VanillaSkunk

I smell like vanilla. I am a musician. I am very lost and trying to figure out life again after losing everything.

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2025-06-29 21:09:29 UTC

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We have a crude alert system... Motion detector to 433 MHz radio, to chime system on the wall, then a two way radio in VOX mode sitting directly in front of it, so I can hear it anywhere on the property...
So someone crossed the beam, and I went to jump in, and.... missed. This is what I get for being in a hurry.

2025-06-29 20:52:56 UTC

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We've been having a really fun time up here in Canada with shipping going to shit, now imports are going to shit, and trying to get anything shipped to this location is kinda pfffbbbttt
We ordered SSTP... Canada Post went on strike... Cable got returned and we got refunded...
so we ran the cheapest wire we could find in our own supplies, on top of the snow.
Now it's summer time, CP has simply banned over time this time around on their strike BS, and ... Direct Burial is all we can get now. Dig dig dig.

2025-06-29 20:46:58 UTC

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Well, there's standards...
Like, I know that if I was going to use the telephone poles, I would need SSTP ethernet cable, metal keystones, and dedicated grounding steaks at both ends...
You need waterproof "direct burial" rated UTP to run it underground, and it's much cheaper...
and then there's this place.
Digging is scary, and you never know what kind of old wiring, burned down building foundation, or mystery metal object you're going to find.
I had a telegraph insulator fall out of a tree, bounce and clock me right in the knee painfully.

2025-06-29 20:41:58 UTC

I hurt my tail on a golf cart railing.
T!T

2025-06-29 20:34:37 UTC

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That would have been more expensive tbh
the idea was to run power over ethernet to outdoor devices, and... line of sight doesn't carry power. There's regulations on the power runs that aren't on the data lines.
This is also the side of a mountain, and densely forested.
It was difficult enough digging through a 100 year old driveway that we didn't realise there was a cobble mortar layer still there.

2025-06-29 19:11:06 UTC

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Multiple data lines... I'm trying to get Wifi to reach an entire 10 acre property so that I can smarthome the thing, including a motor gate.

2025-06-29 18:38:48 UTC

- Hey little skunk, what's your fascination with playing in the dirt lately?
Oh nothing, I just buried a 250 foot conduit...

2025-06-05 19:29:28 UTC

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I have one for you.
Arcade Legends Ultimate. You know, the arcade console that has like 300 games on it...
The new one comes with an update that blocks a bunch of homebrew, that the older consoles were purchased specifically for
This firmware isn't available for the older consoles
but if you factory reset the new console, then rename the old console firmware, you get the old console firmware.
But you gotta factory first. And then when you do updates, it never updates as high as it came. Which... actually... Good. Stuff still works this way. lol

2025-05-28 16:38:14 UTC

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Now... there's a way to make this work... if you can handle larger quantities.
Sometimes an item might be $5 and shipping is $10.
But if you get 10 of them the charge is $50 and the shipping is $12.
If it's something you can resell locally, or at cons, or whatever you do with your life, then you can profit a tiny bit.

2025-04-23 17:21:15 UTC

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I completely wiped and manually reset my Pixel 9, and it's still having the same problems...
Gemini worked with the Google Assistant things before, but after I followed some false information on social media, it has been half-broken ever since.
Example:
Me: Hey Google, turn on the bathroom lights.
Google: There was a problem. Please try again later.
Lights: Turn on anyway.

2025-03-19 17:47:10 UTC

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because chunky clicky relays are best experienced by playing the game

2025-03-19 17:46:34 UTC

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because pretty flashy lights can only be seen when playing the game

2025-03-19 17:38:28 UTC

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PLAY the game not get inside it

2025-03-19 16:58:31 UTC

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have you tried your paws at a mechanical pinball table?

2025-03-14 17:48:09 UTC

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you don't. There's always something cooler.

2025-03-04 21:37:07 UTC

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makes you wonder what they're doing with the camera data.

