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ok but what if the toasters we found along the way were vegetables this entire time? • Vienna, AT, 27 • https://literal.plus
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I don't have a funny caption I just think that's neat that I can do this
screenshot of phone notifications. three downloads of Grey's Anatomy episodes are running from Disney plus
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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not me using a ringlight to see while cleaning my oven
photo of kitchen, with focus on an oven. the oven door has been removed. a ring light is standing next to it, illuminating the inside of the oven.
November 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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i'm relieved to know that a random helipad in the middle of nowhere in Cyprus has proper Google review coverage 👍👍👍
screenshot from Google Maps. on the left we see three reviews of a helipad. Alex says it's a bit uneven but nice place to land and nice view, 5 stars. Solaris gives it five stars no comment, and Cem gives it only one star without comment. To the right, we have a satellite image of the helipad next to a road and some sort of tree farm. around the helipad we only see dirt and there is nothing else validating its existence in the picture.
October 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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just preparing to upgrade to Debian 13 and .... yoooo THIS is vile why are you like this
screenshot from Debian 13 upgrade guide. they now require the boot partition to be at least 768 MB big, which is an unusually-large size. it's not possible to increase the size of a boot partition in many installations....
October 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I found another overdrive switch ... btw as usual ceph knows what is best and the easiest way to get it to behave is to just let it do its thing

... and not reweight the moment the OSD becomes yellow
... and give it another 200Gi local block storage
screenshot from ceph dash: 156 MiB/s recover throughput = 1.3 gbit/s
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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ceph recovery throughput of nearly 1gbit/s how exciting !!
screenshot of ceph dashboard with some stats. we have half objects misplaced, nearly all placement groups in warning, and 1.6 MiB/s client throughput. notably, the recovery throughput is at 116.7 MiB/s which equates to 0.97 gbit/s.
October 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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i like this one
photo of a friendship bracelet on a wooden table. the text reads tay-loas which makes sense because it's the abbreviation for The Life of a Showgirl but with tay instead of the. the text is split into an orange and a teal part to match the album colors, as are the colored pearls on the remaining bracelet. the text is focused while the back of the bracelet with pink pearls, tools, and a pearl bag are in the background and blurred.
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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me: spends 30 minutes lovingly crafting a complaint to my landlord with meticulous details and reasons
the landlord's website randomly:
screenshot of error message on website. translated from German. Session expired. Your session has expired due to inactivity and you have been automatically logged out. To continue, please log back in.
September 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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ok update i found a solution
photo of a countertop. we see a large white drawer that was removed from a freezer (notably it wouldn't fit a baking sheet). inside are three layers of cookie sticks (not baked yet) separated by parchment paper. the front wall of the drawer has been removed and is visible in the picture.
September 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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...oh
screenshot of terminal. result of cargo clean command: Removed 29880 files, 14.0GiB total
September 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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finally. the github chart for music listening. at long last i don't have to worry about this any more
listening heatmap from last.fm. we don't really see any patterns, it's mostly random but pretty hot overall with intermittent gaps.
September 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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hmm
screenshot of last.fm artist velocity chart. the x axis is time and y is number of scrobbles per artist. the chart shows the development of total scrobble count. taylor swift has a somewhat linear development, going basically at 45 degrees, ending at 21k scrobbles. everyone else is far below with more logarithmic-like characteristics. most of them increase at a reasonable rate but then stop growing and tend towards a virtual limit, topping out around 6k. the next few artists are Tessa Violet, Maisie Peters, dodie, and Orla Gartland.
September 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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the unhinged thumbnail meter is off the charts
screenshot of youtube thumbnail of a kitchen nightmares episode. title: "gordon can't reheat his nachos because he IS the nachos" and they literally photoshopped his face onto a bowl of nachos but like in triangle shape it's super crazy they even colored him orange for this
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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i guess "add a status page and start writing maintenance notes" is the "romanticise your life" of homelabs
screenshot of uptime kuma status page. title: nowak.cloud status. an exclamation mark notes that we have partially degraded service. a big blue box announces a scheduled firewall maintenance with date and time. below the header, various applications are listed with red/green state and history. they are currently all red and the history has a few red spots but is mostly green.
September 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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finally i can pretend that there is less downtime during CRI-O upgrades (even though my storage setup also fails so it doesn't really matter)
screenshot of console output. a python script "swap-ingress-dns.py" has been called. it first lists the two kubernetes ingress nodes with cordon status, checks the ingress DNS setup, and then decides it needs to swap the ingress to the non-cordoned node. meme. a guy who is clearly a science person because of his safety goggles and lab coat is holding a vial with green liquid. top text: finally. bottom text: "automated" health-check semantics for my shitty ingress DNS setup because I don't want to pay for a proper Load Balancer
September 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Tested for you: GitHub Copilot can spiral into despair with Diesel just like a human being
Screenshot from VS Code Copilot in Agent mode. Text: "Let's start over with a cleaner approach. Let's create a newtype wrapper for TimeEntryId that will help with the Diesel compatibility." Highlighted text: "Let's try again by removing the complete model.rs file and rewriting it"
August 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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btw it worked. you want the edding 780 paint marker.
photo of a spice drawer. it's filled with cuboid-shaped spice jars. each is hand-labeled with white paint. in the background, some are visibly less fancy with 2mm chalk marker. the ones in the front look much neater, just as if they'd been marked by an edding 780 paint marker.
July 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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like. what IS this
screenshot of edding webshop. two weird pens are shown, the 8870 deep hole spray marker in lime green, and 8875 which is the same thing in black. the base of the pen is unusually wide, like these 5mm line ones, and super short, like 1:3. the tip also looks super weird and is like twice as long as the base. first it's going from wide to narrow in a shallow cone, then a bit straight, and finally having another more steep cone.
June 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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I refuse to comment on how long it took me to realise that "Docs" is labelled "Learn" here
screenshot from NixOS website navigation bar. Logo on the left. Links: Explore, Download, Learn, Values, Community, Blog, Donate. "Learn" is selected.
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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today's fun fact: Kubernetes' ExternalService type seems to assume a root dot at the end of the external name; so you can't do this, you need to append your cluster domain
screenshot of terminal session analysing a DNS issue first command is "host prometheus.grafana.svc", which shows a CNAME to another service in another namespace, including the root dot but not the cluster domain, leading to NXDOMAIN. the next commands tries to resolve exactly this DNS name, and also fails finally, resolution without the root dot succeeds and reveals the full DNS name including cluster domain.
April 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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oh cool finally Spotify added a history screen on mobile hehe
screenshot of Spotify app. a new Recents page is open, showing listening history grouped by type of action - including adding songs to playlists, listening to songs, and browsing artists.
February 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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ooh they changed the design and it's actually better
screenshot of Spotify app. play queue is shown as a pull up sheet
February 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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imagine what you could do with 12000 litres of diesel fuel

