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religion: mormonism
The thing about being in the Mormon church for 12 years is that bits of it stay lodged in your brain forever despite your best efforts. I just caught myself humming a hymn, ironically enough while making my morning coffee. That just feels... wrong.
#ExMormon #apostake


I'm in that weird zone where I'm hungry, but not hungry enough to overcome my laziness and actually cook something.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I'd rather eat out all the time, or at least do takeaway, but cooking at home + meal prep was the only way I could get my sodium intake down to reasonable levels.

(My BP stubbornly remains high, tho.)

These days I continue it because the closest restartant (that isn't a food truck or also a convenience store) is a 15 minute drive away, I think.



Server's been unstable lately. I'm not sure if it's a spike in bot traffic or a DDoS. I'll have to look into it and take measures accordingly.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

So I think at least a part of my problem is the browser on my tablet. This problem only seems to happen when I'm using that. I'm still going to take measures to keep Meta/Amazon/Bytedance's bots from crawling my server because they're all over the access logs and they're certainly not helping matters. Also, they have absolutely no reason to be doing this at all.



So, I watched this YouTube video on the origin of the concept of imaginary numbers. While the content was fascinating and presumably well-researched, my brain couldn't stop looking at the abacus prominently displayed on the guy's desk. It was upside down for the whole video.



I keep wanting to resurrect my homemade 8-bit CPU project (heavily inspired by Ben Eater's breadbord computer). One of the changes I want to make is to have a variable speed clock module that you have to manually turn a crank to run. The faster you crank, the higher the clock speed.

Is this practical? Not in the slightest. It would be really cool though.



Dear grocery store I was just at:

If you want to play the game of making fake "security scan" announcements over your PA system, it might add to their credibility if they didn't sound like they were made by a professional voice actor in a recording studio.

Just sayin'.




Instacart gripe

So my partner and I do Instacart to help make ends meet. We have supposedly opted out of heavy orders,* and yet we were assigned an order with three cases (40 x 500mL) of water. That's 60kg (assuming negligible packaging weight).

This begs the question: what exactly is their threshold for what is considered a "heavy order"?

* because they don't pay anywhere near enough for us to destroy our bodies like that.

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Dumb #org-mode question:

Is there a way to tell #emacs to generate an agenda view for the current buffer only? Bonus points if the said buffer is not in org-agenda-files.

Edit: Got it.


Pressing < in the agenda dispatcher should do this

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Per the help doc for org-agenda

"If the current buffer is in Org mode and visiting a file, you can also
first press ‘<’ once to indicate that the agenda should be temporarily
(until the next use of ‘SPC o a’) restricted to the current file.
Pressing ‘<’ twice means to restrict to the current subtree or region
(if active).
"

In other words, execute org-agenda then press "<" before the command you want to run against the agenda.

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in reply to a world without cars

Question for you - how did you highlight "org-agenda-files" like that in your post?
in reply to a world without cars

@a world without cars I have a markdown plugin on my Friendica server. I just put it between backticks like this: `org-agenda-files`.

This wouldn't work on Mastodon though.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

oh interesting. It rendered properly for me on Mastodon but not when I write it that way.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

you could do something like this

```
(defun my/file-agenda ()
(interactive)
(when-let ((org-agenda-files (list (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)))))
(org-agenda)))
```




We can make biodegradable plastic that dissolves in salt water using natto.

Me: That's pretty cool. Should have some environmental benefits.

It needs to be treated with palm oil.

Me: Oh.



Did anyone else in the #KWAwesome area who is with Freedom Mobile notice a data outage today? It seems fine now but I'm curious.


Making the bed feels a little pointless when you have a cat who insists on immediately messing it up again as soon as you finish.



I am officially an old person* now.

* I have a supply of Werther's on my person at all times.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ha! If it's not Worthers, it's those strawberry gel filled hard candy things that nobody knows where they come from. 🤣

Or butterscotch disks. Those are good too.



Lately, things around the apartment have been failing in ways I didn't even know could happen. I had to pick up a new shower head because the old one exploded while I was in the shower yesterday (clocking me in the head in the process).

I'm beginning to think this apartment has it in for me.

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Got another spambot requesting registration on my server. This was the masterpiece they included in their request:

Hello, I’m excited to join this community. I value respectful, meaningful conversations and aim to contribute positively. My interests include [briefly list relevant topics or hobbies], and I’m looking forward to connecting with like-minded people here. Thank you for your time in reviewing my application.


With #3DPrinting being so accessible and #PCB manufacturing being reasonably inexpensive, I wonder how much I'm underestimating how difficult it would be to design and build a fully #FOSS #game console. I'm thinking something reminiscent of the #NES; I'm not trying to compete with modern consoles.

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in reply to Digit

@Digit At the moment, I'm very broke and my executive function sucks since I'm off ADHD meds, so it'll probably take forever for me to finish, but It's something I want to do.

It does look like someone's beaten me to it, but I'm not trying to be the first, just to enjoy the challenge.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Yup. Several have.

And indeed. It's the adventure, the learning, the creating, more than the having.

(and yeah, I hear ya on the executive functioning fails... I've never yet had medication for my ADHD (not even officially diagnosed), this place is a mess... and yet, when the idea struck, and I followed the inspiration, the whim, at the start of this month, much to my astonishment, I made a fin, from zero to proof of concept, in less than a week, and development continues... ks392457.kimsufi.com/drnw/fin.… | codeberg.org/Digit/fin/ | youtu.be/dhJaNQi8400 😮 ... So it happens when it happens. #ADHD -> #VAST 😁 )

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