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ethanschoonover

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Photo & Design & Tech & RPGs / SeattleACS ham radio volunteer / Cascadia Radio cofounder / RPG XRAY host / TeenHorrorCast intern / "skoon-over" / he

Maybe you use Solarized (colorscheme), maybe you used my Kinkless GTD sytem (which became OmniFocus), or maybe you followed my D&D clubs at a Seattle girls' middle school.

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ethanschoonover, to HikingPics
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Added a dedicated crane-type scale to my sliding / gear storage

ethanschoonover,
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@jc00ke an outstanding pack IMO!

ethanschoonover,
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@scott It's unistrut with trolleys and some hangers: https://mastodon.social/@ethanschoonover/112347077909221595

ctietze, to random
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@ethanschoonover I have a link to one of your Tweets where you recommended a book series on 'rich urban world building', but the Tweet is gone and I haven't written down the actual book names anywhere
https://twitter.com/ethanschoonover/status/1481043810943602689

Do you have any recollection what that might've been?

ethanschoonover,
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@ctietze I see someone else followed up with an archived link but fwiw it is indeed Finch by VanderMeer.

ethanschoonover, to random
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Cabin air filter in my truck: new vs old after 5000 miles of great american road trip, wild fires, and general hard use.

ethanschoonover,
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@mkornblum always a surprise to me as well how much makes it in

ethanschoonover, to random
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Today's TodayInTabs with a must read overview of the general WTFness of the OpenAI choice to make ChatGPT an obsequious flirt.

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/omnisteve

ethanschoonover, to random
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"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world files didn't exist and apps could just handle everything like magic. iPadOS still sucks."

  • Charles Baudelaire
Verso, to random
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What are the cool kids using for dynamic DNS these days? I'm happy to pay for a service if it's reliable.

(Yeah yeah the cool kids have fiber and static IPs, ha ha you're so clever just answer the question)

ethanschoonover,
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@Verso I'm using Porkbun as my registrar and for dyn dns. Many of the common dynamic dns tools seem to now support the porkbun api for updating. I'm specifically running opnsense as my router and it uses the popular ddclient on the backend for updating, which now has porkbun support: https://github.com/ddclient/ddclient . ddclient is on homebrew if you wanted to try it out on the command line first (could script it up via cron on a dedicated box, which I thought about doing till opnsense updated ddclient).

ethanschoonover,
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@Verso it's a little fiddly, definitely

ethanschoonover, to random
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ChatGTP-4o demos all sound WAYYYYYY to perky.

Let's take it down a notch or 10.

ethanschoonover, to iPad
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My last post on was a critique but now for some praise: It has truly transformed the way my daughter takes notes and studies (below: IB Bio exams). She can search her handwritten notes, make flash cards, add images. They never get lost and they are all always with her (using Goodnotes).

ethanschoonover, to HikingPics
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Modding my DIY water filter setup for a new water pack

ethanschoonover, to random
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Solar maximum in Seattle is a pretty wild time.

marioguzman, to random
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Bleh... So the new iPad Pro with M4 doesn't support the Smart Keyboard Folio which I prefer much more over the Smart (floating iPad design) Keyboard.

It's just lighter, thinner, and you can folder it completely behind the iPad. :(

ethanschoonover,
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@marioguzman Smart Keyboard Folio is my preferred as well. Classic design that works great. I really can't stand the weight and thickness of the floating style smart keyboard.

ethanschoonover, to random
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i have the most 80s reading glasses imaginable

ethanschoonover,
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Proof that I had almost the exact same glasses in the 80s!

ethanschoonover,
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@dr_a oh these are absolutely trifocal readers... my eyes are a shambles in terms of focus

ethanschoonover,
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@ukuku this was my peak BBS era!

ethanschoonover, to random
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My daughter drove my trail-mud covered pickup and parked in front of our local elementary school and it's good to see the kids understood the implied assignment.

ethanschoonover, to random
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Nothing like a real map on the wall with map pins for planning trips

ethanschoonover, to apple
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Thin is boring.

Take a year off hardware, #Apple . You just launched an AR headset and killed off a billion dollar a year car. You're all over the map.

New pencils are nice but what creative people REALLY need is for you to sort out your software story. Fix what's broken. Innovate on your apps and interoperability between them. Figure out how to use all that power in the iPad besides just "it's a big phone".

Step by step you are ship-of-theseus forgetting what makes you a great company.

ethanschoonover, to random
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Baking (reusable) desiccant for winter clothes storage (and to drop into my bags of extra cables and electronics)

desicant packs on a tray going into the oven

ethanschoonover,
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desiccant baking before and after

desiccant packs on a tray coming out of the oven, blue in color

ethanschoonover, to random
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When I was a kid I feel like a lot of hobbies were presented as "Hey! Stamps are cool you can do some fun stamp collecting by saving some off envelopes" whereas now when I search for some hobby related content it's exclusively "THIS HOBBY IS MY WHOLE IDENTITY AND LIFE AND HERE'S HOW YOU LEVEL UP TO HOBBY LEVEL ONE THOUSAND STARTING NOW"

Bring back slacker level hobby engagement!

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