friggin tradies man, supposed to be here at 8am. not even a call or text saying “sorry, gonna be late”
rawr
RAWR 🦕
Ozbargain had a place selling raspberry pis for a decent price and I decided to order one.
Anyone here have one? And what do you use it for? I’m thinking it would be a chance to learn docker, I can use it to run pihole and still have it set up as an emulation station
I always see the raspberry and get excited then I realise it’s not raspberry pies. 😔
I was a bit hopeful there for a second, too
Three, actually
- Octoprint print server for my 3d printer
- Retropi in a mini-SEGA case for taking around to mates places for retro gaming (non-N64)
- Brewpi for brewery
If I can use it to manage brewing it can give me another hobby
kinda other way around. You want the fundamentals before you get to the point of being anal enough to use a brewpi
PiHole / bit of content filtering for the kids.
I’m very light touch here: I’d rather know they were going to PornHub and then know it’s time to have “that” conversation than try to stop them going to PornHub.Mainly emulation and sometimes as an external standalone music synthesizer.
I’ll need to look into the synth side. We went to a community festival recently and they had plants with soil sensors hooked up to an RPI that played notes when you touched them.
I’m pretty sure the organelle is just an RPI in a fancy case as well
@tombruzzo @Seagoon_ I was thinking about getting one of the Raspberry Pis that are built into a keyboard: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
The very first computer that I owned was a Commodore 64, and just for nostalgia’s sake I like the idea of having a computer that’s a modern take on that all-in-one keyboard design.
I didn’t end up getting one, but if that design is on special, I might be interested?
See now you’re showing your age!
@Orange1 That’s just rude lol
What site? I’ve never seen them on sale before.
I have 2, I’ve got a 4b which I got to build a little NAS with, but my last place wasn’t a fan of that idea so it never happened. Currently not in use.
I also have a zero W I got recently to run a lightweight python script that just archives a webpage once per day into the Wayback machine. In the future, I’ll probably use the 4b either for a more complex archiving script (I discovered a nice CLI utility with a lot more features than the one I made), probably run on some sort of Cron job and possibly modify it to be easily configured remotely from any device, rather than just SSHing.
I’m going to use the 4b to run a local ArchiveBox instance and a Tube archivist instance to archive some YouTube channels eventually.
Once you find your niche, you can do pretty much anything with it. My niche is archiving and datahoardery, so anything like that will probably run on one of my pis at some time in the future
I preordered the 5 4gb here. I can’t find the listing again but they were on preorder https://au.element14.com/w/c/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-boards/prl/results?ost=raspberry%2Bpi&sort=P_PRODUCT_ID|1
sads My sleep has been so rotten over the last couple weeks.
Very annoying.
Cuddly pet… she likes to share the hot water bottle but I worry about her getting burned. (I need mine super hot and often have it unwrapped.) I have two, one just bought but the older one is well due for replacement so may buy her her own hottie with a fluffy faux fur bunny cover.
As it gets colder I’ll plug her heated bed in too. Just a little bit worried about whether the heating pad insert is still safe to use. It’s a cheap Kmart job I’ve had for about four years and the wire traveling in may be a weak point for any bending or twisting that has occurred. Perhaps if I supervise use for safety I could slip in another brand of heating pad. I need to tease out/smooth the padding that lumped up during washes too. It’s given good service though - bought for $40 during lockdown and through cold weather she’s lived in it. Perhaps if it gets really bad I could unpick a small seam and restuff it.
I thought of those microwavable discs sold at pet shops but they’re like $80 and I’d have to remember/keep pulling it out from under her to reheat it. I have a wheat bag but similar annoyance with not holding heat for as long
Those microwavable discs are great at holding heat, but Miss Meow showed no interest in lying on it. I think too hard and not flat enough. Even with some padding on top she ignored it in favour of sitting on top of the computer.
Doesn’t sound worth the money then if she doesn’t like it, I’ll stick to the other choices
what about a heat pack? like those oat filled things you get from chemist warehouse? Or a heated blanket set to low?
One of my friends just had her second baby and all my other friends are jumping up straightaway to visit her as soon as possible. Is it wrong that I…just don’t care? I mean I’m glad she has had a safe birth, the baby is healthy etc, I sent congratulations and contributed to a baby gift but…I’m sorry i’m not chomping at the bit to come and visit and check-in.
