aperezdc

@aperezdc@oldbytes.space

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48kRAM, to random

Another day / afternoon where I just can't.

More bad-ish news about $dayjob. And it's kinda something I'd been expecting, but I got an early heads-up that it's really happening and now I just can't get in a head space to actually do anything. Feels like the sky is falling again.

I really would like to get to the point in my life where the constant drama of "what am I going to do to earn a living" isn't in flux and keeping me in a state of high anxiety on a weekly-ish basis.

I'm not sure when I became the kind of person so paralyzed with anxiety about taking care of all the "adult" things. I wonder if the "adult" things have actually gotten much more difficult lately. I also have to get my car inspected and that's never felt more anxiety-inducing than it does now with cars being so expensive to maintain and purchase.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

aperezdc,

@48kRAM I can relate with the feeling of things getting more complicated, and I don't remember where but I've read some months back an article about how recent developments actually push more shit to do on ourselves—In the name of alleged “convenience” or “money saving” among other false pretenses which mask cost cutting elsewhere that does not really benefit end users.

Example A: we used to let a travel agent figure connections and hotels for us, but it's us now doing the filtering, sorting, evaluating and so on instead of being given a shortlist of options. This incurs more mental strain an anxiety around trips.

Example B: automated customer service “do it yourself on our website”; longer waits on the phone, then speaking on the phone to a machine instead of a human capable of thought and problem solving, and when finally getting hold of a person, theys power to solve is severely limited and boiled down to pre-written scripts. This also brings frustration to users.

i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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I'm trying out using labwc as my Wayland compositor (basically openbox but Wayland) and I'm looking for a bar/panel for Wayland that's designed for floating window managers instead of tiling ones.

I need something that can show me all the windows I have open like the KDE or Windows taskbars do.

Sfwbar looks promising but its config file is really really confusing to me.

aperezdc,

@i_lost_my_bagel I've been happy with Yambar: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/yambar — make sure to enable the foreign-toplevel module.

aperezdc, to Games

The good thing about old good arcade-style shoot 'em up #games is that it's easy to pick any spare fifteen minutes to practice a bit. Having the #MSX on my desk is handy to use it for casual gaming like this :blobcatcoffee:

Picture of the first stage of the Space Manbow game, there is a huge wheeled platform (wheels not seen) with cannons and a big space ship taking off from it, the player's ship is tiny in comparison. I'm not doing well: zero lifes remaining and not many power ups.

stevelord, to intel
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    aperezdc,

    @stevelord I'm so disconnected from the M$Windows world that I didn't even imagine drivers would collect user behavior data 🤯 — and according to the article Nvidia does the same. Like, seriously, drivers have no business doing this :blobangery:

    thankfulmachine, to random

    In love with the #68k "Address Register Indirect with Postincrement" addressing mode. Yes, I know we have every fancy thing imaginable today, but thinking about it in context, I think it's amazing.

    .loop:
    move.l (a0)+,(a1)+
    dbra d0,.loop

    Where d0 contains the number of longwords to copy. Address increment works with words and bytes as well? Love it! #assembly

    aperezdc,

    @thankfulmachine it's one of those useful little things that makes one realize that the #68k ISA was designed to make C compilers happy :blobcatcoffee:

    philn, to random

    Go buy electric car they said, it's better for mother earth the said https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-suvs-are-still-a-huge-environmental-problem

    aperezdc,

    @philn oh, yes, the mighty Citroën 2CV is still, to this day, the most resource and energy efficient car ever produced because of its ingenious simplicity and tiny engine. I saw a study about that a few years ago. The only way of beating it are bicycles.

    ActionRetro, to random
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    me:

    aperezdc,

    @ActionRetro that's the most cursed thing I've seen today :blobastonished:

    RetroWizzard, to retrogaming

    I bought all of these for 20€ recently.
    Spyro is definitely a gem, although not everyone's cupa tea.
    Also the complete set is very nice.
    Do you see any other treasures?

    aperezdc,

    @RetroWizzard Final Fantasy VII is a superb classic. The Syphon Filter games are good, too!

    i_lost_my_bagel, to random
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    Can I just say that having your monitor be able to display 2 inputs side by side is fucking awesome

    aperezdc,

    @i_lost_my_bagel it is! I have been eyeing the LG DualUp but sadly the physical resolution is neither 1920x2160 nor 3840x4320 which means it would need fractional scaling so that's gonna be painful :eyes_tr:

    aperezdc,

    @i_lost_my_bagel it tends to work in GNOME, for the most part, but I don't use it in all the devices I would use as inputs for the monitor and also I tend to notice even the smallest oddball rendering, shape-wise, so of any input ends up with the slightest blurry or unbalanced line due to non integral scaling I do notice it and my visual OCD kicks in big time. I have a laptop with a 2560x1440 screen and I can't use fractional scaling there because of that.

    bkardell, to random
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    I really dislike threads in literally all of the places you might talk to people (slack, matrix, discord). Their UI throws me off so much and it honestly yields to me missing messages and being frustrated. I guess I am the anomaly here?

    aperezdc,

    @bkardell same, same. IRC still is the golden standard in some regards.

    aperezdc,

    @bkardell @caitp I'd support a motion in favor of disabling threads, if it was possible

    thomholwerda, to random

    @mntmn Hey! Is there anyone I can contact about the possibility of a review unit of the MNT Reform? It would be such a perfect fit for @osnews readers!

