The Official Status Thread
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status: always fun watching someone fail to enter the root password continuously for half an hour.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
I started looking at buying a standard mount that has a drive kit. The way the telescope attaches to the mount is standard; the way the mount fits to the tripod, maybe. The least expensive standard-ish manual mounts that could be relatively easily adapted to a motor drive, not counting the drive kit, cost almost as much as my whole telescope kit. Ones that are already motorized are almost double. And I could easily spend almost an order of magnitude more for just a mount.
Have you asked @Polygeekery? He may have an idea on how to build something cheap out of spare parts and scrap metal.
I'm not even kidding.
I have ideas on how to build something, even something fairly cheap. The most straightforward would probably be making a substitute for the drive that's back-ordered. I'd need a small motor, speed control of some suitable kind (depending on the motor), and a gear to mesh with the existing gear. I could make a mounting bracket from a bit of heavy brass sheet, some tubing, and a thumbscrew to hold it in place; I'm not sure I have the right size tubing, but that's easily obtained. Finding the right gear would be the trickiest part. The existing gear has quite fine teeth. I haven't counted the teeth (there's a lot of them) nor measured the diameter to calculate the modulo; that's the key value in determining whether two gears are compatible. Alternatively, if I can't find a compatible gear, I might be able to replace the existing gear with a compatible pair from eBay or wherever. Or a toothed belt and pulleys; that seems to be the preferred drive-train in the kits I've seen. Either way, I need to figure out the shaft diameter, and whether it's keyed, or flat, or square, or whatever so it doesn't slip.
The problems are the deadline and that I have several other projects with similar deadlines. I don't need to add another that might cause all of them to slip. I really need something that Just Worksâ˘.
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status: how to pronounce ciokiewicz?
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Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
They are smokers, drinkers and married.
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
They are smokers, drinkers and married.
Fuck them all!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
They are smokers, drinkers and married.
Fuck them all!
Getting married means you don't do that any more
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
They are smokers, drinkers and married.
Fuck them all!
Getting married means you don't do that any more
And yet, here I am, once again. đś
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Damn, where all the men at?
I guess they all married already...
So I must seem like a real catch!
They are smokers, drinkers and married.
Fuck them all!
Getting married means you don't do that any more
And yet, here I am, once again. đś
Being unmarried is not a guarantee that you still do (or ever did) that.
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Status: I want to wring the neck of whoever designed this thermostat. It's "fully automatic" which means the only controls you get is desired temperature and.... on/off.
This is great, right? Set it and forget it?
Well it works when the hysteresis is on your side. For example, I set it to 75 and the ambient is currently only 70. Turns on the heat, everything is fine. Room slowly heats up, it trips at 75 and turns off. Due to (I guess) poor airflow, eventually the sensor reads 77 and guess what? It turns on THE FUCKING AIR CONDITIONER! Bitch!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
It turns on THE FUCKING AIR CONDITIONER! Bitch!
BT;DT. When I was living in a hotel room for an extended period of time after I moved back to California from Washington, the H
VAC would alternate directly between heating and cooling. When it decided to cool, air from the AC was approximately -273°C. I had to keep the thermostat set to "sauna", because it was the only way to not freeze to death every time the AC came on. And there was no ventilation. If it was nice outside, and you just wanted some fresh air, too bad. If it was running, it was either heating or cooling; there was no plain fan mode.
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@Tsaukpaetra you didn't even exclude obese. Although the upper height limit seems a bit harsh.
No wonder I never seem to meet anyone.And then I'll drop out of that age range soon enough.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I want to wring the neck of whoever designed this thermostat. It's "fully automatic" which means the only controls you get is desired temperature and.... on/off.
This is great, right? Set it and forget it?
Well it works when the hysteresis is on your side. For example, I set it to 75 and the ambient is currently only 70. Turns on the heat, everything is fine. Room slowly heats up, it trips at 75 and turns off. Due to (I guess) poor airflow, eventually the sensor reads 77 and guess what? It turns on THE FUCKING AIR CONDITIONER! Bitch!
