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foone, 4 days ago

@troldann yup! very cool

foone, 5 days ago

I mean, I don't even need to have worked for Google to know how shit their code is (but it does help)

foone, 5 days ago

Just seeing the shit these self driving cars do while they're driving around SF is enough to make me keep my distance

foone, 5 days ago

@gewt oh hey, your risc-v laptop showed up?

foone, 5 days ago

@darksecond yeah but I specifically want it to lie about the print succeeding

foone, 5 days ago

@demofox I've got a program that keeps printing things at regular intervals, and it wastes several seconds between items. if I had a fake printer, I could do a real print batch at the beginning, then every time it tries to print, it just instantly succeeds, doing nothing.

foone, 5 days ago

My point is not a printer that's broken, my point is a printer that appears TO THE COMPUTER to print instantly and successfully.

Just I don't care if any paper comes out anywhere, and would prefer not.

foone, 5 days ago

It's gonna have to be a good keyboard.
ugh. I'm not good (no pun intended) at those

foone, 5 days ago

I've got a custom 3-button footpedal I use for work stuff and I'm already having to overload some buttons and now it turns out they've modified the software it interfaces with so now it has 4 possible scan types instead of 2, which is way more than can realistically fit on 3 buttons, especially since I still need buttons for "next project" and "delete last scan".
That's 6 possible commands on 3 pedals. Not realistic or usable even if I could do it

foone, 5 days ago

I think maybe I'm gonna have to upgrade to my secondary idea: a wearable wireless custom macropad

foone, 5 days ago

@_holger possible, yes. Can my little brain recall all the options? No.

foone, 5 days ago

@julie @vxo they won't even let me purchase ONE box, let alone two

foone, 5 days ago

@julie @vxo nah, this is the Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005. Some good George W. Bush anti-drug nonsense.

foone, 6 days ago

Honestly the hardest part of repairing my dryer is that it's got a computer in it, and I gotta resist trying to run Doom on it

foone, 5 days ago

I promised my roommates I wouldn't run Doom on it, but here's an idea:
The dryer has a moisture sensor, right? So it can tell how long it takes to dry a given set of clothes...

What if I made this into a keyboard?

foone, 5 days ago

I just need to bin the different possible drying times and use them as input for a function that converts it to letters

foone, 5 days ago

So like, doing a load that takes 10 minutes to dry then a load that takes 30 minutes to dry: that's an A

foone, 5 days ago

@dannotdaniel latency isn't a problem. I've already built a keyboard that took 14 hours to type "hello world"

foone, 5 days ago

Anyway back to slightly serious things: a few people asked how old this thing was but I didn't know at the time.
The answer is apparently 8 years old.

foone, 4 days ago

my spouse and I usually sleep while listening to letsplays, but somehow the playlist got messed up this morning and I got woken up early by it playing a video on how to repair dryers.
I was tossing and turning and they were like CAREFULLY REMOVE THE BELT FROM THE TENSONING WHEEL and I was like THIS IS THE WORST NIGHTMARE, I AM FIXING DRYERS IN MY DREAMS!

foone, 6 days ago

@philpem the year after I manage to resurrect VideoCipher, I'll launch the greatest cable TV network for EMF