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Cake day: August 7th, 2023

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  • I have a couple raspberry pis running android TV with konstas lineage os build. I don’t really have any complaints. My TVs never connect to the internet, I run jellyfin, stremio and kodi even runs pretty well on it when I want to watch something live.

    My biggest qualm is I couldn’t get any of the android TV remote apps to work so I just built my own and set adb over network to default to on.




  • A few weeks ago I was at the store picking up a few things for my sick kid. The very first aisle I go to as I’m trying to leave it a lady pulls into the aisle to look at whatever was on the end cap and puts her cart right in the middle of the aisle so I can’t get through with my cart. She saw me, we made eye contact for a second and I moved to the right of the aisle. I get to the end and she’s just standing there, not even looking at stuff just looking at me waiting for her to move. After about 20 seconds I can’t believe I have to say anything so I just go “excuse me” and she scoffs and says “you’re fine”. Another 10 seconds and I have to say it again, “excuse me I’m trying to get through” and I don’t know what was going through her head but she started freaking out, “go ahead and get through then I don’t know why you’re standing there”. So I do just that, I used my cart to push hers out of the way (very intentionally just enough to get through) and she lost it. I just proceeded on my way but even after I turned down the next asile I needed something from she was still yelling. This was like 10:30 at night, the store was almost empty so there was plently of room.

    This was in an expensive grocery store in a pretty wealthy area. In contrast on my way home I stopped at the poppy shop around the corner because they have a drink I like for a good deal and there was someone who looked like they were emptying their pockets by the trash can but checking out a couple receipts before throwing them away who was blocking the door, I said excuse me when I was a few steps away and he apologized, told me to have a great night and held the door open for me.


  • I unfortunately am in the middle of a huge renovation for a new house I just bought 3 week ago. I guess I’m fucking up big time but I’ve had to buy quite a bit of stuff this week. My dryer broke, dishwasher shit out, heater went kaputs, I needed some lumber to keep my porch from caving in.

    At least the only new thing I bought was the dishwasher because the panel to get it working would’ve cost me $200 since it’s so old. Everything else has been fixed instead of replaced.


  • A few years ago when I went to actually use the GPU in my laptop I realized I never installed the drivers. I think it was a 3050 or something pretty low end.

    It took maybe 20 minutes, most of that time was waiting for things to install. I’ve heard the horror stories so I wasn’t excepting it to work and was ready to give up at the first sign on resistance but there really wasn’t any. That was on Fedora, a bit later I switched to Debian and I remember running into an issue getting it to work but it was small enough that I don’t remember what the issue was.






  • Back in my early days of Linux I ran this exact command, I forget why, but for some reason my WiFi stopped working immediately after and then SELinux started yelling at me for some reason. I tried to fix SELinux and most certainly commited an innumerable amount of cardinal sins.

    I had to reinstall whatever distro I was running at the time





  • I always wanted to be a stay at home dad. My wife’s a gig worker and tried branching out on her own business and quickly realized she didn’t like the actual business aspect. Which is fine, I genuinely love what I do most days and make enough to where she can mostly stay at home.

    I’m about to go on a 3 month paternity leave and oh boy am I excited. After the first few weeks once my wife recovers from surgery it’ll most be my oldest and I hanging out while my wife is with our second. I bought stuff for my son and I to record our guitars (he’s 3 but he gets so into it), have a little list of science experiments that he loves, plenty of home renovation projects that he gets surprisingly into, a bunch of seeds and a few more raised beds for the garden, and of course, foam baseball bats to hit eachother with.

    I’m getting git just thinking about it.

    I don’t see how anyone could get tired of that, I’m already dreading going back to work and my break hasn’t even started.

    PS: not to say that it’s all fun, I know a lot more goes into being a stay at home parent that baseball bat fights.


  • I absolutely hate that I have a gas stove and water heater mainly for reason 2. It fills me with pure anxiety.

    I know there’s a relatively small chance, but whenever we’re turning the corner and I see the house is still there it’s a huge relief. In the next year or two we should be able to put out the money to put in outlets and get rid of gas.

    I do almost everything in my house but the 2 things I won’t touch are electric and gas.


  • The last place I worked was like this too. Smallish ~50 employee company that big numbers. They had an initiative thing where if they hit 20 million or something like that they would take everyone to cancun, they made 21 and found a way to back out of it. They made a few million off of some applications that I came up with, built, managed, and worked with the sales teams to sell, all along with my normal daily tasks. I was just bored and kind of fucking around. I asked more a measly raise of $10,000 since I recently found out I was the lowest paid dev there (and the best, not bragging it just wasn’t a dev focused company). They pushed it off for so long I found another job and when they said they’d give me a raise to stay I told them I’d need an extra $80,000 now assuming they’d say no, they did. About a year later I’m at my cushy new job and I got a call offering me big bucks to come back because no one could figure out my horrendous code and they were losing clients who wanted new features. I said no. I asked my new boss for a raise after my first year and it took 10 minutes of talking before we were both happy with a number.