I am seriously learning how to plumb gas lines to save like $600. So if you don't hear from me, it will be because I killed myself and probably injured several neighbors.
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I taught myself plumbing once so I could still fuck up and cause $2k in direct damage, plus grow who knows how much mold in the ceiling.
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The flu. The flu has been my rabbit hole for the week 😭
get well soon!
Wait until you see the pounds just melt away on the flu diet. /s
Linux
I've been trying to figure out a way to get my two LUKS encrypted drives to unlock by using a yubikey on boot.
I’m also realising this rabbit hole with every second I spend on Lemmy. Hell I was reading up on arch at 2 am last night when I couldn’t get to sleep….
CachyOS or EndeavourOS are good arch spins if you choose to be insane.
Honestly I would skip Arch and just use something like Fedora or Debian. Arch is way over rated. You can build a Arch like system out of anything.
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The creativity and inquisitive curiousity in this thread is honestly inspiring and heartwarming.
My week was spent in object oriented code and log burning stove installation. The cherry on the top was putting my knee through the glass so last night was devoted to thinking about how it can be repaired without spending more money.
New Zealand birds
Oh cool! Which bird from New Zealand has impressed you the most and how so?
I’m fascinated with them all. New Zealand has been seperated from other contintents for a long time, and until mankind arrived here (only around 1000 years ago), there were no large mammals on the islands, and for the land birds at least, the only predators were other birds. So the birds here have adapted to fill niches normally filled by mammals, and they also tend to be large, long lived and flightless (or poor flyers), because flight didn’t help them escape predation, but size, strong legs and camoflage did.
Unfortunately, they died in large numbers when mammals were introduced (mankind as well as their companions/stow aways) and many have gone extinct.
New Zealand is leading the way in establishing completely predator free spaces (initially mostly islands, but now mainland areas too), so you have spaces where rare birds are flourishing again.
I’ve been in New Zealand for the last couple of weeks, and honestly, my favourites are the North and South Island Robins. They appear fearless, because they follow larger animals around (like people), and hunt for insects that they stir up. What it looks like though is this friendly little robin comes right up to you and starts following you! I also love the Kererū (New Zealand pigeon). They’re big clumsy birds, but so gorgeous! And speaking of pigeons, it’s interesting that rock pigeons don’t dominate city spaces here. They’re around, but mostly, the niche normally filled by pigeons is filled by gulls and house sparrows..
From my memories from growing up in NZ long ago there are lots of funny/rock-n-roll stories about the Kea (very cheeky and charismatic parrot-like bird). I remember finding a funny CCTV video from about a year ago in NZ, showing some Keas screwing around with construction workers working on a road. Every time the workers were out of line of sight they moved the orange traffic cones to change the traffic.
Well, I crocheted a beret today and started a trihexaflexagon for my wife's birthday the other day. So I suppose it's crochet this week.
That's rad. How did the beret turn out?
Also, this is the first time reading out trihexaflexagon and also getting a refresher as to what it is. It's a really fun word to say. Makes me feel like a top tier rapper when I say it out loud. haha
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Drove through Weldon, NC —> list of famous people —> Garland H. White —> 28th infantry of the USCT (US Colored Troops) —> Buffalo Soilders —> Brigadier General Charles Young Tree (NPS) —> Brigadier General Charles H. Young
So I took myself on a Black History Month tour while riding to daughters gymnastics competition.
Motorcycle gear. I now know I can buy armoured(!!) leggings that go under my jeans, and an armoured(!!) leather jacket that looks kickass over a hoodie.
Please rate the effectiveness of these garments against zombie attack. Asking for a friend.
I second this. But I'm asking for a future friend.
Been playing around with a book idea. It's in the style of the Ouipo inspired book, A Void. The book, written in French, is done so without using the letter "e". Perec is a mad man and an amazing writer. And I don't think anything I will write will be anywhere near that quality.
