Be back in a week or two. Later, fam.

Is there any interest in an electronics store that accepts lightning payments? It'd be for people who build open source projects, or propritary solitions for that matter. I suspect not because I don't see many people on nostr talking about building electronics, and I don't see the hardware people on ActivityPub showing any interest in open source money, but I figured I'd throw it out there in case I'm wrong. It'd be a limited supply, but I'd stock the most common components 0603 resistors & capacitors, specific models of STM32 CPUs, and various breakout boards like a real time clock, temperature/presure/humidity sensors. Maybe some small boards like the Raspberry Pi Pico, Nice!nano, and RAK Wireless gear for those building mesh nodes.

Helped a pal push the greenhouse project forward a little bit. Insulation is now completely covered up by OSB. Next is electrical conduit and boxes that will be under the floor (but above the several ton thermal mass). Once all that is wired, it'll be time to install the floor joists and then the floor.

Rain barrel if death... or life, depending on your perspective.

I'm not a macroeconomics expert, but this caught my attention: "Meanwhile, the sell-off in tech shares appeared to increase demand for U.S. Treasuries, which briefly sent yields on government bonds lower." Buried in a story about tech stocks tanking. If they're selling AI stocks, they're probably going to put that cash somewhere, and bonds seems like where a significant amount of it is going.

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The broader S&P 500 lost 1.8%, while the Nasdaq 100 had its worst day since June.

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This batch got a dusting of cinnamon

Oh, this is going to cut into the work that I should be doing in favor of the "work" that is fun...

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I'm going to try to stay mum about this in the Matrix chats where all the local mesh-heads hang out until I have it working and have some data to report. The urge to post about this over there right now is VERY STRONG. 😅🤫🤐

"Now renegades are the people with their own philosophies They change the course of history Everyday people like you and me" Don't just sing along. Be like the change you want to see in the world.

@kidwarp How's your rack coming along?

You rich folks can keep making fun of me for being poor, but I've got some skills you'll never have. That's $42.45 saved on a grocery bill that ended up being $110. Almost 30% off, and I was already buying the basic stuff, store brands, etc. Related: I bought 15 more lbs of apples at 80¢/lb after tax. Going to make more apple chips tomorrow.

I'm leaning toward the 90° headers for the RTC and the battery sandwich. To keep things consistent, I'll have a block of wood or plastic to hold the boards a specific distance apart. View quoted note →

If you advocate for decentralized, encrypted systems and then block everyone who uses privacy software, you are a charletan. I'm looking at you,

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They're not blocking bots, AI scrapers, or attacks. Just Tor users. There should be a wall of shame for these faux allies

The v2 boards came in and I'm weighing my options on how to stack them. vs The main challenge is the LCD. The back of the header pins are going to short out against thr USB-C connector if I'm not careful. And the components on the back of the screen risk connecting with the header pins connecting the Nice!nano (on the bottom) with the connector PCB (in the middle). Finally, there's tolerances of all these headers pins & case alignment. Things like the boards not being perfectly parallel, the batteries beimg different thicknesses resulting in an extra mm of space for the battery. If all the cases are the same, all the things going in them need to be the same as well. Image descriptions have more detail on what you're looking at and what trade-offs are being made. Thoughts? Previous post about v1: View quoted note →

Do not bother signing up for Strike. Can't deposit money, support won't say why, whether it was an error on their end of the bank's end, and then they just closed the support ticket on me without fixing the issue. If Jack Mallers knew how new customers were treated, I bet he'd get the support staff trained properly or let them go if they can't perform their duties of answering questions and getting bugs reported to the developers.

This battery is so cute! The US dime is there for scale. For those curious, this is a NiceTOTP device.

"Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you." --The Crystal Method, from their Community Service album, more specifically: "Cake Hole" PS Yes, I know they sampled it and the quote is older than that.

It's interesting to see the pendulum swing back to having servers be bespoke, custom configured one-off instances instead of being set up in a deterministic, repeatable manner where they can easily be re-created in the exact same way. People have gone back to treating servers as puppies again instead of treating them as cattle. And with that comes all the old problems of not having tested backups, possibly not having any backups at all, requiring a lot of work to figure out what's going on when something needs changef, having to re-do lots of work when it's time to spin up a new server, and so on. Of course, gen Z and even younger millennials have never experienced those problems, so these are all issues that are invisible to them. All this is fine until you need to recover from a disaster and rebuild everything from scratch.

Probably going to go another direction on this and switch registrars to one that accepts lightning. Thank you to all replied with solutions so I could better understand how unusual this capability is, despite being such an obvious use case.

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Another round of apple chips, incoming. This time McIntosh