faehnrich (weird) @faehnrich@bsd.network

#Introduction #introductions

Hello everyone, and thanks for letting me move here.

A little bit about me, I work in embedded software. I like retro computing, obscure code and weird machines. I'm also known to walk into the woods and sleep on the ground.

You'll see me post about those interests, but I also tend to complain about tech and other things. There will also be regional posts about Cleveland, Ohio, USofA since that's where I'm at.

Also, I don't have the experience you do, so if you ever have any suggestions please don't hesitate to tell me. I love learning new things.

And if I don't CW something I should or don't caption a photo I'd appreciate a reminder, I'm trying to be better about that.

happy "store beer on the back porch" season to all who celebrate

I like the breadbox in the new car

House on Haunted Hill

Haunting of Hill House

Hill for House Haunting

Haunt your House on a Hill

Houses Hillbillies Haunt

Hell, it's a Haunted House

In other news, my wife has deleted her Instagram account. As a not terminally-online-computer-toucher, this is interesting. The Internet is also bad enough to people who aren't freakin dorks like me.

This is the same school that shut down LGBTQ+ and women's programs to comply in advance of fascists.

It is sad that they are pitting public institutions against the actual public, but they didn't have to do this.

Early today, WCSB, a 50-year-old student run public college run radio station, was shut down to silence diverse student voices.

#Cleveland

https://www.clevescene.com/news/cleveland-news/cleveland-state-university-kills-wcsb-transfers-license-to-ideastream-to-broadcast-smooth-jazz/

wife: "I reapplied neem oil to the pumpkins on the porch to keep squirrels from eating them. I re-neemed them, or 'reemed' them."

me: "no"

Here's a post from my sister's town about the dog guarding ewes grazing the solar panel field.

#solarpunk

It's the 30th anniversary of the movie Hackers apparently, so I decided to watch it again.

me, to wife: "Can I get a Hack the Planet!"

wife: [blank stare]

me: "In the movie Hackers they"

wife: "Oh I know."

me: "... I'll just go back to watching the movie."

My sister was saying how her electricity was so cheap because their small town has a big solar power station, and that they have a herd of goats around the solar panels to cut the grass, and they posted the dog that herds the goats loves visitors and treats.

And I thought this was #solarpunk as heck.

🤔

I didn't want to pay for a stud finder (and heard from contractors and people that they aren't reliable/not worth it).

So I made myself a stud diviner (a powerful rare earth magnet from a harddrive on a string that finds nails in studs through drywall)

my Roku tv must have updated, and with that my order of "channels" has changed, instead of my video game consoles and bluray player being first, the bigger streaming service channels were placed first automatically

1 x ? @ .8

not some arcane line of programming, our trainer put that on the board and I can easily parse it as one set of the excercise until fail at 80% max weight

Since when did they start putting my birth year so far down the drop down menu?

well I can't go to my regular coffee shop because they would rather close than let their workers unionize

https://www.ideastream.org/community/2025-08-07/rising-stars-lakewood-cafe-closed-amid-union-dispute-firings-and-mob-of-customers

Was taking my dog for a walk, a contractor outside a house was neck deep in a hole he was digging. Some utility workers from the city that happen to be working on the street come over with a utility line detector, find the line the guy was looking for, and spray paint a spot on the grass for where he needs to dig. The contractor profusely thanked the city workers.

temps are cool so we got pumpkin beer and doing a backyard fire

hey if we can have christmas in july we can have fall in july

Wait, it's the 30th anniversary of some movies I like? But it was their 25th anniversary just 5 years ago!

Someone pointed out girl cat names sound like some powerful queen (my ladies had names Faye and Elwyn), while boy cats are named like idiots (my guys are Waffles and Beemo).