Kithop @kithop@social.kithop.ca

Doing the 12.0-RELEASE upgrade dance right now, and recompiling my entire installed ports collection.

Ran into a weird Perl-related issue where it was still using 5.24 rather than 5.26... manually forced that one to upgrade first, updated /etc/make.conf to force it as the default for now, knock on wood it seems to be running better.

Once the ports tree is rebuilt I believe I need to freebsd-update install and reboot one last time.

@kd Yeeeah. That looks like an inter-city bus (i.e. Greyhound)? Just the styling.

@kd How about these lads? Absolute units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-articulated_bus

More of this please. Like, everywhere.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead/

I *seriously* wish that the group that I talked to when I first moved into this town got a project like this of the ground instead of rolling over and letting an incumbent do it.

Yes, we do finally have FttH, but it's a lot more expensive for tiered (150, 300Mbps) service. :/

@ludantored Sounds like a supportive dad! ❤️

I've never really attempted to make one myself, but I have a friend who loves to post tutorials and even some templates on her site if you're interested!

https://www.matrices.net/

@karen I ordered two of these and they do work with v4l2:

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B077KRWVPJ/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The image quality isn't the best (especially at 60fps); it comes up like a webcam, slightly fuzzy, but *technically* 1080p60 with audio.

They need like, a whole USB controller worth of bandwidth though if you're capturing raw and not MJPEG, so I had to get dedicated PCI-Express USB 3.x cards for them, and even then kind of regret my choices.

Cheap, though!

@crashdoom Pretty sure my dad is *super* happy about pulling his entire set of UK pensions in full a year or two ago. D:

@nebula So what you're saying is...

Everybody wake up, it's time to get down

...and we'll never miss a party, 'cause we keep them going constantly.

@Sir_Boops ..torrent when? I could help seed after and flex on my 300Mbit fibre line. ;p

Time for everyone to siteban all of Australia, I guess. And probably the UK, too.

And China. And the US.

Should be fun.

@zorinlynx ICQ. :p

@Sir_Boops Nah. Bandcamp, though, for those sweet, sweet FLACs.

And a pile of actual physical CDs I've ripped over the years.

@pixl ...
[*distant screaming*]

@Sir_Boops I could also see an EV pickup truck being amazing. Instant shittons of torque starting at 0rpm. Simple, sturdy-as-balls single gear drivetrain (no need for even a reverse gear, motor can go backwards directly!).

It's all about the energy storage + range at this point. Waiting on batteries to get better/more economical for it to really take off.

@Sir_Boops Oh yeah, I mean - they have to be computer controlled, really, by their very nature these days. I definitely want to make sure whatever I get is neutered from calling home over LTE or whatnot if at all possible, infotainment crap is as basic as possible, etc.

If you need a truck or jeep or whatever, too, then yeah - there's no one serving those as EVs really just yet. I wish! It'd be sweet to have an EV 'band van' for touring.

I ended up caving and stopping by a local Starbucks on the way home from my gastro to pick up and try their juniper latté (blonde, w/ soy). The barista warned me it might be a bit weird. 'Do you like gin? (yes) Oh, then you should like this too.'

And yeah, the first couple sips were like... 'huh, this is... *interesting*', but not bad! I finished a venti and yeah, I get it. It's actually kind of tasty. :p

Now I want their syrup to put in *better* coffee at home. ;)

@Sir_Boops I guess. I'm hoping it'll be kind of a moot point as we all shift over to EVs over on this side of the rockies. :p I don't drive enough to care either way, honestly (just groceries, doctors, and family visits), but this car I have now is definitely the last gas-burner I'll own.

@Sir_Boops $1.19 here, but probably more like $1.35-1.40 ish in Metro Vancouver because of their transit taxes.

Gastro even seemed super supportive when I mentioned we started using medicinally with a vapourizer. "High CBD, right? If it works, that's great! No problems there."

Not a fan of the THC-heavy stuff we have left, so I've put in my 2nd order with the gov't store website. Hey, they have Tantalus stuff too... that's grown just in the next neighbouring town! :P May as well try their CBD-leaning home-grown. Huzzah.