Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us
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Someone dropped off a stack of free magazines at the shop and there's a page in it with local date night recommendations. I don't know what people do for dates anymore but the ideas on that page all seem like horrible ideas.
Neal Wilson ✅
boosted
I got my big chance at work today.
We have a bunch of information screens at work, like 30-40 of them. All they do is basically run a slideshow of images with news and stuff like what's on sale in the canteen.
Boss said he was tired of paying like $100/year in licenses for each of the PCs running the screens. So he asked me to come up with a Linux proof of concept by next week.
Little does he know that it's already done and I'm going to show it to him tomorrow morning, not even 24 hours after he gave me the assignment.
I'm not just going to give him an info screen machine that works at least as well as the Windows 10 LTSB ones. I'm gonna give him one that requires fewer manhours to deploy as well because their Win 10 versions still need you to manually create an overnight reboot task, enable auto-login, disable the screen timeout, set an IP and some other small junk.
I have a kickstarter file and accompanying scripts for Ubuntu set up.
Put an Ubuntu Server Netboot USB stick into a machine (it's like 60MB), add "ks=https://example.com/ks.cfg" to the end of the grub entry. Hit enter, and watch it go.
Come back 30-60 mins later and there's a fully complete box. Chromium based slideshow, cron jobs, auto-updates, everything.
We have a bunch of information screens at work, like 30-40 of them. All they do is basically run a slideshow of images with news and stuff like what's on sale in the canteen.
Boss said he was tired of paying like $100/year in licenses for each of the PCs running the screens. So he asked me to come up with a Linux proof of concept by next week.
Little does he know that it's already done and I'm going to show it to him tomorrow morning, not even 24 hours after he gave me the assignment.
I'm not just going to give him an info screen machine that works at least as well as the Windows 10 LTSB ones. I'm gonna give him one that requires fewer manhours to deploy as well because their Win 10 versions still need you to manually create an overnight reboot task, enable auto-login, disable the screen timeout, set an IP and some other small junk.
I have a kickstarter file and accompanying scripts for Ubuntu set up.
Put an Ubuntu Server Netboot USB stick into a machine (it's like 60MB), add "ks=https://example.com/ks.cfg" to the end of the grub entry. Hit enter, and watch it go.
Come back 30-60 mins later and there's a fully complete box. Chromium based slideshow, cron jobs, auto-updates, everything.
Someone asked if they could schedule some time to watch batches getting roasted and take away some screenshots. I countered with letting them get some hands on experience on the machines. People who don't work here normally aren't allowed to touch the machines, but I make exceptions for people who I know have some experience using commercial roasting equipment.
Cat curled up on my feet for a nap
Neal Wilson ✅
boosted
Whoever did the whiteboard for seasonal (except not really because they're available all year long) drinks drew little hearts with text (like the candies), and most of them are fine but there's one that says "fax me" (ugh). I assume these days the candies say "swipe right".
Another 600ish pounds of coffee on the way.
Did takeout Chinese for lunch. The fortune cookie was mis-cut so I have the bottom of one fortune and the top of a different one.
You up this week
a lingering question will be.
The cat is right. I should have just stayed home and played with the cat.
Almost got stuck a couple blocks away from work because I needed to take a wider turn through much to get around two plows, neither of which were bothering to do anything about the street they were on.
It's about time to start working on the next episode of Coffee and Code. There's a viewer question that needs answering and the answer involves graphs. https://video.typica.us/video-channels/coffee_and_code/videos
Neal Wilson ✅
boosted
walking fluid simulation
what the fediverse really needs is club penguin. federated club penguin remake.
At least with "player" supporting Carmen now they're no longer the worst player ever, but seriously, the character adds nothing interesting and only serves to remind the viewer of just how pointless anything that happens during the rest of the show really is (because it's just a video game, precluding the possibility of consequences).
Found out which class is immediately after mine in Boston this April. It's a really good pairing because Anne and I tackle some of the same concepts from completely different (but still valid) directions.
Noticed that Netflix has a new Carmen Sandiego cartoon. Sadly, it has the same fatal flaw as the previous one: the existence of "player".
Local plow keeps blocking my driveway.
Evening plan: cat and ice cream
Did a search for a product to see if it existed and the first result was a company selling not at all what I was searching for where the top of their site shows a video that, while it didn't auto-play, the still showed what appeared to be some lady in bed with Satan.
Also had trouble getting back in the driveway today. Now I'm letting the cat give me some heat. She's very good at that.
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