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roygreenhilt

@roygreenhilt@fosstodon.org

I geek, therefore I am.

I am, in no particular order, a parent, a nerd, a maker, a musician, an explorer, a techie, a juggler, a camper, a hiker, a sailor, a movie nut, a pop culture junkie, a cohouser, an SF fan, a drone pilot, a mechanic, a jeepster, a sysadmin, a photographer, a retrocomputing geek, a programmer, a (former) SCCA driver, and a gamer.

"No one User wrote me! I'm worth millions of their man-years!"

Joined: June 4, 2021.
Migrated to fosstodon: November 22, 2022

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roygreenhilt, to random
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Voyager 1 is dying. It's given us so much, and exceeded so many of our expectations.

Please, if this means anything to you, take a moment, listen to Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" - a beautiful ode to our place in the universe - inspired by a photo taken by Voyager...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8

GottaLaff, to legal
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More via Lisa Rubin:

NEW: #Trump's lawyers, angry that Judge Engoron is apparently not going to allow motion practice on reducing his opinion to a formal judgment, demands a 30-day stay of any entered judgment instead. Shocked.

As Trump begs to stay enforcement of the not-yet-entered judgment, the AG’s office responds, reminding the court that Trump et al. already asked for that relief—and the court declined. Settle this now, and start the clock, they insist. #legal

roygreenhilt,
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@GottaLaff While this is all entertaining as the clown patrol continues, i still worry one of these things is going to stick. I don't think T has a prayer of winning in November, but its crystal clear his plan is to delay everything until he wins, then use the power of hte presidency to anull all his convictions and prosecutions.

THat's the big fear.

roygreenhilt, to memes
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#memes #sre #linux #sysadmin

roygreenhilt, to random
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Same, Banksy. Same.

roygreenhilt, to reddit
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So it sure looks like is going to eat itself in the next week or so. The recent AMA from the CEO pretty much shows they are going the Twitter route. Trying to monetize a platform in a way that's going to drive the users away from it.

I had hoped that would be the thing that could replace both Reddit and Twitter, but without a federated model, or proper , or similar tools, it's not going to work.

So where y'all going?

roygreenhilt, to web
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Fuck you you fucking fuckity fucks.

I swear if I ever have a developer do this for a website I own and are hiring them to work on, their ass will be on FUCKING FIRE.

Give the FUCKING OPTION to explain what happened, don't just go "welp! Your'e fucked!"

I have no problems with public shaming. This is Garmin's Inreach login page.

roygreenhilt, to InitialD
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Hey #pinball and #arcade #videogame nerds (lookin at you @ifixcoinops :)

I've had a friend reach out to me asking if I knew someone in the northeast US that can repair arcade machines. We're talking actual pinball and video games from the 60's up through, oh, call it the 2000's.

The person manages a museum that has many pieces of equipment that need maintenance.

Anyone got any pointers?

roygreenhilt, to Meme
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roygreenhilt, to retrogaming
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Got to play some pinball and classic video games at Funspot in Laconia. Enormous arcade. Lots of good games and pinball tables. #pinball #retrogaming #videogames

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roygreenhilt, to Evernote
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RIP #evernote - they've laid off all their staff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641

Here's a quick way to export all your evernote data in #enex format, which remarkably, is easy to import into Apple Notes.

Evernote has been steadily declining for years - not being able to keep up with well designed changes and features in other tools. Their most recent hyper-focus on Tasks was an absolute disaster. This is no surprise, but is a little sad.

roygreenhilt, to Discord
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(Possibly) unpopular opinion.

If you are serious about a project, political position, legal action, social view, or other important topic, the respondse of "JOIN OUR DISCORD!!!!" - just labels you as unable to adult or be serious about the topic.

I feel like "Join our discord" is the 2020s version of "Join our facebook group!".
Echo chambers do nothing except validate the participants views, for good or bad.

#discord #facebook #unpopularopinion

roygreenhilt, to UX
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Oh Patreon, you are rapidly chasing the Enshittification route.

"CREATOR started a chat!"

"Chats are a new way to hang out with creators and other members. Discuss new posts, share opinions and ideas, or just say hey - it’s up to you. You can join in now on the Patreon app!"

Yes, that’s right. A new feature, a way to engage with creators, and it is ONLY in the mobile / app. The app I’ve never installed and had no intention of ever installing.

#patreon #enshittification #uxfail #ux

roygreenhilt, to random
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Happy birthday BASIC!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/

roygreenhilt, to movies
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Celebrating Christmas with the proper movie experience fitting for the holidays.

#diehard #christmas #movies

roygreenhilt, to solar
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I guess this is a good argument for having high pitch Solar panel mounts in the northeast. Hopefully it’ll slide off at some point but I may need to clear them in case we lose power.

#solardiy #solar #snow #newengland #maker

roygreenhilt, to random
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I feel seen.

roygreenhilt, to random
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The struggle is real.

roygreenhilt, to random
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This hits a little close to the mark...

#hobbies

roygreenhilt, to 3DPrinting
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Oh. My. God. Ganked from reddit.

"Pro tip - use your empty filament spools to store christmas lights."

#lifejack #3dprinting #filament #christmas

roygreenhilt, to random
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Folks, this is why you join makerspaces. This is the Mantis at the Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race - getting through the mud pit using some seriously cool designs. #makers #makerspace

This was built at Make It Labs in Nashua - the makerspace I'm a part of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U12oIFnH490

roygreenhilt, to mastodon
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I just spent a little time updating https://mastodonstatus.com/ - unfortunately the account we use for UptimeRobot is limited to 50 entries, so I pick the 50 busiest Mastodon instances.

Anyway. I removed 2-3 dead instances and added a few new ones that've popped up.

Enjoy!

#monitoring #mastodon #mastoadmin #uptime #uptimerobot

roygreenhilt, to random
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roygreenhilt, to eggs
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One of our chickens is a bit of an overachiever. #chickens #eggs

roygreenhilt, to vim
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How to start a fight with old-school nerds everwhere.

"The editor wars are over. VScode won."

roygreenhilt, to 3DPrinting
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Tip o the Day. Obvious to most folks, I'm sure, but I had to test it.

The printers can do multiple colors - yay on that, but the slicer isn't smart enough to know that it could print several layers in one color, then switch filaments, then do multiple layers in the other - with clearance to navigate around printed stuff.

Which means the printer changes filament every layer.

Okay for small prints, but moving forward, I'll print each component separately.

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