Orbital Owl @Zuph@octodon.social

It's been over a year since I've been here! Things have changed a lot! Here's a new #introduction

I'm Brad, 33, he/him (mostly), in the US midwest, working on space science hardware (as far as I can get from the military-industrial complex)

I'm into:
#electronics, #embedded, #cooking, #hiking, #tabletop, #knitting, #sewing, #rats, #anarchism

I'm getting into:
#rust, #MushroomGrowing, #clarinet, #ukulele

I want to:
- Live in community with friends
- Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism

I feel like I'm living in upside down world. This week, one coworker is travelling out of state (!) to go to a wedding (!), and this weekend, another coworker with diabetes (!) who volunteers as a first responder (!) travelled out of state (!) to visit his elderly parents (!), and yet another who has an immunocompromised (!) son with a history of lung issues (!) travelled out of state (!) to visit a doctor friend (!)

giving i3 a go this morning

Yesterday, I discovered that Copernicus had a pituitary tumor. (Not uncommon in rats) He was rapidly declining, and could already barely eat or drink. I had to make the decision that he didn't deserve a few more days/weeks of suffering.

Now Tycho's the only one left, and I've got to make the decision about whether or not I want to find a couple more compatible fuzzbutts, or just be extra attentive to him for however long he has left ☹️

The brain weather is bad today, wow

I know I must be losing it when I start thinking, "I know, I'll write my own package manager!"

Fun fact: The average temperature in low-earth orbit is about 20 degrees C.

Sure, it's very hot in the sun, and very cold in the shade, but if you can average that out, it's a nice comfortable temperature!

The no air thing is still a problem tho.

I don't use my desktop for a ton of typing, so I've got a cheap rubber dome keyboard hooked up to it.

And now that I'm working from home, jeez is this thing bad! I honestly prefer my thinkpad keyboard.

Time to start working on that ergodox clone 🤷

Last night I hyperfixed my way into learning how rust, llvm, gcc, and c implement atomics. Guess I might as well get a blog post out of it?

What if, and hear me out here, the people in power, Democrat and Republican alike, are just modulating fatalities at a level that keeps us from picking up pitchforks, but also keeps the gears of capitalism pumping money upwards as much as possible, while they wait this thing out with ample testing and healthcare.

This is me subtooting the entire embedded rust community

Found some really old maps of town online today, and found out that the house I'm living in now was built in 1886, and had two additions put on by 1892 (reaching it's current size), and that within two blocks of here, there were a grocery, a slaughterhouse, a school, a large brewery/beer garden, and a wool mill.

This place was a lot more livable 130 years ago than today 😟

Doing a praxis by calling it a "work slowdown" when I experience intense pandemic anxiety that prevents me from being as productive as my boss would like

y'all ever just face into the shower, letting the water stream over your face and kick in that mammalian dive reflex, and just... curse the folly of sapience and recall a time when we were wise enough just stay in the primordial soup

Ended up impulse buying nostd.dev, so I guess it's time for me to become an incredibly talented embedded rust developer

Boeing: Announces 16k layoffs
Orangesite: "I don't understand! How is boeing stock up?!"

hmmm... it's almost like... the financial interests of capitalists... don't actually align with the interests of workers... or even... broader society..... 🤔 🤔 🤔

I switched to a domain name provider that has a much nicer API and web interface.

The major downside is that this makes it much easier to impulse buy domain names.

I'm sure this also intersects with various undiagnosed ADHD/ASD things, too, but just once I'd love to have a job that either gave me discrete and accomplishable things, or gave me enough time to do my work to the standard I want without interruption.

But from my first job, it was just ceaseless, endless. At <Grocery Chain> I was explicitly denied promotion because I worked too hard at my more-menial job.

At my first IT job, my bosses were astounded at how many tickets I'd take care of in a day, until I realized that no matter how many I took care of, there were always more.

And of course, that continues to today!