Hopefully I'll sleep decent tonight, last night was better, but not great, and the rest of the week poor. Been surviving on crazy amounts of coffee, more than any human should consume, thankfully I'm not hum⦠I mean thankfully I'm already crazy, so no harm done. Yep, that's what I meant to say, move along boys, girls and others, nothing to see here.
Man, it feels so weird not to have my work phone with me. Normally I have one fun to rule them⦠I mean one phone for everything, but because I'm trying out a prepaid service on my work phone, I have two phones, but it feels weird not having my gig apps at hand even if'n its prolly healthier to take some time off
Ooops, spent too much at Ollies, I prolly shouldn't be allowed in there without supervision. that said, it was a rather interesting shop, lots more snacks and coffee than planned, but also a thermostat, as I'd mentioned before that the current one is battery operated, and I don't like that, especially as I found out because I woke up to a dead thermostat and no heat. I will have to figure out the wiring, as this one requires a C wire, and I'm not sure we have one, though I am sure the furnace has one, if not I can just use a bell transformer to feed it.
Ooof, new day, still sore though. Yesterday was a chore, first work Saturday, first of the new system, 72 packages, 71 stops, 9Β½ until I got home including a few short breaks. Only my feet and lower legs hurt last night, but now everything hurts. Breakfast was a smoked cheddar and roast beef omelette, tator tots and beans. Sounds fancy, but the tater tots was because I was out of hash browns and too tired to make rice last night, the roast beef was an odd piece I had left over, too little for a sandwich, the cheese from a food gift set I got for Christmas. Yep, basically whatever I had kicking around. Need to get dressed soon, someone'll be coming for something I'm selling on Marketplace (if'n you're in STL and want to shop, shout at me), and I'll see if'n I can pick up a couple things from Marketplace while I'm out. Out will be grocery shopping, Walmart for crisps, maybe Ollies as I'm out of spice drops, and that'll be it.
Well, looks like things are going to work with Tello. Not sure I posted here about this, but about ten days ago I decided to try out Tello, a prepaid cellphone service, using my deceased husband's number, that way I can switch my work phone back to my old SIM and service if it didn't work as I can't afford to be without service because of my job. So, according to Verizon I use about 12G of data on a busy month, so I was going to get a Tello 15G plan, but it turned out the unlimited was only about 2$ more, so I went that route. According to Tello, last week, my first week with them, though only a 4 day workweek, I used 2G of data, right inline with expectations. Considering that the unlimited plan comes with 50G of high speed data, this means that Tello will work fine. I was worried that I might run into problems with it not being a prioritized VMO, but aside from a few errors on Tues that might've been software rather than a lack of data, I've seen no problems any where. So, the first step in cutting down my bills is a success, just a matter of deciding what phone number I want to stick with as I don't think I need two phone numbers. I will say the number I'm using on Tello is easier to remember than the one I currently have on Verizon, but switching to that would require changing my number in a lot of places, and I'm sure to forget and break something. Also saving won't be huge, not compared to what I pay through Verizon, having two lines, 5G home internet and one streaming service sounds like a lot at around 140$, but its really not that much because of discounts, internet for example will run at least 60$, 25$ for the phone and likely another 15$ or so for the streaming separately, and that's with one phone, if I had two, add 25$ to that. Still every bit is good, and I can likely drop the streaming, and maybe just use cellular internet? Have to figure out how much net I use here, not sure how to do that, but an unlimited data only plan might be a cheap solution.
Time to make the breakfast sandwiches. Homemade as i'm not paying $6.99 for 4 sandwiches that are undoubtedly laced with sugar, salt and preservatives when i can make my own for just 83Β’ each.
The oldest innovation in my system was thinking of the old pan i had kicking around my kitchen, its the same size as the bagels i use. The newest is the glass containers, no need to waste a paper towel every time i make one. Mind you, it'd be nice if'n 3qt containers existed, they'd take up less space in the freezer, but these 4qt work fine.
