Notices by Erin Rose (erinrose@chaos.social)

oh you’re under an NDA? well I’m under a cosy weighted blanket

every year my dislike for Raspberry Pi grows deeper and more justified, even Apple doesn’t prevent RAM chip replacement like this..

“for improved compatibility with a variety of suppliers, we now also program in some other device attributes, meaning that switching parts of the same size may not work.” ???

(https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Raspberry_Pi_locks_RAM_upgrades)

@Infoseepage i mean, to experience real microgravity you’d need to be in a sealed capsule, so you might as well implement a rail and progressive braking system, that way you can also construct a tower above the hole to increase fall time

@Infoseepage terrible environment for cuddling, awful vibes, I’ll take the hole

I don’t want to go to space, but I do really want to know what cuddling in microgravity would be like.. does anyone have a really really deep hole I can jump down?
(preferably with a pile of pillows at the bottom)

@thomasfuchs yeah, but compared to the levels of creepiness in Artemis.. yikes

a lot of men seem to have a definition for “hard scifi” that can mostly be summed up as “almost all the characters are men, and said men get to feel smart about solving engineering problems”, regardless of how realistic the actual technology is

I really liked Project Hail Mary (book and film), but it is basically this…

(and if you read the author’s prior book you’ll realise the only reason he’s not extremely weird and creepy about women in PHM is because there aren’t any in it..)

the first rule of nuclear engineering is to have fun and be yourself

boards I designed for an artist ~a year ago, now installed in the garden of a tiny gallery in London c:

🫠
(the 16gb pi 5 is actually more than $350 but shh)

a modern macbook rebooting during an automatic update can cause a plugged in iphone to re-negotiate PD and start charging the laptop instead?!?!

(discovered while figuring out why my alarm didn’t go off this morning..)

kind of a long-shot, but does anyone know of a non transphobic solicitor / notary public in the south of the UK?
I want to finally sort my GRC (I’ve had the paperwork ready for ~4 years..), and I’ve been ghosted by all the ones I’ve reached out to so far… :BoostOK:

I have 4 pyrex lab media bottles on my desk - all of them contain liquids I intend to drink

(they make for amazing water bottles, and I have adhd)

always fun when <company I do consulting for sometimes> gets a new lead engineer and I get to find out how misogynistic and dismissive he’s going to be :)

(I’ll find out tomorrow - the vibes seem good so far🤞)

I think this might be the most cursed USB-C cable I’ve seen so far?

the best part of needing a fiber laser for a work project is doing silly projects while learning to use it

(this was a 0.6mm utility blade, now it’s a tiny saw :3)

competent engineer at work, but perpetually unfinished personal projects?

just admit that your hobby is “recreational over-engineering”, and stop feeling bad about it!

@emily one friend per axis, we want z if so

@emily <thing it is> <favourite animal>

easy