Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Wildbill Oh I have one, but at these temps it takes a few hours to bring the office up to room temperature.

It was officially cold enough when I got to my office this morning (~5C) that I broke out my new fingerless mittens I made on my knitting machine a few weeks back. I did a pretty poor job stitching them together but they do the job!

#knitting #machineknitting

Just finished measuring out 600 2.5yd warp threads for my next project: a pair of hand towels woven with a doubleweave overshot pattern. In my enthusiasm I actually overshot (pun always intended) the thread count. I originally only needed 540 threads (16.75" wide towels), but now I'm just going to extend the warp to be 18" wide (576 threads) and have wider towels.

Why not use all 600 threads? My overshot pattern repeats at 18 and I don't want to figure out how to divide it. #weaving

@Viss That's a pretty big thing to lose. He should try looking in the last place he left it.

The latest edition to my office is a vintage Warmink wall clock from the 1960s I got as a gift. Unlike the vintage alarm clock I tried in my office before, this has a quiet and slow tick, and a pleasant chime on the hour and half hour. Plus it tracks moon phases!

I will likely be spending the next few weeks adjusting the pendulum and minute hand so it keeps perfect time. #vintage #clocks

@kirschner I finally got a chance to sit down and read Ada & Zangemann and I enjoyed it! I thought it was a cute story overall, and appropriate for the age groups it is targeting.

I also appreciated how it took a traditional children's morality tale format and modernized it with practical hardware/software ethics in a relatable way, but not in a way that made you feel preached to or talked down to. Would recommend!

@hacks4pancakes @Viss Maxoak (the company that makes the Bluetti Viss mentioned before) does make a smaller capacity model that is similar to what you want to replace: https://www.amazon.com/MAXOAK-50000mAh-Portable-Charger-External/dp/B00YP823NA/

Unclear whether it meets FAA regulations though. I think 185Wh might go above carry-on regulations.

@hacks4pancakes @Viss One advantage your device has over some of the devices we are recommending is that your device meets FAA regs for carry-on. Is that a requirement you'd have for a replacement?

@Viss @hacks4pancakes Yeah for that you'd have to bump up to the Delta Pro line, which is heavy enough they added wheels.

@Viss @hacks4pancakes Before you pull the trigger on a Bluetti, do a compare/contrast with the Ecoflow line. I've been really pleased with my Delta and River to power my camper van. The Delta can pull in 1kw AC to recharge from zero very quickly.

@hacks4pancakes I like the ecoflow gear. Their River line would work on the smaller end, and they go up in capacity and capabilities from there. I use an Ecoflow Delta as my main power source in my camper van, and a River as the backup. Both recharge very fast, which is one of the benefits of them over some competitors.

@whack Our society has spent decades teaching people to nurture their self-interest. It is now core to our culture. There is the obvious consumer side of it, but also the subtler good-intentioned focus on self-esteem/self-care, even though people naturally are selfish and need cultural prodding to resist that urge.

That said, I do see evidence the pendulum is swinging toward focus on the good of the group vs. the self, but it might take time (generations?) for that to take hold.

Thank you everyone for all of your great suggestions. It seems the consensus is to try out Tinkercad first so that's what I will do.

@Dteaj Thank you!

@Dteaj @faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts It turned out OK in the end.

@Dteaj @faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts This was part of the issue--I was using up warp thread leftover from another project, so between that and the need for fringe I didn't have many inches to spare for this particular project (and barely enough extra warp yarn for the floating selvedges!)

I prefer having extra warp when I can spare it, because in addition to samples at the beginning, I like the ability to experiment at the end of a project. This project wouldn't allow it.

@Dteaj @faziarizvi @weaving @fiberarts In my case I had already started weaving a few inches, so I had to undo the work I had already done to incorporate the floating selvedges.