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About 10 days of round and round to install Motion 5 on my #rpi

hey where did you#libcamera go?

how to install libcamera to know if my camera is working before I try troubleshooting it in Motion?

How to install #meson to install libcamera?

How to install #ninja to install #meson

Why didn't I go with a regular dashcam? Oh right, no one BUILDS a privacy aware dashcam that will upload to MY server. AT ANY PRICE. #latestagecapitalism

store.steampowered.com/app/154

Shadow Gambit and Shadow Tactics are *beautiful* and fun isometric stealth games from Mimimi. Easy to pick up, but challenging.

The dev studio, Mimimi, sadly closed in 2023 but did it to spend time with family after being ground by the pressure of making games. They paid bonuses and wound down the company, instead of crashing and leaving people unpaid, so my respect for that.

These games are really great and worth your time.

store.steampowered.comShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew on SteamAssemble your crew and set sail on an infamous ghost ship to sneak, stab, and spellcast your way through the Inquisition in this non-linear stealth strategy game. Chart a course, develop uncanny abilities, and use unconventional tactics to find a powerful pirate artifact!

Notes on the Ninja Single Serve Pods or Grounds coffee maker.

This is the most obviously cad-cam designed item I've ever owned.

It would be spectacular if molded with steel.

Much of it could be 3D printed.

The coffee is hotter than the Keurig ever brewed. After writing all of this, it is still as warm as the Keurig brews were, at their hottest.

It has an algorithm to determine the temperature water boils at, in case you live in Denver or Salt Lake City. I don't happen to, but if you do, calibration is an added step in the initialization process.

That might have something to do with how hot the brew is. I didn't run the calibration. It is a bit steamy at a couple of hundred feet above sea level. Not excessively. It could probably steam up a sauna at altitude.

My disposable k-cups do not fit. They have finger holds at the top that are too wide for the k-cup adapter. Boo. Hiss.

It comes with its very own scoop so that the manufacturer has the ability to let you know how much ground coffee to add. 2 scoops for this brew.

It took a solid hour to unbox it, clean it, and run a first, water-only, 24 oz brew. 5 minutes of that was spent getting glue and thread off of part of the unit when the packing tape shredded instead of came off in one spot.

Its included brewing basket is nice. Easy to clean. I can live without reusable k-cups.

What I used for a 24 oz brew was too small. It definitely serves proper sizes. The tall mug I'm drinking from now holds 10 oz nicely.

There are more brew sizes available than with the Keurig. I like that a lot.

It pauses during brewing, and restarts, more than once. The resulting Classic brew is likely richer-flavored than it would be otherwise.

It has more options and costs about half the price of the Keurig I used to use, which becomes my emergency spare now, in need of deep cleaning.

At first blush, this is a nice machine.

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Shuriken (手裏剣 lit. 'hidden hand blade') came in many different shapes.

Samurai commonly carried 'bō shuriken' (棒手裏剣 'stick shuriken'), rather than the more familiar star-shaped ones, as these could kill in the right hands. 'Ninja stars' were intended more as a distraction.