Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

While it took a few weeks to work up the nerve, here is proof that we actually do use the Rep weave rug I made for the front entry way. #weaving

@ridetheory What?! Wow this is amazing.

@SewingforyourLife If you have storage problems then definitely do *not* take up weaving on a floor loom :)

Although a rigid heddle loom doesn't take up much space...

@SewingforyourLife You can never have too many hobbies! I personally started weaving a year ago. It's very fun and relaxing, but it's also my first fiber-based hobby.

@SewingforyourLife Thank you! I can't wait to see what the finished product looks like, I'm sort of making up this pattern as I go along!

Side note for other weavers: when I did the threading for this, I dressed the loom to be able to do 3 to 4 totes. To give myself maximum future flexibility, instead of doing a typical 1-2-3-2-1 krokbragd threading, I opted for 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 traditional twill and then when doing tie-ups I left my plain weave 2-4 treadle alone.

This lets me weave 1-2-3 krokbragd but I also have the option to switch to a standard twill pattern if I wanted to.

Tech bro? No that don't make me
See what I want sign up to it swiftly
Felt it in my hips so I swiped back from the app of Twits
Then I tapped for the app, make me wanna do posts for it
Pin them like a intro post should be pinned
Came to my timeline then I found all my friends
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
Can post from a shell? Well, makes me wanna toot toot toot

Apologies Salt-n-Pepa

(Hey yeah, I wanna toot, baby)
Ooh, how you doing, baby?
No, not you, you, the #federated one, yeah
What's your name?
Mastodon? That sounds sexy

Uh, here I go, here I go, here I go again
Geeks, what's my weakness? (FOSS!)
OK then, chillin, browsin, minding my business
Yo Musk, I looked around and I couldn't believe this
I swear, I stared, my tab my witness
The server had it going on with something kinda, uh
Federated, moderated,
I'm not shy, so I asked for the instance

I brought an #antique mechanical #calculator (Monroe LN-160X) to my local Linux Users' Group last night for show and tell. But even better, someone else brought their #Curta Type I! I had never seen, much less used one in person before. Everything about them, the look, the feel, the form factor, is fantastic.

@Wildbill I believe I've seen that done. I've definitely seen it used for media discussions that contained spoilers.

@jhamner The book was first printed in 1931 but my copy is from 1936.

I'm #weaving fabric for another tote bag using the krokbragd technique. What I like about this technique is that it allows for a level of improvisation you typically don't get with most weaving.

For instance, I decided this pattern in brown tones will be a bit too bland for the full side of the tote, so I'm going to improvise a banded purple diamond pattern around the middle of the tote to spice things up.

@raise-project Yes the initial jam that started it all happened about 24 hours into a print!

@raise-project Thanks for the tips! Yes that was the cause of the initial jam (this room gets somewhat dusty) and it took quite a bit of work to clean that out.

It was only after cleaning it out well and having a successful print or two that this happened with a freshly-opened spool, even after cleaning, and after scratching my head noticed the resistance in the new bowden tube.

I should really get an enclosure for this ender 5, but that would take up a lot of space!

@Wildbill Start up a new thread w/ the questions and let's go!

This past weekend I had a #3dprinting jam bad enough it was easier to replace the whole bowden tube. After a print or two I started getting equally bad jams with the new tube! The clue was noticing resistance just pushing filament through the bowden tube. A drop of olive oil on the foam in my dust filter provided enough lubrication and now prints are silky smooth!

@racheltobac For organizations large enough to manage it, having a dedicated Fediverse instance on the org's domain (say, social.aa.com, social.airbnb.com etc) would let a customer treat social media from those accounts like they would emails from aa.com or airbnb.com.

To me that would provide stronger verification than the typical Mastodon ref=me cross-link in the profile.

@micahflee I use it on my profile to verify both my company's team page (to validate this is an official account of an employee at that company, as well as my GPG fingerprint that's on that page), and to verify my personal website to link this account to me personally.