2025-03-04 19:16:31 UTC

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Ah, Chamberlain garage door openers.
Have you gotten into the camera? I'm still trying to figure that out.

2025-02-26 22:31:29 UTC

Waiting for that inevitable "Can you remove me from the thread?"
Don't worry, I'm walking away from the PC, I need to get some work done now.

2025-02-26 21:11:55 UTC

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Not sure. It's a White Only bulb, no RGB... and one of the oldest models, just I was hoping to be able to command it remotely.
The other light bulb on the same switch is fine.

2025-02-26 20:51:47 UTC

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Yeah... I keep waiting for the hue bulb mobo to go POOF

2025-02-26 17:40:29 UTC

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I have one Hue bulb that doesn't detect. But it lights up when you switch it on.
So I went up there with a voltmeter, as it's above the garage entrance...
40 Volts AC, while the rest of the garage is getting 108 Volts. (yeah, lower than standard... we're at the very end of the line, 83 miles from the city it's being transmitted from...)
So now, ok, where's the voltage drop occurring?

2025-02-26 14:48:04 UTC

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The best part about this home automation thing though... is that "feeling like a hacker" when you can control ridiculous amounts of things.
As much as Ubi has enshitified their entire product lineup, I still very much enjoyed the stories of Watch Dogs, and CTOS was my first taste of smart homes.

2025-02-26 14:44:12 UTC

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No you won't. Home automation will be on your mind when you're in the grave. You're going to have automatic humidity in your coffin. :P

2025-02-24 12:49:39 UTC

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Duplo block colored light switches would be rad.

2025-02-24 07:26:39 UTC

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I'm surprised to not see Red Yellow Blue

2025-02-23 21:56:14 UTC

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I have terrible eyesight so I tend to use the macro camera to look at things more than take pictures.
Apparently this dvi adapter is a lot dustier than it looks.
That's as close as I can get without zooming or blurring.
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/055/426/438/334/366/original/c8762fa0491a783c.jpg
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/055/426/935/794/982/original/4c0f77c1c8ae7bfa.jpg

2025-02-23 13:25:01 UTC

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did you try the macro camera yet?

2025-02-11 16:14:47 UTC

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lol I avoided Wayland entirely...
My initial Linux experience was some 20 odd years ago, and I've always really liked KDE desktop more than others, so I gravitated directly to Kubuntu.
Damn, Snap is annoying.

2025-02-04 15:55:01 UTC

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*rips open the snaps and escapes out the bottom*
lol

2025-02-04 15:41:45 UTC

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cool idea! Where would you put the padlocks though?

2025-02-04 03:00:23 UTC

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It is still a good idea to take a serial number inventory of your bulbs, and keep a spreadsheet or something.
I live in a shitty power area, where the power flicks on and off enough to reset bulbs, especially in the winter time...
Thankfully Home Assistant does that automatically.

2025-02-04 01:10:40 UTC

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https://www.reddit.com/r/Hue/s/xOTGfPeNzH
I guess not but there's a tool.

2025-02-04 00:16:40 UTC

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can't you get that from the hue app before you desync it?

2025-02-03 22:46:13 UTC

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it's worth it. :P
Do it gradually.

2025-02-03 17:08:10 UTC

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if you use a Zigbee dongle on your home assistant, you can just unplug the hue bridge, pair all the lights and wireless switches directly with the Home Assistant, then it all works flawlessly, in fact instantly.
We have mixed Hue and Sengled zigbee here, and they mesh together.

2025-01-31 16:38:55 UTC

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I haven't been able to do that since the 90's.

2025-01-30 16:18:56 UTC

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imagine living somewhere that you need to leave your property to get the sms.
That's me.

2025-01-24 22:28:42 UTC

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Probably the only way to get me to watch a movie...

2025-01-24 22:20:40 UTC

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I'd like to try on a straitjacket...

