Albert Westra

Welcome to my stream of Consciousness. Network Technician for a local ISP. Simple admin for the MyPaint Community Project. Linux Geek, gamer, and hobby artist....yup...that's all folks....

Oh.. btw I run arch ;)

Steam/Gamer Tag - Rehellio: https://steamcommunity.com/id/rehellio
Github/Social - Odysseywestra: https://github.com/odysseywestra
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Last Notes

2026-02-24 20:17:50 UTC

In your opinon @npub198c…jf98 should I go with the latest AMD CPU or will I be fine with the previous Gen for the Framwork 13? For me it comes down to cost so would I be losing much? I don't plan on running llms on it with exception of whisper for transcriptions for example.

2025-06-03 21:09:27 UTC

Okay this is seriously a cool concept and a feasible one too.
Also @npub198c…jf98 he used a Framework board in this one too. Too bad he didn't take advantage of the dongle mechanism.
https://youtu.be/EyR2-C9ggi0

2025-04-03 04:46:42 UTC

Well this is going to be interesting.
From: @npub15f7…m7wr
https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114270958231928923

2024-10-09 20:15:05 UTC

@npub1zlr…h0fa
Heard this over on Lightning Thrashes and thought you might like it.
https://fountain.fm/track/09TMBfKl2QoXww1iWOA0
https://fountain.fm/show/yqjEjw3AmDwhgc7dBsjX

2024-09-26 19:46:35 UTC

In the aftermath of the dust storm we had last night, one of the relays over in the lake nearby me, went down. I drove by this morning to take a look at it and saw that the service line pole was ganked out of the house and it's laying on top of an HVAC unit that's only being held by one bracket. Our Wi-Fi access point was attached to that service pole. So now I need to replace the AP because I don't know if something happened to the PCB board inside and I also need to check the line. Fun.
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/113/205/570/545/108/671/original/f26b7922c03108fa.jpg
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/113/205/571/052/230/174/original/a2c23ff47181ee60.jpg

2024-09-26 04:55:28 UTC

You never appreciate power until you lose it, and you have to drive 20 miles to get 15 gallons of water For the freaking toilet, and washing dishes. We luckily have a generator to keep the fridge on. Propane for the stove, but no power for the well pump. Yay!

2024-09-06 17:41:50 UTC

Here's a clip from Self-Hosted giving you a quick primer of how the Lightning Network works in junction with Bitcoin.
They go into much more depth if you want to listen to the full episode, but this will get you a rough idea of how it works.
But overall, this is a very good way to not only pay for podcasts in the podcasting 2.0 network in the form of boosts and zaps, but this should also be a way to start also funding developers and the open source ecosystem as well.
https://fountain.fm/clip/Wc7ZlKmmfAoLrotmeX6k