Eve 🏳️‍⚧️

Through the magic of buying two of them…

Obviously I paid nowhere near full price.

Provided they don’t fuck this up and jam modern AI into it, I’m gonna kick some of your butts in this new spiritual successor to Guitar Hero this fall.

When the CRKD guitar isn’t giving me phantom input on blue and orange, I can still survive Soulless and Soulless 2.

Android APS be like "look, I know your blood sugar is below 60 and actively falling, but your IOB is negative so I gotta continue giving you SMB doses!"

The devs continue to argue in favor of negative IOB numbers. I brought this up and got banned from the Discord server so...

Listen, I know this is going to be a weird question, but..

See, I got a new toy on eBay and I wanna see how well it works. Can you punch a Nazi so I can get thermals on the resulting fist mark on their face?

“You’re too technical, what am I even supposed to say to you?”

I dunno, snails? I like snails.

I stimulate the economy by buying decidedly industrial tools and using them for decidedly not industrial purposes (I do intend to take my FLIR E75 to the zoo one of these days).

I need to be reigned in, but last I checked, I’m not on a leash, so…

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I have a high end thermal camera that I have no plans to use appropriately.

Thermography tutorials (yes, I did recently get the certificate to do this stuff professionally on commercial installs), but in a manner appropriate for OF.

It’s just unfortunate that Uni-Trend has UTi in their product model numbers.

I’m going to regret this in the immediate sense, but it will be cool as hell in the long term.

HVAC/R was an interest, but blower cages are a phobia trigger for me.

Electrical is an interest, but thermal maps of power distribution transformers are a phobia trigger for me.

I have problems with my brain.

About the only positive commentary on my bad drawings has come from mom (obviously), in that the weird character with the big spiked hair I always drew was very expressive even without dialog.

I dunno, they’ve been a dead concept for going on 21 years now, should I bring them back?

I bought another goddamned radio.

Someone please tell me I don't need to buy another goddamned radio.

Hey, Dexcom, instead of trying to hand-wave these bad sensors, you could just go back to what you were doing BEFORE they started sucking this bad.

Kind of want to wire my tool cart up with some speakers and play heavy metal music while I do diagnostic and repair work to sort of augment the “procrastinate now, panic later” look.

If you're looking to get one so you can accurately track your fitness or whatever (example: Stelo, which is a repackaged 15 day Dexcom G7).. I use these as a prescribed part of my type 1 diabetes treatment. You'll get better results poking your fingers. Don't waste your money.

Something changed with Dexcom somewhere..

I used to get pretty accurate readings. Back half of 2025, that fell off entirely.

Can't change CGMs because the only other ones compatible with any pumps also kinda suck going off reports from other users.

The duality of “I can’t get myself to like this music, but the artist is a genuinely cool person and I have so much respect for them”.

ICE, Department of Homeland Security, I know it looks big and imposing, but it’s just a movie camera. It can’t hurt you, it can only keep you honest.

Yes, this is a real MCC room. I am an industrial electrician after all.

I really gotta get art of Eve like this.

“She thinks she’s scary. She’s not, but she listens to Slayer so, hey, it makes her happy I guess”.

Gotta get an updated ref first, so this isn’t an immediate idea, but y’know, at some point…

I lobotomize IoT devices while maintaining full control and functionality (albeit without the TV and included ARM computer). Not even for any principled reason, just because I can.

Please don't advise with the preconception that I know how to do whatever social thing you're about to lead me to.

"You just gotta [social skill]".

You grossly underestimate the degree to which I am autisming.

YouTube links because while I have sub-100MB copies of these videos (x.266 is a marvel of compression optimization), BlueSky only allows 3 minute videos.

Even YouTube was more liberal with the crappy compression that existed between March 2006 and the tail end of 2010.

YouTube video by bakonfreek Finishing Up With The Furnace

Yes, this story does resolve.. sort of.

It’s cold enough that actually installing the heat pump would be unwise (getting the charge tweaked needs done in moderate temperatures to get it as right as possible).

There may be a part 3 some months from now provided I can build a new fitted plenum.

YouTube video by bakonfreek War Stories: That One Time I Fixed A ~1990 Lennox Diplomat Furnace With A Toothpick

Saved us a some hundred dollar service call at best and a some thousand dollar “you gotta replace this dinosaur” pitch at worst. It was also cold as fuck, so there was an element of strife here.

Using professional equipment (unprofessionally—I'm making zero money from this) to make archive quality bootlegs of media on volatile (streaming) media again.

Look, with the world as it is right now, I don't know if my choice media will still be available when the historians come pickin' the bones.

IT'S UNDER 100MB, I WAS ALIVE WHEN YOUTUBE HAD THAT, I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS, COME ON!