2025-01-22 15:00:16 UTC

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lol I'd be on perpetual timeout

2025-01-15 22:33:53 UTC

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THANKS BOSS

2025-01-15 17:16:21 UTC

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Well, I answered my own question by actually looking at what you put in the rules, and it does not seem like "baby safety restraints" are included in "heavy restraints" so we're probably good there.

2025-01-15 17:07:40 UTC

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Yes, and baby bouncers... those are restraints but they're for babies.

2025-01-14 07:55:04 UTC

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Maybe I'm the weird one then, because my parents got along. But my sisters treated me like shit...

2025-01-13 20:22:59 UTC

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Makes sense to me.
Three sounds like Tree which makes dogs Pee

2025-01-13 19:53:05 UTC

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fox box

2025-01-12 18:15:16 UTC

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Contacts can be backed up by many different cloud services, including Nextcloud.
I've already learned the hard way multiple times during times of not making backups.
A moment of seriousness in a sea of silly.

2025-01-12 18:09:37 UTC

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Gemini: Understood. Deleting all contacts.

2025-01-12 18:08:54 UTC

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I know. So what happens, is when it loads, it crashes, and you get no keyboard.

2025-01-12 18:07:48 UTC

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*replaces your gboard with apple keyboard*

2025-01-12 18:06:38 UTC

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naughty corgi.

2025-01-08 22:14:21 UTC

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at least you'd have plenty of internets with all the communications satelites up there now

2025-01-08 22:08:40 UTC

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Wouldn't wanna double-bounce the babmin...

2025-01-08 22:06:17 UTC

I am a grumpy little fuzzball today.
*Stampy Stampy Stamp*

2025-01-08 22:00:57 UTC

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I have little pods that look like chromecasts, that are from Visonic that go directly into vga or hdmi, with RF remote and everything... I have to have an Intel graphics card to use it.

2025-01-08 21:49:10 UTC

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*blinks*
*looks through entire wardrobe trying to find pants...*
.... I haven't seen pants in such a long time, what do they look like?

2025-01-08 21:45:10 UTC

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I probably don't dislike discord as much as you, but I do agree that it's not the place for code or documentation.
I did however run into something worse.
In order to get access to the AtGames OneSauce G-Drive you need to join their Facebook and ask for access via a link on Discord. If you don't have a Facebook, well too bad.

2025-01-08 21:36:26 UTC

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I fully support this.

2025-01-02 17:49:02 UTC

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Yeah, I wanna run Arch on my Xbox 360 lol

2024-12-30 05:41:00 UTC

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but he talks in the Super Mario Bros Super Show.
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/740/169/590/134/427/original/c72c803c5cbab5d5.mp4

2024-12-30 05:37:37 UTC

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Yes there are phones... but there is no cellular signal, and have fun finding wifi.

2024-12-29 08:49:40 UTC

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Happy Bork Day. I would've wished it to you sooner if I didn't have so many surprise visitors today. Bork!

2024-12-26 03:18:21 UTC

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I recently moved to Canadian Winter Land. This winter is still weak compared to where I grew up, but I definately think it's nearly time for fuzzy toe socks.

2024-12-25 17:42:28 UTC

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That's one way to tell me you woke up with a lump of coal in your pamps.

2024-12-25 17:35:05 UTC

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Someone trying to get on next year's naughty list already.

2024-12-25 02:49:39 UTC

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if I'm a padded skunk, where's it gonna go? :P

2024-12-25 02:37:14 UTC

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Huh, you have a lot more confidence in that thing than I do.

2024-12-25 02:34:20 UTC

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*raises tail*

2024-12-17 22:42:53 UTC

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https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/670/577/835/562/365/original/704f16ef8ba7d202.mp4

2024-12-16 01:05:12 UTC

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Cyberpunk batteries have a long way to go.

