Chris

chris@westmichigan.social

Some stuff I'm interested in: Open Source, Self-Hosting and digital sovereignty, homelabs, Democracy...but really the list is endless.Photo by Aaron Burden <a href="https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://unsplash.com/@aaronburden</a>

Posts

Post #3853872
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glusnews_mirror/116682275723343844 How about instead we make better cars? #michigan #ev
Post #3853871
Wow wasn&#39;t expecting this today, but glad to see it. This war in #Iran has to stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/us/politics/house-vote-trump-iran-war-powers.html?smid=url-share
Post #3853870
Eating food in airports is stupid levels of expensive.
Post #3853869
#unite #resist From the Petit Palais in Paris
Post #3853868
Another great video from @bennjordan on the history and future of capitalism in the US and its impacts on all of us living here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZy1lBNykA #capitalism #US
Post #3853867
Why is it so hard to find DRM-free ebooks that I can read on the device of my choice? What are other people using for this? #ebooks #drmfree
Post #3853866
Really surprised, but in a good way, to see #McMorrow drop out of the #Michigan #USSenate democratic primary. I&#39;m not sure I _disliked_ McMorrow, I just like #ElSayed much more and think he&#39;s more the kind of leader I want to see in place.
Post #3853865
Looking back over the past few years of electricity bills for July with #ConsumersEnergy in #Michigan, these were my overall rates (total bill / kWh): July 2024: $0.199 / kWh July 2025: $0.221 / kWh July 2026: $0.245 / kWh That&#39;s a 23% increase in #electricity cost in 3 years. #grandrapidsmi
Post #2357047
I really miss having a President that makes me think &quot;I want to be like them when I grow up&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd5J56423M
Post #2357046
Between two cats, a dog, and children I can&#39;t ever walk anywhere without having something dart in front of me out of nowhere like it&#39;s their mission in life.
Post #2357045
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116528596376127279 I&#39;d like to plug #ZenBrowser , based on #Firefox and has been nice to use https://zen-browser.app/
Post #2357044
RE: https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/116536144764049138 Love to see this, but I hope they build out fast charging because traveling across Michigan is hard with random 50kW chargers only. #Michigan #EV
Post #2357043
Needed to run to the store to get a few things for kiddo&#39;s school lunch, some milk, a couple snack things (kids...I swear) and a few ingredients for dinner tomorrow night, regular stuff. $85 For 15 items. This is crazy. #groceries #costofliving #us
Post #2357042
&quot;Controlling the flow of information is a potent thing - and we should be very careful of whom we give that power to.&quot; W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-uncovered-the-reality-behind-the-hype/ #federated #community
Post #2357040
Writing #agent #skills really reminds me of that old meme of kids giving their parents instructions on how to make a peanut butter sandwich and the outcome being a funny mess. &quot;Take the peanut butter and put it on the bread&quot; *Parent proceeds to place jar of peanut butter on top of the loaf of bread.* When agents often run with broad access to our computers and the internet, what could go wrong? #ai
Post #1765227
Why is tool calling for models in #Ollama from things like #OpenCode so flakey?
Post #1765225
I&#39;ve only got an hour or so into #Aethus but it&#39;s good so far and was happy to see that it supports #gamingonlinux
Post #1765222
#GEAppliances wants to sell me a software update for my oven, a completely digital &quot;feature&quot;. I paid for the oven already, the capabilities are there already, this #paywall is so dumb. #capitalism https://www.geappliances.com/appliance/Air-Fry-Digital-Update-to-GE-5000-Wall-Oven-DGSN0CAFA2
Post #1094475
Started this morning wondering about how I could find some native plants to plant in my back yard. I'm not really into gardening so don't know much. Then stumbled across https://gardenforwildlife.com/ and they seem to make it pretty easy. Would love other beginner-friendly local options in #WestMichigan if anyone has any! #gardening #michigan
Post #822219
#mastoadmin This instance has been running for about a week, so far it&#39;s just me. I follow 125 people and a few hashtags. My media storage is up to 25GB somehow...that seems high? Is this &quot;normal&quot;? Did I miss a setting somewhere? Using #fedihost if that is helpful context.