Long story short: he met his future boss at a carwash while they were talking, boss wrote down his number with a description of where he met him rather than a name, introduced him as the guy from the carwash to all the new co-workers, and everyone just started calling him Carwash and the name stuck. Not a lot of people even know his real name anymore. I’ve heard it before, but I don’t remember what it is.
I’m going to attempt to fix my truck’s air conditioning. Of course it waited until the weather was sweltering hot to stop working. I know just enough about refrigerant systems to be dangerous, wish me luck!
If that’s successful and/or doesn’t take all weekend, I’m going to try to build some temporary screening around my tiny back porch to give me somewhere to sit outside away from the mosquitos.
Yeah, that side is more my speed, too. I built an arduino based compressor controller a few years ago when that went out. But this is something internal (high side pressure pegging the gauge 30 seconds after the compressor engages).
Took it by a friends shop to get it evacuated today and they agreed that my amateur assessment (dryer and expansion valve) was where they would start first. So I’ve got a bit more confidence going into it. Fingers and toes crossed I don’t find a bunch of metal inside.
Recoating a fire pit with high heat enamel. I was dumb, bought a new fire pit without a cover and it got suuuuper rusty. I almost had it finished when I started yesterday but luck would have it I ran out of paint for the last coat.
Should be ripping out Windows and getting Fedora Workstation working on a new machine. I’ll probably start working on installing the AI tools I used to justify the new rig. I’m halfway thinking about modifying my laptop bed stand to add more cooling capacity built in, but it kinda depends on how hot it gets with the GPU at full tilt.
I also need to make some progress getting my desk/hobby electronics workstation back to useful conditions and reinstall all of my lighting.
I’m interested in integrating Stable Diffusion with Blender for CAD modeling, and using PrivateGPT (a text chat model) to process a bunch of text about computer science stuff and be able to ask it questions about the text, hopefully with cited references.
Haven’t done it myself yet, but the links have the info
Edit: mixed up about accounts and what I was replying to. These are the links (from my other post):
PrivateGPT is on my list to try after someone posted about it weeks ago with this how to article (that has a view limit embedded before a pay wall)/github project repo:
Starting the refinish job on our front porch. Got my broom and sander and some dry weather in the forecast, hopefully it’ll be finished before the next storm rolls through!
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