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· 23 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 12 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday.

Today is usually busy for us since we have to put out the laundry. So I did that, and even made sure to get up earlier than I wanted to in order to do that.

And then, I spent an hour and a half fighting with Windows after it went into standby again after taking on updates. There’s got to be a setting I’m missing somewhere to tell it just to do a full restart.

So anyway, I had to restart twice, and I’m putting off t he Jaws updates until later because I don’t want to spend more tome on that.

And also my email is just annoying me today.

I think we should reset Wednesday back to its defaults and then restart it.

In other news, it’s really nice outside right now, and if I can and I’m not too tired later I might go outside for a bit. Mostly because my computer is also annoying me in general.

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· 22 Tammuz 5783 (Tuesday 11 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Tuesday.

I slept in too late to attend the morning minyan so I’ll catch the evening one later. My braille display is acting weird though so I need to sort out why it’s just randomly scrolling through everything before I can actually use it. I’m hoping there’s a firmware update that’ll fix this.

We don’t have regular baseball until the weekend, and last night at least we didn’t listen to the Home Run Derby, although I’ll check to see how things turned out.

Oh, and we’re waiting for some groceries.

Other than that, it’s just another normal work day.

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· 21 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 10 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

And this one is turning out so far to be a very typical Monday.

Windows decided to go into standby at some point during the night, which means I’ve spent a bunch of time restarting and getting everything launched properly, because of course nothing quite works right after standby.

One of these days I’m going to nuke this thing from orbit and install some variant of Linux. Because I don’t have these problems with Linux. It just fucking runs.

No, of course I’m not going to do that, because there are apps I need that only run on Windows, and see also: Accessibility on Linux. But still, I can swear at Windows, can’t I?

I haven’t checked to see if we have any baseball games yet today, but I’ll get to that in a bit. And of course coffee.

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· 20 Tammuz 5783 (Sunday 9 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Sunday.

This weekend has been pretty quiet. Alternating the air conditioners seems to be working and seems to be a nice compromise between everything leaking all over the place and roasting.

Also, this weekend has contained baseball for baseball’s sake, since the Rays are playing the Braves and we like both teams so it doesn’t matter who wins except for standings. Which, by the way, the Braves have traded places with the Rays, at least last I checked.

We’re reading the last two Jesse Stone novels today and we read the last Helldivers book yesterday.

And of course, coffee.

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· 18 Tammuz 5783 (Friday 7 July 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday.

Yesterday ended up turning out to be somewhat busy for us. It’s been so hot and humid here that the window air conditioners have been having trouble keeping up. The living room one’s been fine, but the bedroom one froze up and consequently started leaking. Which made a huge mess, Which I had to clean up. And we’re going to need to figure out how to get a comforter plus another large blanket rewashed, because they were in range, and the laundry service we pay for because this building’s so old that getting to the laundry room downstairs is essentially inaccessible, to say nothing of no labels or anything like that on the washers and dryers, yeah the whole thing’s just inaccessible, and since Joe doesn’t work here anymore we don’t get any accommodations. So anyway we need to figure out how to deal with that.

So for right now the air conditioners are turned off, and we have some fans on because it’s only going to be 81F/27.22C here today, so we’re going to duke it out with the humidity and brave airing the place out. I’m hoping we’ll get less smoke, because even though the air quality has been good for the last few days it still smells really smoky here and we have humidity like Florida.

Welcome to summer I guess.

We get Rays versus Braves for three games this weekend, so fuck yeah baseball!

And I’m hoping next week will be better.

Gonna go hang up some towels now.

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· 16 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 5 July 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday. And I haven’t done one of these in a little while.

First, welcome to all the new people checking out the fediverse by way of Mastodon and of course Lemmy and KBin, along with all the other projects that make up the fediverse. I know a lot of you are coming from Twitter once again, and while I think you and the communities you’ve built deserve way more than death by a thousand fuck-ups, I think you will be able to make a home here.

