@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, decoration easily makes for about a quarter of the donations I reckon. We open at 9 o’clock and the first people lined up at 8:15. This time they didn’t, but past years the literally ran into the hall when the doors opened. The one who unlocked had a dangerous job.

I’m pretty sure there are flea markets in your region, too. One train mate is a super active flea market vistitor and he went about every one or two weeks somewhere in my area. Most of them I also never heard of before. Granted, that was pre-corona, not sure if they all survived, but I imagine if you do a quick search, you will dig something up.

I had a long afternoon nap and can’t emphasize enough, how great that was.

I would say it was just about five centimeters long, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, so quite a normal size. :-) Oh wow, I didn’t know that. Crazy! Completely sick how some specializations work out.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ta!

It was very humid and hot at our quick forest hike on Thursday last week. The announced thunderstorm didn’t struck, but rain was definitely a thing in the distance.

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Finally, went through the photos from one and a half weeks ago. Still a lot of other days left to sort, including today.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, nothing really to worry about here, too.

Whoops, I just noticed the article’s image link was broken and fixed it.

Well, I’d say most things are still in good shape and reusable, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. But some people abuse us as large trash collectors, that’s for sure. There is always a looooot of decoration crap, that most of us don’t value ourselves, but it sells like hot cakes, so we don’t mind it too much. :-) I’m in charge of the electronics department and most things work, but we threw away a few things right away, because they were complete garbage. On the other hand, some machines were even never used once and came in their original packaging. So you have the complete spectrum.

That also goes for the customers. Most are super nice and few even give you more than you charged. Of course haggling is key and everybody tries to get a good deal. “It’s for a good cause” is a trick to get people to finally accept your higher price request every time (if it’s not too far away from what they want). I never experienced sb. declining that in all the years. ;-)

But you also have the complete asshole that tries to shamelessly bargain the crap out of you and often are successful in pulling young cub scouts over the barrel, who of course have no idea what something is really worth (and a buck is quite a lot for them). Well, even we grown-ups often have no clue about the real value. You won’t believe how many times I heard “but that’s really all I have” by wheeler-dealers and after some time they accidentally find some more coins in their pockets. Surprise! And then there are also the thieves. We watched like hawks, but a smartphone was stolen regardless in the first 20 minutes or so. And probably a few other things as well, we didn’t even notice.

But all in all, most people are great to deal with. The bad bunch are a very small minority, it’s just that the unpleasant situations sink deeper into memory. But the good thing is that you know them inside out the next year and can act appropriately.

@prologic@twtxt.net Cool, thanks!

And now the report has one photo where quite a lot of stuff is already sold.

@prologic@twtxt.net I suppose your bitcask implementation is a Go version of Basho’s “original bitcask” in Erlang?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m happy to see some rain. On Friday we were surprised with a very quickly rolling in thunderstorm with heavy rain. But luckily, no material delivered yet, so not a problem for us. So we watched the open-air pool visitors across the street fleeing in a hurry.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. Sounds good, will check it out later. Yes, the show is always a downer on the mood.

Phew, our yearly big flea market this weekend is over. It was cancelled for obvious reasons in the last two years. We got donated a bit more material than usual I’d say. In the end the big multipurpose hall was packed like nothing. Every square centimeter on and below the tables was occupied with things. Residents donate all sorts of stuff they don’t need anymore to our local scout group on Saturday and we go through it, sort it and sell it on Sunday to the general public. All profits go to our youth work.

Some photos on the course of Saturday. Like always, sorting and preparing the “Bikes and more” and “Garden” sections outside after closing on the pre-sorting area took way beyond dark and through the night. I forgot to take pictures yesterday.

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@prologic@twtxt.net @mutefall@twtxt.net Turns out, this is actually a thing: https://www.keppeldatacentres.com/innovations/floating-data-centre-park/

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Looking good, mate! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Reading stuff at the Anstalt you mean? Just noticed I haven’t followed it for a long time now. Where’s all my time gone? Right, twtxt and such…

@prologic@twtxt.net New records all the time.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net You can never have enough clamps. :-)