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@timixretroplays would #Syncthing be an option for you?
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@timixretroplays Just found this on AliExpress - thanks! - and each board is SEVENTY FIVE UK PENCE WITH FREE SHIPPING. I’m building my #transputer emulation system with Pi Picos, and if I can get PIO working off something this small, I’ll be able to build a cluster for next to nothing! Incredible!
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@timixretroplays Do you want it rated on a scale of "1 to Fucking #Telstra"
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@timixretroplays I sadly had a different version, which was less epic.
The #Civ3 box is also pretty nice. The #Civ4 has more of what you criticize, but still some epic-ness. -
@timixretroplays NCE billing finally reaches the consumer space.
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@timixretroplays Couple of things to think about...
For #Rhino3D you could install a VM on Mint and snarf the directory structure onto your Linux host - and then experiment with Wine/Proton/Bottles/etc. There's GPU pass-thru options but I'm not a fan.
#Blender is great but is not parametric native although CAD Sketcher has done a lot.
On the #FreeCAD / #Ondsel side I think great things are coming. Dev work has seemed to accelerate and the topology thing is "fixed". I'm putting my focus here.
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@timixretroplays On the point, Dude!
At the end of history (in the 90s), we took power away from the civil servants and gave it to the accountants. As compensation, we got #MonthyPython.
In the 10s, we took power from the accountants and gave it to the nerds. And instead of good satire, all we got was #Netflix.
There is nothing left to laugh about together. In anger everyone is alone, only hate can be shared with others. 😩
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@timixretroplays #darkforestinternet too, or #enshittification is one aspect of the dark forest. Just as #pigbutchering #crytoscam #silos #ebay becoming the largest and apparently legalized fence of #porchpirate stolen and shoplifted goods, #facebook and #instagram murdering teen girls, #monopolies and all of it. Let's not even #genai #llm telling us roaches are normal in our penis holes and pregnants should smoke. It is becoming a horror show of actual death.
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RE: https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/116400799417215833
#Scammers who #scam retirees and the vulnerable of their lifesavings deserve capital punishment to the fullest extent of the #law!
#zerotolerance
#fediverse #beware 👇⚠️ -
@OohOkayKay @frogglin @timixretroplays Wikipedia explains many formulations for #Pyrex, & some tradeoffs for mechanical v thermal safety, but says upper v lower case not the way to distinguish:
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The amount of people that look at me as if I lost my mind when I launch in essentially the same rant is astounding. Don’t people think anymore or have they just given up.
Most tech companies getting rid of their ethics departments (if they had one) doesn’t help as well.
#tech #entshittification #ethics #badtech
From: @timixretroplays
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#Mozilla say they used AI to find 22 vulnerabilities in #Firefox v148, and *271* in v150: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-security-zero-day-vulnerabilities/
Stepping away from the usual discourse around AI in software development for a moment - is that realistic? Literal hundreds of unpatched, unknown flaws in software used by millions every day, just waiting to be found and cracked?
Like, is it just changing variable types and claiming it's fixed a buffer overflow 200 times, or *is all modern software* actually that fragile and risky?
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#Electronics fedi, what make and model are these tactile switches? They don't match anything I'm seeing when searching for "slim round smd tactile" and the like - everything has too big a base and often the wrong colour. Is it possible they've just rolled their own mechanism to make it super tiny? They snap satisfyingly in and out but take a surprising amount of force.
These are in a weirdo gamepad I want to write about this week.
EDIT: solved, they're not off-the-shelf tactiles at all! Read ⬇️
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Today's a good day to point out the link in my profile to things I've preserved at the #InternetArchive: https://archive.org/details/@timixretroplays_gmail_com
In 2022 and 2023 I collected several vintage programmable game controllers and their user manuals for SEGA, SNES and the PC. Most of these were hard to find, physically or virtually, and took some hunting, but thanks to the @internetarchive these controllers can live again, to their full function, in your home. Most of those manuals now have hundreds of views.
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Another "no longer fit for purpose" for me is #LastPass, which has begun enthusiastically filling my username for websites into search boxes, which is an unbelievable time waster.
LastPass's official solution to this - provided 17 months after someone asked for help with it - is to add a "never URL" which prevents LP from autofilling on individual pages: https://community.lastpass.com/discussion/2554/how-to-stop-lastpass-from-automatically-filling-in-a-search-bar-on-a-site-where-i-am-already-logged-in?tab=all
My subscription to LastPass is due in July, so I've got til then to find time to migrate to a different thingy.
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Do you use a USB switch (to use a keyboard/mouse/whatever on multiple PCs)? Do you find your devices stop working on one #Windows10 PC after switching away and back to it?
Your PC is probably turning off that USB port for nonsense power-saving reasons. You'll want to dig deep into your power settings and disable "USB selective suspend setting".
