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scruss

@scruss@xoxo.zone

auld hairy scottish git in Toronto. Does futile things with electronics, including trying to sell them. This ended very badly, so now I build cameras instead. I've built and operated wind farms in many places: I may know what I'm talking about here.

I've been known as scruss since 1981. Some people know me by it and may not recognize my real name.

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scruss, to random
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Does anyone still make (non HiDef audio $$$$) mp3 players?

There's an iPod nano 7th rev around the house that we'd still like to use, but the screen is shattered. We want to use it where you probably wouldn't take a phone. So cheap(ish) and sturdy is good.

Canada Computers still have the Sandisk Clip on their site, but no stock. This is the sort of thing that Factory Direct used to do, but they shut down.

scruss,
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@elb maybe not androidy things. They probably want wifi and have dodgy connectors

MLE_online, to random
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My local bike shop guy heard about my quixotic quest to adapt a 40 spoke Sturmey Archer hub to a 36 spoke rim with machined adapter plates, and give me another hub to play with.

It looked nice on the outside, but it did not make the expected ratcheting sound that a freewheeling hub should make when spun. It also did not work correctly.

I thought maybe it would just be full of gummed up grease inside so I poured a bunch of paint thinner in there and let it sit, but that did not fix it, so I disassembled it and found it to be extremely crusty, rusty, and gunky inside.

I'm going to try to make it work again, even though this hub still won't work on my bike because it's drilled for 28 spokes lol. It just seems fun to see if I can clean it up and fix it.

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scruss,
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@MLE_online yay! Rebuilding an AW is something that most people would never even try.

Their only bad feature is that a misaligned shift cable can shift completely out of gear, causing no drive to the hub. I've only ever had that happen twice in years of riding.

That feature does allow you to permanently modify the hub into a nifty 2-speed fixed hub, though

scruss, to random
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Just went into Best Buy in perhaps the first time in a decade. I blame being lightheaded after donating blood.

(I had many "Why is this store even?" moments while I was in there)

scruss, to random
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Why* does the questionnaire that Canadian Blood Services ask you every time you donate include questions that the answer will never change? Like, "Were you born in South America?" That's gonna be pretty damn invariant for everyone, but nope, you get asked every time

*: https://donotreply.cards/en/do-not-reply-to-this-post

scruss, to random
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time for my monthly visit to LinkedIn blecch blecch blecch

scruss,
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@WTL thinking of changing my bio there to "this is not a place of honour"

scruss,
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@WTL nooooo don't look!

scruss,
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@WTL soz, logged out for at least the next four weeks

andypiper, to VintageOSes
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Oh! for now has wifi and Ovation Pro bundled... I wrote all of my university essays in Ovation, now if only I'm able to recover them from the old Risc PC to a Pi... this is great! https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2024/04/27/risc-os-5-30-now-available

scruss,
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@andypiper good luck with the wifi. I'm having none

scruss, to RaspberryPi
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RISC OS updated to include #RaspberryPi wifi support: https://www.riscosopen.org/news/articles/2024/04/27/risc-os-5-30-now-available

If you want a charmingly different OS for your Raspberry Pi, RISC OS might just be it.

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