My Livejournal Archive
2025
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Everyone really is dumber than you; get used to it
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3–5 minutesRead More →: Everyone really is dumber than you; get used to itBetween living with my daughter and visiting my nephew during the Christmas season, I think often about how difficult life will be for people who’s brains are operating many steps ahead of most people. This is an open letter to…
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ESP32-mini OLED ornament
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1–2 minutesRead More →: ESP32-mini OLED ornamentOriginally posted to r/diyelectronics with 51 upvotes I bought a 0.96” OLED from AliExpress last year and have been learning to display things with an Arduino. This season, I was able to turn it into an animated ornament for my…
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Practical Guide to Handling “It’s Too Hard!” (The PDA Approach)
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4–6 minutesRead More →: Practical Guide to Handling “It’s Too Hard!” (The PDA Approach)I was trying to help my daughter with homework the other day and ran into a weird situation. We got the point where I was saying things like, “write a 5”, then “draw a line”, then I’d hold her hand…
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Cranberry Ginger Old Fashioned: My New Go-To Cocktail
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Cranberry Ginger Old Fashioned: My New Go-To CocktailWife has been nearly bedridden for around a month now. She’s starting to get better, but she still doesn’t have much energy. With me doing “single-dad mode” to keep the household running, I needed a way to unwind once the…
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LG Portable Air Conditioner showing codes
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1–2 minutesRead More →: LG Portable Air Conditioner showing codesOriginally posted to r/hvacadvice with no response… I have an LG Portable Air Conditioner (model number LP1020WSR) thats 4 years old and is now showing some kind of error codes (as seen in the attached video). I’ve done a Google…
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Ford Fusion with “Mr Fusion”
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Ford Fusion with “Mr Fusion”Originally posted to r/fordfusion with 23 upvotes… Google Veo was free this weekend. I asked for a “Ford Fusion driving down the freeway with a Mr Fusion reactor like in Back to the Future”. I was disappointed with the outcome,…
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Shitnado Trilogy
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2–3 minutesRead More →: Shitnado TrilogyCoworkers mentioned, “can’t wait to see the sequel” when they passed by the first Shitnado! movie poster. So I asked Copilot to fill out the trilogy… 💩 Shitnado 2: Flush of FuryAfter the events of the first Shitnado, the town rebuilds…
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Movie Idea: Shitnado!
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2–3 minutesRead More →: Movie Idea: Shitnado!The weirdest thing about the current state of AI is being able to take random ADHD thoughts and turn them into something real. Today, coworkers and I had the idea of “a movie about an AI that takes over a…
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8yo want to contact grandma we cut off
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1–2 minutesRead More →: 8yo want to contact grandma we cut offOriginally posted on r/absentgrandparents with 23 upvotes and 27 comments For context: We had to cut off my mother several years ago after my father died because she is incredibly toxic to my wife (making backhanded insults and never apologizing…
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Refusing to let this repurposed Android die
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1–2 minutesRead More →: Refusing to let this repurposed Android dieOriginally posted to r/techsupportmacgyver with 302 upvotes and 47 comments I use this ancient Android phone as a custom security camera connected to my home server. If it dies, I have to rewrite my code. I’d rather solder in an…
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