Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

The badge pairs well with this adorable vintage Comptometer oil can.

For Christmas I received a Comptometer badge. These achievement badges were originally awarded to Comptometer operators who performed exceptionally well during their Comptometer adding machine training (Comptometer-specific vocational schools like software boot camps today).

I find carrying a pen and notebook incredibly handy and I've had Field Notes-style graph notebooks in my back pocket for years. For 2022 I'm trying out a Moleskine Weekly journal instead, to see if I like making short (1 sentence) semi-daily entries in addition to regular notes.

@jlcrawf Yes, and if you do an unauthorized repair of a Tesla, you run the risk of Tesla remotely disabling Supercharging "for safety" (but really about control). The Rich Rebuilds Youtube channel had covered a lot of the issues around how Tesla is trying to redefine the traditional secondary repair market to lock people into dealerships for repairs, and making it hard for owners or unauthorized mechanics to get spare parts. Think Apple, but for cars.

The first wave of EVs are old enough their batteries are starting to fail. People tend to repair old ICE cars, but at a $22k price tag to replace batteries that will inevitably fail, it seems like older EVs will be thrown away instead of repaired. https://gizmodo.com/finnish-man-passes-on-paying-22-600-to-replace-his-tes-1848268874

This kind of weaving is pretty slow going. A complete 1 1/8" colored row (like that light brown section near the top) takes me about 1.5 hours to weave.

@fssofdeath Thank you!

Heh, I'm pretty sure no one would pay what I would actually charge for a rug like this, given the immense time and effort involved. At my current rate of progress I expect to finish this rug some time in February. I now understand why nice rugs are so expensive!

I'm making progress on my krokbragd rug. Last night I completed a single run of the color pattern, so from here on it's just a matter of repeating it until I get a 36 inch rug. #weaving

Avoiding this damage was a big reason I replaced my smart watch with an analog one and it took me many weeks to retrain my brain to stop looking at my analog watch for notifications that weren't there.

Years of on call duty meant I was hyper-attentive for phone notifications for so long, it messed w/ my brain (phantom alerts, hearing ringtone still increases heart rate). Much of society is now on call, subject to phone notifications and I worry about the damage it's doing.

I got a new adding machine for free this weekend! This is a Star Adding Machine made by the Todd Protectograph Company between 1924 and 1926. It needs to be cleaned and oiled, but otherwise is in pretty decent shape for something almost 100 years old.

@aral Great way to troubleshoot SMTP too!

Working on a krokbragd rug. #weaving

@karmanyaahm And storage became cheap and we got containers.

I'm skeptical, not at the power efficiency claims, but that the result will be cellphones that last longer. They are designed to last a day or two. Everyone will just shrink batteries and increase workloads until cellphones last as long as they do now.

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/21/12/16/2332227/ibm-and-samsung-say-their-new-chip-design-could-lead-to-week-long-battery-life-on-phones

@moparisthebest @Stacky I wonder how much telemetry and phoning home (if any) is included in that kit.

I've discovered that wearing my vintage green Senate hoodie in public is a great way to meet local old-school rollerbladers in my area.

@wobin I think my next new technique will be Krokbragd.