DickCaramel

The C Word

This is essentially the Serenity prayer as used in 12-step programs:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.

Right now I’m just using it for an AirGradient dashboard, which is an open hardware / open software air quality monitor. I used claude to rewrite the firmware to send the data to prometheus instead if their own servers, and countless other frustrating changes because they make the whole operation dependent on a connection to their servers…anyway, I didn’t want to pay a subscription for something so simple. I’ve thought about using it for some other projects, but for a lot of stuff I just don’t see the need for a dedicated dash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoic_memory

Homelab Veteran ⚡

• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Cost savings

“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

Can I take the over on diarrhea epidemics on Kalshi? This country went from Hope and Change to resembling a Paul Verhoeven movie so fast I have whiplash.

You look the way I feel.

Because if you want to see anything outside of your constructed bubble, you will have to add it intentionally. There are plenty of communities i wouldn’t know about because I’m new. By using all or popular, i can stumble upon things from time to time.

“I pretended to be the person I wanted to be until I became that person, or he became me.” Attributed to Cary Grant. On the days I wake up feeling miles away from the person I want to be, I can pretend.