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foone🏳️‍⚧️
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I added the opengraph image so twitter would in theory show a screenshot of it in the preview but it doesn't seem it works. maybe twitter is caching it
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
and I added some generic opengraph versions of the tags so now it'll hopefully work better on non-twitter websites
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
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It stopped updating right after that, so i gotta go check my garage for sabotage by emerald mine billionaires
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
OK fixed. I don't think it was any musky huskies sneaking in, the machine just hung
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Probably doesn't have enough fans for this garage. Also I bought the computer for 15$ at a junk shop
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Although there were a lot of suspicious motion alerts on the camera... Maybe Musk sneakily sneaked into my garage to disable my computer!
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Crashed again, lost 11 hours of lettuce footage. I've fixed it for now, but apparently I do need to get a new machine for this.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
My first guess is that it's a cooling problem but I'm starting to wonder if it might be an issue with power. See, the machine is supposed to be plugged into a UPS, but it might not be, and if it's not, it's on the same circuit as a garage door opener
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
And both times it hung are suspiciously close to times we opened or closed the garage.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Maybe the power is getting wobbly or browning out for just long enough for it to crash?
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
hmm, nope. it IS on the UPS. it's not a very good UPS, just a cheap Amazon Basics model, so it probably isn't doing powerline conditioning, so that's still a slight possibility.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
anyway I'm probably going to swap it for a spare raspi with adequate cooling, even if that means duct-taping it to a boxfan
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
I should set up Patreon/ko-fi stretch goals to upgrade to a full livestream (not just a webcam) and add additional angles.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Lettuce suffered another temporary outage. Less than an hour this time. I got a clock to put in the frame, one that displays the date, but it turns out it has a shitty reflective LCD which means it's useless as it's invisible on the webcam
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
Damn it. It's out again, but it's nearly midnight and I'm already in bed. Don't crash overnight Twitter, the Lettuce is currently broken
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
It's a real shame that my windows 95 machine doesn't have USB and can't run OBS, it had way better uptime than this.
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
okay. system swap completed. The lettucecam is now powered by a raspi with heatsinks and a badly placed fan. Hopefully this'll have more endurance than the system I was using!
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
There was no downtime, btw. I took down the old system at 5:21pm and the new one was up and running by 5:25pm
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
rather than signing up for pagerduty, I used an existing trial for twilio, so now I have some 24/7 alerting for Lettuce Downtime
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foone🏳️‍⚧️
@Foone
if I hire any additional employees for Professional Lettuce Monitoring, I'll switch to pagerduty or similar, so I can define on-call schedules and fallback numbers. Right now it's just me, so a quick script that just uses the twilio api to doot at my phone is enough.
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