returned home from several weeks away to a dead furnace. Again. Same problem: it's old. Parts are dying.

After a cold night took apart the buzzing, hot, non-rotating motor. Got the part number off the armature and ordered a new one. Re-assembled.

Works again. If it acts up again I'll have the new part to wave threateningly.

#tellMeAboutHeatPumps

Good on ya, Lush.

Lush to stop some social media until it's 'safer'

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-59380458

#bathBombs

Been biting my tongue so as not to be the old man shouting at clouds, but software distribution these days _is_ terrible.

"...the most complicated way imaginable to distribute software"

Slow. Greedy. Proprietary.

https://ludocode.com/blog/flatpak-is-not-the-future

#linux #flatpak #bah

Mind is reeling. e-coli is not just for breakfast anymore*.

It's a floor cleaner, a dessert topping, a cancer therapeutic, a space platform generator.

* try not try to eat e-coli, kids

Genetically modified E coli bacteria produce ink for 3D printing programmable objects

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/23/genetically_modified_e_coli_bacteria/

See you on the dark side of the moon, if the alternating dark/cold and bright/hot don't wreck the electronics...

Canada is designing a rover for Moon exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC7ZqC4Ff0

Are those your corporate profits or are you just happy to see me.

Giant companies are hiking prices because they know that they have a monopoly, and because they know that their customers will accept higher prices because "everyone knows we have an inflation problem.

That's not a conspiracy theory. Corporate execs are bragging about this stuff on their earnings calls -- Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/quiet-part-out-loud/#profiteering

Job I applied for 2 years ago emailed today, all casual no mention of 720 DAYS elapsed.

I know we've all been in a temporal vortex but wow.

drinking the wrong beer, but it's the last beer and it's a beer.

#beer

Clothes washer parts are still...somewhere en route.

Found a way to boot the thing into diagnostic mode and it temporarily cleared the error so I can have clean clothes.

Stand down, bio-hazard teams.

Furnace works again after replacing two cheap air pressure sensors which have something to do with "safety" and "explosions".
Whatever.

Clothes washer parts are in DeJoys pockets or something. Why does he hate hygiene?

appliances are conspiring. Washer recruited the furnace into its evil schemes. These machines are too smart, and not smart enough.

More parts ordered.

Anyone looking for me, I'll be down at the river washing clothes, shivering.

X1-class coronal mass ejection just in time for Hallowe<phssreeerk>
<crackle><xzzzzzzzzzzt>

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/x1-flare-r3-radio-blackout-event-28-october-2021

looks like tomorrow will be one of those drain-and-take-the-washing-machine-apart-to-find-the-damaged-wire-or-sensor kind of days.
Lotta beeping, lotta blinking. No washing.

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You can like other operating systems and still get a laugh out of this video by System76.

Also anyone have insider sekrits about the December announcement? Spill.
Or just WAG, that's fun too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_by3_x6GmXs

FB's Zuck sued by shareholders because he, amoung other things,

failed to adequately respond to drug cartels, human traffickers, and violent organizations;

and actively tried to woo pre-teens

What a guy.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/28/facebook_investors_lawsuit/

Help fix the supply chain - buy less crap.

"most affluent 20 percent of people account for nearly 40 percent of the country’s consumer spending"
(eye opening)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/stop-shopping-global-supply-chain-shipping-delays/620465/