timixretroplays

timixretroplays, 13 hours ago to retrogaming

This is probably the only Gravis UltraSound-related thing I'll sensibly collect. This is the Gravis MIDI and Joystick Adapter, and I'm super thrilled to have picked one up for a reasonable price in this condition. At some point I'll carefully pull things out for a closer look, including scanning the paperwork, but in the meantime - did you ever have/use one of these? What'd you use it for/with? Let me know!

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

A photo of the back of the adapter package, showing some of the instructions.

timixretroplays, 1 day ago to 3DPrinting

#Plasbeams photo box update: yeah, this didn't work quite as hoped. At over 2.5kg, this thing has a will of its own, and enough weight to pull the bearing hinge assemblies apart and turn the whole thing into an uncooperative plastic octopus.

I think with anchors that slide over the hinges at full extension, and a careful order of operations, this can still be assembled; more likely I will need to swap the hinges for static brackets, and find another method for breakdown and storage. #3DPrinting

timixretroplays, 1 day ago to random

What the heck is this dingus on the end of my new dishwasher's hose likely to be for? I can make out "type 88" in the plastic moulding but both google and bing insisted I want to learn about main battle tanks instead. My best guess is that it's a temperature or flow rate sensor. I'm mildly excited by the need to add a hole saw to my tool collection, but I don't quite understand what purpose it serves being outside of the machine itself.

jacqueline, 1 day ago to random

packaging arriving today. beeg box.

timixretroplays, 2 days ago to random

Bedside lamps need a "see me home" feature like modern car headlights that stay on for a few moments after you switch everything off. I don't want to reach back out from under a warm blanket just to turn a light off once I'm settled.

foone, 6 days ago to random

Having one of those fun days at work where I have to ask "hey, is the edison cylinder phonograph supposed to be on?"

timixretroplays, 7 days ago to 3DPrinting

#CGAPrints update: Release Candidate 1? I took some time today to test-print a couple of colours that arrived this week, and they seem pretty close. This is the first time I've compared a full batch against colours on a real screen - what do you think?

All 16 colours are different brands and types of PLA, so given access to the complete palette, basically every printer should be capable of making some form or other of CGA pixel art.

#3DPrinting @3dprinting @3dprinting #retrocomputing

timixretroplays, 8 days ago to random

Building computers continues to be harder than it should be. Gigabyte didn't label the front panel connector pins on my motherboard, likely because they ran out of space in which to do so, but it seems like their support website has also run out of something today.

decryption, 9 days ago to random

the pixel 8a is already discounted from $849 down to $349 and it hasn't even gone on sale yet, hahah

https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/844795

voltagex, 10 days ago to random

1527133421568 bytes (1.5 TB, 1.4 TiB) copied, 17614 s, 86.7 MB/szstd: error 70 : Write error : cannot write block : Input/output error

The MAGNET IN MY IPHONE just triggered the lid switch on my laptop, putting it to sleep, disconnecting me from the network and stopping the backup that was in progress.

I'm just cursed, aren't I?

timixretroplays, 10 days ago to random

So this guy built his own gamepad from the guts of both an Xbox controller and a trackball mouse in order to improve his FPS game. This is an amazing project and I wish there was more than 29 minutes of him talking about it, because the design is utterly brilliant - I love the detail of accessing the trackball from front and back, I bet that results in having phenomenal mouse control. The pad itself looks like something Gravis would have made if they were still around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug06dhahqg0

rasterweb, 11 days ago to random

I watched "3 Body Problem" after my cousin (who is into sci-fi) recommended it.

The first episode was difficult to watch due to the extreme violence (had to skip some of it) but after that I really enjoyed the series.

(I tend to wait until I have a work trip planned to binge a series, since travel time and downtime in the evening is good to just chill and watch something.)

RickiTarr, 12 days ago to random

If people would just send me pictures of their homemade bread, I would both appreciate it, and be full of bread lust.

timixretroplays, 13 days ago to random

Can I just take a moment to marvel at the incredible march of technology? I'm old enough that I still mentally judge room lighting on the number of hundred watt incandescent light bulbs it would take to light a space, and today I paid AU$30 without shopping around at all for nine LED bulbs that can more than adequately light the entire ground floor of a generously proportioned townhouse within that same 100w envelope. I like this aspect of living in the future.

timixretroplays, 13 days ago to Cat

Siamese llama. Will you just look at this ridiculous creature.

#Cat #SiameseCat #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

timixretroplays, 13 days ago to australia

Hey #Australia, naive household question - how do I replace this bit of a light, just the translucent bowl that screws in around the actual light bulb? Are there standard sizes, if I take this to a lighting place are they likely to have the same one on the shelf? Or am I going to need to get someone to install whole new fixtures? Our place was missing a few of these when we bought it several years ago and it's finally bothering me enough to do something about it.

timixretroplays, 14 days ago to random

Have you missed an alarm on your iPhone lately? It's not you, it's an actual bug in the software that means the alarm just doesn't work sometimes: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/apple-confirms-bug-that-is-keeping-some-iphone-alarms-from-sounding/

The reddit thread I saw was full of people saying they'd missed work, interviews, all kinds of stuff. You'd absolutely assume you were at fault, and not the thousand dollar smart device failing to do something a $10 bedside clock can do, right? What a mess.

timixretroplays, 14 days ago to android

What keyboard app are folks using / can recommend on #Android? I've been using the google one forever, but it's deeply irritating me lately by changing stuff that isn't typos, like its to it's, has to had etc that I have to go back and fix, but I can't turn that off without also turning off automatically fixing stuff that definitely is a typo. Plus I often hit backspace instead of M and find myself in emojis or stickers after trying to type a comma. Boosts and suggestions of all kinds welcome.