2021-11-06 from the editor of ~insom
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It's been a minute.
I've had a week full of pair programming (which is good),
last week I was in Toronto (also good).
I took the train, it's about 4 hours each way, and a great
way to travel. Given that I might be doing a Chicago to San
Francisco rail journey (or longer) next year, it's good to
know that 4 hours didn't phase me.
I've continued down the ARM64 rabbit hole by replacing my
x131e with a pi400 which I am netbooting on NFS. Replacing
the thermal paste did not make it run any cooler, while this
thing is silent. It's technically slower, per core, but it
has four cores vs. the x131e's two cores, so it ends up
around the same speed when I can `make -j 4`.
It's been a weekend of getting stuff done: finally installed
a base board heater we bought weeks ago (and have been
talking about since last Winter) and it was a cinch. Can't
believe I put it off so long!
I think Dylan and I have finally ended up with working
settings for his resin 3D printer which lowers our failure
rate (although we did have one failure today, it's pretty
demoralizing at times). I now have the best quality benchy
I've ever held.
I picked up some broken stuff from Value Village and fixed
it up -- an Xbox 360 controller with a broken trigger which
was missing the USB convertor cable (the round thing to USB
part of the cable, which I think was there as a quick
release?). Due to the magic of "being a packrat" I had one
of those adaptors in a box, and I was able to take apart the
trigger mechanism and repair it with glue. Getting it back
together was a fight, but it works now, and I can print a
new trigger if this one totally fails.
That might be it for obsessions for now: still ARM64, but
not much else. No movement on Windows programming and very
little lathe / metal work or CNCing. Just thinking about
things.