I get that in the car. I don't really want it to heat above 18 but I don't want it to cool below 25.
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Status: Meeting before caffeine. Bad idea.
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Status: When "free next day delivery" actually means "free next business day delivery" and you order too late on Thursday to get it before Monday.
Also mad that I cannot find some papers despite turning over a significant part of the lived in part of the house plus my Jeep. Specifically:
the bank statement between right address and wrong address so I can bark at the banka full sheet with my Workday logon info for part time job so I can print an updated W2- sales chart from August 2021 (OK, realistically, this is buried much deeper)
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Status: It's the weekend. Anyone nearby for free sex? I don't have anyone else expecting me to be places!
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status: bored.
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status: is Josh Groban someone with an accent, and is it offensive? Rather confused at an announcement the DJ made regarding cultural sensitivity directly after I mostly succeeded at rendering You Are Loved. đ
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
status: bored.
I guess I'm just fated to not enjoy traditional and non-traditional fun activities. Woe is me and all that.
I wonder what else I can cross off my list of things that are potentially fun?
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Status: Oh shit, am I currently in a state that does that stupid clock change thing tomorrow?!
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@Tsaukpaetra You're in the most stupid state where part of it (Navajo nation) observes it and the rest doesn't.
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If we had a front page, that article would be worthy of it.
(Also, I learned that Benjamin Franklin is the one to blame for introducing DST. It's a pity, that same guy also did one or two useful things.)
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You're in the most stupid state where part of it (Navajo nation) observes it and the rest doesn't.
Ok I forgot to mention I'm in Oregon for the month because work couldn't find enough people to plug in patch cables or someshit.
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Status: I hate support drones whose best ability is to regurgitate stuff I can already figure out from the account details page...
Also, ugh....
If a conversation with me makes you feel refreshed, boy howdy, let me fill you in on the sitch....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, ugh....
What are you complaining about? You made somebody feel better for a moment. Now all you need to figure out is how to make it reciprocal.
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Also, ugh....
What are you complaining about? You made somebody feel better for a moment. Now all you need to figure out is how to make it reciprocal.
Trust me, that indian has no way to accomplish that goal.
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@Tsaukpaetra vibes
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I won $2400 at a casino tonight.
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status: CreditKarma sent me vaguely threatening email. I go to log in and...
Sus
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Ok I forgot to mention I'm in Oregon for the month because work couldn't find enough people to plug in patch cables or someshit.
:/ I had a challenge for you.1
The ONLY PLACE ON EARTH you can cross 7 TIMEZONES in 2 hours.... – 16:53
— Geography Now1 Not really. You'd probably have to ask for permission to cross their territories.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You're in the most stupid state where part of it (Navajo nation) observes it and the rest doesn't.
Ok I forgot to mention I'm in Oregon for the month because work couldn't find enough people to plug in patch cables or someshit.
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STATUS All my meetings have been cancelled and nothing is on fire... that I'm aware of. What exactly am I supposed to do with my day?
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Hint:
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@Zerosquare slacker.
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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread:
What exactly am I supposed to do with my day?
Play games and shitpost, just like you were doing when you did have work to do?
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@Zerosquare, I'm with you:
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@error said in The Official Status Thread:
I won $2400 at a casino tonight.
Revenue or profit?
Almost entirely profit, though the casino withheld 24% for taxes.
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@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare, I'm with you:
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@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare, I'm with you:
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@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
@Zerosquare, I'm with you:
3 short of a good number
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@izzion said in The Official Status Thread:
3 short of a good number
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Status:
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@HardwareGeek Killer Wi-Fi? More like Wi-Fi Killer.
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@HardwareGeek So you loaded a page with many wall-o-text posts by remi 4 minutes ago, and you still haven't finished reading it?
approves.
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@HardwareGeek That shows actual data flow rates, not capacity. Can't tell if it should be higher in the first place, or where the issue is if it should be higher; the Internet is really complicated behind the scenes.