This is huge news to me. I was always taught to remove bandages asap to let wounds “air out”.

I don’t know how to put this tactfully, but impromptu public performance of any kind is widely considered torture.

That’s why you go .tar.gz

Yesterday, for the first time, I got google search results that were entirely useless. I don’t remember what I searched, but it was a relatively simple question and I was kind of in a hurry. The only results I got were video thumbnails and sponsored products… Also presented as thumbnails. Barely any text anywhere to tell me what the thumbnails were supposed to be. They even removed the choices across the top so I couldn’t select “all”.

It’s been getting worse for years, but that was the last straw for me. I don’t want to search the web on “large thumbnails”, I want “detail view”. Sometimes I’m searching for a product, but mostly I need information in the form of text written by a real human. If a search engine can’t give me that, then it’s not useful anymore.

Really frustrating. I guess I better get around to using duckduckgo everywhere.

Frisbee golf. It’s cheap, fun but challenging, and outdoors. Worst case scenario, you go on a long walk and bump into some interesting people. If you’re in a medium sized city or larger, there is probably a course and league near you.

The culture is generally very polite and fun to be around. Lots of harmless stoners and 30yo bearded people with beers in hand. In the south there is starting to be some influence from megachurches using it as an enticement, so I’m not sure if it’s “cleaned up” a little more down there.

After trying to fix your grandparents tv over the phone a few times, it just makes sense to cover everything except power, volume, and channel.

Thanks for the suggestion. I tried spacerpg4 but it hasn’t held my attention as much as I hoped.

I did find an android port of star control 2, and that is some good stuff. Really scratched the 90 gaming itch too.

They run on 1V per octave control voltage. Lots of keyboards can output that natively, the arturia keystep is what I have because it has some sequencing capabilities as well.

There are tons of circuits out there for midi to CV conversion. Arduino is harder than you’d expect because it can’t output straight analog so you need to interface with a DAC or filter of some kind. Temperature compensation is also pretty important. Obviously not insurmountable problems, so there are lots of DIY designs of varying quality. Here’s the second one I found on a search: https://github.com/elkayem/midi2cv

You can have a really good time with the sound lab mini synth 2 and a sequencer or keyboard. It has 2 voices so you can animate a drone and sequence/play over the top. Or use it to drive spectrally rich audio into a bigger system for processing with mutable modules or whatever. Sky’s the limit :)

If you want a relatively straightforward, but still really cool project, the echo rockit is where it’s at. Makes a great effect and is still a fun stand alone noisebox.

No shade on “how it’s made”, it’s one of my favorite shows. But I think a LLM could probably write most of the narration. They primarily describe what is happening on screen. You might have to train one special to have information on industrial and manufacturing processes.

Nothing lol.

Oh this one is good. I have like 12 hours stuck in an empty community college lounge today. I found an APK for Android and I’ve been playing for a solid 4 hours. It’s a lot of fun even just gathering resources and upgrading the flagship.

How do I find tech upgrades? My lander needs some environmental resistance for sure.

I was just trying to remember the name of SiN earlier today, thanks.

I think certain places (reddit?) Have been using algorithms to find and stamp out bots/vote manipulation for quite a while. I remember at least one major wave of bans for smurfed accounts participating in manipulation.

You ever used a Deutsch Weatherpak connector? We use them on mobile equipment. They have a spring loaded face seal then a solid lever lock that is plastic but substantial enough that it’s usable. They’re pretty good wire to wire connectors. I’ll take anything with a twist lock though, BNC etc.

Agree. Twist lock always feels easy to do and secure.

Ok but elite:dangerous on VR with a HOTAS is pretty cool. As is the sculpting software that’s out there.

Absolutely, why put surveillance in your own house? Are people that afraid in what should be their safest environment?

Samsies. The ASCII mode is just so clean looking. It’s clear at a glance exactly what’s happening. And they put a ton of work into making colors/capitalization/characters consistent, so you immediately know something about a monster, even if you never met it. For example, birds are lower case b, rodents r, ruminants and other large herbivores Y (yak), etc. Then the color gives a sense of the elemental theme of the mob. Demon ratings using numbers with 1 being the most dangerous. It’s very clean in how it presents information.

Agreed. I have more hours in DCSS than any other game. I started playing when it was Linley’s Dungeon Crawl.

I don’t think it’s totally fair to call it ugly either. It’s a masterpiece of efficiency. The ASCII looks messy to some people, but after a while you just see right through it; purple Y = catlobe gtfo etc. Plus the upside is that it’s extremely clear at a glance what is going on because you don’t have complicated sprites everywhere. And the handmade vaults that get rolled into the procgen are often really nice looking and give the world a lot of character.

Totally get it. My SD card got corrupted in a power outage almost a year ago and I never got around to reflashing it. To many other irons in the fire.

I must say, it was an impressively reliable setup, uptime was effectively limited by power outages. Their image is basically Raspbian which is basically debian, but I was still impressed that the service was so stable.