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foone

@foone@digipres.club

Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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whitequark, to random
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i did not realize how fragile "sd card plugged into raspberry pi" is. my headmate's 3d printer server just... had an sd card die. it sort of reads except sometimes it spends half a minute reading a single sector

wtf

foone,
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@whitequark I maintained a raspi that did nothing but display one website for about a year, and THE ONLY problem I had was SD cards dying.

the raspi is just so good at killing microsd cards

foone, to random
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I was copying a Totally Legal Game Backup onto my roommate's switch and it confused Windows so much that it told me I had the wrong floppy diskette in the drive.

foone,
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I AM THE BEST PIRATE
(with the worst handwriting)

foone,
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@ok_devalias amusingly I was actually working on a cow farm simulator a few years ago, then twitter and unity both exploded out from under us so we canceled it

foone,
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gah. I'm having continual trouble with a modded switch, because you need a microSD card which you copy files onto and they keep getting corrupted.

I corrupted my first SD card by trying to copy a game that was too big and the fat filesystem filling with lost sectors, so I wiped it and started setting it up again. My idea was that I'd set it up and then image the whole SD card!

foone,
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I get the new SD card set up, but before I image it I try copying a single game onto it.

this corrupted the filesystem. See the above error? That was windows deciding the microSD card wasn't formatted anymore

foone,
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@KayOhtie good question. I was following the guide which had me format it from the TegraExplorer payload, and I'm not sure how it formatted it.

foone,
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@KayOhtie I went back in: turns out it does fat32

foone,
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Using Awoo-Installer's network mode to avoid having to copy a bunch of files on and off of the SD card seems to have kept it from instantly corrupting itself.

So now I'm backing up the SD card as a dd-image. I can just re-image it or stick it on a second card if something goes wrong

foone, to random
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It's annoying when you get that firefighter instinct "this place is about to collapse" about a website and you're already so fucking busy.

I really don't have time to try to archive this site before it implodes, so I gotta try to ignore all the signs while hoping someone else archives it.

(note that I didn't mention which site I'm talking about: this is on purpose)

foone, to random
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I wonder if you could clone a FlashPath floppy disk emulator but as a PCB.
Youd need a hole in the middle for the spindle, but if you could keep the height down and do some magnetic coils at the right place, it could work?

foone,
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@txgx42 now that's a fun idea.

foone,
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@greenarchist nah you just leave the hole in the middle, big enough that the motor spins nothing

foone, to random
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With all the different microcontroller platforms out there, it's sometimes annoying because there's a solution that does exactly what you want but it's targeting some weird architecture that isn't what you use, or has suddenly become hard to find.

I think it's about time we organize all our open source microcontroller-based firmware around a simple, widely available, and powerful architecture, for consistency and interoperability.

The Intel 80486.

foone,
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Microsoft's all open sourcing ms-DOS 4.0, Intel should open source the 80486.

They're about the same age.

foone,
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I want a raspberry pico that's x86 and runs at 5v, is that so wrong?

foone,
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@xinmyname I live in th. Past! We use 5v back here, I don't care how much you youngins love your 3.3v and 1.8v

kiwa, to random
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Maybe I can make a chonk workbench gotek emulator with this lcd

foone,
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@kiwa make a huge gotek! You will not regret making a huge gotek

shamuspeveril, to godot
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Been working a bit on a new project. Two actually! Because I can't be decisive.

I need to write some blog posts, but I've been enjoying just working on stuff quietly for now.

(Sorry for the delete+republish, I realized I'd forgotten the image descriptions!)

A 3d game prototype. A noisy, vignetted screen shows the inside of a very dark cave with stalactites hanging from the ceiling. On the right, an opening to the sunny outside is visible.
A screenshot of a pixel art video game. There is a green checkered board with two units on it. A hand of units is visible at the bottom of the screen, and a "card" is opened on the left describing a "Splitter" unit: "Split one incoming attack and redirect it both left and right. Does not move or attack."
A screenshot of a pixel art video game. There is a green checkered board with two units on it, along with some trees and rocks. To the left, a card describes a "Wall" unit: "Does not move or attack."

foone,
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@shamuspeveril nice!

NanoRaptor, to random
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I don't like to make a constant huge deal of it because the world concentrates too much on numbers and the baggage around them, and constant running totals are probably bad all up, but this morning I hit a 30kg weight loss.

Left, September 2023. Right, today. Also yes I am fifty something and my mother bought me a bun hoodie.

A photo of a nanoraptor looking a little bit more nano and a little less raptor too. Also I'm wearing a pink bun hoodie.

foone,
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@NanoRaptor this is exactly as I have always imagined you looking, to be honest

foone, to random
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Apparently DoorDash has started filling in missing item descriptions by generating them with AI.

I'm sure this'll not cause ANY problems

foone, to random
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I extracted all 5000+ frames (with a bunch of duplicates!) of Rambley The Raccoon from Indigo Park: Chapter 1.

https://archive.org/details/rambley-raccoon

foone, to random
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I'm disappointed in how hacking works in real life. I'd played enough video games to have an idea how it would go, but I've been hacking games and hardware for like a decade now and not even once have I had to solve a pipe maze puzzle

foone,
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@JennyFluff @grillaum you underestimate my incompetence

hairymnstr, to random
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Coming to ? Got an idea for a badge app? Want to share it with your friends, but not just via some web store? Well then I have the solution for you! The Flopagon™ is a handy 16MB store for all your favourite Tildagon programs. Fully hexpansion compliant!* These will be available for £3 each to cover costs or may be tradable for other hexpansions. (*UHB-IF compliance subject to further needless bureaucracy) @badge

foone,
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@hairymnstr @badge I really love the floppy theming on your badges!

foone, to random
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It's kinda depressing how tumblr is imploding now and I'm seeing half my follow list go "man, after seeing both twitter and tumblr do this, it's really showing how it's a bad idea for a social media network to be run by a company who can make arbitrary changes without user consent.

anyway, here's my bsky: ..."

foone,
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@godot bunch of trans women kept getting banned. One yelled really loud about it enough for the CEO to respond, and then he followed her to other platforms to keep trying to debate her.
A real shit show

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