    aperezdc,

    @mntmn @thomholwerda @osnews wow, I remember very clearly using Melt on the Pentium 120 that I “inherited” from my father, where I also had a Linux install. It took me some time to figure out how to burn CDs and run X11 in Linux (remember the monolithic XFree86?) so I would routinely boot BeOS to burn CDs :blobcheeky:

    aperezdc,

    @pulkomandy @mntmn @mmu_man @thomholwerda @osnews woohoo! I just installed Haiku a few days back in my Vaio TZ11 which has combo drive, I may be able to try it tomorrow after I find some spare CD-Rs that I'm sure are hiding in the cellar :blobrainbow:

    aperezdc,

    @pulkomandy @mntmn @mmu_man @thomholwerda @osnews found 'em! Today it got a bit late so a test burn will have to wait once day more.

    aperezdc,

    @mmu_man @pulkomandy @mntmn @thomholwerda @osnews I'm sure last time I used one of those it was around 2008-2009 to make a mix to play in a radio show I helped with at the university radio. Great times, understanding mixing consoles finally made DAW software “click” in my head. I even made some audio inserts and short promos using Ardour around the same time. Thing for another day: locate the backups and archive them, make them down loadable somewhere.

    piggo, to random
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    Americans don't know Venice?

    aperezdc,

    @piggo some day I'll tell you about 'muricans asking how to get to Rialto while in Venice, trying to explain to a local what's bridge and a canal is.

    tanty, to random
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    So ... @jsuarezr, I did it again! Boarded a Finnair long flight, plugged my headphones to the on board infotainment screen and managed to crash it. The reboot process took, at least 5 minutes.

    Another one bites the dust! 🎶🎶🎶

    aperezdc,

    @tanty @jsuarezr any QA team would be lucky of having you on board (pun intended), heh!

    (Safe travels, by the way :blobcatcamera: )

    gsuberland, to random
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    more things should be offered in the colour "oscilloscope beige"

    aperezdc,

    @gsuberland @ninkosan yeah, more like “vintage Mac/Amiga beige with yellowing caused by flame retardant chemicals» :blobcheeky:

    polpo, to random
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    The original hard drive in my SGI Indy is dying so I want to use a modern SCSI emulator instead. I’m doing a head to head of PiSCSI, ZuluSCSI RP2040, and spinning rust. So far spinning rust is beating the SCSI emulators badly. 😬

    aperezdc,

    @polpo let me guess... and it belongs in a museum :thounking:

    fasterthanlime, (edited ) to random
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    oh my god, “rainbow” is “rain bow”

    as in a bow shape made by rain

    aperezdc,

    @fasterthanlime this kind of discoveries started happening to me with irregular frequency a few years back after using English daily for 3+ years. The first one was noticing that Broadway is literally “broad way” because it's a wide street. I always giggle to myself when finding those, so thanks for making my day sharing “rain bow” 🌈

    whitequark, to random
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    update on Glasgow shipping https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/glasgow/updates/getting-ready-to-ship

    aperezdc,

    @whitequark wow, just learned about the Glasgow device thanks to your link, it looks like a very cool gadget... Now I need to talk myself into having some use for it, to justify getting one :blobcatthinking:

    mntmn, to random
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    now i want to make an mPCIe framebuffer card (to hdmi or mipi), but the missing piece of knowledge is how to implement a pcie device in fpga (optimally with the open toolchain)

    aperezdc,

    @whitequark @pulkomandy @manawyrm @mntmn why not? OpenFirmware was used on Macs, Sun SPARC's and a few others, and that was programmed in Forth and devices could ship code to run under OF compiled to bytecode... So one can use PCI network cards designed for Sun workstations in a PowerPC Mac and so on. Pretty neat IMO, and OF is definitely much less cursed than EFI/UEFI—it actually makes me sad to see ARM adopting UEFI.

    aperezdc, to Haiku

    This evening I took out my TZ11 to install on it, and right away I noticed a few things, some of which I had forgotten:

    • The screen is damn good for the time, even if it's “only” 1366x768 the color rendition is great and the physical size a small-ish 11” which means pixel density is quite good.
    • Best keyboard ever in a laptop, IMO. The touchpad does not compare well with newer ones.
    • It's smaller than a MacBook, although not thinner than an Air, and lighter while having more ports, a SD card reader, and a combo DVD/CD-RW drive.
    • The spinning hard drive (I had no money for an SSD in 2007 prices) is surprisingly silent.
    • Haiku flies despite the rotating hard drive. The install took just a few minutes. Also: all hardware is supported except the webcam (which was painful to get working also on Linux).

    Close-up of the laptop screen, showing a Haiku desktop. The user guide is open in a WebPositive window, and the software updater is fetching newer packages from the online software repository.

    aperezdc,

    @craftyguy it has a 1.8” IDE drive with a flat-ribbon ZIF connector, some info here: https://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-sony-vaio-tz-laptop-remove-hard-drive/

    There are Chinese sellers on eBay carrying mSATA adaptors (probably too bulky and wouldn't fit), CompactFlash adaptors (my second generation iPod has one of these, works well), and even SSDs designed to replace the tiny Toshiba hard drives, yeah.

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