whatever your venture, 12000 litres of diesel won't disappoint
screenshot from auction page. item is 12000 litres of diesel for 8800 euro. there is a funny photoshopped product image with the literal text "12000 litres diesel" and a stock image of a tank thingy pouring fuel
February 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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maybe I bought Tower! Simulator 3 on sale, and it's actually quite fun
photo of desk with two monitors. left monitor shows a game simulating an airport in 3d. there is an aircraft on the runway about to take off. right monitor showing ATC tools, including airport map with ground radar, strips for organisation, and tower radar.
January 18, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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here's some context you need for this post: vm.tiktok.com/ZGdSfNkQu/

now here the post: in my next salary negotiations I'm gonna demand reputation (Taylor's Version) be released
alt text for the linked tiktok: video of a guy standing onstage at the eras tour. he's holding a laptop like a guitar. music playing in the background. caption: if your boss made announcements like Taylor Swift. he's saying: so I've been seeing how hard y'all been working. and I know you think I don't. but I see you, all the work you've been doing on slack and email. and I wanted to figure out a way to say, thank you. people in the crowd think he's gonna announce a bonus payment. so I thought to myself. I said, self, what do my employees really want? what do they need. are you ready for it? (ready for it by Taylor Swift playing) pizza party! yes i know I don't need to alt text audio. it's if you don't want to or can open the tiktok.
January 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM