Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

In the latest video I talk about my experience with System76 technical support, my exit from work related to the Coffee Skills Program, the book I'm writing, and a preview of stuff that I needed to push to the next episode.

https://video.typica.us/videos/watch/f61e0b48-5cce-4d43-8da4-6a3bde1e4f7c

This time I'm guessing it's some idiot shooting. Ugh.

12:01AM, time to play everybody's favorite ghetto game, guess the sound: fireworks or gunfire!

Render went faster than estimated, but audio levels were bad. Let's fix that and try again.

Waiting for my next video to finish rendering. It's estimating an hour and thirty-eight minutes using 6 cores, which seems excessive. Now I'm going to eat chocolate and wait for midnight while replaying Virtue's Last Reward and petting the cat.

The strange thing here is that now that I'm checking to see what the notification was, there isn't one, so what was even the point of that? Is the phone so desperate for me to pay attention to it that it's inventing phantom notifications in hopes that I'll play a game or something?

And I'm back. Forgot to silence my phone and I decided not to do a retake over that so there might be one notification sound from that in the background of the next video. Boops while I edit are okay so it's fine to keep boosting my cat.

Going to do some recording. Logging off so cat pic boosts won't boop at me during that.

#cat wants chin rubs tonight

Still no official response to the letter I sent a while back so it looks like tomorrow I'll be taking my ball and finding a park that doesn't want an obscene entry fee.

Also tasting some new lots of coffee. My first attempts at the latest lot from Costa Rica were good but not good enough. For the dark roast I decided that I needed to push that a little bit darker and my 2nd attempt was much better. For the medium roast I had the roast level right but needed to roast the coffee slower to improve body and balance. Again, 2nd attempt was right where I wanted it. There's also a new lot from Brazil that I want to taste while I write the label.

Typica (free software I wrote to make various parts of running a coffee roasting operation easier) makes that part of my job a lot easier because the inventory is tracked all the time and I just need to sanity check the report it spits out. It was a lot harder when I needed to dig through contracts and invoices and the results are more accurate than the estimates that I was making before.

Wishing retail workers a happy Inventory Day.