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[media2]Yes, the sandwiches are stored upside down, they're reheated by replacing the lid with a plate, propping the container up slightly to vent, and microwaving for 45 to 50 seconds per side. With the bottom being thinner than the top, you want to finish upside down so it doesn't stick to the plate.
Ooof, tired pup and really no good reason, easy 6 hour day, 62 stops, temperature was a touch above 0Β°C, prolly felt like 0 or a hair under, and yet I'm tiiiiired, like dead tired, going to have a heat and eat cheese calzone, and then likely find my way to bed, and call it a night.
Ok, in a few minutes we get to go and play, ie clear the snow off the deck and stairs. While I'm out there I might straighten up the shed a bit too⦠Pay no attention to the fact that its -8°C feels like -13
And honestly something I should've done a while ago.
Just got my Tello sim, sure, my phone can use an e-sim, but just do a search for problems with those. Yeah, I think I'll stick to my physical sims thank you very much. Any how, what comes now is that once my old phone is charged, I'm going to move my Verizon sim back to that one, and put the Tello in my current phone and port Vik's / @Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe number to it. I'll prolly have to update my phone number with all my gig apps, maybe tweak a few other things here and there, but we should be up and running by the end of the weekend (Monday), just in time for work.
Honestly I should've done this a while ago, I've had his number sitting at Verizon paying... I'm not sure how much a month, in case I want to recover his phone. Frankly I don't think I'm going to be able to recover it, I can get his iCloud through the courts, and we're going with that as we have some other matters that will require the courts for any how, so might as well save the money. Plus according to Verizon I only use around 12G of data for work, so we'll see how well a prepaid works, unlimited data only because its like $2-3 more than a 15G plan. If it doesn't work, I can just swap the SIMs around, and try again maybe with someone else down the road.
I don't think switching from Verizon will really save me that much, the package deal I have going is saving me on Internet and streaming, and I'll prolly lose both of those if'n I leave, so that'll likely eat up any savings I have, but still, I hate spending money unnecessarily. Oh, and there is a prepaid version of the 5G home internet, so that might be a cheap alternative, that just leaves the streaming service, and... Ehhh, not sure I need it. Besides, π΄ββ οΈ is always an option.
So, in a couple hours, assuming I'm not napping (tired from clearing the driveway), we'll start the process and see how many things break.
@Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe Well, so far so good, I'll give this to Tellos, the porting process is easy and amazingly fast, the successful port email came only seconds after the porting start email.
So on my third try of selling Vik's comic collection, and this one might happen, yay. That'll make some room, and once @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist chooses any books he wants, that'll start going, and we'll get some space.
Its a little frustrating how much stuff there is to clear, but there's a story there. We had some low points in Phoenix, I'm undoubtedly somewhat to blame for that, I've never been great at sticking to a job, and I tend to create chaos. That said, I would work more if'n I could, sell off anything I could, I mean I really have never been attached to things, people, etc, particularly things since my bankruptcy, resulting in a house where maybe 20% of the stuff here is mine. Yeah, really, and that was before his mom passed, and he pulled in a lot of her stuff. Need to get someone from the family to come get a lot of this stuff, between just photos, quilts and her birds, I'll prolly have enough to fill a minivan
With that in mind, lots to sell here, and a great desire, a very great desire, to down size. Still considering the future, both location, likely Illinois, though there's a slim chance of Maryland, and likely building a house, maybe a tiny home, I mean I already know I don't need more than 900 sq ft, and could do as little as 600. An estate sale isn't really an option, companies like that really expect volume and/or stuff people want to buy... A few collectibles, no antiques, and Ikea furniture at best isn't really their thing. So, we'll be at the first three flea markets at Sunset Hills community center, those are... March, April and May I think, I've already paid for my spaces, but I do need to touch base as I haven't received an info packet or anything like that, but it might be too soon, we'll see.
