bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

After thinking a couple weeks, what trucks need (and other evs that can tow) is a standard trailer light connector with ability for the trailer to provide power while moving. Many trailers could have another 1000lbs of battery. Campers in particular - and they also should allow pluging the camper in to charge both at once. You can rent a generator trailer for longer trips - and in many applications the generator is helpfur when you ret there.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That is out of date. Someone should look up the law in Iowa that just went into effect and update it. I'm too lazy to look up the required details.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 22 hours ago

Apple is not that stupid - they will see through such tricks.

Which is also why Apple wants this: they don't get a cut of the money Patron makes.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Go to your small local "sales and service" place and ask them. Not all of them are good, but many are friendly, and they know what they get called to repair.

Though last time I asked they told me keep repairing the old ones - new ones are too water savings and won't work as well.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Something bad about Bosch: if you need a repair almost no local shop will work on them. They use the cheap national chains for warranty work - the type that that try to band-aid over a problem until you give up and buy a new one.

Overall Bosch is reliable, but if you have problems they are not a good choice.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't look for books - they are a form of procrastination for people like you. Not that books are bad, but they can't solve your real problem which is there is always something else that seems better to do. You already know "You just have to do it and it if you want it so bad, you'll find a way" - which is all that books can tell you (200-300 pages to basically say that!).

Cold and snowy is NOT AN EXCUSE! Get the gear your climate needs. You need this in case your car goes in a ditch or something so there is no excuse to not have it! Lightening is the only thing that should stop you from going outside. Even if you never walk for exercise you need this.

I bike to work when it weather allows for it - and I have the clothing so most weather allows for it (the gear to bike in cold is not the same as going for a walk!). An ebike increases the distance I can reasonably ride to work. Be careful with this though - it is easy to turn "I need one more piece of gear" into procrastination. Ride to the office this saturday - check out your route and the time - if it is reasonable start riding every day and get the gear needed when you need it - but if it isn't reasonable just give up.

There is no easy answer. You can set alarms, but if you don't follow the plan exactly every day they are worthless - as you already know. You need to figure out what will get you to exercise - there is no shortcut. Reading about what works for others can be inspiring - but often it is just a source of procrastination.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

Find something you can do with the kid. You can put the kid in a bike trailer and both enjoy trails. in 1-2 years when the kid is ready for a bike you can get one of those trail a bike things and the kid can ride with you.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a few cousins who took and finished all my grandma's unfinished quilts. They were already into quilting though. YMMV, but it is a good example - if there is someone who can understand/take this over give it to them.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is a car. you will be calling it junk and replacing it in a few years. So don't get emothional.

I get it - a stick shift ICE may not accelerate as fast/smooth - but it is a lot more fun. However driving is a serious task with potential to kill people. You can't treat it like a game

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

If they show me the pictures of my friends, while hiding all the garbage (outrage politics, "you won't believe this"...) so I spend about 2 minutes a day there and get off it would greatly increase productivity. Well it would lower mine because I almost never check facebook anymore - but my life would be enhanced if they limited themselves to the useful things they do and let me go in 2 minutes: a trade off that would be worth it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There are a few things facebook is better at than anything in my life - checking up on distant friends that I wouldn't call normally but I want to know the big events in their life; ensuring my parent see pictures of my kids (we don't live in the same state). However those things only need a couple minutes of my time per day, and that isn't enough to make them a big company and so they keep shoving garbage that doesn't make my life better in my face. That garbage takes up hours per day of many people's time and is worth a lot to facebook.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

There would be so much other news that this slow-new-day story wouldn't be covered by anyway. Assuming it even moves - the idea that at 0 it is too late and so it can't reach zero because nobody is left to move it is reasonable.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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