Notes

My kindergartener has his first "lock down drill" this week to practice hiding in his cubby with the lights off in case an armed psycho comes into his school shooting everyone.

What an embarrassing failure this country is sometimes.

A friendly reminder: I made a bot that posts a random episode of Computer Chronicles every day

@compchron

Well mine started leaking slightly and I took it as bad karma (but it probably just needed a hose clamp)

If you charge your laptop's battery to 100% all the time, eventually the battery life decreases and it will only ever be able to charge to like 90%.

So the solution is to have the laptop limit its charging to 90% to preserve the battery's life, but then any time you need to use the laptop away from your desk it only ever has 90% battery. How is this better?

We're told to do this with our EV but we usually know in advance if we're going on a long trip so we can change the limit and charge to 100% temporarily.

that could have been an e-mail, tim

I walked over to my local hardware store this morning to find a tube fitting, but they didn't carry the size I needed. Rather than drive to a big box store, I went to McMaster-Carr's website and found the fitting, downloaded their 3D model of it, and printed one in about an hour.

While I would never download a car, in this case I downloaded a Carr. Is this still unethical?

Not sure how this became my job now

My BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for System 6+ is now available:

https://jcs.org/bluescsi

It lets you view your current network name and signal strength, and change networks on the fly without having to edit your BlueSCSI configuration

Perfect for taking your 68k PowerBook to the coffee shop (but who would do such a thing?)

When you run out of filament 27 hours into a print and continue with a different brand that doesn't have the same finish 🤦‍♂️

Me: Ah crap, why didn't USPS scan this package when I dropped it off? It's been 5 days now, where is it? Did I lose it? Did it get damaged? I'll have to send this customer a new one. Maybe I should visit the post office again and see if they can--

USPS: lol we just found it in Denver

The water wheel is now turning. [2]

I've made the first formal release of my Wikipedia reader for classic MacOS:

https://jcs.org/wikipedia

The second batch of 10 batteries sold out quickly yesterday (thanks @ActionRetro!) so I had to make them all last night, but it will take a while to charge+discharge+recharge each of them before shipping them all out.

I've ordered a 3rd batch of battery packs and will hopefully have more for sale by the end of the week.