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#lazydon please recommend to me:
- a decent home NAS I can store music, photos, docs,etc., and run my own services for those things either on the NAS or a small home server
- a probably Euro-based online storage for backup

Hey, #Lazydon, I have a contact working in government who has a need for a temporary (6ish months?) person with deep experience in Excel, macro programming, and finance. Ideally this would be Melbourne or Canberra, but not a blocker if not.

Does this sound like somebody that you know? DM me and I will put you in touch.

#jobstodon

Question for #Electronics #Lazydon … has anyone tried building a snubber pigtail for commodity IoT mains switches? I’m thinking something like just wiring in a Cornell Dubilier RC network to a 6” lead and heat-shrinking it. The idea is to give them a little robustness when switching inductive loads.

(I’m aware there are IoT switches that are supposedly designed for inductive loads; I’m wondering about protecting the switches I have.)

Can a browser extension hook the logic that decides where to put an opened link? Like, I almost never agree with my browser about where that should go.

(I've set up my "default browser" to be a shell script wrapper that adds --new-window to the command line, but that doesn't reliably work, and doesn't handle other weird logic I want like "always open links that match this regexp in the window of the PWA that I set up for that domain".)

#Lazydon

Kid has asked me to make a Montessori-style bookcase for my granddaughter, so naturally I must.

I'm going to strike a balance between the cheaper, easy option of using 18mm ply and painting it (she wants a particular colour) and going in hard and using something like birch. So, I'll use dressed pine. Ideally, I can get 100mm x 19mm lengths, but 89mm x 19mm seems to be the closest I can get. That's not quite what I wanted, but it will have to do.

Now I have to draw up plans. All the woodworking sites seem to use SketchUp, so time to grab the 7 day free trial. There must be a good open source equivalent. #lazydon?

Hey #Lazydon, of those among you using @kagihq, are any of you also using their browser, #Orion?

I can see some possible benefit, but I’m not sure how much *more* beneficial it might be than Safari with an appropriate extension setup would be.

#Lazydon, is it possible to craft a list, or some other combination of inputs that combines users/accounts as well as keywords or hashtags and display it in Mastodon as, say, a column?

Best iOS app for Mastodon? Anyone? Bueller?
Balance of ease of use, cleverness, cost, etc.
TIA #lazydon

#Lazydon, I have a Pixel 7a phone with a cracked screen, but the local repairer doesn't fix Pixel devices. Is there someone reliable, quality, and trustworthy I can send it to for repair?

I could buy the kit from iFixit, but I don't presently have the time (or patience) to do the job (too much farm work, firewood cutting, and house reno work to do).

Suggestions appreciated.

@decryption should I put this on the forums?

who’s written something good about a modern day approach to software architecture? #lazydon #softwarearchitecture

OK, last night at a local pizza joint I saw the creepiest TV ad during the Mariners game

appeared to be an online learning college-esque program for "teaching our great American history"

was giving Prager U vibes but wasn't Prager.

It had a hyper anglo name like "edgewood" and used an .org TLD not .edu, & I witnessed exactly 1 non-white person in the 2m ad (in a 2s b&w clip of a civil rights protestor pushed around by Bull Connor)

Anybody know who it was, & should I be worried?

#lazydon

Hey, #lazydon, I'm looking for a nice, but not too expensive woodworking vise to attach to a bench. Happy for under-bench, or clamp-on. Would like dog holes, dogs, etc. as well if possible. I have limited space, so something (re)movable *might* be good.

This one looks good, but advice welcomed as I am a rank beginner (but generally handy) - https://www.amazon.com.au/lehom-Workstation-Woodworking-Workbench-Portable/dp/B09Q38MDWQ/

cc @nathanaelcbr @fbouchard @lizduckchong HALP!

Q for #LazyDon -- I was just recently reading or listening to something where the author/speaker talked about how "AI"/"big data" require rendering people as computable data points. But I can't remember what it was! Does that ring a bell for anyone else?

#lazydon #linux users what do you use when you want to annotate a #screenshot (I already have the screenshot via #GNOME, so not flameshot) but you don't want to launch #GIMP?

#lazydon with #heroku simultaneously canning their free tier and disclosing bad security breaches, I'm looking for a cloud service that I can use to run a #redis-backed #nodeJs app that uses #webSockets. Ideally, something more like cloud functions than a heroku instance, but i'll take what I can get. This is a hobby project, I was paying $7 on heroku, so if it's more than that i'll probably just have to shut it down.

So #lazydon, git-backed, markdown wiki with support for some kind of global variables/includes/etc, so that important information does not need to be changed across multiple pages?