cybervegan<p>Been busy this evening, with a chain-reaction of events.</p><p>I got my <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/3DPrinter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>3DPrinter</span></a> working again - nozzle was blocked, and I couldn't get it unblocked, so I ordered some replacement ones, which arrived nearly a week ago. For multiple reasons, I haven't had the opportunity and/or energy to fit it, until tonight. Got a great test print run off, first try with the new nozzle, so tomorrow I'll be able to set off the ~15 hour print I was trying to do when it blocked.</p><p>Also been thinking about a re-spin of the <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/MakerSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakerSpace</span></a> concept that hopefully won't be so fkn horrible to run. I've been ruminating on this for the last couple of years - especially since I rage-quit running my local makerspace in the summer of 2023, when I had an <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AutisticMeltdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutisticMeltdown</span></a> due to having to leave our premises because the landlord was a rogue. Tonight I was able to actually get some good ideas down, some basic principles: virtual; non-hierarchical; no committee/board; distributed inventory; premise-less; nomadic - meeting in various venues around the area; organised online (pref using something federated); self-organising; plus a bunch of other things.</p><p>As a result of *that*, I ended up looking at <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/ActivityPub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPub</span></a> based applications, looking for things that might help with the "virtual makerspace" idea. Found three that I feel I need to check out: Hubzilla, Mobilizon, and NodeBB.</p><p>Looking at those three, NodeBB stuck out as it actually mentions FreeBSD as a supported platform, so *that* made me update my <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>-based mini-NAS, so I could test it. So I've just got it back up to scratch, because it WAS running FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC, but after running freebsd-update, I found it's now no longer supported. While I've been typing this, it's just finished installing 14.2-RELEASE-p3.</p><p>Oh, and also been talking with my wife about how her <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/AutismAssessment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutismAssessment</span></a> went this evening.</p><p>And posting about British Chips and Mushy Peas.</p>