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Inventory sucks. Trying to figure out what you have, where it is, and what you need to buy is annoying and the least glamorous part of making things. I've been working on this for a bit over 4 years now that came out of the issues of COVID electronic parts shortages.

For some background, I'm an electrical engineer predominantly but have spent a lot of time around embedded systems and delved into pretty much every area I can get my hands on in terms of electronics. Due to working at small companies, I have usually been very close with the production floors, sometimes literally being 10 feet away from my desk. Getting familiar with the manufacturing leads, the technicians actually putting the

I wanted to get some comments on what problems people have with tracking items that are too small for a barcode, hard to put an RFID tag on, or just plain annoying to figure out actual stock quantities across workbenches on a production floor. I've been working on an open source hardware and software solution for a number of years now to try and alleviate some of these problems. I thought it would be good to get input from everyone here.

For some background, I'm an electrical engineer predominantly and have had this issue working at various small companies. Often times the circuit boards I've made will be stored on some shelf and tracked to some degree in a spreadsheet, but the external sen

Was commenting on another post of someone getting mugged, and thought it would be easier to put all the details here. I'll try to format it to go through everything and answer questions I anticipate.

What happened?

###Day of incident June 12th, 1:08pm I walked down the Lafayette Ave C train entrance in Fort Greene on my way back to work. Station was quiet, no one was walking around. I went and paid the fare to the Manhattan bound side, walked down the stairs.

The guy who would end up attacking me was sitting towards the bottom of the stairs, I didn't think anything of it and walked by him. Kept going and sat on the bench as the train was supposed to come by later, but I forgot exactl

Got really screwed over by the shop I thought I could trust for getting my tires changed (they never ordered the tires I asked in advance, and ended up charging me $150 more than they initially quoted), so after 600 miles and a long nail in those tires, I thought to go try and learn how to do it myself.

After about 3 hours, some sweat and blood (no tears, only cursing in my head), I finally got my new tire all set. Going to balance it once the tool comes in later in the week, but still feels nice to have that done myself.

Was a little disappointed to see that the scaled version of Firefox on phosh was not on the Manjaro KDE repos (as far as I have seen). Anyone know how to set Firefox up to work like it does with phosh or is it just not possible right now?