@jz @benjamin Hey, sorry for popping up here, but do you know where to find transceivers for such weird bands? I did a few tries with 868 MHz but I'd love to find something with a better wall penetration.

@vruz I've just had a white chocolate cookie

the nurse told me to measure my blood pressure every morning, keep doing the uh eating right and exercising thing* until i get a consistent 140/90 or less. i have been doing so.

the tester is some cheap & cheerful thing off amazon, doctors are fine with this one weird trick cos they use basically the same one

right arm i typically score ~150/90, left arm i'm getting ~135/85

i am doubting i have notably higher blood pressure in my right arm than my left

i'm beginning to think in practical terms this number is +/-10mmHg

* 30 min walk every day is annoyingly effective in making me feel generally better

EDIT: i checked and it's a left-arm cuff, lol

@Siucraym @TheAdmin hey @yisiliu whats going on with this? did you find a new person to take it on?

@adamgreenfield the fixes are all at the system level and tools are part of that. There are no single factor fixes.

@gargon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@martimw/117174328129113589

From scratch.

Making custom models has turned 3D-printing from a family novelty into a full-blown craft and life-improving hobby for me.

I started in TinkerCAD, which can get you VERY far, VERY quickly. Now I make most models in Onshape, since I've built up the skills to be pretty fast with it, too.

I sometimes print stuff I find on Makerworld, but usually the problems I'm trying to solve are too specialized.

@adamgreenfield this, but also, it's a perfectly good thing to actually care about a tool, feel the sense of joy of working with the right one for the job, or making it better for others

I hesitate to say this bluntly, because I know a whole lot of folks on here are actively involved in technical development of one sort or another, and derive both pleasure and a significant part of their identity from that fact. There’s something I think we all need to get clear on, though, and it’s something I myself had to learn the hard way: no tool will liberate us. The achievement of justice cannot be automated, or otherwise outsourced to a technical apparatus of any sort.

You work on tools because that’s what you’re good at, because that’s the way your brain works, because that’s what you enjoy or can get compensated for doing. That’s all as may be. But please, please do not make the mistake of thinking that the tool – any tool, of any sort whatever – will produce “progress.” There is and can be no technical fix for the social-psychological, existential or ontological predicaments that confront us. In the end there is only us, staring back at us from whatever mirror we’ve built.

@30yrdscreamer @BillSaysThis

Good day Reds, hope you enjoy your tea, coffee, lunch, or whatever it is that you're ingesting these hours 🤣

#LFC

#Rencontresdelure Jour 5, conférence 1

Oscar Ginter vient présenter Quintal

Atelier parisien fondé en 2017, Quintal rassemble imprimerie riso, maison d’édition, librairie et centre de formation : un circuit court et artisanal au service du livre indépendant.
https://quintalatelier.com/

Lol

Britons lose £171 million worth of food a year to seagulls, research shows
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/seagulls-steal-food-fish-chips-seaside-b3040262.html