RL_Dane

RL_Dane, 21 days ago to amiga

Hey #Amiga folks,

Anyone have a sample FS-UAE config using a hard disk directory?

I've looked everywhere, and there's nothing that tells you how to actually use/configure it.

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to vim

When you're in a web browser and and end an input form with [Esc]:wq

#derp ;) #vi #vim #neovim #nvim

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to random

I gave up on using 24-hour time.
I just could never quite get used to it. I was always having to do the math in my head.

RL_Dane, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to random

What in the world is wrong with this machine?

Something as simple as syncthing running, an apt upgrade, or even just doing a dd of a gigabyte from /dev/zero to a junk file can cause the system load to scream up to 10 (quad-core system), and it starts freezing.

Do I have a dodgy SSD???

Update 1: I am using full disk encryption (LUKS)

Update 2: gsmartcontrol output https://bin.benjaminhollon.com/fersimebia

Update 3: I'm going to try copying everything over to a spare SSD later.

RL_Dane, 23 hours ago to Blog

New #blog post: Gesture Navigation is Lame
https://rldane.space/gesture-navigation-is-lame.html

#rlDaneWriting #Android

cc: my #chorus: @joel @amin @dm @ivan @sotolf @thedoctor

RL_Dane, 16 days ago to random

Dear God... trying to type into the chat field on major financial website on a 12th Gen i7 and it's like watching the text appear in slow motion.

LET'S JUST BURN THE WEB DOWN AND START A NEW ONE.

RL_Dane, 16 days ago to ADHD

Lemme get this straight, #BetterHelp helped themselves to $80 out of my account every month for several months while I dealt with undiagnosed #ADHD with no help from them (kinda hard to get treatment when you have to initiate all of the communication and you have raging ADHD). The US FTC sued them and all I get back is $9.70?

Good grief.

OH SNAP, they got sued for selling customer's data TO FACEBOOK. WOW! WHAT A PARAGON OF VIRTUE.

BetterHelp. More like GetShafted.

#LateStageCapitalism

RL_Dane, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to amiga

Hey #Amiga folks,

In my little exploration, I'm re-creating the A500 I would've gotten in Christmas 1989 rather than the Macintosh SE I actually got.

My understanding is that the original A500 is capable of displaying 640x400 (NTSC -- I'm in the US) with 4 bitplanes...

So why does workbench display 640x200? (At least, that's what it looks like to me based on the non-square pixels I'm seeing in font rendering)

Update: to avoid interlacing. I forgot abt that 😅
Many thanks for the explanations!

RL_Dane, 18 days ago to random

Ooo, found a new-to-me fediverse software in < 15k SLOC of C: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

$ cloc snac2

Language code

C 11441
C/C++ Header 3351
...

SUM: 15533

cc: @amin

RL_Dane, 12 days ago to random

Half my kingdom for a Signal client that works on ARM (and no, I'm hella not going to compile electron on my pinebook, get outta here, lol)

I've tried Axolotl via flatpak, but it just crashes on start with some kind of (oh gee) electron error.

#ElectronCRapps

RL_Dane, 16 days ago to ADHD

Someone needs to write an #ADHD videogame called "Dopamine Farming" where you have a stable job and a great life and all of a sudden DONT care about anything in the world and start planning things around the dopamine they will produce so you can get through the day, like, "Time for a haircut! I don't need one that badly, but that's fifteen dopamine points, so I'll take it!"

RL_Dane, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago) to random

Go home, #German Language, you're drunk!

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZYkBf0dbs5I&local=true

I wish I could understand it. This tongue twister song looks like a lot of fun. 😄

Cc: @mirabilos, @thedoctor, @sotolf

P.S., the youtube video has very good English subtitles

P.P.S., the original tongue-twister: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gG62zay3kck
(Courtesy of @eversten)

#Deutsche

RL_Dane, 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago) to random

Would it be odious if I yet again expressed frustration with the (in my opinion) infantile and officious 500-character limit?

Argh.

Ok, that's it. Back to what you were doing.

https://fosstodon.org/
^^^^ I rest my case. XD

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to random

Great, the new captcha involves looking for a combination of numbered and dotted 6-sided dice that total to a number given.

Now I'm actually having to THINK to solve captchas.

If they start using differential equations in captchas, I'm sunk.

RL_Dane, 19 days ago to random

Hey @slembcke,

How's your kitty doing?

RL_Dane, 8 days ago to VintageOSes

REPEAT AFTER ME:
FIVE
TWELVE
BY
THREE
FORTY
TWO

42!! Lucky number! NOT 84! (Even though it came out in '84, that's immaterial!)

The ONLY Macintoshes that ran at 512x384 were the 1990 Mac LC and IIsi with the 12" screen, and the Color Classic and perhaps other related later all-in-ones.

ALL MONOCHROME COMPACT MACS HAD 512x342 RESOLUTION SCREENS.

#ClassicMac #Macintosh #Retrocomputing

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to random

Who's using #Meshtastic? What do you use it for? How's it going?

This looks pretty exciting, like a good sequel to #APRS :D

RL_Dane, 20 days ago to random

Extended #regexps are great for place names like "Wellesley" where you can not remember if it's Welesley, Welleseley, Wellesselley, Welleslley, or Welesslley to save your dadburn life. ;)

/wel+es+e?l+ey/ !!!

cc: @amin

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to random

I don't know why online git hosts don't ever show SLOC. I get really curious about code complexity in projects and will occasionally clone a repo just to run cloc on it.

https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc

@Codeberg, could that be a feature?

RL_Dane, 20 days ago to vim

Hey #vim / #NeoVim gurus,

Is there any way to make the spelling checker ignore words with numbers in them?

Couldn't find a good answer online.

RL_Dane, 17 days ago to random

@lowqualityfacts follows me now.

I wonder what that says about the quality of things I post. ^__^

RL_Dane, 23 days ago to random

Me in 1990: "Man, I can't wait until EVERYTHING uses groovy, crisp vector fonts!"
Me in 2024: "Man, I miss how clean-looking bitmapped fonts were."

RL_Dane, 25 days ago to android

Ok, this is weird:

The stock #Android #AOSP Messaging app lacks tons of features (like SEARCH), but it can send images via MMS very well.

The QUIK app (recent fork of QKSMS) does a great job of searching and even has a limited built-in backup function, but it totally fails at sending images over 300kb, and sometimes at all.

The Fossify messages app (fork of Simple Mobile Tools) does both, BUT it burns through battery crazy fast on my over-sized SMS DB.

Ugh.

Any FOSS SMS app recommendations?

RL_Dane, 12 days ago to random

This script is getting slightly out of hand XD

RL_Dane, 8 days ago to ADHD

Oh, why hello again #ADHDBurnout. So... predictable to see you again.

#ADHD #Burnout #ImToast