So yeah, really clearing a lot out of here, not because I didn't love him, but because I need some space. Honestly, we were two train wrecks holding each other up, I started taking care of the finances because he just basically operated on a make and spend model, I made things work while he did what he wanted, on the other hand, I couldn't be trusted to stay at a job which didn't help, so he was the breadwinner.
I will say I'm loving this day and age, I do the type of work I like, without the constraints of a typical job, which fits my instability well. These days I basically do the same job as UPS, but using my phone, my car, and a gig app, and come and go as I please, if'n I get tired of deliveries, there's plenty of remote work out there. Or I'm thinking of getting a 3D printer and making things, find an artist so I can start a series of cryptid traffic signs, lots of ways to make money out there thanks to tech.
Gotta say, as I expand into Wafrn... Spread like mold? I keep finding stuff I like, from being able to bite people, after all pokes are boring, or the barking and confetti when I woot, yes, woot not toot, and other cute things, then there's the little details...
Believe strongly in alt text? Its default required in the settings, you have to go and turn it off, or your media posts won't send without having something in there.
Sharing links? Sure, it sucks that you can't see the preview until after you post, but things like GoComics which never shows a thumbnail or synopsis here on Friendica works perfectly.
I think @gabboman the wafrn dev could prolly use some help on the project, but so far, what it does have works really nicely.
So, I've started migrating the people I follow over to my Wafrn account, @Chuff , following them there and unfollowing them here... And got into the B's and realized something, Wafrn doesn't give me any way to see my followers list nor migrate it far as I know which means I have no idea who I'm following over there.
Eh heh, heh, oops.
Well, no problem, just downloaded the list here, so at least I'll be able to recover the rest of them if needed, I do expect to switch to my own hosted Wafrn in the future if'n I'm lucky, poked one hosting service abotu it already even though I'm not remotely ready to do it.
Why my own? To avoid some of the stupidities I've had to deal with on other people's instances, once got warned about not CW'd a picture of a cowtaur (cow person upper body, cow lower body), not because of sex, not because she was topless, but because you could see her udder. Yeah, that was the straw that broke my back and why I just have my own instance. Currently here I have... 5 accounts? Not sock puppets, this one, Admin, Recalls, Taurs and the newest, my porn account. Yeah, that's enough to justify my own instance.
EDIT Eww, that is one ugly and barely useful CSV file, only exports two things, user account names and whether I can see their posts or not. Following, follower or mutual status not included, nor is the profile name. Bleah.
Starting today I'm using my Wafrn more, but it won't completely replace this place. At the very least, this will still be my blog, at least unless I find a better platform for that. Oh, and following pod people (Disapora users), at least until they move to something ActivityPub. And RSS feeds.
So, what does Wafrn lack that Friendica has? Categories, useful as I can share links to just part of my blog here Diaspora compatibility Feed reader, this is one of the neatest features here, they show up in your timeline just like anyone else you follow Hashtag auto complete/suggestion, kinda useful so we don't wind up with a thousand variations on the same thing Link display in post creation window, if you paste a link into the creation box on Friendica or Mastodon, it displays the summary so you can see what the post will look like, Wafrn, you have to wait until your post is on your dashboard No following or followers list
What's it missing that I want? Queue function like Tumblr, something that Friendica has made clear they see no point in An easy way to share internet links. This one isn't on Wafrn, for Friendica and Mastodon I use an extension on Firefox, I think this is a fork, of the older FediShare extension, and this one I don't think is supported as it seems to be a bit out of date on what services it supports. It'd be nice to see someone take over it and maintain it as its useful for sharing things.
Other bugs/glitches? Relatively minor stuff, tried to upload a video that was possibly too big and got no error, just no video attached to the post. If you search for someone then follow them, the page doesn't refresh the button status, the follow button doesn't become an unfollow, rather it stays a follow button
Seriously, that's a long list of nitpicks really, and like stuff @gabboman the wafrn dev will likely fix as time goes on since Wafrn is young, and none are a deal breaker. I'll prolly switch to hosted Wafrn instant at some point in the future, just have to figure out costs and what I want to do with this place.
@gabboman the wafrn dev I can imagine, not even to a full version yet, right? I figured none of that stuff has any chance of happening any time soon, but hey, a pup can wish, right? And the Fedishare extension thing is kinda unrelated, though it does annoy me that that extension isn't maintained considering how little maintenance it'd need.
Not sure if'n it'd help with either the Diaspora or the RSS feed thing, but IIRC, the original developer of Friendica created a library of modules to be used in Fediverse apps on GitHub, SocialHome and one other use some of the bits.
As to the list, I think it depends on goals, want to stand out, consider the queue function, prolly fairly easy thing to add, and useful as its main purpose is flood control. Bring it up to Mastodon/et al features, add some manner of follower/followers management and/or fix the hashtag thing. Want to kill Diaspora? Add compatibility.
Really this is a wish list, and if'n any of it happens, cool, if not, oh well, just impacts what will be my main Fediverse app
Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...
#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @Holos Social Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.
#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.
#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.
I looked at #Wafrn and am not quite a fan of them trying to block VPNs or them storing IPs for when you register, send an image, or when you last logged in, presumably to punish VPN users.
Just not crazy about that because using a VPN has become more important than ever.
@Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) Is that Wafrn the software, or the site? I'm on bark.wolp.chat rather than the original and would switch to my own hosted instance if I decide to move mostly over there.
We only block registration from VPNs because of safety purposes (we have seen so many times that spambots and stuff wants to get in with a VPN), but if you use a VPN after registration (e.g. for posting or viewing posts), it is fine
well, thats for waf.moe, going to cc @admin for this
Eating breakfast, hashbrown, oatmeal and a breakfast sandwich as I can't be bothered to cook anything more complicated, reach for my coffee... Where is it? Oh yeah, forgot to make it, we really need the coffee this morn.
Not much on the docket #today , work of course, weather is supposed to rain, bleah, and I think I might have my hated sub-zone today based on money and package count that's waiting for me, yay.
Prolly go in early after eating and taking care of a few minor things. Will have to buy lunch as I forgot to thaw out a sandwich last night, oops. Do you get the impression that I was knackered last night and still haven't recovered? Yeah, me too.
You know, going on 30 years of delivery work, while i haven't seen everything, surprises are few and far between, but seeing an apartment complex screw up their numbering is a new one. Previous building was 1008, 1010, 1012, 1014, just like all the other buildings. This one? 1016, 1016A, 1018, 1020... Ummm, did someone miscount or something?
EDIT Added categories, realized I took a crappy picture, guess what I get for moving so fast, 93 stops, 95 packages, 6hrs 20min.
@Andrew Pam I was thinking the same thing, but the design doesn't look like that would be possible, plus if'n that happened, you'd expect there to be more like it. I'm thinking because of how they numbered it, evens on one side of the street, odds on the other, someone made a mistake, because they don't usually number like that.
If you'd asked me back in October about this one, I would've said one of the best written Sunset Shimmer meets Twilight stories, but still just another one of those stories, but its really hit its stride. Not only is Sunset much better written than canon, not just the arrogant student of Princess Celestia who dove through a mirror into another dimension when she didn't get what she wanted, this one is a teenager with what that brings, angry about the Princess not being her real mom, and as we see about when this really starts getting good, an inferiority complex. Yes, this Sunset is a real person, one that runs into Twilight, and realizes that the system is failing her. When she asks a Professor for help getting Twilight into Celestia's school, its pass admission day, and Twilight is too young, the Professor puts a price on his sponsoring her, Sunset will have to be her official mentor. She's been teaching Twilight and Moondancer, but make that official? She does decide to do it, but struggles with the choice. Things really got good in the last chapter, canon Twilight hatches a dragon egg, something the fandom has generally assumed was an impossible task to see how the student handles failure, here that's unquestionably the case as Twilight examines the egg and realizes its a rock. When she points this out, she's told she wasn't brought here to identify it, but to hatch it, that's the test. Could you be more blatant? And umm,
Click to open/closeshe hatches it and gets her cutie mark, one slightly different from the show.
Yeah, this one is looking real interesting, assuming the author keeps this quality up, I have to wonder where they're going, will this just go on for the entire show, stop at some point only for there to be another story, or...? Seriously, if you like Sunset or young Twilight, you really need to read this one.
While I'm here, let me point out another good one, Twilight's Me Time. Originally a one off, the fans demanded it continue, so it has. Nothing real deep here, SciTwi (EQG) decides since she's board, she'll spend summer break with Princess Twilight in Equestria. Two nerds that have a habit of experimenting first and thinking second, what could possibly go wrong? Yeah, this is just a silly thing, easy reading, but definitely a fun read.
@Andrew Pam Yeah, up until she decided to help Twilight get into school, it was a good Sunset meets Twilight story that I'd read and forget about when it was done, but after that its pretty much guaranteed a slot as long as the author doesn't fall flat on their face.
And thanks for letting me know Twilight's Me Time was continued - I read the first chapter but hadn't noticed the continuation, so now it's on my tracking list.
@Andrew Pam Yeah, I stumbled on it on the front page a week or two after the second chapter was posted, and clicked because it made no sense that it was being featured again, and imagine my surprise to see it continuing.
At this point, technologically, I doubt it's "if" but rather a question of how long EVs winning can (continue to) be deferred artificially. But I'm also sure there will be other resources to exploit and fight over.
Rule of Law? What does it mean in general? Btw I think electric cars are a good idea, they are best if you can afford your own solar panels (and maybe batteries) at home. Once installed, no more transporting costs (apart from regular service, which is very limited on electric cars compared to fossil fuel ones).
@dexter I use one as a delivery vehicle, even with fuel costs, its massively better than a gas vehicle, so long as you can charge at home, the local WalMart's fast charger is 56Β’/KwH, home is 11.4Β’/KwH, I'm spending maybe a third of what I used to spend on gas.
Considering fossil fuel prices lately thats a really good thing I guess. More and more people will switch as used but good range electric cars are becoming fairly cheap. This era should have started much earlier, we are at least fifteen years too late (where we are now should have happened around 2010). But its better to switch later than never.
If I'm not mistaken, forecasts are saying that demand for fossil energy wlll decline soon. Oil product demand peaked in 2022, Gas consumption had a decline in Europe of over ten percent. I'd say electric cars are an important piece of the puzzle. Interesting to notice that Chinese seem to become the best at it (building really good and affordable electric cars).
@dexter Honestly I'm not surprised the Chinese are so good, their gas powered cars were a joke for so long that they developed a reputation China couldn't live down, but electric? The western world gave up on them, so China dove in and created a new image for themselves, and here we are.
Interesting to notice that Chinese seem to become the best at it (building really good and affordable electric cars).
The US is simply giving the market away. Interestingly, I count Three separate times that General Motors engaged in major efforts to make, market, and sell electric vehicles - and it failed three times. Such incompetence leads to very bad consequences. Ford is doing no better, while Tesla has excommunicated itself.
Exactly, they were smart enough to admit that they are too far behind with fossil fuel engine technology. So they put their bet on (cheap) battery technology and all electric cars. I notice more and more BYDs and MGs on the streets here in Europe every day. GM literally tried to kill electric car development in the 90s. There was even a movie about the story. People liked their test venicles and wanted to buy them - GM seized all the cars and delivered them to a junk yard for recycling.
In general, this is the notion that people can agree to live within certain limitations in order to guarantee a better living place for all. And generally this works quite well when the parameters are reasonable and there is some mechanism for enforcement. The was the The International Court of Justice, which looked promising until the US decided it did not like the constraints. And the UN Security Council, which has been similarly ignored.
