My mother's washing machine is breaking down, and she lives close enough that I'm washing all of her laundry.
Now, I like being able to fill more loads and wash things more often, rather than have them accumulate until the laundry basket is overflowing, so I'm not encouraging her to buy a new machine (an attempt at repairing hers has already been done, and failed).
My real question is: should I do the proper #victorian thing and embroider my husband's initials on all of our household items? should I do a radical feminist thing and embroider my own initials¹? And what should I do with the bedsheet that already has my great-grandfather initials on it?
¹ or rather design. which has the advantage of having a form that is extremely easy and quick to embroider, and I already use on my conference t-shirts that are identical to @Diego Roversi 's ones :D
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Lars Wirzenius
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Ownership of things changes over time. May I suggest you embroider a UUID and set up a database or spreadsheet of who owns which item?
(Joking.)
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in reply to Lars Wirzenius • •Lars Wirzenius
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •It just so happens that I've been thinking about serial numbers for my own garments lately.
Example: say I have three identical white dress shirts. Which one is the oldest? How long have I had it? How many times have I used it?
Without distinguishing elements this kind of thing is difficult.
Clearly, the world needs detailed inventory management for wardrobes. I shall make that my next startup.
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in reply to Lars Wirzenius • •@Lars Wirzenius a quick test told me that a qr code for a lesana id with reasonable settings is 28 × 28 squares/pixels.
but maybe there should also be a prefix to tell the qr-code decoding application that this is a lesana id, and a collection identifier. which is still missing, in lesana, I should probably add it.
And then there is the whole “letting the QR decoding application know that that kind of code should be opened with lesana”, of course.
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to anarcat • •@anarcat so the qrcode would have to be read by the same application that already knows about the inventory, right?
/me looks in a direction precisely perpendicular to the line towards @Fabio
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Unknown parent • •@Fabio @Lars Wirzenius of course that's what I would do.
Do you thing that the short id would be enough, or should I embroider the full id for safety? I'd thing the latter.
Also, human readable, or some embroidery-optimized encoding?
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@fabrixxm @liw
Hint from my granny (born at the end of 1800) who for a while worked as laundress in the Po river…
Two threads of different colors, like red and blue, will help to separate the things.
A "paper DB" with names and two threads of the same colors was enough.
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Ángel
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I suggest to embroid QR codes to URLs of a domain you control.
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
like @Fabio said, this is too practical, there isn't enough overengineering, it can't work (I mean, it would work as a way to separate the laundry, not as whatever it is that we're doing here) :D
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •@Fabio no, you were right at the margin of my field of vision, I wasn't looking at you!
but text only lesana can work with something like zbarcam through the shell, Collector would need some QR-code reading of its own :D