#iamanidiot — Public Fediverse posts

Watching Band of Brothers and it was a bit confusing. Realised I had watched episode 1, then epsode 5, then epsiode 3. I suppose that's what they mean by the fog of war. #tv #IAmAnIdiot

I was updating some financial paperwork recently and discovered that my drivers license had expired! Because I use my passport at the airport I've not had to use my actual license for anything in a while.
Hats off to the State of Illinois for an easy and straightforward online renewal for "safe drivers." I had my license renewed and a temporary card within about 10 minutes. No standing in line or trying to get a rare appointment at the DMV for me! #iamanidiot #forgetful #illinois

Was finishing up with making dinner and was holding a pot of boiling water with pasta in, when I called for the fam to come in and wash hands etc. Kid came past me and stupid me leant back to give him space, and I spilt boiling water straight onto my stomach.

Managed to safely put the pot down, and get my top off in seconds, and was applying a cold water soaked tea-towel straight away, but the old tum-tum got a bit of a scalding. Lost a layer of skin and it stings like hell, but luckily nothing too serious.

On a positive note at least the kids got a lesson in why mum and dad always say tell them not to mess about in the kitchen.

I mean I wasn't even fucking around, but I still found out!

#IHurtMyself #IAmAnIdiot #ow

Today’s lesson: putting a wifi-connected raspberry pi in a metal case won’t work because OF COURSE IT BLOODY WON’T WORK IAN YOU STUPID CHIMP. #raspberrypi #wifi #IAmAnIdiot

Log in to management console. "Username or password not recognised."
Log in again. "Username or password not recognised."
Double check password in password store.
"Username or password not recognised."
5 minutes later...
Oh... the management console says "live". The page in the password manager says "test". :nkoFacepalm:

#IAmAnIdiot #Facepalm

Pro Tip: Don't delete those weird TXT records you created in your Domain Registrar for certbot bc you thought you didn't need them anymore. Certbot renew will fail. 🤦‍♂️
#CertBot #IAmAnIdiot

TFW: you type "sudo reboot" to reboot your Linux laptop. But you are actually logged into a server.
#Linux #IAmAnIdiot

Doubling down on apartheid, when the funding and tech the downside have allows them enough kill power to matter more than maybe native Americans did.
Citizenship.
#IAmAnIdiot

To what extent are the Palestinians and Hama's the same thing?
To what extent are Likud, the Israelis, and Jewish people the same?
To what extent does everything agree on these things?
#Gaza #IAmAnIdiot

So being a galaxy brain I put a tarp over our trampoline for the winter to protect it from the weather.
Turns out, snow is actually frozen water and when it accumulates it can be quite heavy.
Even more fun because it's still warm out, that snow melted and then froze again so I had a pool of probably 300-400lbs of water with a 3 inch thick slab of ice floating on top.
How it didn't rip I don't know, but I'm wet and cold and my back hurts, but there's no more tarp on it now.
#IAmAnIdiot

Yeah... I tell people to set their language properly when they post here, and what do I do?

I forget to set it.

:headache:

At any rate, it is fixed now.

#ChemoBrain #forgetfulness #language #IAmAnIdiot

My two biggest respiratory allergies:
- Cottonwood Trees
- Alfalfa (Lucerne)

So *of course* the new house we moved into is a mile down the road from several large alfalfa fields in a state where Cottonwood is the state tree.

That's some top-end advanced scouting on my part. 🤦‍♂️

#IAmAnIdiot

And now, a scene from my brain.

"My new macbook is almost out of diskspace. WTF. This is a brand new M2 with a terabyte of storage. No way I only have 30 gig left. Dammit, MacOS must be doing something stupid, or cloud sync is piling stuff on I don't wa... wait... uhh...

$ du -hs tmp
326G tmp

Errrrr. <emily_lillela> never mind! </>

#macos #mac #filesystem #disk #iamanidiot

So what do you do when your phone rings? You pick up your victor reader to answer it. That’s what stupid here just tried to do. #IAmAnIdiot

I decided to warm my bike up in the garage and give it a proper scrub.... and because I'm an idiot, I now know that my carbon monoxide alarms work great.

#bikes #biker #IAmAnIdiot #motorcycle #motorbike

Scoffing this while discussing weight loss goals is okay, yeah?

#IAmAnIdiot

Avoided offers by my GP aka Dracula to give him my blood for 20 yrs as I was scared. Didn't want to know. Didn't want to end up on a merry-go-round of tests & scans spinning me into the palliative care ward. Besides, my mother was a hypochondriac so as the proverbial black sheep of the family it's my duty to do the opposite of what she did. But secretly worried. For 20 yrs.

Finally caved & gave him the bloody blood to shut him up.

Result: Perfect health

#IAmAnIdiot

Result: Perfect health.

So ... if you're not seeing images or avatars on Mastodon ...

... and you're using uMatrix ...

... check that you've got "media" selected for your instance's media-serving host.

I just discovered I wasn't. Which was giving the above-mentioned problem.

#MastoTips #Images #uMatrix #IAmAnIdiot