With the sun behind me at sunset and reflecting off the buildings, and a perfectly clear pink sky behind them, the San Francisco skyline almost looked like a render.
The Cardputer-Adv + Cap LoRa-1262 combination is turning into the little pocket Meshtastic radio I’d hoped the T-Deck Pro would be. So far, so good!
In the middle of our weekly Hyperventilate Watching The Bills session.
I opened the box containing the replacement shower drain cover, and its bag of screws — which is what I most wanted in the first place — fell to the ground. The cat grabbed it and ran off when I yelled at him to put it down. Now I’m back to having just 1 of the 2 screws needed to hold the cover in place.
In case you were wondering how my day was starting.
The National Park Service claims putting a sticker over inappropriate parts of the 2026 pass invalidates it. However, you have an absolute right to carry the pass inside a clear plastic case, and that case may have a sticker on it that tastefully hides the affected area.
Initial impression of unboxing an Oura Ring: it would have been so easy to make sure the inner box was oriented the same way as the outer box. Obviously that doesn’t have the slightest effect on how the device works, but don’t you want to awe new users with attention to detail?
Far be it from me to tell anyone to clean their gutters, but if you have cattails growing in yours, it may be time.
I just got a Yaesu FT-70DR and everything you’ve heard is dead-on. It’s built like a tank. The UI is pretty nice and I’ve been able to program it easily using just the manual that came with it. Others say they hear me loud and clear. And also, the battery really does drain that quickly. Not so much as to be unusable, but enough that I’ll probably buy a spare battery soon. If we had a disaster today, I’d be babying it like it was an iPhone with 20% charge left.
I realized today that I’ve accidentally de-Googled myself without deliberately meaning to. I’ve never used Gmail, but host my mail elsewhere with a domain I own. I use my phone’s own calendar, contacts, and photos apps. I pay to search the web with Kagi. Apple Maps has been great for years. Chrome is only for broken websites. My home NAS is way nicer than Google Drive.
I hadn’t actively tried to do this. I just don’t use any of their stuff anymore. I don’t need it and haven’t missed it.
Kitty toe beans.
