Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

big yawn

Cat keeps getting stuck to things tonight, expects me to follow her around the house unhooking her from stuff.

Latest I've heard about the fan is that they're going to get the correct part sent out to arrive by Wednesday so I can swap that in and get the old part and the wrong part shipped back before I'm travelling. No tracking number yet so it'll end up being an overnight shipment for that to happen.

Still good on breakfast supplies. I'll need to increase my rate of bagel consumption so those can be gone. Sometimes it's tricky to plan out the food situation before trips like this.

I ran out of dinner food so I need to do some grocery shopping for another 3 nights unless I just want to have too much take out. Having something that won't go bad so I don't need to hit a grocery store on the way back from the airport would also be a good idea. And I'll need to get enough cat supplies that my sister won't need to buy those. (my cat moves in with her when I travel)

I think I'll stick with only having about 1/3 of the case screws on this at least until the replacement part is in. Five screws really ought to be enough, right?

I wonder how bad it would be if I didn't put back the 5 screws under my laptop keyboard. It can't be good to keep popping that out pushing it back in and it would speed things up if I ever need to disconnect the not externally accessible battery again.

So at this point it's pretty much guaranteed that I'm going to be a giant ball of stress before I go on my next trip, but at least I have about 24 hours of air travel to calm myself down.

It's a shame because the initial tech support call was handled pretty much perfectly and had they just promptly gotten on with doing what they said they'd do everything would be fine by now, but everything after the phone call has been pretty messed up. #System76

Yeah, that's not going to fit.

Replacement fan arrived but they sent the wrong part. WTF

When developing new espresso blends it's a good idea to make sure that's delicious both as espresso and in milk drinks. I've had some coffees marketed for use as espresso that just get completely lost in a cappuccino and more rarely stuff that's fine in milk but wildly unbalanced when unadulterated. A good espresso blend should be delicious both ways. #coffee

Just accidentally tried connecting to the wrong WiFi a few times in a row because the thing I wanted to click on kept getting moved around in the list. The solutions to this sort of problem are easy to think up but not as easy to implement in code as you might expect.

What kind of messed up galactic coordinate system puts Earth in sector 0-0-1? #StarTrek

I'm dropping so many online services/platforms this year.

Next month it wasn't going to work with the new laptop unless I changed filesystems despite there being absolutely no good reason to require such a change so I couldn't see setting it up. If it's not going to work on my primary machine there's also no point in continuing to pay for it and having transitioned to a replacement, no reason to keep the account at all.

Just shut down my (paid) Dropbox account instead of renewing it. Their practice of proactively breaking platforms that it was previously working on just fine has driven me to Nextcloud which, frankly, seems to be a superior option all around provided you're okay with the initial setup.

Coffee

After more time of being loud and vibrating, the computer is back to its original fan volume level. It's the odd sort of problem that's really bad for a day or two and then not so bad for a day or two and then back to awful. I'll be glad to get the replacement part swapped in on Monday as I did not want to subject other people in a different country to that.

Well that's different.