Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

I was getting really frustrated with my 3D printer. I had to print very hot (which caused stringing) or else it would jam. Turns out the PTFE tube inside the hot end had partially melted. I replaced it with an all-metal hot end and it's like I have a new printer.

My rug is done! This took about a month to complete on my rigid heddle loom. There are mistakes here and there but I learned a LOT along the way I will be able to apply to the next rug. #weaving

I spent quite a bit of this weekend #weaving because I was so close to finishing my first rug. Late last night I reached the end! The green rows are to hold the fringe until I can secure them off the loom. Now I just need to take it off the loom and perform finishing steps.

@le_ArthurDent@mastodon.social The Roombas that I have had, have all been very easy to work on. This one was a 500 series which is quite old, so I don't know what recent models are like, but there are guides online that walk you through disassembly and repair step by step. It is mostly just removing screws in a certain order.

@obsolete29 I don't have a lot of home automation stuff in place yet. I don't want the proprietary solutions and haven't wanted to invest the time to piece together something homegrown, mostly because I haven't (at least yet) found enough benefit in the automation to offset the initial effort and ongoing maintenance. But that's just me, I'm sure for plenty of geeks the "neat factor" tips the scales toward making it worth it especially if they already enjoy electronics projects.

That wasn't so bad. The sensors were just completely covered in dirt. I gave them a quick cleaning and the Roomba is back in working order.

Time to fix the Roomba circle of death (again).

I found the cutest little portable mechanical calculator at a thrift store today! This one was designed for adding Imperial length measurements (notice the fraction column and the column that goes to 11).

@aral @purism I actually re-read it and realized I wrote it before we implemented the feature to detect *new* files that were added to the file system so I just updated it to reference that update (and strikethrough the outdated text), which should be live in a bit.

@yaelwrites Weird! I have submitted quite a few talks for SCALE but so far have gotten radio silence. Either all my pitches were bad, or they are still debating whether they are going to have the conference (in March).

@yaelwrites How kind of you to say! Wow, remember talks? That seems like so long ago now...

@aral @purism No problem! I also had to work within a few design constraints. The most relevant one here is that I wanted it to be as OS-agnostic as possible (like PureBoot is in general). I write at length about the design constraints and considerations here: https://puri.sm/posts/new-pureboot-feature-scanning-root-for-tampering/

@yaelwrites Yeah maybe sexism is more a factor. I have a small level of (possibly waning) name recognition in a particular community because of my books and Linux Journal column but it is mostly positive.

@twrightsman Hmmm unfortunately I don't believe Pearson provides the same kind of ebook options as, say, No Starch, but then also I haven't ordered my own book so I'm embarrassingly ignorant of the options. Paper form is DRM-free though!

@yaelwrites Super interesting (and unfortunate)! I always suspected that might be the case but never knew for sure (and was never high profile enough myself to experience it).