Aaron Parecki

@aaronpk For Unreal/Blender there is a nice tutorial on how to get that 'archviz' look, but it doesn't exactly start on square one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2e6qQaIdRA

@aaronpk I'm good with compartmentalizing 5/2 split. Less Efficiency, its part of being human. But I also work from work 4 out of the 5. No advantage to sticking around after everyone leaves for the day.

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The 0/0 I've been enjoying this past decade has proved optimal. Only problem is I'm geezerly AF.

Thanks to capjamesg and Jeremy Cherfas in the IndieWeb chat for the nudge to post something on Leap Day because - have I ever made a Leap Day post?

@aaronpk Neat! Are you running the stock firmware?

@kvnweb 💀

@aaronpk those poor souls are earning their wages, let me tell you. Each sheet of ⅝” weighs about 74 pounds.

@aaronpk two‽ For fire safety / building code I assume? How did you attach them? Long drywall screws?

Installing ⅚” drywall is way more annoying than ½”!

@aaronpk do you follow @Srl295 on Mastodon yet? I’ve learned basically everything that I know about Unicode from him

Another exciting evening in Chez Charlie as I connect a Pi, newly-equipped with a Waveshare POE hat, to a POE switch for the first time.

This setup will be extended to power a lot of smart devices in the new apartment.

When it’s finished.

Which will be sometime… in the future.

#HomeAutomation #RaspberryPi

@aaronpk To which one can only reply,... OOOOoooF! $35 a visit. harsh.

@aaronpk I remember doing a science experiement in elementary school involving several 2 liter bottles of generic cola from the local store and a very cold day (I think it was 22ºF/-6ºC?) doing exactly this in our schoolyard. Very fun, and very cold.

OpenID Connect, aka OIDC, has basically nothing to do with the original OpenID protocol beyond the name, right?

(It's taken me nearly a decade to figure that out)

@aaronpk I'm just approaching the age where I can find things to spend it on, so I have maxed out the benefit the last couple of years. Assuming a 33%(ish) effective tax rate, that gives me just under $1000 of additional buying power. But for $500 or so, no, it would most certainly not be worth the hassle of dealing with ASI.

@aaronpk Our insurance told us they were changing FSA providers for next year and that brought me great joy because the old one is so terribly difficult to deal with. It's almost not worth the hassle. Then a couple of weeks ago, they alerted us that there will be no change after all. I'm on a health plan for state employees, so I assume they made the original announcement while the ink was still drying on the new contract and then something fell through at the last minute.

@aaronpk nice write up, thanks! One of the images doesn’t load for me.