sirs0ri - Network

Content warning:de-pol*chuckles*

Content warning:de-pol

*chuckles*

I've been looking for some new ram for my mini-pc-as-a-home-server, and I have to say, SO DIMM RAM sticks are a completely different market...

I've been looking for some new ram for my mini-pc-as-a-home-server, and I have to say, SO DIMM RAM sticks are a completely different market than the overly gamified desktop equivalents

There's like three brands I recognise, and one of them is Lexar who I always thought was just a printer manufacturer 😅

Any advice on what I should look out for, what to avoid?

today's yak shaving exercise led me back down into the "managing fictional calendars" rabbit hole, with a side of making a Foundry plugin do...

today's yak shaving exercise led me back down into the "managing fictional calendars" rabbit hole, with a side of making a Foundry plugin do what I want (no, I know what I want, you don't!)

The Obsidian Plugin I'm using to track the date in our D&D world got a big update that added an "advance the date by 1 day" helper that I've been waiting for - that propmted me to fiddle around with my D&D macros (because of course the new helper didn't allow me to specify which calendar I wanted to change, so I had to write some code with the new APIs afterall)

Once I got that working and placed in a handy toolbar in my session notes I remembered that a couple of sessions ago we retconned our calendar around by a few days, and wanted to make sure that my version of it is aligned with the "official" one. So I opened Foundry, our virtual tabletop, noticed that the calendar widget we have on some maps apparently isn't available on the overworld map - hm. That seemed like it needed fixing!

Some tinkering with the JS debugger later I found the method to create the widget, and a couple more minutes later I had the necessary CSS fixes ready to show not just the calendar, but also the time (because apparently the time is in the same row of elements that let the DM control the time, and it's all hidden together? I have no clue what's happening there....), and another few minutes later I had the whole thing wrapped in a neat little macro that I can run in Foundry, to show the time widget on any map I want it to.

Then I finally noticed that my calendar's off by two days, fixed that, and now I can hopefully avoid any further time anomalies until our characters are high level enough to cause them intentionally

(to the melody of the ABBA song)🎶 gimme gimme gimme a mug filled with coffee 🎵

(to the melody of the ABBA song)

🎶 gimme gimme gimme a mug filled with coffee 🎵

Where is the "skip intro" button for today?

Where is the "skip intro" button for today?

Oh noI managed to revive my Minecraft server from the last time I had The Itch(tm)Time to finally build that harbour town

Oh no

I managed to revive my Minecraft server from the last time I had The Itch(tm)

Time to finally build that harbour town

I just watched "The day the earth stood still", and I gotta say, those 21% on rotten tomatoes sound about right Keanu Reeves and Jennifer...

I just watched "The day the earth stood still", and I gotta say, those 21% on rotten tomatoes sound about right

Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly made the movie bearable, but that's about it

If you think about watching it, go and watch Arrival instead. Thank me later 😁

I'm rewatching the first season of Andor now that the second one is coming out, and my gosh everything about it is so goodI forgot how much...

I'm rewatching the first season of Andor now that the second one is coming out, and my gosh everything about it is so good

I forgot how much of a banger the soundtrack is

I want y'all to know that this post took me way too long to compose, because I ended up with matching line lengths for the first paragraph...

I want y'all to know that this post took me way too long to compose, because I ended up with matching line lengths for the first paragraph and then decided to stick to those line lengths for the rest of it as well

I've been bouncing back and forth between Marillion and Infected Mushrom for a week now, and just realized that Neo-Prog and Psy-Trance are...

I've been bouncing back and forth between Marillion and Infected Mushrom for a week now, and just realized that Neo-Prog and Psy-Trance are basically the same music.

Both genres feature lots of rythm and flowing harmonies, and they share a "chill yet powerful" vibe that'll pick up more energy as the songs go on

The biggest difference lies with the instruments: while there are some similarities (electric guitars or synths, prominent drums/percussion) Neo-Prog has a strong focus on vocals, while Psy-Trance uses those as just one more sound in the mix.

Both tickle my brain in the exact same ways!

