@advancedrubbish every time I do this I think it’ll be quick and easy, and every time I do it I remember I’ve got the world’s worst crimping tool shortly after I start.
Made an Ethernet cable. It, of course, doesn’t work and I’m going to have to recrimp one or both ends and hope it works. Annoyingly I couldn’t find my cable tester so it’s going to be trial and error.
Half tore my flat apart looking for my crimping tool and RJ45 plugs only to discover they’re in the box of CAT6 which I’d found within seconds of starting this process.
@gsuberland @whitequark I’ve had this happen before when living on a major road, I think they decided the disruption to residents was outweighed by the disruption of an extended closure on one of the core routes through the city.
@pikesley I really need to sit down and write my own blog post. It will be long, because I have so many thoughts from so many angles, but the core of it is that it’s a place where everyone can come and be their whole selves without fear of being told it’s a bit too much, or a bit too weird, and can they just tone it down a bit please?
@pikesley I’d missed your post about seeing EMF as a ten year old. I have the ridiculous privilege of bringing Arthur along, and there’s nothing that makes me happier than seeing him experience it, being in a place where for a few brief days he can just be himself and feel he belongs there amongst this utterly mad group of people, and for me that’s entirely what it’s about now.
@Konichiwakitty I got back on Friday evening and have done approximately nothing since. Keep sitting down on the sofa briefly and finding I’m still there 4 hours later and can’t explain what happened in between.
The game has finally launched but is crashy as hell. I briefly had it working but then pressed the wrong button on the controller causing the Steam menu to open and audio to drop out entirely. This has not been the smoothest of gaming on Linux experiences so far.
“I think I’ll play this new game I’ve bought” I say to myself. “lol, Processing Vulkan Shaders (79%)” replies Steam.
@gsuberland there are plans afoot to sort out proper distribution once everyone has slept a bit.
I have no idea why there are so many Men’s Sheds around here, and so few actually inclusive spaces. I don’t fully begrudge the retirees wanting somewhere to get together but I do know that sort of environment is the antithesis of what excites me about the maker scene.
One thing I am feeling inspired to do is drop into my local hackspace(ish) place and say hello. I’ve been meaning to for years and never quite got round to it, cat sitting for a friend who lives literally just the other side of the fence from the industrial park it’s in so I’ll take the opportunity and hope the vibes aren’t quite as Men’s Shed as the website gives the impression of.
Since getting home from EMF I’ve done approximately nothing, just some light life admin and watching YouTube. Really not sure what to do with myself now I’m not single mindedly focused on one thing.
Thankfully I’ve got a few more days of nothing planned, a family get together for my Dad’s birthday, and then I’m back to work for a day on Friday before a three day weekend so plenty of time to get back into the swing of living in the real world.
@0xabad1dea so much of this comes down to the national psyche if that makes sense? The American system is one of punishment in which suffering is the point, and politicians are penalised for not being performatively cruel to criminals, while most European systems tend to be focused more on rehabilitation and helping people with whatever caused them to be in a situation where they’re committing crimes.
@0xabad1dea the UK system is similar, and also includes an expiry date on having to disclose even relevant convictions except in a few extreme cases (most notably you can never work with children if you’ve been convicted of an offence against children, but I suspect some forms of fraud are similar).
apparently yesterday's Trans Pride march in London was the biggest *ever,* not just in the UK. 150,000 people marched for trans rights.
@solderandchaos firmly on stage 4 currently. Have come close to stage 5 on several occasions despite not really being a cryer.
@jackeric if I’m working in a Docker container (which I usually am) I’ll generally ignore venvs as well and just pass whatever flag it is to say “yeah, yeah, you take no responsibility for my random pip packages”.
@jackeric I’d either use system Python + venv (we do this on production devices at work and it’s *fine*, Trixie is recent enough that we’re not dealing with an ancient version) or use uv for Python environment management.
@benc although there’s a UK standard for parking payments being developed which may help - a somewhat distributed system where any payment app (or other service like a phone number) can be used to pay for any car park. That might then result in people already having something trusted they can use.