Aaron Parecki

Jonathan Yu https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy • Feb 16
@aaronpk Email codes always seem to start with 4, maybe it's something to do with the medium they sent it over?

same with the SMS codes for me

Portland, Oregon • 41°F

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Sat, Feb 15, 2025 6:17pm -08:00
Derek Powazek 🐐 https://xoxo.zone/@fraying • Feb 10
Here's what I sent.

holy crap, it's even worse because that's the only product in the store. done ✅

Portland, Oregon • 33°F

Mon, Feb 10, 2025 8:38pm -08:00
Lon Seidman / Lon.TV ☑️ https://indieweb.social/@lonseidman • Feb 6
Revisiting my Top Tech Products of 2015
https://blog.lon.tv/2025/02/06/revisiting-my-top-tech-products-of-2015/

> Even though we have seen some major leaps in performance over the last decade, the devices themselves feel largely the same.

Couldn't agree more! I was looking through this list surprised at how new many of these things felt still.

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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Thu, Feb 6, 2025 2:20pm -08:00
Finley https://dice.camp/@rolerunner • Feb 5
I'm looking to delete my Facebook profile at last. In my final message to my contacts on there I'd like to send them to one or two articles about why Facebook isn't just bad from a #privacy perspective, but also why decentralised #fediverse platforms are much better in the long-term. Maybe throw an anti-Musk/corpo message in there too.
Does anyone from those circles (and maybe #indieweb?) have any easy to read and motivating articles for non-geeks to learn more and get active?

My tip is don't actually delete your Facebook account, do this instead: https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

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Wed, Feb 5, 2025 9:22am -08:00
John Spurlock https://podcastindex.social/@js • Feb 4
@aaronpk true, true
and "podcast" named after two!

wait, I thought the "cast" was from "broadcast" which is definitely still a thing

Portland, Oregon • 38°F

Tue, Feb 4, 2025 11:29am -08:00
nk https://xoxo.zone/@nk • Feb 3
@aaronpk Oh my god I have no idea what I did that that stupid Dogecoin

Yup that's the one. Yours is probably worth about $5000 now too 😬

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

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Mon, Feb 3, 2025 11:42am -08:00
Joël Franušić https://mastodon.social/@jpf • Feb 1
@aaronpk www what?

sounds like someone forgot a clause in the SQL query

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Sat, Feb 1, 2025 3:23pm -08:00
mms :runbsd: + :emacs: :vim: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@mms • Jan 31
Is anyone doing „this week in #indieweb” type of newsletter? I’d love to know what is the buzz.

There's an automated one that pulls from the indieweb wiki and related spaces here: https://indieweb.org/this-week-in-the-indieweb You can add blog posts to it by posting them to IndieNews https://news.indieweb.org/en

Portland, Oregon, USA • 43°F

Fri, Jan 31, 2025 6:33am -08:00
https://micro.blog/toddgrotenhuis • Jan 30
@aaronpk oh interesting. What is your storage and reheating process?

Vacuum sealed bags in the freezer. Then air fry at 375 for 7 minutes to reheat! I cut the bags longer than they need to be so I can reuse them several times too.

Portland, Oregon • 31°F

Thu, Jan 30, 2025 5:56am -08:00
jack the nonabrasive https://mastodon.social/@karabaic • Jan 8
@aaronpk I will have Questions next time I see you.

I will have Answers

San Francisco, California • 56°F

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Wed, Jan 8, 2025 5:57pm -08:00
https://micro.blog/velocykel • Jan 6
@aaronpk completely! I actually started making my own yogurt, which is cheaper and tastes better and never seems to go bad. I’m all for knowing what is going into my food.

ooo I'm glad you've cracked that! I'm still scared of making fermented things, I'm always worried I'm going to do it wrong and then get very sick!

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

Sun, Jan 5, 2025 9:10pm -08:00
Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk Ok got it. So what did you spend, ballpark, to replace your Philips Hue bulbs with the Caseta switches?

👀 depends on how you count. I decided to put in Caseta switches in the 2 new rental units as well as our new unit, so adding the current smaller loft we live in was not a huge amount on top of all that.

Portland, Oregon • 47°F

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Sat, Jan 4, 2025 4:39pm -08:00
Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk Would you take 250 for the lot?

I was originally thinking $300 for the lot, but if you cover shipping I'll take 250!

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk Yeah I might be interested. Floods especially I could use more of, and I think the strips could be fun to scatter about. With the standard/floods, are we talking color, ambiance, or just dimmers?

I have 6 floods, 4 old style and 2 new style, all are white+RGB. The two strips I have are very old and may not be 100% on all the LEDs so I'll throw those in for free.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

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Sat, Jan 4, 2025 9:54am -08:00
Mitch https://mastodon.xyz/@mitchkiah • Jan 4
@aaronpk were you not a fan of the Hue switches?

They started getting really flaky for me lately, only registering every 4th button press. Plus I never used the middle dimmer buttons, I only wanted them for on/off, and the scene selection modes were super complicated. Really I just want a paddle switch with on/off, and that's exactly what the Caseta Pico remote does!

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Sat, Jan 4, 2025 7:25am -08:00
Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk Aha thanks, so the Caseta switches operate over existing light switches mechanically, that's why 'no wires needed'. Will check them out.

There's actually a special "pico" remote that talks wirelessly to any of the wired switches so you can add a switch anywhere on the wall without having planned a wire ahead of time too! But you need to replace the physical switches with Caseta switches first.

Portland, Oregon • 45°F

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Sat, Jan 4, 2025 5:58am -08:00
Caleb Hearth :d6: https://pub.calebhearth.com/@caleb • Jan 4
@aaronpk I mean, what have you got?

Many many standard bulbs, several flood bulbs, a few of the old gen light strips and flood lights, a couple switches, two hubs.

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:47pm -08:00
Joe McLaughlin https://mastodon.social/@joemcl • Jan 4
@aaronpk The Caseta switch connects to a Caseta light bulb(s)?

The Caseta switches replace your normal wall switches and can control whatever lights are at the other end. The great thing is you can completely forget they are smart switches and they behave just like normal switches that way

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:45pm -08:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jan 3
Goodbye Philips Hue 👋

I finally finished replacing all my Hue lights with Caseta switches.

While I will miss the color temperature control, I am excited that I can attach a switch anywhere that works and looks just like a normal switch, no wires needed!

Side note, if you want a giant pile of Hue lights and switches at a steep discount, let me know 👀

Portland, Oregon • 44°F

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Fri, Jan 3, 2025 7:22pm -08:00
Eric Likness https://mastodon.online/@carpetbomberz • Jan 3
@aaronpk For the cost an space of Waffle maker #2, why not? If you ever tire of waffles free cycle the whole thing.

when lily yells at me for getting a second one I will tell her you said it was okay

Portland, Oregon • 42°F

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