I want to write something similar that is a world without 'ai' (written by AI*). It's been fun structuring chapters, characters, themes, settings, etc. I'm not a writer by training, but I do like word play and so this has been fun.
I have no hope or dreams of publishing, but I might show a few friends who get it. And hope that it tickles them the way it tickles me.
* I really don't like the output so far. And I have my doubts about it becoming good. But I got something that wasn't outright bad the other night. So who knows?
Ham radio. Still at the discovery stage of whats what, thinking about what I want to get into, which means lots of fun learning about everything, as usual in a totally random manor. Trying to avoid getting sidetracked by the VHF/UHF stuff as it would just rapidly spiral out of control.
Just need to knuckle down and study for the foundation exam so I can actually get started transmitting. I think I have the QRP setup I want more or less nailed down that would tide me over till I can move up to intermediate later on. Would give me a nice QRP setup for travel and allow me to treat myself for passing my intermediate with a proper shack radio with a bit more power.
War thunder and some weird electrical issue in the house connected to the servers
Lately, it's been the man pages for bash. Linux is a rabbit hole all on its own. The man pages lead you from one hole to another and each has its own usefulness. Who would have thought that reading the manual could actually be useful?
i bought an orange juicer. been making orange juice every other day. it's awesome
and i'm not even over my dishwasher high
Do I have to pick one?
OpenPGP use on Apple devices MainStage as a front-end for my bass rig MainStage for backing tracks in a live setting LilyGO TDeck 3-octave G major arpeggios
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I wrote an Excel macro in VBA that opens a file select window, imports the selected files as new worksheets, copies the data from each worksheet recursively into a master table, prompts the user to delete the imported tables, then prompts the user to save the workbook as a new file.
Excel does have functions that achieve basically the same thing, but it was being too finicky with how it wanted the source tables formatted.
I barely know VBA and idek wtf a Boolean variable is, but I fucking did it and it's going to make mine and my team's life so much easier at work. That was my whole Friday lmao
I frequently have to dump a bunch of data from our accounting system, and the process afterward involves a ton of manual cutting and pasting. When I have to do it 70 times, it's physically and mentally exhausting. I'm not the only one who has complained about this process, and nobody has done anything to make it better. So I'm fixing that shit. I'm not a programmer. I'm an accountant. But I'm also so lazy that I'll to learn how to program a little to save myself a lot of work over the long run.
Awesome, if you have any questions, shoot. Started down that rabbit hole 20 years and never really came up for air :)
Actually it just leads to many more data type manipulation, SQL, VBA connecting to the other Microsoft app, etc. never regretted it aside from the 3am sessions trying to figure out one more thing, which leads to one more thing... But then that is the rabbit hole piece.
Btwa boolean is just data stored in a single bit, either a 1 or a 0 on the backend, but usually presented as something more obvious to the user like yes/no, true/false, on/off etc
I'm interested in SQL. I just need to learn SQL.
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Programming is a tool, you don’t have to be a knife enthusiast to want get the correct knife
Just to give you another rabbit hole, you can also manipulate pretty much any data source, including Excel using powershell. I regularly use powershell scripts to mass import data that the script processes into an Excel workbook that the powershell formats. I find powershell to be faster doing this (if you use .net framework/LINQ, powershell sucks at large scale data object processing natively), especially if it's large amounts of data, I typically process combined logs of over a million rows.
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People talking and analyzing the movies and tv series I watched as a kid with each video ranging from 30 minutes to 2 hours, 14 minutes and 28 seconds
One of my 2025 goals is to learn to draw well, and I've been making slow, steady progress at that. My goals are 2-fold - make quality drawings of furniture for my other new hobby, woodworking - and draw cursed shit that is disturbing to friends and family alike. Here's a texture study I did yesterday in about an hour. 
I bought a new domain name for my indie web presence, so that I can keep my boring professional stuff separate.
the biathlon world championships!
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