Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

#admin social.typica.us was briefly down because the server ran out of disk space. I'm finally getting around to learning what I can do with tootctl to free up disk instead of just buying the server more storage.

It always feels a little strange fixing a bug in a program written in a language where I rate my proficiency as "I know of this language", but having a REPL helps. Anyway, this is how my current graphs looked today. Much better. I'm still not doing anything on the receiving end to clean up that signal.

One of my employees could show me where in settings to wipe my father's old phone now that we've backed up all his personal stuff. That's all reset now and acting as a secondary credit card terminal for the phone order pickup area and I can take my iPad back.

Sent my fix back to the original author, he suggested some further constant tweaks. I haven't checked with a live batch yet, but I can hold a sheet of paper in front of the camera to confirm that the signal no longer drops out when the coffee gets too bright, so I'll see how that goes. I still haven't done any proper calibration on the receiving end.

Took a look at the code generating the new current signal I'm reading and it's got some constants that look suspicious. It looks like I can remove 7 lines of code and replace them with a one liner that should exhibit the expected behavior. I'll try it out when I get into the shop.

Dad's old laptop is only giving me the option to Update and shut down instead of just shutting down, but the next thing that's happening to this is wiping the drive and installing a Linux so I'm tempted to just long press the power button instead.

Nearly everything had been backed up onto the laptop already, but he took a few selfies in the hospital that otherwise would have been lost.

This is with Pop!_OS on a System76 laptop, but using KDE.

Last night I failed to get the photos off my late father's old iPhone while it was plugged into his old Windows laptop. Nothing was showing up in a file manager, iTunes was unhelpful, couldn't figure it out. Today I tried plugging it into my laptop running Linux and despite a "might be unsupported" message on the phone, everything just worked and I could use Dolphin to copy the photos off no problem.

Today I've been informed that my shop has, as usual, gotten into the top 3 for whatever the coffee category is in the local paper's Best of Racine thing. We always just ignore that and I think anybody who wanted to win that wouldn't have to try very hard to get enough votes, but we've also gotten first on that more than any other coffee shop in town. Just in time for the city to wipe out the business district I'm in with bad road construction planning.

It looks like I'm out of 6 cans of tea boxes for the 2 pound online coffee orders so I'm moving on to the 5 pounds of caramels boxes for that order size.

With default data acquisition hardware settings, no calibration (just going from the specs), and no attempt at doing anything to smooth things out, this is my first attempt at capturing degree of roast data in Typica. Apparently when the measured values are out of range on the high end the signal drops out on the bottom (I need to verify that and make sure it's not a bug in my software). It's a noisier signal than I'd like, but I've got some tricks that might help with that. Still promising tech

Today I helped my mother buy and set up a new television. It came with a pretty nice cat mat.

Power's back, but this still seems like a decent plan.

Got home, no power, phone at 3% charge so I guess the plan is to light some candles, open a bottle of wine, and read a book.

My sister has asked about a Linux for dummies distro since my father had so much garbage installed that his old laptop will need a full wipe anyway and Windows has been annoying her in ways Linux doesn't. What's the preferred thing these days for an old HP laptop?

Earlier she was on top of the big printer.

Mom's cat has decided to hang out with me while I wait for files to copy.

If the GOP really thinks the extra $600/wk unemployment benefit was discouraging people from going to the jobs that still don't exist, dems should offer the compromise position of giving everybody that $600/wk. That way, nobody loses it for going back to work and they get their work wages on top of that. (though we're still dealing with a pandemic and there's a case to make that paying people to stay home is exactly what we should be doing now)