Back in 2013, on the back of a bonus payment, I bought a fancy Jura coffee machine.
Over the years I have serviced it, repaired it, replaced parts.
Today it finally died. Brittle plastic, valves and manifolds that are old and leaky.
I bit the bullet and bought a new shiny machine.
I’ve been looking for something a tad more sophisticated than cron for a while.
Key criteria:
It seems to meet these requirements. I just installed this on an openSUSE LEAP 16 box. That was another learning curve! (Where did my Yast go!)
For future reference – burn the USB as DD, otherwise you get:
warning /dev/disk/by-label/Install-Leap-16.0-x86_64 does not exist
warning /dev/root does not exist
and dropped to emergency mode.
Hopefully this helps someone.
On 1 January I started another Masters program at WGU, and really needed to double-down on writing, and GSD.
I’ve used the Pomodoro Technique successfully before; short, intensive, 25 minute bursts of focus time.
Following some recommendations, I have augmented this with the Freedom app; which blocks apps and web usage (i.e distractions).
I’ll report back, but several days in this has really helped with GSD.
I am really pleased with the solar panel/battery installation.
It’s not quite perfect – but we are banking enough power to only get billed during the dark, dark months.
One body of work over the coming months is to analyse a few years worth of data, and see if additional battery capacity would help this at all, and most critically whether it would give any return on investment.
During the summer we are generating during the day, filling the batteries, selling to the grid for credits, and then running off battery over night.
A decade ago I bought three Microsoft Surface Precision mice. I love the tactile feeling, and wired or bluetooth operation.
The last of these died over the weekend. A sad day. These mice are no longer made, used versions sell for hundreds on Amazon and eBay. My replacement was a Logitech MX Master 3S – which is performing well.
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