Deep joy. Greedy RealVNC is taking away the ability to use more than three copies of it at home, free. I shall, of course, switch to TightVNC. I expect they thought aged hobbyists had loads of money they could grab...
RealVNC should have made the upgrade path available years ago, not now that they're forced to by their product not running on Wayland. They didn't have a way to upgrade from "5 computers free" to anything less than "massive corporate, loadsamoney"
@Walrus it was five on your team via VNC cloud. Those were "access anywhere" hosts. I kept hitting the limit in the past, juggling machines in and out of my team, so I know it's a thing
If you're only using VNC locally, maybe you don't need to pay?
@peter yup, mine does the battery thing sometimes. Nice little machine. Better keyboard than the Z88.
The Atari spares guy in California may still have some of the very last PCMCIA SRAM cards that work with them. They were meant for the Apple Newton, too.
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.
@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
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.
Thinking of making a
"Loud Bikes Get Piano Wire"
sign for our street (effectively a crescent, with a school on it) 'cos we've recently gained a couple of twats who like to razz up and down it way above the speed limit on racing motorbikes.
There's an article in the local paper today about my city updating its municipal code to add some new things to its list of activities banned in public parks, like camping.
But the article also briefly mentions some other things that are also bafflingly banned in public parks here, like flying a kite or bringing your own BBQ.
The article gives no explanation for why these other activities were previously banned, and now I feel like I have to put on my reporter hat and start researching.
@MLE_online kite flying and bbqing are banned in the suburbs around Toronto because people from Afghanistan and Iran do that sort of thing and it might frighten the white folk.
I've seen park rangers being excessive dicks about this
I got sad that the GUI app for converting images for the BrachioGraph that I was using uses PySimpleGUI, and that that library went to a closed source model, so I made a new-but-similar thing using PySides https://github.com/andypiper/brachiograph-converter-gui
Might take a bit to unpick it from their hardware (which does have a nice PIO-based servo driver, admittedly). I enjoyed being a Kitronik reseller immensely: they were pretty committed to their products