and a nice one from kathleen edwards i heard on the radio today. stuck in my head. she had a coffee shop called quitters near me, in stittsville, but quit to focus on music again.

Making sure you're not a bot!

been listening to a lot of pixel grip since their kexp performance. this ones nice.

Making sure you're not a bot!

Growing some herbs. Basil, parsley, rosemary, chives, and for some reason I wantes to try sprouting wheat (thats the grass lookin stuff)

Nerdy activity for myself and the kids today: trying to receive transmissions from the ISS lol. Got some voices and a bunch of static once!

Rebuilt my snowblower engine in the kitchen with my kids. Something had gone through the cylinder and gouged the wall pretty deep, so bad that it was way down on compression. Anyway, just did the first oil change after and found a gear tooth umder the oil drain, so I was concerned something broke internally, but afyer looking at it closely, it seems to be a ring gear tooth... no idea why it was laying there. Made me nervous for a second haha

Anyone here using #Meshcore or have an opinion on it? In Ottawa, everyone has switched over to it from #Meshtastic I flashed a couple Heltec v3's with Meshcore to try it out and its pretty cool! I was able to connect with people over 40 km away, via hops, and from a frozen beach in the open. Unfortunately the lora range seems worse than Meshtastic, so I cant reach areas I normally could in my area. So far Im thinking it is really cool, and I will run both... would be cool to setup a meshcore - meshtastic bridge for myself and local mesh.

Got my #immich demo disk!

Pretty cool!

Trying to figure out this injector driver module from my truck... It died about a year ago, and I just replaced it at the time, but now I want to repair this one for fun. When it failed, one injector bank quit firing the high voltage. The high side control was open. The only obvious damage was a few burnt resistors and transistors. I replaced all the burned parts and plugged it in, but as soon as it started, everything popped again. Next, I pulled the MOSFETs that control the high side voltage, replaced everything again, and plugged it in… this time nothing burned with the MOSFETs removed. One of the MOSFETs (the bad side) shows about 50 V on the gate when it’s supposed to be low. The good one only has around 1.5 V. When the good side fires, its gate jumps to around 98 V then drops back to ~1.5 V. The bad one just sits at 50 V and drops to ground only when the good one fires. So it seems like something is shorting power to the gate of that MOSFET. I’ll have to replace all the resistors and caps again (I shorted something while testing), but once that’s done I want to track down why the gate’s stuck at 50 V. Maybe another shorted transistor or something... Another weird thing with this, is that the MOSFETs are N channel, so they need higher voltage at the gate than the source to fire, but the voktage seems to be lower… I may just be misunderstanding something there, or they need to be installed for the correct voltages to show up.

Jumpscared by a renault 12 last night.

Trying to figure out where that pad connects to.... Forgot to mention that the pad directly beside it, on the other transistor (pad is fine) is also the same l with no apparent trace to where it goes. Been trying to continuity test it but can't find it's trace anywhere. View quoted note →

Well... Shit. I'm trying to repair this busted injector driver module for a 7.3L PowerStroke but I totally suck at soldering tiny stuff and ripped a solder pad off for one of the little transistors. Of course its the only pad which doesn't have an obvious trace that I can solder a tiny wire to in an attempt at repairing it. I cannot for the life of me figure out what that pad connects to electrically. Also I discovered the real problem after destroying the pad... A burnt resistor that I traced to the gate of the bank one main power MOSFET. That was the issue all along... a simple easy to replace item. Oh well, I will try to figure it all out and slam new parts at it and cross my fingers.

Fixed my Akai receiver! Now I just need to finish replacing some of the caps (already done the power section caps), replace light bulbs for the dials, and the blown filter board transistors. Yeah, I decided I'll go all the way and repair it correctly instead of leaving it bypassed. View quoted note →

This blew my mind. What a great track.

I hurt my trusty Akai AA-1030 receiver yesterday. Pretty sure I overdrove the AUX input after a mistake in my voice assistant’s Python code cranked the eSpeak volume way too high. It is all distorted and quiet now. :( It survived almost 50 years all original, and for the past 10 years at least it's been on all day. I will repair it though! It is beautiful.

Old video i came across from a couple years ago. 🌈🌈🌈 :)

At this moment, Black Sails 🏴‍☠️ is my fave show of all time. I loved it. The writing, acting, photography, characters, overall story. I really liked all of it. It is a very exciting show, and well paced I think. The last season I struggled with a bit, but it was mainly just because I was feeling some emotions for the character's hard times, and uneasiness of uncertainty. The audio design and mixing was so good in my opinion. Especially during battle and just general ship noises were cool. I watched it in my shed with big speakers pretty loud. It was very nice. I thought Pirates and a pirate show would be boring. I thought I hated sunny, sandy, wet, ocean, captain, treasure stuff. I felt similar about the sopranos when I first watched that. I went in thinking I didnt care for New Jersey Mafia crap and came out with that show being another favorite. Sopranos has a great soundtrack too which helped a lot. I haven't seen deadwood in years, but I felt similar about that show as well. And more recently, I watched Arcane which blew me away, I just didnt love the second season as much, but still it ends up in my top tier shows I'd say.

I have a Pixel 6a running #CalyxOS, but I have recently shattered the screen and also Calyx is going through some changes, so it will not be receiving any updates for a few months... Bit of a bummer, but I think I will pickup a Pixel 8 and try #GrapheneOS! It seems just as good as Calyx. I'm excited to try it.

Picture of my dog, Lou 14 years ago today... She is not doing so well the past few days, but still alive, and had a lil sniff around that same stump a couple days ago. Time flies. #dogstr

Need a new stovepipe... I dont think I'm supposed to be able to see the flames :)