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Just thinking about these two articles
https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373 and https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification
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Kenmore fridge defrost
I came back from vacation to a fridge that wouldn’t get cold and a freezer that was iced over in the back. I have a bottom-freeze model so I knew the issue – ice was clogging the duct that allows cold air up to the fridge. I’m guessing the defrost cycle didn’t kick in enough…
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Another host bites the dust
This site used to be hosted on chunkhost.com for the longest time – it was a decent service for the longest time, and cheap, which made it ideal for a random blog. After a couple of years I had one issue trying to reboot a server that was stuck rebooting since November 2022 and I…
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Fixing upload limit w/HTTPS-Portal and WordPress docker images
I was trying to upload this photo of my dog to test out some things and hit an issue with https-portal and the wordpress docker images. I thought I’d share my fixes since it wouldn’t let me upload anything over 1MB. The https-portal has a limit of 1M, so you need to add the CLIENT_MAX_BODY_SIZE…
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One always needs to do a test post.
Trying out the activity pub plugin for wordpress, curious if and how it works! Plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
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Fridge and Freezer Temperature Monitoring
A couple of weeks ago I had the unfortunate problem of my freezer’s auto-defrost not kicking on an the coils freezing completely. This led to my fridge not cooling down past 60. I had to take apart my freezer for the first time to de-ice the coils to get it working again. Then I got…
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The Avenue Burger at Barrelhouse 101
Location: Ventura, CA. I found this burger (https://imgur.com/gallery/m97eumu) on Imgur and wanted to try it out since I’m nearby. It was really tasty with a lot of flavors going on. The spiciness was great at first too. Lots of chorizo flavor but not a lot of burger flavor after a while. The ingredients were all…
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Gitlab Pages + Namecheap
I came across a small issue when trying to use some namecheap domains with Gitlab pages, namely two stupid joke pages: burgerlover.us and fsdbutton.xyz. I couldn’t get the verification to happen after adding the TXT entries. One simple support issue led me to find the reason, which is namecheap appends the domain automatically to the…
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Road Trippin’ with a Tesla
I purchased a 2018 Model 3 LR RWD back in June 2018 and have absolutely enjoyed owning an electric car. I appreciate the very minimal maintenance and being able to just charge it up when I need to at home without planning on visiting a gas station ever again. I’ve also enjoyed road tripping with…
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Fun with Sensors
I started woodworking some more in the garage, since I plan on doing this for decades to come I should worry a bit about air quality. I found a cheap sensor on eBay that can read particles the size of 1.0 μm, 2.5μm, and 10μm and provide both the AQI for that as well as…