Hey, #Lazydon, I have a contact working in government who has a need for a temporary (6ish months?) person with deep experience in Excel, macro programming, and finance. Ideally this would be Melbourne or Canberra, but not a blocker if not.

Does this sound like somebody that you know? DM me and I will put you in touch.

#jobstodon

Question for #Electronics #Lazydon … has anyone tried building a snubber pigtail for commodity IoT mains switches? I’m thinking something like just wiring in a Cornell Dubilier RC network to a 6” lead and heat-shrinking it. The idea is to give them a little robustness when switching inductive loads.

(I’m aware there are IoT switches that are supposedly designed for inductive loads; I’m wondering about protecting the switches I have.)

Can a browser extension hook the logic that decides where to put an opened link? Like, I almost never agree with my browser about where that should go.

(I've set up my "default browser" to be a shell script wrapper that adds --new-window to the command line, but that doesn't reliably work, and doesn't handle other weird logic I want like "always open links that match this regexp in the window of the PWA that I set up for that domain".)

#Lazydon

Kid has asked me to make a Montessori-style bookcase for my granddaughter, so naturally I must.

I'm going to strike a balance between the cheaper, easy option of using 18mm ply and painting it (she wants a particular colour) and going in hard and using something like birch. So, I'll use dressed pine. Ideally, I can get 100mm x 19mm lengths, but 89mm x 19mm seems to be the closest I can get. That's not quite what I wanted, but it will have to do.

Now I have to draw up plans. All the woodworking sites seem to use SketchUp, so time to grab the 7 day free trial. There must be a good open source equivalent. #lazydon?

Hey #Lazydon, of those among you using @kagihq, are any of you also using their browser, #Orion?

I can see some possible benefit, but I’m not sure how much *more* beneficial it might be than Safari with an appropriate extension setup would be.

#Lazydon, I have a Pixel 7a phone with a cracked screen, but the local repairer doesn't fix Pixel devices. Is there someone reliable, quality, and trustworthy I can send it to for repair?

I could buy the kit from iFixit, but I don't presently have the time (or patience) to do the job (too much farm work, firewood cutting, and house reno work to do).

Suggestions appreciated.

@decryption should I put this on the forums?