If the major powers had abided by the principles of these international institutions, and worked to bring about enforcement of abridgements, we would have a much better world today.
And I expect it'll be a better one, I'll prolly jinx m'self if'n I claim it can't get worse, but after a year where my husband died less than a month after my birthday, and two or so months later the room mate had to put his cat down, the cat we took care of because she didn't like him..
Yeah, its been a hell of a year. Its not that there can't be other losses, there will be at some point in the future, but with older family members, its sorta expected that you'll outlive them, that's just life, but when they're only 5 or so years older? Yeah, I was starting to rough out plans for our retirement, with an expectation of at least another decade together, hopefully two.
So what's the plan this year?
As someone wisely said, do I look like I have a plan? Ok, seriously, not much, clear this place out, fix it up (anyone know a good contractor in #stl ?) a little bit, and downsize, the latter likely resulting in me moving out of state, because Republican states suck, but not sure where I'm going, likely Illinois, but Maryland and Pennsylvania are also possibles. First step of clearing this place out was done yesterday, rented two tables at the Sunset Hills community center for the first three flea markets, March, April and May, and while I'll still be selling stuff before that, that'll be when I really get things going.
Speaking of selling, anyone need any clothing?
Any how, that's about all, other than maybe building an electric kei van, finally found an engine small enough. Yes, small enough, there's something you never here with an engine swap.
And now, onwards with #today , grocery shopping and... Pack a few more things up for shipping.
Sounds like your year was like mine. I'm struggling a bit with the cleaning out the house chore. Seems I balk when it comes to getting rid of my wife's clothes.
Its bad enough that we have very few chargers here, but the weird part is we're not getting any new. Seriously, was just checking a site showing new chargers in the area or coming, EVGo has four coming in, all on the Illinois side, on the Missouri side, the good news is we're getting three Ionna stations... The bad news is that two of them I know as replacements for current stations, a Francis energy at Wally's, and the chargers at Schnucks in Warrenton. I'd really like to know why we're not getting chargers, even companies like Circle K who has there own charging network, and is expanding here (I know of three new stations coming in), isn't installing any chargers at the new or existing stations. Ditto for WalMart who's building their own network.
They're converting a Toyota pickup to electric, and according to them they do this all the time. If that's the case, the first five minutes of the video would make me never by anything from them, one of the problems was trying to use a model S accelerator pedal with a model 3 motor, and was surprised to find out it wasn't compatible... Umm, wouldn't you check that all the major components are compatible before starting a conversion?
Didn't get to it this morn either, actually didn't surf the web at all, just wasn't feeling it, and won't be bothering tonight. Woke up a bit meh, dragged and ran errands before going to work a bit early, including hitting MickeyD's as I had a craving.
Tonight is much the same, mostly skipping the web, I'm tired, and my shoulder hurts bad. Ice and reading.
Reading is the big reason, although some of the stories I'm tracking on FiM Fiction do have updates, I'm not feeling it, so I started reading some of my Read It Later stories. Right now I'm on the 5th chapter of A Phoenix Beyond the Veil - The Philospher's Stone, and I'm rather taken with it.
Sunset Shimmer in the Harry Potter universe isn't unknown, but it isn't super common. However, those always use canon SS, a teenager who uses a portal mirror after the mirror showed her a future where she was an Alicorn, because Princes Celestia won't make her one. This one is more mature, what if anything she saw wasn't brought up, instead, she's gotten fed up with Celestia not teaching her like she used to, so she decided to go somewhere else where she can learn more. None of the desire for alicornhood, nor a plan to conquer Equestria, just a desire to learn more. Despite expecting to come out of a statue by a high school, what happened in canon, she comes out of a mirror in the Grainger household, something she blames on Philomena, her pet phoenix that came with her, because she perched on the top of the mirror where the focus is before they used it.
