The solution: a simple 3D print keeps toilet proper roll nicely centered on the holder and offers smooth dispensing operation

The problem: Toilet paper rolls fit loosely on the holder, resulting in unsightly and unpleasant flopping

My craziest friend is mad that she has to cut her trip to San Diego short because her boyfriend has school tomorrow, so she text me that school is BS and that we should abolish traditional school and replace it with online classes and AI

Is this a vibecoded keyboard app on f-droid? Certainly gives me that vibe

I have a work meeting this afternoon, and someone sent me a calendar invite that somehow didn't get onto my outlook calendar like it should have, but instead ended up on my Apple calendar on my non-work computer, but not on my Apple calendar on my work computer. I don't understand.

I'm trying to find the inner diameter of a roll of toilet paper, but the internet is turning out to be completely useless for this. Everything is either AI slop that makes zero sense, or reddit posts of people who use toilet paper tubes to measure the girth of their penises.

I better go find my calipers.

I've been seeing AI usage creep into our community theater just a little bit around the edges over the last year, and I would like us to have a no-AI policy, so yesterday I started the ball rolling on that during our monthly board meeting.

I actually made an attempt to play politics well for once, and instead of griping about AI, I proposed we form a working group to survey what other community theaters are doing with AI policies. I figured that would go over better with the other board members than starting the conversation at no.

I also knew that the board member who is most vociferously anti-AI would get agitated as soon as the topic came up. He indeed started yelling about it. No one else volunteered to join my working group, so I recruited him to help. I think his outbursts made me look much more reasonable, and looking reasonable seems to be important currency on the board.

Anyhow, now I'm in the driver's seat of putting together an AI policy, and I've got a very anti-AI board member helping me, so I'm feeling optimistic.

I saw the "live, laugh, refuel" gas station again. The friend I was with was stunned.

"That's psychotic. That's demented," they said.

I had previously told them of its existence without much reaction. It apparently needed to be seen to be believed.

Well that's utterly weird. I've got nfs-ganesha on a couple servers at home, has worked fine mostly but i also get that it's basically not getting updated properly anymore. Yeah, i know i need to go back to the kernel server but don't want to fight it, and honestly ganesha is a little nicer once you get it.

Older almalinux aystem is quite happy, reading data no issue. Using nfsv4.2

Fedora 43? In the last day or two has somehow gone utterly wacky and ia throwing remote i/o errors. Tried a couple things, nothing fixed it. Rebooted the server thinking that was it, nope.

Switch to nfsv3? Content again.

Geez luiz, i need a better network share protocol me thinks.

Spent the morning helping my dad finish up the wiring for four solar panels along the side of their house to feed into a pair of EcoFlows for the office and living room.

So as long as they don't use more than 1kWh overnight in either room, all the computers and network gear in the house is now solar powered and battery backed.

Intellectual property is such a scam. Our littletheater has to pay $6,000 in rights and royalties to put on a production of a show from 1959.

OK, everyone in tech should watch Smiling Friends episode "Friend-Bot (Version 12589218731809213528796879521," and share it with their silicon valley friends

Theater colleagues are talking about their vacations to Seattle and going to the original Starbucks and how good it is

Amazon is giving me my money back and not asking me to send the stupid module back, so I will see if this fake thing will still work for the project. Maybe it will.

Cats are supposedly crepuscular, so why are mine nocturnal? I might sleep better if they were crashing around all night

As part of my ongoing project to come up better pedal assist for cheap ebikes, I bought an X9C104 digital potentiometer module from Bezosmart. This was one of my once or twice a year purchases I allow myself from that website, and what I got is counterfeit!

The common demo sketches all seem to have the potentiometer create a triangle wave or sine wave, but I was ending up with flat tops on the tops of all of my wave forms. I thought maybe something was wrong with the code, so I tried different code and got the same result. I tried a different library, and got the same result.

i looked online and found a few results where people were complaining about this in forums. most of the replies were to the effect of "You're doing it wrong."

One reply though suggested that sometimes these chips are counterfeit and suggested that could be the problem.

With that in mind, I did some troubleshooting and discovered that my X9C104 chip only has 30 resistive steps instead of the 100 it's supposed to have.

When I was young, my family went to church, but I hated church. Once I was old enough to start going to the high school ministry, I started ditching church as soon as I was out of sight of my parents. I would usually go on walks and explore the area.

There was an overgrown area with heavy brush behind the church, and one time, my wanderings took me in there.

I ended up finding my way into a small dell and a clearing. In there was an unusual plant covered with translucent silver discs.

I had never seen a plant like that before.

Coming upon that plant hidden away like that is one of the few times I've ever had an experience that felt mystical.

(The plant is called lunaria annual, and it's related to broccoli.)

#ProjectHalfDollarChaos : I recently realized I'm not entirely certain that I've ever gotten ice cream from an ice cream truck, so while I was at the park with Millie today I bought a frozen chocolate banana with a stack of dollar and half dollar coins.

He was stoked at getting such great change. #coins

I saw a story advertising that it sells antiques and mantiques. I guess antiques are too womanly!

I wonder what mantiques are. Rusty razor blades? Ancient battle axes? Gatling guns?

The neighbors are always listening to keyboard-heavy cumbia on weekends and some of it sounds like music from a sonic the hedgehog level