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2026-07-04 09:13:09 GMT

My free-range chickens managed to get through the fence and almost completely destroyed my paprikas 🫑Let's see if the three plants left recover.
Fortunately the tomatoes 🍅 mostly survived the assault.
#gardening

2026-06-23 12:48:36 GMT

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They are clearly talking about the Steam *machine* in a question about whether it is a "console", where the background is that "classic" consoles (PS, Xbox) are sold subsidized by later games sales on the platforms that the hardware is bound to. Which the Steam machine is not - you can use it as a standalone PC.
I guess I just read/understood the FAQ differently.

2026-06-23 12:27:35 GMT

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They're talking about "PC gaming" in that paragraph. Is it possible the "open ecosystem" refers more to:
> Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer?
... than to "Steam the platform" ?

2026-05-18 04:49:28 GMT

These tits are happy we did not fully remove a tree stump from the garden.
#gardening
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/116/593/754/169/829/871/original/a980b5db1f75b519.jpg

2026-03-06 18:32:00 GMT

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My set apparently has this self-cleaning attachment.
It sucks the clean water out and also cleans the hose so it doesn't have residue inside.
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/116/183/653/331/512/458/original/1c6363f63a7ea993.jpg

2026-03-05 10:45:11 GMT

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That's the "clean water" part, why would you want to clean that out?
To get remains of the water (with detergent) out, I just poured some fresh water in, and turned it upside down over bath. There's a nice channel at the top near the opening (well, bottom when you turn it upside down) to guide the water to the opening.

2026-03-05 07:42:31 GMT

The toys I'm playing with are getting weirder over time
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/116/175/438/783/490/442/original/a9029875642517eb.jpg

2026-03-01 10:53:09 GMT

#SilentSunday
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/116/153/539/814/672/991/original/9a4ce3ae1cc4dfad.jpg

2025-12-31 18:14:04 GMT

Nice thing about #Luanti / #VoxeLibre - it actually has a pretty usable Android client (at least for creative gameplay).
I'm getting stable 60FPS on our relatively fresh world.
So the whole family can build and break fancy blocks and fly around :)

2025-11-17 21:59:33 GMT

The main gripe I have with #Lua is not the 1-indexing, not the non-"mainstream falsiness", not the "weird" definition of table/array length, not the keyword-based lexical blocks, not the global-by-default...
But the fact that relational operators are not as virtualizable as e.g. arithmetic operators, forcing bool output. [1][2]
This prevents from implementing fancy operators like vector masks in Panda or relations in Z3.
[1] https://www.lua.org/pil/13.2.html
[2] http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaVirtualization

2025-08-07 12:30:41 GMT

Iiiiii don't know, is the 3d print supposed to be moving like that?
#3dprinting #tpu
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/114/987/486/381/319/296/original/38dcbbe372b2eb0d.mp4

2025-07-29 17:19:25 GMT

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Now the fucking app froze when uploading an image and the end result is the same image being sent 20 times!
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/114/937/661/446/657/841/original/7b8f66cf6d882e3d.webp

2025-07-29 17:13:56 GMT

#Matrix / #ElementX question - HOW... DO... I... DOWNLOAD... A... STUPID... SCREENSHOT?
I want to *view it*. Or save it somewhere. I don't want to share it with another app! It's jpg ffs...
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/114/937/635/271/349/390/original/1cdf5c6168f977c0.png

2025-06-07 07:05:41 GMT

I installed Ubuntu on relative's new blank laptop (there was no pushback to using Linux, wow!). Downloading the image was the slowest task, everything else went smoothly.
Then I spent an hour or two undoing snaps and making sure hardware accelerated video works in Firefox.
It would otherwise be hard to explain why starting Firefox on an 8core machine with 16GB RAM and NVME drive takes a few seconds...

2025-05-25 15:26:47 GMT

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Is it just me, or is the bleeding edge of current technology essentially alchemy, just a lot of wishes rather than science/engineering?

2024-11-24 14:48:45 GMT

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Just ran the #Redis benchmark to my #raspberrypi5 and it can handle ~50k qps, so it's definitely #OneBillionRequestsPerDay ready

2024-11-24 14:36:09 GMT

"One billion requests per day" is less than 12k QPS
#showerthought

2024-10-25 07:50:26 GMT

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Oh wow, even `view-source:...` loads one character at a time! Nice!

2024-10-16 20:53:39 GMT

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Sorry for any misunderstanding. I read my response several times and I can't figure out how it can be read as an accusation.
I was merely explaining what the video I linked was about (Samsung phone camera adding fake moon to photos), since I assumed you didn't watch it based on your response.

2024-10-16 20:44:31 GMT

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Video TL;DW - yes, some AI moon reconstruction. They fake the moon by taking a moon photo, downsampling a lot (it's a blurry mess), take a picture of a screen, and the phone adds moon details where there previously were none.

2024-10-16 20:36:23 GMT

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Samsung phone, eh? https://youtube.com/watch?v=EKYJ-gwGLXQ

2024-09-14 20:12:49 GMT

I just spent 12 hours processing two buckets full of apples that I collected in the garden just before this monsoon season (or whatever it is) started. And I now still need to clean up the kitchen.
The trouble is I have two more buckets of apples slowly starting to spoil and I don't think I have the will to repeat this exercise again.
Any low-effort ideas for what to do with the apples?
#gardening

2024-09-13 07:51:56 GMT

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There has been an effort to backup G+: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google%2B and >1.5PB was saved in Web Archive, but I don't see the post itself in there prior to 2020, so you may be out of luck: https://web.archive.org/web/20200101000000*/plus.google.com/111993737823468994589/posts/ZSKhVeBzpY8

2024-09-08 06:44:55 GMT

I haven't stayed up late for a very long time, but yesterday (today?) I had to set up this medieval Factorio spaghetti to get research going for a monument...
#MicroTown
https://toot.kottman.xyz/system/media_attachments/files/113/100/576/328/992/810/original/2aabdeb84a785b1d.webp