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Am I the only one who types nginx wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME. #linux #nginx #devops

I finally canceled #GoogleWorkspace today. We migrated to @mailbox_org for email and #Nextcloud for the rest a few months ago. I deactivated the Google services we used but kept the account just in case we missed something. Until today. Feels good. One less […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

I printed a tool holder for my 3D printer. I originally made this ages ago in #SolidWorks. Now, I needed a modified version, so I recreated it in #FreeCAD. It's a fairly easy model. A piece of cake for FreeCAD. #FreeCADFriday #diy #3dprinting

The #Atari 800XL was my first computer. It still has a special place in my heart. Unfortunately, I sold mine later on to get the money together for a #C128. A couple years ago, I bought and fixed up a broken one. If I hadn't, this one would be tempting. #retrocomputing #retrogaming

I came across a really great screenshot tool for #Wayland called LumineCapture. It basically has all the features of Spectacle (full screen, single monitor, window, rectangular region), but it is much faster and more lightweight. It includes a built-in editor and annotator, a color picker, a […]

The drive of my pool robot was so worn down that the propeller kept slipping. So I designed a new one in #FreeCAD and 3D printed it. The orange drive spins constantly and locks into the propeller via a helical dog clutch, so the propeller only turns while the […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

Years ago I built models in #SolidWorks. Since then I've switched to #FreeCAD, but I still wanted to bring over some of my old models. Instead of rebuilding them by hand, I gave #ClaudeCode an #MCP server for each app and let it do the migration. It worked […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

It's so funny to see #AI struggle with #CSS. If they ever create #AGI and we need to stop it, just throw an HTML page at it and ask it to center something. It will be occupied for millennia. #coding

I am really impressed with #Proxmox now. Not that I wasn't already, but on many previous attempts, I failed to run #macOS on #VMware on an #AMD CPU. And here comes Proxmox: first try, installed #Tahoe, and it just works. There were a few minor hiccups, but in […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

I don't do #electronics very often. When I only need a one-off, I don't bother designing a PCB. I just use a perfboard and some tiny wires. I've got a bag of these wires, and they are great. I think the insulation is Teflon and they don't shrink when you […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

Since switching to #Linux full-time month ago, I've noticed I have zero problems connecting USB devices via USB hubs. On Windows, my hub would constantly choke when copying large files or using fast USB drives. I was so used to this that I’d always crawl under my desk to plug directly into the […]

Designed this bracket for a shed lamp in #FreeCAD. It swivels two ways. The Assembly Workbench was a huge help. I also modeled a rough shape of the mounting beam and the lamp itself to figure out the minimum clearance needed so everything moves freely and […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

Created a box to house switches / indicators in #FreeCAD. It will be connected to an industrial ESP32 in a sub‑junction box. The goal is to control a pool pump and pool robot. The switches have three settings: on, off, and auto. Auto will be an […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

I am replaying one of my favorite games which I haven't played since switching to #Linux. I'm happy it runs flawlessly in #Lutris. Can you guess which game it is? #gaming #gamingonlinux #videogames #indieGame

Hell yeah. Take that #BambuLab #3dprinting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jhRqgHxEP8

Just watched an old episode of #UFO after a long time. Can we just stop for a second to admire this kick-ass intro? Those fast cuts and the music. Just wow. I had to rewind it a couple of times just to watch the intro again. https://youtu.be/YPhDvaZ7GUc #SciFi #GerryAnderson #TV #Nostalgia

@vga256 As a former long time user of Google Workspace to remind others that such services are replaceable. 😜 Sorry for trolling.

I created this cable organizer in #FreeCAD some time ago. It's a modular design of stackable boxes with variable widths. Wrote a FreeCAD macro, which makes the process incredibly efficient to export many widths and styles to STL with a single click. Even the […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

I am playing TIS-100 by Zachtronics on #Linux right now. It's a game where you need to program parallel nodes with low level assembly in order to solve different puzzles. Very cool. https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ #Games #IndieGame #Coding

I encountered this CAPTCHA today. Boy, did I have a hard time solving it. Maybe I am a machine?

