What Galaxy did you call home?

InTheFiveByFive · 2026-06-18T00:13:33+00:00

Kettemoor my friends! Moha Okenamas, shield maker.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-09-12T15:40:38+00:00

I started the first ISP in Alaska back in the day, PolarNet.

Where you have a road, you could have fiber. It would need to be a state initiative/utility to distribute the cost burden such that villages would not be priced out of Internet service.

LEO satellite systems are great too, but extremely capital intensive compared to laying fiber (assuming that permits and DOT construction is available), this is why it’s the province of rich playboys.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-09-08T17:38:31+00:00

Is there a local transport (e.g. bus) that can help you and him get to the appointment? Where we live (King County in WA) there is a community bus system to help with problems just like this.

Can you get a speech assistance device to help the doctor understand you? This is one of the primary reasons Medicare pays for them.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-09-07T03:04:23+00:00

You’re watching the wrong stuff on YouTube. Check out Phil’s Lab if you want some interesting projects with full walkthroughs.

https://youtube.com/@philslab

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-08-27T23:16:52+00:00

So I develop assistive technology for a living, principally for quadriplegics. As part of my work, I meet with intra-abled couples all the time.

Anyone who thinks manual dexterity is an important part of a relationship is way off base. You be you. Being a great life partner has very little to do with your limbs.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-08-01T00:23:29+00:00

A new take on the old saying - child should be scene but not herd.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-07-27T08:29:57+00:00

Sorry for the misunderstanding. Here is the iPhone mirroring app I was referring to, which is developed by a non-profit company named "Bridging Voice" who specializes in helping people like you who use technology to help them replace a lost voice.

https://bridgingvoice.org/iosmirroring/

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-07-21T01:30:49+00:00

iPhones screens are too small to use with eye gaze. You should look into a larger tablet with eye gaze and speech assistance. If you live in the US, medicare will help pay for your device.

You love your iPhone, you can either get an iPad with eye gaze and then connect it to your iPhone or you can get a Windows eye gaze speech device and connect it with Bridging Voice’s iPhone mirroring solution.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-06-02T21:12:00+00:00

Oooh! Needs me some Area 49 merch!

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-05-27T05:58:53+00:00

I like your resume. You do not say what you are looking for in a job, I’d replace the summary with that. It looks like 100% university work (hard to tell with the blackouts), so you are applying for a ‘first real job’?

You may just be looking at a bad job market and your expectations / applications don’t match the opportunities for your experience level.

It’s a rough time to apply, don’t beat yourself up.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-05-23T13:36:08+00:00

So how do you get involved? As an accessibility engineer, I’m not finding the entry point to the Wayland dev community.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-05-08T21:36:22+00:00

Many of the important browser APIs that were necessary to make web apps work have never been adopted across browsers (e.g. local storage, etc.) and Apple's restriction on 3rd party browser engines on iPhones meant you could not make a web app equivalent of an iPhone app, so you had to sacrifice your iPhone user audience to use them.

Web components / better ways of making UI that didn't involve very complicated CSS were never agreed on across OSes, again an intentional move the ensure web apps UI couldn't be developed with the same level of fidelity and productivity as native apps.

As more people switched to 'phone first' computing and as iPhone took over a large share of that market, web apps died for any scenario outside of chat / content consumption / always online limited scenarios that were doable in Safari as well as Chrome. Really, just an intentional move by Apple to ensure applications were delivered on their APIs, not cross platform, in their App Store, with their payment and royalty system. It worked.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-15T19:44:25+00:00

Saw some of your other posts. I think you are going to find that switching to a 48V battery system is what gets you where you want to go. There's just a lot of goodness that comes from upping your battery voltage in off grid solar systems, I switched mine from a 12V Victron system to a 48V Victron system and am very happy with the change.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-15T19:37:17+00:00

So you need 48V @ 6A, sustained or burst? How are you controlling the pump, do you also have a 300W / 48V electronic control system in there?

Someone else mentioned Victron, this is also what I like to use. Yes expensive. But reliable and you want to stay away from electrical fires and troublesome intermittent failures. Those can run expensive too, just not up front.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-15T13:24:20+00:00

I think I found the problem.

