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I heard a beep. A while later, another, then one every five minutes, and it drove me restless. Beeps aren’t distinctive, especially when a lot of devices probably all use the same off-the-shelf piezoelectric beepers – this beep reminded me of the robot vacuum cleaner, but unplugging that didn’t stop the beeping. I accused all sorts of things – the smoke alarm, my houseguests’ Bluetooth headphones, etc.
Eventually, after a lot of beeps, I realised that it was the carbon dioxide sensor – I can’t find the blog post that convinced me to buy one back in 2022. Incredibly, I’m such a sad little hermit that I’ve never before had enough people exhaling in my home to raise the CO₂ level above 1400ppm. (By the by, I wonder if any/how many orgies have been ruined by carbon dioxide sensors.)
In my defence, the app refers to a “buzzer”, which is misleading – a buzz is different to a beep. And hermitude isn’t the full story – in warmer weather I keep the place better-ventilated. And perhaps I didn’t always have the “beep every 5 minutes” setting switched on.
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Some things I’ve done on the computer recently:
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Applied this desktop wallpaper, with the Reduce Transparency setting to stop the menu bar being all yellow.
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Started using Ghostty for my terminal needs. The only snag has been finding myself instinctively ⌘ + F-ing, which doesn’t work.
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Tidied my RSS feed subscriptions, which is how I learnt why one of the blogs I subscribed to had posted nothing new recently (prison for strangling his wife).
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