2024-12-13 06:39:31 UTC

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That's what the water used to look like every time I used the tap, no matter where I was in the city. I suspected it was air bubbles.
Now I have well water, and the water is literally from a fresh water river. It doesn't bubble like that.
It also doesn't taste like chlorine treatment.

2024-12-13 06:36:55 UTC

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holy fuck
if my mom was still alive right now with her carpeted bathrooms...

2024-12-11 19:02:11 UTC

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Well... we know people who can do that, but it can only be set up during the summer time, but works throughout the winter.
Unfortunately we have a power shed from the 1960's with an old scary Lister generator that we don't want to touch because it might explode.... and that needs to be ripped out and redone...
Which is again not having power for a period of time.... lol

2024-12-11 18:43:41 UTC

Yup, this is fun... It's below freezing outside, and the red dot to the left of the patch I'm in has 700+ more people without power, because they said so.
https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/635/661/858/649/406/original/bd62660bca37bd91.png

2024-12-11 18:33:07 UTC

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It won't be, these guys get paid by the hour. lol

2024-12-11 18:30:16 UTC

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I'm not really complaining about not having power, but...
Oh there it goes....
but like, it's cold AF here, and there's no gas lines anywhere, so everything is electric heat... so these all day power events actually can cause death...
In fact, the safety signs on the highway don't work now that it's off lol
But when they say it'll be back by 5pm and it isn't.....

2024-12-11 17:58:55 UTC

https://media.cubhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/635/487/183/370/089/original/9b93ca211809a955.png

2024-12-11 17:09:37 UTC

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Hee Haw

2024-12-04 18:08:55 UTC

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If it makes you feel better, life on earth was an accident. You were conceived.

2024-12-01 20:14:46 UTC

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plush gets thick diapee before snuggles.

2024-12-01 18:41:09 UTC

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Many a time I have tried to CW a block of text, and it's like "YOU NEED AN IMAGE"

2024-12-01 18:40:02 UTC

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... I just said you're a plush, how'd you become a skunk?
Oh well, the more skunks, the merrier for me!

2024-12-01 07:00:05 UTC

Poof.
You're a plushie.

2024-11-30 12:55:49 UTC

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What, did you wanna be the little spoon?

2024-11-30 05:13:21 UTC

Stumpy tailed creatures make excellent little spoons.

2024-11-27 06:05:35 UTC

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That's some funny honey if we're saping it from a tree....

2024-11-27 06:03:12 UTC

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It's a cartoon pan, in a cartoon world, that only exists in RP space.

2024-11-27 06:01:27 UTC

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Maple Syrup does not make a good Oil replacement.

2024-11-27 05:59:46 UTC

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Good, enjoy your box of cookies. I just ruined a frying pan. XD

2024-11-27 05:58:35 UTC

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It's more fun for me when you're not trying to kill yourself, puppy.

2024-11-27 05:56:54 UTC

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*they're Carob not chocolate because Skunk*

2024-11-27 05:53:46 UTC

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*gives you entire box of cookies*

2024-11-27 05:49:22 UTC

frying oreo cookies in the frying pan with maple syrup

2024-11-26 17:50:53 UTC

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This sounds like you want to work for free...

2024-11-25 05:13:07 UTC

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Tomatos contain Boogers. Those boogers are hard on stomach ulcers. I don't like tomatoes anymore. Those tomatoes are not very boogery, so I could probably eat them too.

2024-11-24 19:08:59 UTC

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From the Window to the Wall.

2024-11-24 00:58:40 UTC

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Be careful with those suspicious stains.
You could wind up with the Berenstain Bears.

2024-11-24 00:53:02 UTC

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Corgis make great engineers because their tails don't cause problems for them in the Jeffrey's tubes.

2024-11-24 00:48:13 UTC

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You just want to be the Captain of the United Federation of Babyfurs.

2024-11-23 12:53:17 UTC

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If you haven't found a solution yet, the conventions I work with use BetterStack for their downtime monitors.