Second, I’m glad the Fourth is over. The fireworks have been going on here since over the weekend, and really, people who insist on setting them off for days seriously annoy me at this point. I mean hell, we’ve had absolute shit air quality here and you want to fucking add to it because muh freeeeeedom!? To say nothing of all the damn noise. Also you probably spent two-weeks’ salary on them and in less than 5 seconds you’ll be complaining about how expensive gas or groceries are.

Maybe some baseball later on today, and also, it’s hot out there Mr. Bigglesworth. Air quality seems to have calmed down though so there’s that.

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· 7 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 26 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

I have no idea what today has in store for any of us, but with the right amount of snark and memes and puppy pictures, we’ll have Monday conquered. Oh and hilarious audio. Don’t forget that.

I still can’t get over how much more enjoyable a lot of the image content is since it’s got alt text. I don’t think I’ll ever get to a point where I’ll take that for granted. In fact, I think that’s one of the things I’m looking forward to the least with Meta’s Project 92. It’s going to bring over a whole bunch of users who won’t be adding alt text to their images, to say nothing of the moderation disaster I suspect it’ll be given Meta’s record. This is part of why instances/servers who decide to pre-emptively block P92 when it does federate will get zero pushback from me. I don’t think Meta deserves any benefit of the doubt.

I think it’s supposed to rain again today, so we’ll see about getting some time outside. My sleep schedule is still fucked, but I’m going to try to stay up a little later today. I made it until 5PM yesterday. Hopefully I can sleep more than six hours tonight because I didn’t sleep that well last night, which was why I woke up around 1AM this morning.

No sportsball update in this post, I still have to check scores, but maybe one later with those updates.

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· 23 Sivan 5783 (Monday 12 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, somehow we’ve wandered into Monday and we’re all gonna need to work together to get to the other side of it in one piece.

First, my sleep schedule is absolutely fucked, and I’m trying to get it back on track, mostly because work and the rest of society expect me to be up during the day and sleeping during the night, and just not conforming really isn’t an option.

Second, shoutout to everyone who is dealing with the Reddit migration. I’m pretty sure the Lemmy and Kbin server admins are absolutely swomped, as are the developers of said software, and if you’re trying to make the switch, show them a little flexibility and patience. Nobody was expecting Reddit to implode like this or so quickly.

In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights are 3 to 1 in the finals, and next game is tomorrow night. I can’t wait to watch it.

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· 17 Sivan 5783 (Tuesday 6 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

I haven’t done one of these in a little while, so, morning fedizens, we’re doing Tuesday.

I’m catching up on WWDC stuff, which I swore I wasn’t going to pay attention to but honestly I’m cautiously excited about Apple’s coming new augmented reality headset.

Specifically, I’m excited that one of these things will likely have some sort of working relationship with VoiceOver, which means blind people can participate to at least some extent in augmented reality. Next, all I can think of is that I will be able to have SeeingAI in a headset, which means I would get to use all its cool features. It’s not sight exactly, but for me, this kind of crystalizes the idea of being able to use technology to provide some sort of sense of what has always been a very visual world which, quite frankly, I’m sick to death of hacking in order to get things done or live my life.

And yes, I’m very much aware of all of the pitfalls and problems surrounding all this stuff. I’m also aware that this could become just as much of a disappointment as self-driving cars have been.

In sportsball news, woot woot woot! My Vegas Golden Knights won game two last night, thus banishing the Florida Kittens back to their basket with no milk!

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· 9 Sivan 5783 (Monday 29 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

It’s in the mid 80’sF here, so we’re staying inside with the air conditioner. I still have to call Digital Ocean about the Fail2ban issue, but I’ll get that done later this evening. Oh and we’re keeping up with the baseball game. Otherwise, not much, although we are rereading the Quinn Colson books, and I have a question.

Most of the characters in this series are on the low end of the income spectrum. And yet, they all somehow manage to have cowboy boots. Which are expensive. So, I’d like to know how they managed to end up with them.

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