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cablespaghetti

@cablespaghetti@southampton.social

Father of two, husband, lover of dogs but owner of many cats. Runner. Technology enthusiast. Metalhead. ADHDer. Cloudy DevOps type person. Admin of https://social.running.cafe so running posts at @sam

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The downside of my parents living in an area full of littering vape addicts is there being litter everywhere.

The upside is I’ve just walked their dog and obtained lots of free lithium ion batteries. Some still in vapes. I wonder if I can do something with the heating elements too…

cablespaghetti,
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This evening I’m dismantling the premium single use vape I found near my parents’ place. This one has a 600mAh battery and USB-C charging circuit instead of the usual 500mAh batteries that I’ve found so far…I’ve now got three of the little batteries.

Because I’m not totally disgusting I’ve thrown the coil and casing in the bin now.

However I am interested in how the suck to turn on part works given there are only two wires going to the coil and no buttons in sight. To the interwebs!

cablespaghetti,
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I was wrong. The activation sensor has to be the little circular part that is attached to the battery and also has a helpful little LED to tell you when it’s active. I don’t plan on sucking on anything to find out for sure though. 😆

cablespaghetti,
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From what I can gather this is a “draw activated” vape and the sensor must be integrated into the coil itself. They’ve got the parts required to make these down to a bare minimum.

Still think they should be banned though.

cablespaghetti,
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Electronics nerds of mastodon. Is wiring a bunch of these (I thought Li-Ion but might actually be Li-Po) batteries in parallel and charging them as a unit a bad idea? Does it matter if one is of larger capacity for example?

cablespaghetti, to random
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I’ve just had an email that my energy bill direct debit is increasing again to £138 a month! I need to do something about our power usage… 😭

What do others use, is this just me?

At 25p/kWh when nobody is here we’re using about £1.30 per day of electricity which is about 5kWh. That will be mostly my “homelab”.

The rest is contributed to by the fact the washing machine and tumble dryer are on most days because of the kids. An average day is around £2.50-£3.00 just in usage (10-12kWh).

popey, to random
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Ran out of room for non-overlapping new stickers on my laptop lid. So resorted to putting some on the underside!

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cablespaghetti,
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@jaygooby @popey That’s another HubNut (YouTube channel) sticker. Funny how crap cars and Linux overlap as interests. 😆

cablespaghetti, to random
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I know Bluefin Linux is supposed to have the “reliability and ease of use of a Chromebook” but what happens if you actually install it on a Chromebook? 😁

https://projectbluefin.io/

#bluefin

cablespaghetti,
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@owen @jaiden @s31bz Yep thanks to https://mrchromebox.tech/. I initially stuck Ubuntu 24.04 on it but thought I’d see what performance was like on other distros and I’ve wanted to try Bluefin for a little while.

I think unfortunately for the best experience I might have to go with something like straight Debian or Arch without any Snaps or Flatpaks or anything. It is not a fast machine and any overhead is quite noticeable. 😆

cablespaghetti, to random
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I’ve been pretty stressed recently, due to changes at work, being a dad and not really being able to run which is usually how I cope.

I rode motorcycles for years but sold my last in about 2018 as it wasn’t getting used. However I’ve always missed it, could use my own transport and want a bit of a project to distract me.

So this week I bought a lightly crashed BMW R1150RT. It’s getting delivered some time in the next few days. 😁

cablespaghetti,
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@fedops Hoenstly I think I probably overpaid by a couple of hundred but I got carried away and it’s only got 36k miles on the clock. We shall see when it gets delivered. 🤷

cablespaghetti, to random
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How does one own a Mac Pro and not know that it’s called a Mac Pro?🤔

cablespaghetti,
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@miki Possibly. He’s selling a couple of MS surface tablets and a hifi all with no description and super vague titles. He doesn’t know anything about what he has one way or another.

cablespaghetti, to random
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In dodgy GPU adventures, I concluded that the firmware on it before was probably mining optimised.

I’ve flashed three firmwares today, one POSTed but didn’t boot, one booted but had even worse performance than the one that came on it and the latest one won’t even POST. Oh and the HDMI port that was non functional has fallen off now. 🤣

I’ll try and unbrick it later on as the system does seem to at least boot up…just with no display output.

cablespaghetti, to random
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Can someone who knows radio things please explain to me why once every couple of weeks I go from being able to pick up no #Meshtastic nodes to loads as far away as 36 miles?

Does 868MHz have the ability to bounce off clouds or something? It seems to happen for a few hours and then nothing (although always a weak signal).

cablespaghetti,
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@tony It is isn’t it! Somebody sent me this link which sounds plausible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropospheric_propagation

I don’t have any local signals, it’s rubbish! 😆

popey, to random
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Microphone ready!
Laptop precariously balanced on books!
It must be @linuxmatters recording night!

cablespaghetti,
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@popey @linuxmatters You’d think that after decades of podcasting you’d have a more refined setup. 😆

andypiper, to random
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I think MastoDot is my star installation of #emf2024 so far (but I may be biased)

cablespaghetti,
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@andypiper Where might one find such a thing?

Edent, to random
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TESLA COILS!

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cablespaghetti,
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@Edent Did I just T-shirt snap you in a Hacktoberfest T-shirt. I had a two minute later “I wonder if that was that guy from the internet” moment. 😆

dustinrue, to random
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Software update broke my Ubuntu system. Yea, it's on an iMac so the hardware is a bit weird but still.

cablespaghetti,
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@dustinrue Were you going to 24.04 or was it just a standard update?

cablespaghetti, to random
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I just purchased a £16.99 queen size air bed from Aldi for #emfcamp. I am going to sleep SO WELL next weekend. 😁

sam, to random
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Finally, it seems like the Instagram bridge is finally almost ready to be used.

I can now follow Casey Neistat's Instagram on the Fediverse via @caseyneistat

cablespaghetti,
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@sam Ooh that could be handy!!!

cablespaghetti, to random
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I am currently awake at nearly 2am because my eldest son started coughing quite severely at about midnight.

He’s had a bit of a cough for a week or more but not to this degree. It only really happens at night so might be a pollen induced asthma flare up.

We get complacent over winter, he goes months without any asthma symptoms at all.

Off to the doctors tomorrow morning!

cablespaghetti, to random
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My grandma died a few weeks ago and while we are up in Essex visiting my parents, we have spent some time rescuing some things from my grandma and grandpa’s house.

It’s funny the things I have memories attached to, from spending time with my grandpa in his little workshop room as a child.

Some of the stuff is just random like the unused 150w Sainsburys lightbulb from who knows when and the 90s Ford keyring, but the multimeter, magnifying glasses and stopwatch particularly hold memories.

cablespaghetti, to random
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Tomorrow I shall be managing a team of three people, looking after two sick children and migrating multiple applications between Kubernetes clusters. Wish me luck Internet!

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