Nah, perfectly normal.
Sounds perfectly rational to me. Actually, a visit from you might be more welcome in about a month’s time when all the new has worn off and everyone else has stepped back a bit.
Exactly, just because you’re not gaga doesn’t mean you are mean. You have nothing to be sorry about
Don’t let others set the standard of behaviour, set your own. There is more than one way to be a good caring person.
Hugs.
it actaully means a shit load more to give it a couple of weeks THEN go say hi. You go in the first couple of weeks? Its about the baby. You go after the excitement settles down and the craziness sets in? You’re there to see your mate. Its the later weeks that are more lonely.
The snappy Tom song is stuck in my good 🐱
the cats of Australia have made their choice…
Oh the excited dancing when I walk in the door with a fresh sack of cat biscuits! Sorry boys, it’s not dinner time yet.
Oh give them a little bit ya meanie.
Vet says Nooooo
I had some really weird and disturbing dreams and am somehow awake before even 5:30. This is a very weird feeling. Not sure if I should get up and do something…
Is decaf mocha just a hot chocolate?
That lying Tesla driver has got 9 months in prison.
On top of everything else, it really makes a mockery of ‘you’ll get punished for lying in court’.
She will probably be deported after serving her time.
She might not have even be sentenced to time if she didn’t flee the scene or lie and keep on lying. This will be lesson. Don’t lie.
I thought the lesson was “If you wanna hurt people, use a car”.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
I’ve always wanted to ask about the breakfast emojis. What is the thing that is to the left of the blueberries?
I cut and paste into Emojipedia to get the official answer:
Melon
A melon fruit in a light greenish-brown rind. Depicted as a cantaloupe by most platforms, but can resemble a honeydew at a distance.
Ah thanks 👍 I’ll do that with the other ones I have queries about.
If there’s an emoji I don’t recognise or it isn’t showing up I click and drag with the left mouse button to select it, click the right mouse button on the selection then choose ‘Google “[the emoji]”’ from the menu that appears. Then Google usually shows a text description of what it is
I was so confused trying to find what you were talking about because i cant see any blueberries!! I assume they are left of the strawberry? My comp isnt showing me anything for them. > 🫐
That is odd. There are some emojis that don’t show on all systems, but the blueberries should. If you would like to see what they are supposed to look like this emojipedia page shows you the design for all the different compute systems.
Velociraptor egg
My guess is a lime.
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That’ll do.
Triceratopsian stew with onions please. Not fussy as to species. And coffee.
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Thank you! A good start for a chilly Friday.
Mammoth steak and pterosaur eggs thanks
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Protein farts ahoy!
Char-broiled stegs of stegosaurus
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Mm… Cartilageonous
OMG it’s Friday. Why am I still up?
Do you think it might have anything to do with those cups of coffee I had today, even though I knew I was overdoing it after having abstained from caffeine entirely recently?
I gave up caffeine for these reasons and it didn’t help… all that happened is now if I try to drink something caffeinated it hits me really hard.
So probably
I gave up coffee because I was starting to feel the ritual of making coffee was something I was being trapped by, not something I was really enjoying any more. And I was right, I have been enjoying not feeling it is something I have to do every morning and can instead choose to do if I want to. But I might have chosen it a couple of times more than I should have considering my reduced tolerance - I normally go to bed sometime around 8 or 9, still being awake at 2am is going to hurt me tomorrow!
learning and practicing how to use watercolour has commenced , I’m painting in the colouring book , title page in wash is my start :)
spoiler
Nice. Watercolour is fine but tricky.
oh boy, I’m used to nice pointy brushes and tried the flat ones, so hard to do detail with flat brushes. I think I will go back to pointy.
Cheers little dinosaurs 🍺
No booze, but I can cheers you with a glass of Pepsi Max if that’s your thing
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Of course you can! 🍺
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Cheers. 🍻
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🍻🦕 heading out to shout myself dinner. Finished work on time on a Friday for once. CHEERS
Cheers buddy 🍺
Cheers! 🍸 Gin and Tonic it is
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sorting books, getting rid of all the art books I have read and aren’t good, the little down to earth watercolour handbook without flashy glossy colour pics is the most useful. Will keep that one.
Found note books full of memos, I no longer remember what they are even about. Shredded and tossed.
All that daiso paper and ink, easily and cheaply replaced.