I call this one awaken'tI need more coffee

I call this one awaken't

I need more coffee

Hm, it looks like I didn't clean up that Linux dual boot as well as I'd thought - the boot entries for it were still there, even though the...

Hm, it looks like I didn't clean up that Linux dual boot as well as I'd thought - the boot entries for it were still there, even though the rest was gone.

I should have it fixed by now (I cleaned up those EFI entries as well and now they're gone from the BIOS as well) - should I attempt another bios update to test it out? 😅

Actually, that "lights dim when TV is on" automation might predate me using home assistant in some shape or form Automating my lights was...

Actually, that "lights dim when TV is on" automation might predate me using home assistant in some shape or form

Automating my lights was one of the first things I did when I started building smart home stuffs as a way to get into programming - back then with my own CLI tool built in python on a RasPi intermangled with Tasker on my phone

One of these days I should really fix the automation that resets my lights from their "ambient mode" to their normal brightness once I turn...

One of these days I should really fix the automation that resets my lights from their "ambient mode" to their normal brightness once I turn my TV back off

That might be one of my oldest automations, and it's been working "good enough" for years now, but I am getting irritated by my lights dimming down before returning to their usual brightness

I think they turn off for a split second (as a good enough default) and then fade up to their normal brightness when it's dark outside (which it is in 95% of all situations where I'm watching TV). I should probably just use the "night mode" of the wonderful Adaptive Lighting integration which I'm running anyways these days, but the automation predates me finding that tool by probably a few years

TIL that my work laptop has a major design flawIt feels like it's simply just not meant to be used in a docked mode, lid closed and attached...

TIL that my work laptop has a major design flaw

It feels like it's simply just not meant to be used in a docked mode, lid closed and attached to external hardware

Like, it has a power button on the side (which is accessible when it's closed, neat!), but apparently that button gets disabled when the devices is closed, and the only way to send it to sleep/wake it back up is to open it

I guess it kinda makes sense to not accidentally turn on the laptop when moving it, but I feel like that button should be active while the device is docked and plugged in to a power brick.

Also, the thermals management while closed is bad - really bad. The laptop's designed to vent "out the back", into the hinge so that normally the cool air is pulled in from the bottom and the hot air escapes upwards over the screen - there's enough clearances that it works quite well

When closed the hot air still gets out, but now only through the lower side of the hinge, where it's directed right back into the .5mm thick pocket of air underneath the device, where the input vents sit. I put the thing on a small box and it got so much cooler instantly, now that the air can actually escape

Oh noI just found a solution for a coding problem where I can't tell if it's actually really clever or actually a really bad idea

Oh no

I just found a solution for a coding problem where I can't tell if it's actually really clever or actually a really bad idea

#NowListening https://tidal.com/browse/track/215134208?uI finally managed to find a radio station (over on tidal) that has a bunch of music...

#NowListening https://tidal.com/browse/track/215134208?u

I finally managed to find a radio station (over on tidal) that has a bunch of music in it that I vibe with, but haven't heard before, which is such a refreshing change from my fight against being stuck in the same three genres for months, if not even years

I've been listening to a lot of, uhm, techno-ish? music recently - Klangphonics, After Cooking, etc and this song keeps popping up, and I keep wanting to like it again and again.

Kinda makes me wish more apps had a "like this again" feature like codepen's where you can lke something 1-3 times.

#HolocallLeaks #DeutscheLeitKultur #CortexImplant

#HolocallLeaks #DeutscheLeitKultur #CortexImplant

Ripping out dead code that only made things worse for the user by doing pointless things feels kinda depressing Someone wasted a lot of...

Ripping out dead code that only made things worse for the user by doing pointless things feels kinda depressing

Someone wasted a lot of energy on building this, and now it's costing me a bunch of energy to clean up

Dang, I've only got three episodes of Kim Possible left and then she'll have graduated and the show's overAny recs for a "I can watch this...

Dang, I've only got three episodes of Kim Possible left and then she'll have graduated and the show's over

Any recs for a "I can watch this and I'll have a good time, guaranteed drama-free" show to fill in KP's footsteps?