moira

moira, 4 days ago

@stux na it just heard the ice cream truck ^_^

moira, 4 days ago

@foone how many USB ports and do they have independent power output

there was a device made for a little while by a few different makers that would pool power from across multiple USB ports to provide for higher-power devices.

this is not a good idea, but it is arguably an idea.

moira, 4 days ago

@Green_Footballs That's not new, that's just back again. They need anything to take their base's attention off Trump's felony convictions.

moira, 5 days ago

@gavi I know you're joking but I've been wanting to try PopOS for reals

(my only windows box is still on 10 and will stay that way tho'.)

moira, 5 days ago

@paul What's the stairwell doing and can it be flipped? How big are you willing to go here?

moira, 5 days ago

@paul oof, because I really want to move it. okay.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul Ah that makes things more complicated.

My instinct is to turn it back around. This is what I had when you replied.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul You say that, but I say "that's a lot of plumbing, and by plumbing, I particularly mean sewer line." That's why I'm trying to keep additional baths, laundry, and WC near the existing plumbing.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul gods I want to move that stairwell. I want to move that stairwell and open that 14' wall between kitchen and living room, for something like an island.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul It's not a matter of "new" and "old," it's a matter of adding meaningful as in expensive sewer and plumbing expansions, particularly sewer. Of course, since you have a basement (under how much of the house?) that can make it a lot easier if you have suspended sewer lines in said basement, which given everything you probably do. But still.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul That last half bath is a problem. Particularly with that stairwell. (for reasons.)

moira, 5 days ago

@paul can't remove that wall I'll move another wall

take that, walls

(if it's load bearing you can get a glulam beam put in.)

moira, 5 days ago

@paul Screw the carport, if you want another (half) bath let's do it and while we're at it add some storage, and this way you don't need to move the stairs.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul of course, you could flip the laundry entry and have it face the kitchen, depending upon whether you care more about storage or countertop space in the kitchen.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul Yeah, I thought about putting them over there, but it didn't leave you much of an office, so I didn't.

Anyway the biggest part for me was restoring what seems to me to clearly be the original orientation of the house. Everything after that is... not necessarily "details" but it just all fits together better once you do that.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul (although I would suggest the non-US-style idea of having the laundry as being basically an alcove of the kitchen. This is a UK thing, but it's very practical and you can get back all that laundry-room-door counterspace, just by having the laundry machines under the cabinets. It's a thought.)

moira, 5 days ago

@paul Wasn't sure how amenable you'd be to those after you said "big heavy chair" but yeah, sounds good to me.

moira, 5 days ago

@paul I try to design for flexibility and redundancy, myself. ^_^

moira, 5 days ago

@paul have fun with it! ^_^

moira, 5 days ago

i mean okay sure it might have to be a little more complicated than that and maybe you just don't include that window and maybe you ignore icon text BUT YOU'RE THROWING AN LLM AI AT IT ALREADY FUCKING USE IT

jfc

moira, 5 days ago

@joncruz they can pull the text off the screen just fine

even when that text is "password" followed by a semi-random string of letters, numbers, and symbols

i am, as they say, just saying

moira, 5 days ago

@joncruz yes but those are localisation issues which have been solved already for decades by a company the size of Microsoft, and I say that from experience of having been a dev there.

("grep" was hyperbole, not a serious suggestion. As I said, they're already using LLM shit upon which the entire feature depends. if their LLM can't find it to exclude it, then their LLM won't be able to find it to store it in plain text, either.)

moira, 4 days ago

@foone I've got one of those! I like it! I was thinking of getting a second one for six pedals and that'd get you six - 3 left foot 3 right foot, is that less confusing?