canutethegreat

My fitbit charge5 seems to have died. The display just shows a bunch of lines and static (like an old tv with no signal!) and the battery only lasts a few hours. Tried a bunch of things: restart, reset, via the button on the cable. Pretty sad since it is only ~2 years old. I'm not sure I'd buy another one.. maybe a pixel watch...
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A while back I created a mastodon instance (https://madscientists.social) and thought I'd ask if anyone here wants to join me? While the focus is STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) really any topic is fine including art and photography. So far the only real rule is no hate. Content can be about just about anything including things that most would label NSFW - honestly I...
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Setting: Kids spill something on stove burner. Then later the burner gets used and black smoke billows out and flames shoot out around the pot and go slightly higher than the pot is tall.

Smoke alarm: ...

Setting: piece of toast, very lightly toasted (only on setting 2!) No smoke, no smell.

Smoke alarm: Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.

What Code editor and/or IDEs are people using these days. I see a fair amount of talk about vscode, but here I am over here under a rock still using vim...

I keep trying to weigh the costs of doing things in the cloud versus having a home lab. Right now I have a mix of both and find the the home lab tends to be cheaper if spread over a few year period. Things like disk space are fairly expensive in the cloud, while things like shared cpu usage are cheap. It is annoying to...
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So I've been trying out Arch Linux on my main machine (laptop) for the past week (was running Gentoo previously) and I have to say I'm pretty impressed! Things "Just Work" (TM) and I have had to spend *very* little time trying to tweak things. This might be a happy medium between Gentoo (source, can customize everything) and Debian/Ubuntu (binary, preloaded configs). I'll continue with...
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I've used plex for more than a decade as one of the early Linux adopters (anyone remember xbmc?). I like to support projects that I like and with plex I bought a lifetime pass some years ago. Every project is not without it's issues and over the years there has been some good and bad releases (and features), but usually they get ironed out and...
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So far I think Brave browser is the one I am going to stick with. My only complaint is that certain sites *cough*geforce now*cough* only work with chrome and edge. That seems dumb since brave is also chromium-based, but even with a user agent change it still rejects it. I'd rather they give a warning that the browser is unsupported and allow me to agree...
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Does anyone else do this? I'll see a message notification (can be anything: email, text, dm, whatever) and I'll read it. But then, instead of replying right there and then I'll think about it for a moment or so, get distracted, and then forget to go back and actually respond. Looking at my messages here on this site it looks like I do it a...
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