Any how, I'm finding the writing to be to my taste, and while SS is overpowered, the way they're handling it is quite good, she's happy to learn, experience new things, and help people. It makes it quite enjoyable to see how she interacts with the world.
What really has me engaged at the moment? I just reached the point where she tells Hermine's parents that she can give them magic, or more correctly, she can unblock their thaumic passageways. Apparently this is a known problem in Equestria, and she's been reading an advanced medical magic book, and feels capable of fixing it for them. Interesting idea, muggles, or at least muggles that have magic capable children, are capable of magic themselves but have a malady that stops them, wonder where this'll lead.
Having Loops problems, it took a few weeks, maybe a month before I was able to upload that last video, and I thought the app was working.
Nope, yesterday's video is a no go, I get the title typed... And it crashes, doesn't even start uploading. Not sure if recording in the app would work better, it refused as I hadn't given it mike permission, something it never asked for.
That's one of the weirdest things, it never asked for any permissions, oddly it can upload videos even though it doesn't have permission to access them, but it can't record as it doesn't have mike access, how's that work? Also it apparently has no notification function, I tried to allow it, but got told nope, it doesn't do notifications, which seems a bit odd, I mean how do I know if someone commented or liked a video without opening the app?
I might need an update, not sure, nor do I have any idea how to do that as I'd side loaded this as soon as it was available, so dunno how that works.
Today I tried recording a video, and that worked fine. so the problem is with uploading a video, but not with compression as the app quits/crashes when I go to fill in the description, so before compression.
Feature Requests App permission setting, most apps ask permission for what they need the first time you launch it, Loops doesn't, so it'd be nice to see that become a thing. Notifications, why doesn't the app do notifications? I'd like to get an alert when someone likes or comments on one of my videos Allow recording of videos without requiring the record button to be held down, that's rather inconvenient for the type of videos I make
Was sitting in traffic when a car came flying up through the grass behind and to the right, flipping and throwing a part into the road. At first the first person there didn't think the driver was still in the car, so I threw on my safety vest, and got the biggest part out of the road before it causes another accident.
After realizing the driver was still in there, under the supervision of an ER nurse who'd stopped, we started working on getting her out so CPR could be done, but it was only the two of us and I can't lift much. We did get her from wedged between the front seats to the back seat face down before the cops got there, and i supported her so she didn't fall between the front and back seats, while they got her out so CPR could be performed. She did have a pulse when they got her in the ambulance, so she might survive.
I wound up taking a shower when I got home, because I'd been kneeling in vomit and even after taking off my clothes I could still smell it.
So that was how my day ended. Not sure how I feel right now, aside from sore as my upper back was already hurting, and my shoulders are now, but I already was going to chiro tomorrow, so no big deal. Besides, as I told the nurse, a little back pain is a small price to pay for saving a life.
Still, I'm kinda processing the whole thing as you can imagine.
That's way more dramatic than when I recently rescued an adolescent gallah that fell out of its nest. Sadly, it's wing was so damaged the wildlife rescue hospital had to put it down. I felt horrible.
If I had left the bird where it was, it would have died near the tree it knew with mama nearby, albeit after some suffering. My transporting it caused the bird plenty of trauma, but in the end it shortened its suffering. I kept thinking maybe I hadn't done it much of a service. But then I thought, if my efforts could save it, it would have enjoyed a longer life. Perhaps it was worth a hopeful effort.
Thank you for being the sort of person who stops and helps.
Well, not fail per se, just be a piece of garbage.
I think I mentioned that I was planning on ordering a Boox Go7 which is an Android e-reader, which is to say its basically an Android tablet just with an e-reader launcher installed and an e-ink screen.
That's it laying on my Lenovo 11in tablet. Umm, I would've expected a 7 inch tablet to be around half the size of the 11, but oK. Problems started out of the box, the thing was thin, light, and felt more like a toy. Initial start up was glacially slow.
