[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 5 months ago

Can't find it now, but someone once made a vi [gVim?} version with a Clippy-style helper: "I see you've pressed ESC. Would you like to...."

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This is probably worth considering in general, but dealing with financial lockouts on the road is a particular kind of dumpster fire.

TL:DR: I deposited a check and things went weird (not an NSF scenario). My bank got spooked and locked not just that one account but all of my access for two weeks.

I scrambled to open new accounts elsewhere and move direct deposits over. Soon (like 12 hours) after completion my bank said "oopsie!" and restored my access to the accounts this morning. Having pre-existing accounts at other locations would have been stressful because one institution could not bogart my funds.

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... up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.

Yay.

BTW, I keep track of laws like this in this RVwiki article

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Like an idjit I smoked my old shunt by shorting it while moving stuff around. I eventually replaced it with the Aili type.

It works fine, but I don't like how the data is presented. Totally my fault, I saw what the display looked like when I bought it. Grrr......

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House Bill 1365 was filed in January. It prohibits camping or sleeping on public property without a permit. The bill would give local municipalities the power to designate specific areas for sleeping or camping. Such properties must have restrooms, running water, security, and access to health care for mental and physical health. Also under the provision the specified areas may not negatively impact local businesses.

Here is the info if you want to follow along

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2023 vanlife in review (mouse.mousetrap.net)

This year was more tumultuous than usual. A couple things were literal once in a lifetime events.

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[I found a] 3qt crockpot to replace the 2qt and 4qt. Back to my original setup. The Crockpot 3120 is rated at 75w/150w and I measured it at 69w/134w.

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I believed the forecast, which said it would be partly cloudy. In reality it was overcast all day, no blue sky at all. It was lightly raining most of the time. Pic to the right (PF parking lot) shows how low the cloud cover was. Clouds were obscuring the top of the nearby Franklin Mountains.

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I noticed the panels were unusually filthy. An excellent opportunity for an experiment! I dug out the ladder, put the pushbroom head on the multi-purpose stick, and found a suitable terrycloth hand towel...

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winter plans (mouse.mousetrap.net)

including a prediction that I will need to use shore power for the first time in over 5 years :-\

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two years with lithium (mouse.mousetrap.net)

I just realized it’s been two years since I installed the LiFePO4. No regrets.

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Just before the eclipse started (0913 local) the system was making 260w.... “first contact” began and the MPPT algo started thrashing around... at full annularity (1037 local) it was making only 26w. This lines up with the prediction of “89.6% obscuration”.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 11 months ago

Am I just old or is 4GB actually loads or RAM?

First stick I bought was 1MB of SIPP, used, for $50.

"When I was a boy we had to load HIMEM and EMM386 uphill in the snow"

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 1 year ago

As Eisenhower said,

beware the engagement-wedding-genderreveal-kids-mortgage-divorce-childsupport-legal-industrial complex.

I may be mis-remembering exactly what he said. but I think that was the gist.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago

I once decommissioned a hard drive with shotgun slugs. Yes, this was in Texas.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 year ago

What would happen if caffeine was made illegal?

black market

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 1 year ago

why are companies trying so hard to have employees back in the office?

Managers generally don't know how to manage people, so point fingers at WFH (or anything else that's handy)

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

If there were a wire tied to the back of it. It's been done with rockets.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

I remember wishing AOL's free disks were on CD-RW :-)

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 year ago

gender-based dress codes, especially haircuts and earrings. WGAF.

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 1 year ago

Downvotes = “I disagree” or “this is bad and you should feel bad”?

I withhold downvotes until it means "this is disinformation, or misinformation so wrong-headed it could mislead those new to the topic"

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

"Specialization is for insects. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly." -- Heinlein

[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago

He’s absolutely correct.

He said it was racist, so I'm gonna stick with he's not correct.

The mistake that you are making, is thinking that all forms of discrimination are bad.

I am aware of the formal and common uses of the word.

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