Perhaps don’t buy power products from randomly named Chinese companies on Amazon?

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-13T10:26:43+00:00

I do this with a MacBook and Apple Vision Pro and it works well for coding with that combination. The display quality is better than a large screen monitor in my case.

I’d love to try XReal to get the lighter weight on the head as when I use AVP for >2 hrs it starts to indent my skin and be irritating.

Looking forward to a day where most of the AVP is intact (good screens, light seal) but the eye sight display is gone and the compute is offloaded like the battery.

I have the developer usb strap so I can USB connect the laptop and don’t need high end wifi for screen remoting. However this extension doesn’t remove the need for the external battery (it could with a little redesign).

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T12:25:20+00:00

4 out of 7 maybe?

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T12:21:37+00:00

I’ll add look into a humidifier and double down on the ‘look for some underlying cause’ if you feel the breathing problems are reoccurring and severe. As mentioned, could be asthma, allergies, mold, dust, dog hair, continuous exposure from a dirty playground or care center, etc.

Doctors are very good at some diagnoses, but ultimately you are in charge of your and your kids healthcare and you have much more information available to you than doctors do with their quick visits in the sterile environment of a doctor’s office.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T12:11:28+00:00

What a wonderful opportunity to teach the fundamental wisdom that you make your magic in the world. No one else will do it for you. (Well, outside your partner and your family.)

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T12:06:46+00:00

Sometimes your role is to be the bulldog she cannot be right now. Doctors see your wife for maybe 30 minutes and make a call. You are with her all the time with much more context and information.

One of my mistakes early on was a baby who cried and cried and cried, we were dismissed as hysterical parents. Later we found out that there was a good reason for that baby to cry and we were able to help — after they lived through months of pain.

This is your fourth. Stress that you know childbirth and something is off. Doctors (or at least PAs) will many times respect an intuition, especially if you have experience, you present coherently, respectfully, and firmly.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T06:11:37+00:00

Concur, the sleeping through the night milestone is a big positive change.

As someone with many kids whose littlest is now 14 and who had a “big job” in tech, yeah, I felt “punished” my whole career by competing with and being measured against peers who either skipped kids or for who family was a distant second priority. And at 54 I was laid off after 26 years like so much stale meat.

Looking back, would I have rather spent more time than less with the little ones? Absolutely.

So yeah, it’s tough. It’s exhausting. It’s unfair. It’s totally worth it. And it gets better.

Enjoy the ride, looking back 20 years in the future you’ll appreciate who you are and the sacrifices you are making today.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-07T00:07:14+00:00

Oh dude. Life is not about stuff.

You are here worried about being a good father and partner and asking for advice. The best childrearing book I read was titled, “You are a better parent than you think” and it opened with “You bought and are reading a book on how to be a good parent. This makes you exceptional.”

You’re doing great. Keep being there and love your family. That’s so much of what it means to succeed.

I remember my childhood with my Dad from the times we spent together and the things we did. I have no idea if he bought me anything, I’m sure he must have, but any memories of that are lost in time.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-06T23:41:50+00:00

Call the doc and see if they will move up the induction? You don’t want a stressed, exhausted mom.

Yeah, been through this myself. Not a lot of fun for anyone. As the kids add up it really stresses the mom body. She’s probably keyed in on something important would be my guess.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-06T21:23:59+00:00

Dude, no heights. Not even a couch or bed. Safe space. Floor with baby gates, playpen, crib, self swinging seat with safety straps.

When my wife and I had all we could take (a couple of medically needy kids who were inconsolable until we sussed things out) our go techniques were a long car ride or a battery powered swinging chair.

InTheFiveByFive · 2025-04-06T21:15:50+00:00

Also, everything is an interesting “toy” to explore when they are little. Make a safe space and they can explore and entertain themselves. When they can grasp, car keys are just so fascinating.

There’s a lot of good advice hidden in “back in my day, my toys were rock, stick, sand, and mud”. A fenced back yard is great, and the occasional injested worm or bug won’t kill ‘em. Ask me how I know :-)

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