brothers and noted a few people saying some variation of “I watch/seen you on TV” so I guess YouTube is just TV now lol.

Weird that both my phone on Verizon and my router on T-Mobile cut out signal completely for about 5-10 mins last night. Never seen that before.

Yeah, that tracks.

I have an adversarial relationship with gender.

Apparently a 2 year old AMD chip is just a gaming pc now. Not only that, but this is on Fedora which it runs flawlessly. Not bad for $650 refurbished from Minisforum.

Tindeez Nutz by Fap-a-Day

when I tell you how enshittified this intake form is.... the mariage list is pre-populated with 5 lines like the children list, but you have to delete all of them before you can submit the form. I weep for anyone less technical than me to figure any of this out.

Ugh. I’m so used to 2 day shipping that waiting a week for my new (refurbished) lappy is grueling.

You can just buy car parts... for any car... and you don't even need to own one.

lol. The copaganda of car chase channels is increasing so much they’re counting minor traffic violations on the way.

Damn. I have a desk I kinda actually wanna use. Still gotta put the tool wall up and wanna find or make a round stool top. I’ve already been filtering errant parts into their respective bins. Easy to do from here on the couch/bed or at the desk. 🤌

Table saws are terrifying and you should be about to shit your pants every time you use one. This is healthy fear. Maybe use the restroom beforehand.

My updated hatch/skylight design is only dry fit and it’s working perfectly rn. It was nice to wake up to this above my head.

ahhhhh i just came up with the best idea for a gift exchange, but we don't do it until the end of Jan. I wanna tell everyone right now, but I gotta make it still so....

fuuuuuuuuuuckkkkk

Well, that’s convenient.

Y’all can’t take me anywhere.

MOAR!!! (I might actually put my shit away after this is done)

Does anyone actually use IFTTT anymore? WTF? - Also this camera kinda slaps. Cheapest one with HomeKit secure video support and 3 RTSP streams - all of which seem super stable so far.

Update

This shit might actually work! If it does, I’ll be able to fit 20 of these cases under my desk on 10 drawer slides. I currently have 16 of them iirc. I should have done this years ago.

Zohran’s graphics slap so hard dude.

Turns out I already had a DVB tuner that works with rtl_433. Aside from the pain of configuring rtl_433, this was pretty easy, but looks like I need to pick up a valve stem tool for my front left. Can’t seem to get it to fill. Sensors are accurate tho.

This was $15 + 75% off at the ReStore. I’ve been kinda wanting one of these for years AND it’s six tires for the dually AND the display has a lil solar panel on it. Holy shit. An RF board to get these into HA should be less than what I saved with the surprise discount.

That’s a nice ass parabola. ~6kwh of sun today

I have a few friends that have kids and I am Aunt Chloe to all of them. Granted these people would also freak out about my sister and her 3 kids looking nothing like me considering we were both adopted. I have zero attachment to familiarity having to be linked to blood.

I was asked by a group of dudes at a meet up if I'm on youtube. Mention that I'd love to, but I'm focused on my hardware. Also mention that the internet sucks for trans women. One suggests I try Mastodon (lol, fair). Turns into a convo about bsky trust and safety. There may be hope

Just logged back into TikTok for the first time since like January. What the fuck is Lemon8????

I forgot I haven’t posted the new battery yet. I wanna thank some friends for helping me get this going at an inopportune time. You know who you are. Each one of those cells is 1kWh.

1/ PwrTool just saved my ass by giving me insight into a weird issue: a thread. Anyways, I hear a new beep in my bus... turns out it's my new BMS shutting off charging so it can keep up with balancing. Keeps doing this every ~5 mins but I notice every time, one of my fans resets.

Bad batteries get the cube

I made a really cool LED wall project for my house last week - spruced up an ugly black fireplace with 1035 LEDs and a Pixelblaze LED controller. Check out the full story and project progress on mastodon: mstdn.social/@alpenglow/1...

Fedora, or as I like to call it: m’linux

While providing tech support for my FIL: FIL: What's that screen? ME: The terminal. You should never use it. FIL: Never? ME: So you know how I'm allowed to watch you open the electrical panel and swap out breakers, but I'm not allowed to ever open up it myself? FIL: Ah! I understand, thank you.

Getting ready to redo my kitchen layout… so much room for activities. But what’s that there? God fucking damn it.

Chatted with @graphiteeditor.bsky.social at Maker Faire and am very excited for desktop builds. Also decided to try some of the node features on a logo concept - just a simple offset repeat, but it's parametric and live editable - stroke, path, etc. very cool shit.

I’m being told it still works. It even says it right there.

What in the what?