Just saw the other poster. Reminded me of how sometimes I like to drop myself next to an international border on Google Street view and observe the line where two countries meet. I also like the site https://barrysborderpoints.com/

I also like to watch those videos of people just going out for walks in their town but I like being able to choose where to go in streetview.

With how expensive it is to actually go to other countries this is my best bet for cultural enrichment. I've done cities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

And once in a while I get to see something neat that I wouldn't've seen on youtube or actually going there. Such as the time I went to a random shopping plaza in miami and turned down an alley to find that alley hadn't been recorded since 2008 so I got to see a few pictures of that shopping center under construction.

The hardest part of this is doing my best to ignore the "God I wish I lived there" thoughts.

I'm gonna go explore Bhutan now.

Oddly satisfying.

I was able to make it more organized and got a few extra tools off my workbench

Just to make some test stuff for rimu. He says it'll be useful to build a lemmy -> piefed script later on.

Just making some trash test data right now. Posts, comments, communities, ping, emojis, uploads, etc..

I don't know if this belongs here, but i posted here before about my test piefed instance and seemed well received.

It was time to switch things up

The planing process is dull, hopefully not the resulting peppers.

Got my OSHA 30 for construction (through a different trainer, which is why it's not listed here), then decided to get every other OSHA certification I could stand to get.

Its challenging but I think I like it for some reason

And now my wife finally has stackable laundry in the kitchen.

Got a nice amount of mileage out of it. Went to go trim up my beard yesterday and it just fell apart. The battery hasn't worked in years, so it only worked if it was plugged into the charger. I picked up the charger and the plastic case around the plug broke in half, and one of the metal prongs meant to be plugged into the wall fell out. And the cable insulation split open, exposing the wires inside. I could've maybe just replaced the charger, but it's some random proprietary standard and the blades on the old one have obviously seen a lot of use, so I decided to get a whole new trimmer.

Got the replacement today and enjoyed a good trim; shortest my beard's been in a few years. It's too hot to keep it so long.

Update to "It finally happened to me: My Samsung fridge is Samsung-ing Out" from the other day.

Got the new control board for the front panel today, installed it, and everything finally works again.

It's been haunted for like 3 weeks. Go in for a glass of chilled water? Sorry, only crushed ice today. Need ice cubes? Too bad, just water. When it would decide to work, you'd get half a glass of chilled water and then it would start kicking out cubes and splash everywhere.

So glad it wasn't the main board; this thing would have been a pain to get in and out assuming I could even figure out how.

Every time my brain is telling me it will last forever, even though it will really only be a few hours. But they feel like an eternity. Don't really have anyone to talk to about it (My therapist on Monday, but it's always hard to get going on those convos). No need for sympathy, buy ill take some positive encouragement if anyone has any to spare.

There's that one fork or spoon that you like more than others. Why?

I was at work (café) closing up, cleaning everything. I picked up the pot of soup to put it away in the fridge (picture of the type of soup pot, rather tall and unstable).

It then slipped from my hands, in free fall for about 2 inches or so, before catching it. I spilled maybe a quarter of a ladle-full of soup. I was so happy. It could have been so much worse, and it would have taken ages to clean up.

The soup today was a coconut cream curry cauliflower soup. It's good soup.

I'll spare you the background as there's ample horror stories of Samsung appliances (especially refrigerators). I would never have bought this one, but it came with the house. To its credit, it's been working flawlessly the last 5 years, but I knew it was only a matter of time before its Samsung-iness reared its ugly head.

I'm not sure which control board is glitching out, but the symptoms are all in the front panel where the ice/water dispenser is. The fridge still cools, but the front panel is haunted on a good day (cycles through the settings by itself, but you can still use it if you fight it) and just doesn't work at all on other days. So I guess the fridge still works as long as I don't wanna do anything crazy like adjust the temperature, select between water and ice, or turn the ice maker on/off. Hurrah?

Ordered a replacement front panel board from ebay and hoping that's the board that's at fault. If it's the "main" control board, I'm probably going to get rid of the fridge.

Last night, right before going to bed, I noticed that my 4K monitor seemed to be awake despite my computer being asleep. Upon closer inspection, I realized one of my cats peed on it, pooling right on the button board, causing the permanent awakeness. A lovely token of their anger that I left town for a few days.

I cleaned up the initial mess then and there, but knew it would require more work. Today I took apart the monitor case and cleaned every single part with isopropyl. After several hours disassembling, scouring , and reassembling, I finally have it working like normal, sans piss aroma.

I also just got a new 1440p curved monitor to replace my old crappy 2nd screen, so I got that set up as well. Now I have an even nicer system than before, despite the pretty major annoyance involved.

I planted more, but then the original ones came up today.

I'm growing them so my peas have something to climb on.

Last summar/fall, I was absolutely overrun with yellow jackets and had to buy some traps. Caught hundreds of them, but that was just treating the symptoms (could only locate/destroy 1 out of who-knows-how-many hives).

The trick is to catch the queens in the spring, and my reusable trap has caught two so far. That's two hives I don't have to worry about this summer.