Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@shawnp0wers All of my DR plans essentially center on my camper van, and I try to pick tech for it that is easily adaptable to home-based disasters (earthquakes, extended power outages) for maximum flexibility, which is why when I could have invested in new fancy BattleBorn house batteries for the van, I opted for removable Ecoflows instead.

@josh It also means it's time to go outside and check for all the non-waterproof stuff I mistakenly left out there.

@shawnp0wers One thing I discovered, however, is that my Ecoflow Delta doesn't show up as properly grounded to my UPS, while my Ecoflow River does, so the UPS complains about the power source if I use the Delta.

@shawnp0wers Yeah home storage is the first thing that got a battery backup. My plan for extended outages is to re-purpose one of the "solar generators" from my van and plug the battery backup into it, then recharge it periodically (if power continues to go out) via a generator.

@shawnp0wers Yeah events like that are useful specifically because they point out gaps like that. In my case we have an external tube speaker for the TV that doesn't automatically power back on.

@shawnp0wers Same here, and one of the reasons I used nagios for so long too. Reliability counts for a lot more than a fancy interface, especially after I've already climbed the learning curve.

I've noticed that the past few days I have been checking Mastodon first. The new influx of people and the increase in boosting from people I follow has made this timeline much more interesting!

@yaelwrites We have never had trick or treaters visit but we buy some candy just in case. Yet this year we did get one batch of visitors who were walking by in a large group. I think they saw the porchlight come on and followed the pizza delivery person over.

The one tool that I missed the most when moving to a ⁨#leatherman⁩ ⁨#skeletool⁩ years ago were scissors. I was inspired by a mod that attached Wave scissors to the caribiner end, but I moved it to replace the pocket clip. Works well so far! ⁨

We're ready for #Halloween!

These fast ⁨#weaving⁩ projects are a nice departure from the more involved ones. Here's a merino wool scarf I wove this weekend on my rigid heddle loom (my floor loom is still dressed for a different project).

@LovesTha @xahteiwi If you have a USB->serial adapter that works in Linux with mainline kernel support then it should work on the phone. I connected a standard software defined radio tuner to mine (both directly and when docked to the laptop) and gqrx ran like expected.

@xahteiwi I discuss it all in more detail with a number of photos in this post: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/

@xahteiwi Should work fine with either a Librem 5 or Pinephone if you are running an OS with convergence (PureOS and Mobian are examples). I'm typing this from a Librem 5 docked into a UPERFECT X Mini laptop dock (and before that a Nexdock 360) that is acting as my personal laptop and when docked it's basically a desktop OS. I've been using a set up like this for over a year now.

@Viss Pretty chill, a whole morning full of weaving (I have a present I need to finish in time for someone's birthday).