Oh wait, you said modern.

Demoscene stuff!

https://www.pouet.net/ and https://scenestream.net/demovibes/

Both are still kicking like it’s 2000 even though there are modern alternatives like https://demozoo.org/ and https://hypr.website/

I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.

If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.

I set it up during the outage last week.

Easy enough to just pull in the synapse docker container and run it on my home server. I wireguard it to my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy.

Both federation and push notifications work.

Why couldn’t the pirate play cards?

He was sitting on the deck.

Amperage determines how much current something gets.

Voltage times amperage determines the power something draws.

More current needs thicker wires, while higher voltage does not.

My wife swears by it. For me it does nothing. She gets wasp-sized bumps from mosquito bites.

I’m going to place an angled mirror from the bathroom to the kitchen so I can blink to my wife to bring toilet paper. Or a towel.

It’s still spring. But everything is in bloom.

I’ll have strawberries, cherries, plums and apples. Month by month.

I moved five countries over so I don’t have to talk to or see my family. I used to sail away so that I don’t have to talk to, or even see other people.

Right now I’m in-between boats and trying out camping to get away from people instead. Also, the dogs like it more than sailing. Having to dinghy to shore for pee breaks gets tiring real fast.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

Sailor here.

I’ve put those plastic shower tile mats under my mattress. The ones that help with draining water while keeping your toesies dry.

It lets enough air flow through that it can dry up under the mattress. Others just drill a bunch of airholes in their berths.

Yeah, me, too.

But it feels like all cars made in the last decade have connectivity. I’m not a fan.

I’m driving a 2007 Citroën. I hope I can find a car without OTA updates when it’s time to upgrade.

I really don’t want a bait-and-switch where I start to get ads on the dashboard at every intersection.

can’t even imagine what type of job I’d love

Fun fact! Most of us don’t love our jobs. We just do them to have a roof over our heads and food on our tables.

Calluses build up fast if you keep at it.

The pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Just be mindful that some manufacturers do the extremely shitty thing of placing the socket on the headphones in a very specifically shaped recess that only their cables will fit.

That sounds like a good idea, actually. A lot of those adapters/cables are bastardisations of the USB-C standard, and just re-use a couple of pins to pass on analog audio. I’ve seen at least three variations of it. If it’s not standard, it should not be possible to plug it in to any standard socket.

The right way to do it is with a proper digital-to-analog converter in the adapter. I hope that’s the most common way today, but I haven’t shopped around in recent years.

I’ve tried libreelec on a raspberry pi 4, but it just doesn’t pass the wife test.

We have a thomson streaming stick 140G (EU branding for ONN). We just use jellyfin, smarttube and our national public service streaming apps. It’s in apps-only mode, but Google still injects one ad on the home screen. I didn’t bother with a custom launcher just yet.

Bring your own domain.

You don’t want to be locked in to one mail provider for life. Just bring your domain when you leave.

I’ve had mine since 2010. First on Gmail, then proton and now purelymail. Gmail is evil. Proton is pricy, and more so if you have several domains. Purelymail is very affordable in comparison.

Don’t forget that a door mat that says “welcome” counts as consent.