evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
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Launched Notepad on Windows 11 and found that they 1) added CoPilot and 2) automatically logged me into an account. I don't use a Microsoft account for Windows but one is required to install Office. They had no business reusing that signin for any software outside of Office. I just want a damned plain text editor.
Assholes. DIAF.
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My dad made me a Vesa compatible holder for my oscilloscope and it turned out great! Just as imagined. Of course, it is a massive steel construction, we both would not trust a 3D printed construction with my dear Rigol.
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A sundial that shows time digitally.
How you make it: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1068443
Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5Su0ZqP_0c
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Some photos from a frosty walk around the park on NYE. Playing with film simulations on my Fujifilm X-T20, this one was Portra 800. Fun, and not a lot of post-processing to do.
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@neotoy *except* gaming? my netbook only just doesn't play Unreal Tourney at a usable speed ;)
yeah, batteries are a consumable at a certain point.
RIP removable batteries :'(
@neotoy jeez, just realised the "new" laptop turns ten this year. i7-7500u with 32gb of ram has lasted well, despite a drop which broke part of the lid a year in.
apparently it won't run Win11, which is reassuring. should probably do a clean Ubuntu install this decade though
@Viss graph-burger?
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Pic of the day: Lomography Spinner 360 and Lomography X-Pro Slide 200 film.
#FilmPhotography #BelieveInFilm
@neotoy aww :)
I'm not supposed to talk about the ages of my toys any more, but one of my 2 current laptops is an Acer D250 netbook from <mumble mumble> years ago.
Still works fine as a remote terminal despite the low res screen.
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Infinite collaborative word search https://words.zip
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I have coffee and I am now vaguely alive.
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Work in progress.
I'm slightly obsessed with turn-of-the-(19th)century theatre/pantomime/circus playbills at the moment, so I'm re-creating posters and ads for more recent productions (and products) in that style.
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This works on SO MANY LEVELS.
Well. Two levels.
And I like both of them.
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IBM Model M Keyboards per milliacre
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I just had a discussion with a friend, that the last years each felt exhausting like a complete decade.
Then I remembered this quote:
“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
― Terry Pratchett
And we both felt as Terry has been looking at us when he wrote it.
@h2onolan I have recommended adding a powerdrill to a manual standy-sitty desk today though.
"with at least two memory positions too: one at the bottom and one just above the top where it strips the threads badly"
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
