Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 2

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I'm shocked that those cash registers run on Windows and get a horrible touch UI slapped onto them. I feel pity that the cashier's most crucial tool is stuck in the past. The UI has a block of function keys that are never changing and have the flair of a classic 80's cash register with hardware keys. The touch screen and PC can offer a so much better experience with context/state sensitive controls.

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I'm going to do IT support for the cash register system of a drug store for the next three months. Not the work I'm hired for but it's a customer retention opportunity for my company. I will process the incoming tickets and restart the cash register PCs for most of the time. Of course there are various problems but it boils down to restarting everything as the first problem fixing step. Handheld barcode scanner isn't scanning: restart the PC. The monitor isn't displaying: restart the PC.

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Watched "Hoppers". A criminally under-advertised film. It's good but it lays a little bit heavy on the preachy side but it's fine. Fun movie. If "Turning Red" is your jam it'll probably too.

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The grass doesn't grow very well. My neighbor has replaced his with artificial plastic grass. I seeded some clovers where the grass refuses to get a hold. I prepared the soil with extra potent "cannabis soil", added some fertilizer, and tried to mix it as well as I could. After spreading the clover seed I watered everything thoroughly. I hope the rain the next days will be enough that I don't have to pay for the water keeping the soil wet.

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Today I planted everything I planned for, 20 gherkin plants and 26 beanstalk plants. I have a few backup plants on my windowsill but they'll go soon to my neighbor. Also I have 8 cayenne chili and two unknown chili plants from the super market. I have also 6 salads but this time I'll be extreme cautious not growing them too old. The carrots I started look so pathetic that I will not continue growing them. However the two dozen radishes I grow look fine and are surviving better this year than the ones I grew last year. I bought seeds for broccoli and kohlrabi and a few other things but I think I'm done. Maybe next year. I maximized the current available space.

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Was cycling today and went to a flea market. Didn't mind the cycling but the skin between my legs are quite irritated. 18km is not nothing when the denim jeans is rubbing almost constantly against the skin.

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I wonder if there is a kind of money laundering using AI tokens and selling the respective accounts that hold the accounts.

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Return to Obra Dinn soundtrack slaps.

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Was 3D-modeling a replacement part for 3D-printing and I fell into the trap of not incorporating draft angles that are common in injection-molded parts. These angles were important for fitment with the rest. 1° is not much but essential.

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Watched the leaked Avatar movie. Not sooo bad, however quite flawed. The animation is fantastic, but the plot moves too fast for its own sake. The gaang is back together but their interaction with each other is shallow. The bog standard villain doesn't help either. Sadly it's a 6/10 for me.

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Hopefully final tomato plant count: 58
29x Black Prince
3x Marmande
4x Arancia
2x Jolie Cœur
2x Roma
4x Black Krim
4x Choco Previa
3x Golden Queen
1x OSU (Oregon State University) Blue
4x Malina
2x Adora

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I think 20 solar-powered LED garden lights are enough. I have some on my garden porch so I don't crash into my tomatoes and it is basically as bright as my neighbor's LED strip light, slightly exaggerating. Also I have one in my bathroom at the window. For what's worth (1€ a piece) they are quite bright and shine a long time, approximately 5-6 hours. I wonder if I can use one to power a micro controller with it. Not sure what to do with outside but surely I'm going to find a use for it.

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Drinking about 2l of caffeinated beverages like tea is probably not the cause.

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Sometimes I ponder what if I were drinking alcohol and question if it would make the world more bearable. As I am not drinking any I guess I will continue to suffer unnumbered.

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Started today with putting gherkin and beanstalk seeds into pots. 2 gherkin kinds, 3 beanstalk kinds, 10 seeds each. Meanwhile the tomato plants are about 50cm tall. It's becoming harder to rotate their pots without getting them tangled up with each other. I have to rotate them because they would lean too much to one side.

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Watched Zootopia 2 and I wasn't impressed. It's a borderline idiot plot. It felt too disjointed. Too much is happening without taking a moment to breath and contextualize. I also expected a little bit more political involvement given the plot. Protests and such. Still watchable and bit entertaining.

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Made another climb aid for plants out of rods and a net. https://i.imgur.com/hu8Uwtk.jpeg This will be for my beanstalks

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The pain of buying taller server rails by mistake BUT they were cheaper than the slightly shorter ones that I had bought last time. Now my 3D model doesn't fit the rails and I have to print some gap filling panels. I wanted 10U rails but got 12U. The product title had 10'' 12U too close together so my eyes got confused. Could be worse.