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blami

@blami@mastodon.online

Doing simple things in the most complicated ways since 1985. Opinions are mine.

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foone, to random
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heh. There's a note in the ps2dev library (which allows an arduino to emulate a PS/2 keyboard) that there's some possible incompatibilities with the PS2Keyboard library, which allows an arduino to act as a keyboard controller.

because of course. why not have two arduinos talk to each other by pretending to be a PS/2 keyboard and PS/2 keyboard controller?

I should build a network out of this.

blami,
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@foone http over ps2 by typing in packets!

tubetime, to random
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got a new mini-project: this is the AMTRADE "The Real HD-Drive" which is a PC floppy drive with this board on the back enabling an Amiga to read high density floppy disks (1.75MB).

blami,
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@tubetime What is that white goo? Glue?

blami, to markdown
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Anyone can recommend personal engine / notetaking with sync that has first-class support and can be easily edited on PC (, ) and ? I don't really want as it requires subscription that is comparable to e.g.

dosnostalgic, to random
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Lol. Why the fuck did the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable just dump all of its install files in the root of one of my external drives?! 😂

blami,
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@dosnostalgic Here you go, broken since 2008. You can safely remove: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/troubleshoot/visualstudio/install/vcredist-installs-temporary-files-root-directory

foone, to random
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my lip balm and my thermal paste are both hanging out in the same area of my desk

this seems like it could end badly

blami,
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@foone I'd absolutely buy lip balm in thermal paste tube :D

blami, to Amd
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Ok. Getting was really a good idea. I was finally able to try it out. That business thingy plays Skyrim buttersmooth on Ultra in Wine. None of my X1Cs nor X1 Nano can do that. And I can barely hear the fan! Also FreeBSD works kinda… fine (minus wifi) on it.

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blami,
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@exa @pglpm Yeah its T14s gen4 with Ryzen Pro 7

jhx, to linux
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My #OS stack:

#Linux side:

#BSD side:

...and a little #Windows :windows95:

How does yours look like? 😎

blami,
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@jhx My stack
homelab: ,
desktop: ( in )
laptop: ( in ),
riscv5 laptop:
arm pda:
desktop2: ,
powerbook g3: 9.2.2,
libretto ct30: ,
libretto ct60: , ,
libretto ct70:
thinkpad 535x: ,

blami, to Palm
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Recent find… I always wanted to have grandfather Professional in my collection. Once I get CodeWarrior up and running again I might finish my X-Files game I develop since 2009

blami, to thinkpad
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Thinkpad 535X - from trashcan back to life. There's still some work to be done but re-soldered RAM is detected and it seems to work. Caps on modem and soundcard daughterboard are replaced. Still need to check after I install OS/2. This will be my OS/2 driver.

globalc, to Japan
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This is a thing when living in :
bundling games, like with the current "Bandai Namco bundle", but the bundle is not available in Japan. They even send me promotion mails for these.
I guess the industry can sell these games here one-by-one with more profit.

The bundle page is just protected by IP-geo-location and can be accessed via Tor, but trying to buy the bundle via that way is then blocked further down in the purchase process.

blami,
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@globalc Yeah, even worse is that if you are very occasional user and forget switch your region, they let you buy it and then it blows up when claiming on …

blami, to GachaGaming
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Quite interesting

blami,
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@globalc @Sibshops Yeah. -ese perfection included. Each device comes with either UTP or power cable that actually fits either front ethernet ports or backside power strip...

blami, to random
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“compared to sneaky C preprocessor macros”

HackSpacemag, to random

How hot does a Raspberry Pi 5 get under a stress test? Not very.

@Raspberry_Pi

blami,
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@HackSpacemag @Raspberry_Pi What Predator sees while hacking on his latest project…

grumpygamer, to random
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"Bay Area baby belly beholding Battlefield bounty"

What the f**k does this headline even mean?

blami,
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@grumpygamer Sounds like Pigeon Brothers made this one.

blami, to retrocomputing
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Still looking for Borland Delphi 3 in box for my small collection of software I was using back in 90s. Can be beaten or incomplete but having box is important to me.

foone, to random
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So I decided to look at a game (software toy?) that my partner plays. It's a fully 2D coloring program, where you have geometric pages and you can colorize it as you wish.

Guess what: IT'S UNITY!

blami,
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@foone I was wondering this in offline sense when Microsoft announced they sunsetting WordPad. I think a lot of licenses shown in install wizards are still .rtf and displayed using some brown OLE magic?

globalc, to Tokyo
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What is it like to move to a flat in ?
Some details on searching, contracting, moving and local specialities.
https://blog.fluxcoil.net/posts/2023/09/moving-flat-in-tokyo/

blami,
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@Natanox @benoit @globalc I asked electrician who was wiring our place and in Japan they use a different protection scheme than in US. Electrical code here is to have short circuit protection rather than ground failure (wet places like bathroom and kitchen still should have ground screw - benefit here is you can disconnect older appliance while keeping it grounded). In newer places entire box has GFCI as on one of pictures in this thread.

blami,
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@globalc @Natanox @benoit Btw. having ground plug and ground failure protection circuit behind it does not prevent fire. It mainly prevents user from being killed and appliance being damaged (which yeah, can result in fire). Fire is more likely be caused to wear and tear on cabling and power taps and appliances itself, be it grounded or not.

blami,
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@globalc @benoit @codewiz @Natanox Yeah that’s interesting too… I think I read somewhere they initially bought generators form AEG in Tokyo which were 50Hz and then from GE in Osaka? which were obviously 60Hz. And like hanko and fax machine it stuck…

foone, to random
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2023 is going to be the year of the zip disk, just you wait

blami,
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@foone @cwayne the ones that can be ejected with a right click!

melodymayhem, to Vintage

To Be or not to Be!

blami,
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@melodymayhem Is that Pismo?

blami,
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@melodymayhem Oh niiice! I have its older sibling Wallstreet 233 here, love that machine versatility with double bays. Not so adventurous to try BeOS (afaik it wouldn't work - or at least not easily) so I am running Rhapsody and OS9.1 on it... 🍏

Display of Powerbook G3 running Prince of Persia 2.

asie, to random

Fun fact: the Famicom Disk System has a Y2024 problem!

The FDS stores the disk's manufacturing/rewrite date using a binary-coded decimal year in the Shōwa era (so 1926 is year $01, 1927 is year $02, 1935 is year $10, and so on).

This means that the last year which can be expressed in this system is 2024 - Shōwa 99; which is still out of bounds for the era itself, but acceptable by the Nintendo header standard.

blami,
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@foone @asie Not much changed since Showa in terms of sudden era end preparedness… I still remember update blizzard in April 2019 (both electronic and stationery stickers to fix real calendars and diaries).

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