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  • It's amazing how much you can make someone squirm by just giving them silent eye contact. Being autistic I basically have to manually calculate the appropriate amount of eye contact for any given interaction so I'm kind of an expert at this. Get it even a fraction of a second off and people tend to react way more than most people would imagine.

  • In Florida, I run a dehumidifier in my garage, and it pulls a couple gallons a day. It'll get uncomfortably dry, if you let it. It'll keep the relative humidity down around 25%, according to its display.

    I've used those pellets before too. They get used up almost immediately, even in a vacuum sealed bag.

    I have a smaller dehumidifier in my bedroom. I think it cost me around 30 bucks and it also keeps things super dry. Once I have a relatively sealed space for my filament I'll probably put one in there too.

  • You can also back up your compose file and data directories, pull the backup from another computer, and as long as the architecture is compatible you can just restore it with no problem. So basically, your services are a whole lot more portable. I recently did this when dedipath went under. Pulled my latest backup to a new server at virmach, and I was up and running as soon as the DNS propagated.

  • It's been my experience that SD cards are almost always what causes a failure on a SBC. Given the cost of the screens, i'd probably choose something that could boot off nvme storage. Or at least tape a new, configured SD card to the case of the SBC for when this inevitably happens.

  • Local ordinances specify minimum space requirements for trees, which may mean that they're not allowed to be put in certain places. Also, they can cause pedestrian safety issues, as well as Ada compliance problems in confined spaces. This is an easy way to get something green in a place where you would otherwise not see a tree because of a lot of beaurocratic bullshit.

    Obviously, you can argue that all that needs to be changed. And you'd be right. And in many places it's moving that way. But then you also wouldn't get anything done for quite some time. This is an option where there might be no other viable options at the moment.

  • No issues currently using pop os. I don't use the graphical Bluetooth manager, for whatever that's worth. I wrohe a script that connects and disconnects with bluetoothctl, and I pair and trust devices with bluetoothctl. I use several different headphones.

    Occasionally, I have to go into the audio settings to change the destination, or tap a button on my headphones, but that's about it.

  • Amateur radio operators, like myself, do this stuff all the time. There are already open source apps that do exactly what I mentioned, with the exception of encrypting the data, because that's not allowed in the amateur radio service.

    How exactly is any of what I said too hard for a 350 million dollar budget? Or do I have to personally design and implement a perfect solution for an.entire municipality to be able to even comment on a subject I know a good deal about? But yeah, go ahead thinking it's level of difficulty standing in the way of a reasonable solution instead of a desire for even less accountability.

  • Sorry, that's laziness. Also, for literally no cost they could use a phone they already have, or even have an app on the phone that both encrypts any data they want to send and encodes it in soundwaves that can go out the radio. Whoever's listening at the police station could have an app running to automatically decode and display the sensitive data. This stuff isn't hard. It's only hard when you don't care about people and you don't get consequences for it.

  • Having read the standards, possibly the worst part about them is that it's not written such that you have to teach that racist bs, but it's obviously written to give cover to those who do. So it's not so much that it's supporting a bullshit way of looking at slavery as an institution in the past. It's really supporting the horrible people who continue to think that way today, and enabling them to pass it on to a new generation.