Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@yaelwrites It didn't affect me as much but I also had to develop a thick skin to play the banjo to begin with :). One day I walked into my local music store and asked the clerk if they sold banjo mutes. His response (with a smirk): "You mean a hammer?"

@yaelwrites Also banjo would be period and culturally correct for cowboys.

@yaelwrites I also enjoyed the film, and while not as haunting as the harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West, the banjo did have a similar kind of effect.

This doesn't look like much, but it took me over 5 hours to warp this loom today (mostly because I was trying a new back-to-front warping technique). #weaving

Note I'm not saying there won't be dev jobs in the future, there are still factory jobs and sysadmin jobs, but they will be fewer and more specialized, focused on supervising the automation and the decreasing list of things automation can't do. No longer the sure thing it is now.

Both Google and Microsoft (who employ huge numbers of developers) are investing heavily in AI that writes software. Just like shop class, coding class in high school gives you nice skills, but neither is a guarantee of a good-paying job in the future.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/395817

@duncanhart @purism More arrived to the fulfillment center last week and we have started contacting the next folks in line for any address updates while we finish final QA, flashing, etc.

I used the leftover yarn from my wife's tweed scarf (left) to make myself a plaid scarf (right) so they match without being identical. #weaving

It's OK to step on my hand-woven rug. It's OK to wipe my feet on my hand-woven rug. I will keep telling myself this while I step over my rug.

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.