And things basically went downhill from there. Turn it off on the launcher screen? It not only closes all open apps, but it also defaults apps back to standard, ie FireFox stops being my default browser, and the factory installed browser takes over. Oh, and FireFox now launches all web pages in desktop mode which is much smaller print and harder to read.
Then there's the random glitches, like my keyboard having no visible space bar, the graphics on my solitaire game giving me a headache, or my RAR program basically not having any interface.
Ummm, I hope this isn't an example of what to expect with Android e-ink devices.
Oh, and I already got the replacement, no surprise, but I did what I should've done in the first place, just grabbed a Lenovo 8 inch tablet. A more classic design than my 11's (I have two, the old and the newer one), but its about the right size, and I expect it'll be typical Lenovo, won't knock your socks off, but it'll do the job at a very reasonable price, in this case, $99 on sale. Funny thing, if I picked it up today from Best Buy via Lenovo's website, I got an extra $10, so I guess I got rewarded for being impatient?
Two weeks since my last post, and... Well, not much going on here. Little of this, little of that. Lets see, 18th I met with the lawyer to wrap up the estate, Vik hadn't planned on going so soon, somewhat surprising after losing his mom a few years, but then there are really two ways to react to that, plan for your time, or try not to think about it. Guess which one he did? Yeah, bunch of accounts don't have a beneficiary, so the lawyer is working on that including subpoenaing companies for the amounts as they're not particularly interested in giving it out to a non-account holder. Well, should be, I haven't heard from them since that meeting, and I do need to pay a retainer and such before they can do anything, so going to have to check in with them. Thanksgiving was a big nothing, his family which I don't know all that well is 150 or so miles away. I had been thinking of wandering around eastern IL along I70 near to the Indiana border as its possibly where I'll relocate to, but just didn't feel like it in the end, which was prolly good considering the storm that hit today. Instead I've been doing various things around the house, packing up the books my sister wants from Vik's collection, ditto for the comics @RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist wants, though those will likely get repacked into smaller flat rate boxes, as you're not supposed to ship comics Media Mail. Also moved the altar to the book case the living room TV'd been on, I moved the TV, the unfinished media computer and the power station or whatever you call it into the computer room.
A little cramped compared to the table, but it'll do for now, after all, long term I expect to get rid of that book case as well as some of the others, so it'll be re-located to a semi-permanent home, permanent until I move then.
What else... Cancelled the WalMart+ membership, not out of any belief of striking back at them or anything, its just that now its me as both Vik and the roomy's cat passed, it just doesn't seem worth it, I get very use out of it, the only thing of value in there is the Parmount+ membership, and that's cheaper than the W+ membership. Sure, W+ offers an electric car charging discount, much like they do for fuel, however that's only for Walmart charging, and that's only in like half a dozen states right now, who knows when it'll get here, plus I mostly charge at home. Ordering a Boox Go7 tablet/e reader tonight, its basically an Android tablet with an e-ink screen, which should work for most of what I use my tablet for. Oddly I can order it direct cheaper than I can get it from WalMart.
Oh, did a small project on T-day, removed the shower doors as I've never been a fan of them. Oddly, I tossed them up on Marketplace for shits and giggles, a set of shower doors, tracks and hardware, dirty but complete free... And they were taken less than 6 hours later. Didn't think anyone wanted them any more, colour me shocked.
Kinda chipping away at various little projects, debating how I want to handle the books and comics, prolly contact Half-Price Books for the former, I have a CSV file with all of them, as for the comics... Not sure, have a store that's supposed to be buying them, but I'll prolly be old and grey by the time they make an offer, so I might just throw the collection on Marketplace at a flat price and see what I get, 10,500 comics with a few graphic novels for... $7K maybe? I think that's a very generous price, prolly higher than a store would give me, but still quite reasonable.
Beyond that, gotta get my insurance situation sorted out, and that's about it other than chipping away at the estate.
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