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Tonight's plans to entirely re-cable my workspace have hit a snag. A very sassy, floofy snag. #Cats #SiameseCat #CatsOfMastodon
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If you're floofy and you know it, show your beans 🐾🐾
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Uh, I was expecting to spend all night writing a thread about the trials and tribulations of getting my #Surface Pro 6's touchscreen working under #Linux, but the steps I took can be summarised as 1. Install #LinuxMint, 2. Copy and paste a few lines from here into the terminal: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Installation-and-Setup 3. Reboot, type "surface" to enroll the touch-enabled kernel in secure boot (or something), and it just magically works. Less than 30 minutes from Windows 11 to touchy-feely Linux.
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Starting to properly look into an alternative to #Dropbox or #OneDrive. I'm currently paying AU$109/year ($9/month) for my home Office subscription which includes a terabyte of OD space. Dropbox is $184/year ($15/mo) for 2TB of space. I currently have about 100GB of data to house.
Looks like it costs about AU$80/month to put 100GB of data on a webhost in Australia.
Can anyone suggest somewhere priced in between that'd let me use NextCloud or similar? Boosts and suggestions welcome. #AskFedi
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So here's where the project sits at the end of day 1 - It's a #Blackberry Q10 keyboard working through a #PiPico #RP2350 controller. I'm making a physical keyboard case for my phone because I'm outrageously tired of virtual keyboards.
That's a PMOD implementation of the Q10 keyboard by Solder Party (shout-out to @arturo182) - I don't think you can buy these anymore but I bought two of them years ago and squirreled them away for the day I'd have a suitable microcontroller for the project.
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If you start reading enough about #AQI, you will start to see some rigorously scientificised recipes - this article, for example, suggests ensuring your steak (230g) and asparagus (217g) ingredients are within one standard deviation of their specified weights. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8224830/
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It's #Caturday somewhere in the world. #Cats #SiameseCat #CatsOfMastodon
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I wish #Ploopy had a bit more technical information available - stuff like "Ordering the components is left as an exercise for the reader" comes across as a bit snide, bordering on hostile, and it looks like I'd have to be able to read Altium files to even find out what sensor IC this thing uses. But I don't think I can fault them for making a high-precision scrolling / volume / whatever reprogrammable dial available off-the-shelf for CAD/AUD$50.
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I was all set up to do a mini project today, then accidentally found an open source project that has already achieved exactly what I wanted to do AND still has complete units in stock ready to purchase so you don't have to order PCBs and do some dodgy surface-mount soldering and program the controller and tweak the 3D prints to fit.
That project is the #Ploopy Knob, a USB-connected high-precision scrolling dial: https://ploopy.co/knob/
(Ploopy also make cool trackballs and a trackpad)
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For the ~3 other #Arduino folks on the planet trying to solve the same problem I am: if you're desperately trying to find a 3.3V version of a #ProMicro with USB type C, Sparkfun make one with a Raspberry #PiPico RP2350 on board - much faster chip than an Atmel 32U4, runs at 3.3 volts, and no more expensive, plus there's the usual exciting range of faithful and creative clones on AliExpress.
The RP2040 also runs at 3V3 but is tolerant of 5V, for those weird in-between projects. #electronics
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Lol I managed to softlock Sonic 3. Turns out if you fly into the first Marble Garden boss battle as Super Sonic on one of those spinning tops, you just fly off the screen and disappear. #retrogaming #Sonic3 #SEGA
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Today was going too smoothly, so I managed to *burn glass* in a microwave.
The handle of this pyrex jug (almost certainly not "real" pyrex) touched the... grille? emitter? of the magnetron and stopped turning, and there was a loud buzzing sound and bright sparks for a couple of seconds before I flew across the kitchen and hit the open button.
WTF just happened? Why did glass do this? My first thought was "oh fuck did I leave metal in there" but I absolutely didn't.
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Competitive #TrackMania is more exciting than Formula 1 IMHO and doesn't come with a rusted-on fanbase that'll bite your head off for having an opinion. If you need an hour of background noise (or foreground entertainment) tonight, you could do worse than Norwegian caster and pro player Wirtual talking you through the first Elite Cup - you don't have to know anything at all about the game to get into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IIDbmVKow4
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Are you in the UK or the US? Do you prefer Playstation controllers over Xbox, but wish the D-pad didn't have that gap in the middle?
Get yourself a Google #Stadia controller. The platform itself is long gone now, so there's millions of very lightly-used pads (and plenty new-in-box) on eBay and likely other places for not a ton of cash.
They're re-flashable to be plain Bluetooth gamepads using this tool, runnable on the web and locally: https://github.com/luigimannoni/stadia-controller-flasher