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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I tried using KOrganize which had KMail and some other stuff integrated together and ended up feeling like it was a gigantic, archaic codebase just hanging on by a thread. It struggled a lot with Gmail and several times I deleted my whole mail profile to try to fix some strange bug.

    If I recall, what did me in was that it would stop sending emails after running for a while. The fix had something to do with restarting Akonadi. It was really disappointing, because I love a good UI/Plasma integration.

    I use Thunderbird now and … eh. It’s ok.










  • I ordered mine from http://clove.co.uk/ and they happily shipped to Canada. It has worked fine in Canada, the US, and Barbados (eSIM and physical SIM).

    I like the phone a lot, but whenever it’s talked about I’m surprised how many people feel the urge to chime in on why it wouldn’t work for them.

    I’d say my biggest gripe is lack of accessories. I paid the huge price for the official screen protector twice. They both cracked relatively quickly and there are pretty much no other options. I’m using a flexible matte-finish screen protector from Amazon now, but it scratches really easily and will slide around on the screen if I keep my phone in my back pocket.





  • I’ve reconsidered my view of Anker being a quality brand. I bought a USB C hub of their’s that was supposed to provide 100W power delivery, but it couldn’t keep a 65W Dell laptop happy. So, I powered the Dell separately and still used the hub. After a while the display port started to cut out.

    I’ve also bought a USB C PD cable of their’s that was supposed to support 100W power delivery. With my 85W MacBook I noticed that the cable was starting to get hard (non-bendy) spots in it. Soon after my MacBook would report being unplugged when I did anything that would draw significant power.

    Ok, so I go over to Amazon and start looking at reviews that are 2 or 3 stars and holy shit. I got the distinct feeling that these were the real reviews. They’re not good.



  • I really enjoyed reading this, thank you.

    I’d be interested in reading more about the benefits of using an atomic distro, if you were looking for ideas on things to write about. I imagine it must make system upgrades easier but what about replicating your setup elsewhere? Like if I was doing some development and now I need to throw some serious hardware at the problem, could I just backup all my Flatpaks some configs, and spin up my desktop on a cloud VM?

    I’m pretty sure that’s what Nix is all about, but the learning curve seems steep.



  • I really appreciate this, thank you. I think I had confused myself by playing with ‘u16’ and ‘u8’ and somehow coming to the conclusion that they were matching the right side of a 32-bit string. (Which may still be true, but, I’m just masking u32s now).

    This is what I ended up with, which is working the way I’d expect:

    tc filter add dev wlan0 protocol ip parent 1: prio 1 u32 \
    	match u32 0x30d6 0x0000ffff at -16 \
    	match u32 0xc92d1905 0xffffffff at -12 flowid 1:20
    

    This sends Ethernet frames destined for 30:d6:c9:2d:19:05 to flow 1:20, and it doesn’t seem to match a second device I tested. So, all good! Thank you again.




  • I’m surprised by the negative comments even here.

    My wife and I have been using a urine-diverting composting toilet (Nature’s Head) full time for six years now. It has its quirks, but we both prefer it to a normal toilet - although we both lament that there is no “bidet toilet seat” possibility.

    Obviously, there’s no water needed, but there is also no smell. Like, less smell than a flush toilet. We have a tiny vent fan and no matter how terrible your deposit, whatever smell there is never makes it out of the bowl.

    The compost, after sitting a bit longer with our outdoor compost, goes on our trees. But the overall volume from the toilet is really minimal. I change it every 5 weeks or so.

    There was a slight adjustment period to get used to changing it. Again, it’s not the smell, it’s just the idea of “these are clumps of coco coir covered shit nuggets I’m looking at.”

    The worst part is the urine, which, when you’re swapping out the bottles, does stink. It’s not for everyone, but in the summer I dilute the pee with water (1:10) then I use that to water our compost.

    Anyway… I think with more interest the design of toilets like ours could really be improved. I’m sure it would work without issue for families with their own suburban-like lots. Condos or apartments might need more infrastructure.

    My impression is the real blocker is just “ew, gross” and maybe some manly “I only stand to piss!” We’ve also been surprised how many people seem to be totally tuned out to their… Uhh, “waste elimination” I’d say. Like, if you’re pooping, you need to open the flap. We tell everyone, we have it written down. There is a whole explanation of how the toilet functions. But we’ll still get home after being away, or after a guest leaves and one of us goes to the bathroom and - oh lord, what were they thinking.





  • Yeah, I tried naming the files to help, but then Google Photos doesn’t make it easy to see those.

    The first picture is the vent outside. Essentially, the hood fan (inside) exhausts into the top of the metal box that’s in the wall. On the other side of that box, around the middle, is a vent that goes outside. Then there’s just a dead-end area of the metal box where some bugs have collected.

    +---------------------------------+
    |  (Hood fan blows in here        |
    |           from inside house )   |
    |                                 |
    |                                 |
    |     (Vent to outside house)     |
    |                                 |
    |                                 |
    |           (Bugs)                |
    +---------------------------------+