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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I find it very confusing to get a good workflow with it + calibre.

    I sync all of my books (and use readarr for organization or occasionally grabbing books from dead authors) via syncthing. Then calibre web won’t ingest any new books I copy to the folder, so I have to go to desktop calibre to add them manually, then it will sync the database and calibre-web has a built-in task for scanning any database changes so then the book will show up.

    Seems like a clunky method and I would think I am doing it wrong, but I haven’t found a way for calibre to scan books already organized in folders in its book directory.




  • Nah, it is pretty much if you didn’t buy one of 2 trendy models of the year, then nothing else has ever or will ever be supported (of course you can always write your own drivers but it is a ton of work, especially for non-coders)

    I have a thought that a lot of the enthusiasts that go through the pain and effoet of writing all of these drivers for old phones they have were usually the kind of people to buy the best/most popular device of the year






  • I have made laundry lists in the past of things that either you can’t do with windows, or you need to regedit and hack around it. Literally basic as fuck things.

    Hell, until a year or two ago, you couldn’t open the location of a file from a file search, and it obscured (and still does) the full path of the file in the search pane. Not to mention how bad the search is in general.

    Don’t get me started on the “modern sleep” bullshit lol







  • Yes but they hide that as much as possible.

    • No longer warranty
    • No specs that indicate longevity
    • also has bullshit WiFi/touchscreens because it is so cheap to integrate for them

    If you are extremely lucky, there is a review for that model somewhere that isn’t just paid advertising, but outside of the US with less-used models, that is pretty much a fantasy.

    For example, even on the most expensive 1400€ Series 8 models Bosch (traditionally one of the best quality washers in the EU) now instead of a drum with bolts and a gasket, plastic welds their drum covers so it doesn’t last as long, breaks at the seam, and is almost impossible to repair correctly.

    And their specs say the size, capacity, programs, and a few useless features like automatic dosing, lighting inside, and “led display” , and that is it.


  • Generally export to the grid. Farms don’t use 500kW-1MW of energy usually.

    Since industrial farms and oil company corruption have killed produce profits for human consumption, selling the energy is often more viable financially than the crops that grow under it, especially as far as upkeep with the absolute proprietary planned obselescense shit show that is the Agri equipment industry. Not to mention the insane Monsanto seed corruption and abuse. Many farmers are operating on a loss which has lead to regional monopolies as megacorps buy up bankrupt farms.

    Going the agri-solar route could be the saving grace for many many farms. (Where it is viable at least and transmission is doable)


  • As an engineer, hybrid works best for many of us.

    Design phase can be wfh with some in-person idea sessions or important meetings because I have yet to be at an online idea session that was as productive as in-person being able to draw things out and visualize better, and people tend to not speak up or just check out and agree at the end in online meetings.

    Testing phase has to be mostly in person for lab tool access and collaboration on physical things.

    I have worked with a contractor that did everything from home and had a whole home lab, but it was a big time sink and cost shipping parts back and forth 5 times and you couldn’t physically probe behaviors together which leads to slightly different setups and sometimes different results.

    Socially I moved to a place where I had no friends so I like getting social contact at work since in Belgium, it is extremely difficult to make new friends after you are done with school because of a culture of not talking to anyone else unless people are obnoxiously drunk lol. I like wfh on overwhelming days and in-person on days where I want more social contact.

    That being said, I work 100% in office now because I live a 12 minute bike ride from work, so very easy.


  • This is also why people should seriously think about if they are ready to have a kid or want to have a kid.

    Millions or tens/hundreds of millions of kids have parents that never really wanted them and just gave in to the biological clock and/or social pressures and the kids have a shitty childhood. It sucks to be unwanted, and kids can really feel it.