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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • Yup librewolf for all the stuff I can. Google Meet has all kinds of wierd problems on firefox, especially in Linux. Whne you’re hosting you can’t share just one tab with sound and in linux getting the video/mic to authorize is hit or miss and takes a good 20 seconds on my boxes to authorize even when it works.



  • It depends on what type of person designed the circuit and what type of person you are.

    Ergonomics: The switch closest to the door first, then mid, then far, figuring the unknown user would click the switch closest, a skilled electrician would start there. However, it’s not unreasonable for the electrician to ask the owner, so this is a hit-or-miss approach.

    Installation efficiency: The installer refused to mark any of the lines and instead hooked them up at random, flip in any order, when you find the right one, return the others to the original state.

    time efficiency: the energy cost to flip all three switches is minimal and you’re only going in once, flip all three at the same time. you’ve done maximum effort and maximum time savings.

    Error reduction, binary counter, all combinations tested in case of chained switching

    Debugging: binary counter, followed by checking the lightbulb, possibly swapping for another if one is nearby, checking all the other switches near the room, breakers, power to the structure, and asking an occupant for assistance as a last resort.

    Disaster recovery: locate a flashlight or use your phone’s torch/flashlight function.

    Ahh crap, other room.

    1. ask an occupant

    2. shove a penny in the socket behind the light bulb and listen for a breaker to pop

    3. turn all three on

    4. slide your cell phone under the door with video recording on, stomp on the floor hard every time you flip a switch

    5. turn all the switches through a binary counter looking for one that seems to do nothing.




  • There’s a lot of shit they haven’t handled right. Their propaganda engine is absolute, and people disappear for years when they criticize the government in the slightest way. But that hasn’t really done anything with that that’d i’d call pretty awesome.

    The government runs half of the largest companies. They are all commanded to work together, at a loss if necessary to get things done. When the government said we’re going in on solar, they forced the aluminum companies to fill solar orders first and cheaply, they commanded the banks to give them extremely favorable loans. Now, when they make a panel, the raw cost is far better than can be produced anywhere else.

    People are allowed to move from their home zones, but they lose a lot of their government benefits. When they want to spin up a new manufacturing center, They offer to let people move to the new location while keeping their benefits. They can direct the labor, through opportunity and spin up cities on a dime.

    How they treat their fringe groups is awful. The lack of personal freedom and stranglehold they still have on business is enough to keep me from ever wanting to go there for more than a visit, but however everything is run isn’t quite as bad as we’ve been led to believe either.









  • In 1991, I worked at a Christmas tree farm. They had an ancient tube stereo with an 8 track and one single Christmas tape. Volume at 11.

    In 1994, I got a job at a newly built Staples. They had no internet and they chouldn’t get their satellite connection to work, so they sent us a commercial song box that contained an 8 track of pop songs from the 70’s. To this day, I can’t listen to Sweet Home Alabama.