Well, I just asked #Claude where I can download it's source code. It denies everything. 🤣 But the wayback machine had me covered. https://web.archive.org/web/20260331152215/https://pub-aea8527898604c1bbb12468b1581d95e.r2.dev/src.zip

#FreeCAD 1.1 is out. Those new features are awesome 😍. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYdobpjTypg

Just watched #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy episode 8: The Life of the Stars. What a pile of 💩. Real cringe. And the worst Star Trek character of all time is back.

I run a small business and over the last couple of months, I’ve been working hard on reducing my dependencies on U.S. providers and #techbros. Latest step: Email and docs are no longer on #GoogleWorkspace. I’ve moved everything to #mailboxorg and #Nextcloud […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

It was bothering me that the date format on my #Fedora / #KDE system was kind of wrong. I am Austrian, and we are used to dd.mm.yyyy. But on my system it was always displayed as dd.mm.yy (two‑digit year instead of four). I thought surely it could be […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

Doing #AdventOfCode again. Working my way through 2020 and playing with numbers again.

Printed an E10 light bulb socket designed in #FreeCAD. Files are on #printables: https://www.printables.com/model/1548066-e10-socket-for-mini-light-bulb #3dprinting #freecadfriday

Mapping out which USB ports are in which IOMMU group of my motherboard and can be safely used for PCI passthrough to a VM running on #proxmox. #linux

I completed #AdventOfCode 2021 today by finishing day 25. I did it in #TypeScript, which was ok, but it’s missing some important features I’m used to, such as object equality and comparison mechanisms. The same goes for tuples, which can’t be compared by value […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

Didn't I say I am glad, that #AdventOfCode was shorter this year? Look at me doing AoC 2021 now. 🫣 https://github.com/nharrer/AdventOfCode/blob/main/2021/day19/solve-day19.ts

I’ve been a long time #Windows user (since 3.11). And I also use #Linux a lot for server stuff. But my working machine has always been windows. But this year is the year. About a month ago, I completely switched to Linux, and I went all in. I’m now running a […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

My current machine is an AM4‑based Ryzen 5 3600 with 32GB of RAM that I built in 2019. I’m running #Proxmox, where one VM with PCI passthrough is my main/daily work horse. Works like a dream. I planned on getting myself a new machine around this time, but with those RAM prices, no thanks. Grrr […]

Also, a shoutout and high‑five to a few fellow Mastodons who posted incredible stuff, interacted with me, or are just plain awesome: @jochie @movq @alrj @tipiak75 @RogerBW @jeff @everythingalsocan @psf @papajohn @sol_hsa @mina @Tipa @psychotimmy @teotwaki @mnvr Thanks, #AdventOfCode was just […]

Some thoughts about #AdventOfCode 2025: So that's it, folks, for this year. It has been huge fun again. As usual, I'm sad that it's over, but also a bit glad it was shorter. It can be quite a burden with family, kids, work, the Christmas season, and AoC on top of it. Altogether, I feel good […]

#AdventOfCode Day 12: Christmas Tree Farm Sigh. I wasted the whole morning rotating patterns, throwing away identical patterns, pattern matching, and stuff. Then, on a hunch, I just entered the number of rows that could be solvable (eliminating those where […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

#AdventOfCode Day 11: Reactor Wow, turned out to be the almost shortest and fastest code of this year. Enduring so many past AoC graph puzzles has finally paid off. I even finished both parts before breakfast. Okay, I’ll stop bragging now. There is still one […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]

#AdventOfCode Day 09: Movie Theater Oh boy, did I get lost on part 2 by trying to solve it through fragmenting the area into rectangles. While it was getting more and more complicated, it occurred to me that I could just compress the input and brute force it […] [Original post on oldbytes.space]