*deep exhale* 😌
TFW a hotel bathroom has better lighting than your home office video setup 🥲
I really like this hotel vanity mirror. The lighting is so nice! Makes it easy to take selfies.
New post: fluffy rambles: Moved in! beesbuzz.biz/blog/7790-Move… #House #Move #Hacks #Roomba Oh gosh the last few days have been a thing. But hey, I’m moved in. I don’t have (proper) Internet yet, but that’s coming in tomorrow. In the meantime, I needed to set up my new Roomba, …

Moved in!

#house #move #hacks #roomba
📕 Finished reading Quarantine by Greg Egan ISBN: 9780061054235
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A few months ago, I scored a fully working Apple PowerMac G4 Cube on eBay. My original plan was to convert it into a working computer by swapping the guts for a Raspberry Pi 4. After getting the initial build working, I wasn't particularly happy with the performance for a desktop, so I decided to look elsewhere.

Last week, thanks to a friend, I was able to purchase a Dell Wyse thin client labeled as a refurbished computer for around $100. It has a Pentium Silver J5005 inside, 8 GB of RAM, and a tiny built in flash storage.

I cracked it open, stripped it down, and sure enough the motherboard is the perfect size to pressure fit carefully inside the G4 Cube chassis. Result!

Next, I added a 250 GB Samsung EVO SSD, and installed Ubuntu Linux on it. I am using a little USB switcher so I can share keyboard and mouse with my M1 MacBook Pro, and it works wonderfully hooked up to a 4K monitor.

Next up, I need to clean the interior a bit, so some cable management, and find a way to integrate the power button.

What a fun project this has been so far!

🍎 My Modern G4 Cube is Working! 🧊 cleverdevil.io/2021/-modern-g…
Washing down bp meds & statins with bourbon & lemonade I’m living my best life
PDX sunset
So, I bought a hot tub like an old person. It’s good to be old.
We cook fish often but this is the first time I’ve spotted a parasitic worm in it. Tiny. But it’s fresh fish so the parasite is very much alive. On a scale of “meh” to “not eating that no matter how completely it’s cooked” where do you stand?
Wow, I actually have an outline now for a "Ruby for JavaScript Developers" book. I'm starting to think this might be a thing. I've blogged on various technical topics for decades but never wrote a book. Maybe it's time?
I'm live with Julia DeBari on @DesignCareerNet via YouTube. Although her talk targets new grads, it's filled with an abundance of tips for anyone looking for a UX job. Join us! Watch Julia's talk and participate in the AMA via @youtube chat. youtube.com/watch?v=Myb0Jn…
My experience at MIT x1000
finding out that a successful academic also has academic parents and grandparents
I think my pandemic body is fine
And how is your day going? nytimes.com/2021/04/01/us/…

Read this and give up on elite activism. Another glaring reminder as to how capitalism and one’s alliance to white supremacy (explicit or otherwise) are intertwined and demand each other. https://www.aaihs.org/airbrushing-revolution-for-the-sake-of-abolition/

If a company can force a technology on a whole industry, I’m itching to fail to see how that company not only controls that industry before doing so but also now holds the community in it hostage (in their now forcing people to learn to “adapt or die”).

LMFAO the number of times I legit looked at a product’s job page for this but wasn’t ever brave enough https://twitter.com/dreams_of_sloth/status/1377051721655066629