Browsing ebay for text terminals (I'm looking for something recent and ideally built into an LCD) and I read: "Keyboard sold separately for keyboard enthusiasts"
Please excuse me, I just need to go sharpen my kitchen knives...no reason...
@flibble That's actually not far off what I was looking for :) My ideal wants-list was either integrated LCD or VESA mount, and a physical DB9 or DB25 serial port. Sadly all the ones I found were legacy-free, USB only.
A few things you'll hear and say a lot at #emfcamp:
"Don't worry about it, pay it forward."
"Hey, you need a hand?"
"My round!"
"That's a really cool project, tell me more!"
"Oh yeah, it seems hard but there's an easier way to do that! Would you like me to show you?"
@zeno4ever@renbymon@why2025camp is that the official name of the next Dutch hacker camp?
(I wish they'd pick a name and stick to it, it'd be easier to keep track :D )
@pippin@mw1cgg Yeah, my first year was a little like that. Something like "I can't believe they're letting me talk here, these people are so much more skilled, they won't want to talk to me."
It's bollocks though, everyone I met was there to chill and nerd out and share knowledge.
Tear down is kind of like that, except it’s not all going to one place, some is time dependent, the truck’s turned up too early, and now it’s started raining. Also everything is muddy, can only be transported with a particular combo of people and vehicles, or has a visiting member of the local wildlife. HQ has a pigeon.
If you have any positive vibes for the tear down crew, leave them here and we’ll make sure they’re passed on this evening when they get a chance to read them.
@info Massive respect to the teardown crew - thanks for all your hard work!
I had a great time at EMF2024 and some wonderful memories I've taken away with me. Thanks for helping that happen!
@m0zah Great meeting you too! If it makes you feel any better, I only knew this trick because I watch Deviant Ollam's Youtube videos and talks on tampering with "tamperproof" devices. He did a video on how to save festival wristbands.
@JonTheNiceGuy@polpo That is, of course, the obvious answer! 😆 I was clearly brainfarting when I posted that.
It might be cool to send people out into Camp with cameras and talk to some of the villages (with permission of course) and any cool builds people want to show off.
@JonTheNiceGuy@polpo It's 100% possible, too. Early radio-relay cable systems did it, FM radio down the same cable. A diplexer (at the receive end) splits the incoming cable into "FM" (<~150MHz) and "TV" (>150MHz) cables for the two receivers.
Triplexers can do satellite too, which is just ... nuts. They have an L-band filter too.
Not realising that when people warned me Null Sector is "loud" that they meant FUCKING LOUD. Loud in a good way, unless you're attempting to sleep at 1AM … I thought our tent was far enough away… no… it was not. Also nobody warned me Stage B would also be... Rather Loud. 😂
So next time we shall know better, and set up camp… on the moon.
Not possessing a time machine so I can go do it all again a few times to catch all the things I missed and didn't do.
@yvan If you figure out what "something better than an airbed" looks like, please let me know! I had two foam rollmats on the ground under my sleeping bag and it ... sort-of worked.
I've reached the point where I'm sick of trying to find "the right RS232 cable for $thing". My idea was to make up a bunch of RJ45-to-DB9 or DB25 adapters to go from Cisco Console to $whatever, because those cables are ubiquitous.
It's a good idea but one thing annoys me: to do DTE<=>DTE (null modem) you need rollover cables. I'd never expect to find a rollover cable in a box of random RJ45 cables. Especially if it was made of cat5 (that should be a crossover or straight patch cable)
Now this - this is a much better idea. A rollover ADAPTOR.
I could have a "any serial port to any other" go-box with about half a dozen RJ45-to-DB9/DB25 boxes, a couple of rollover adaptors and everything else is Cat5 straight cables. This is great, I can keep my Cat5 cable pit from being polluted by heathen cables!
@mw1cgg I'm approaching that point too, two foam groundsheets was pushing it slightly. A friend mentioned Decathlon or GoOutdoors had groundsheets with an airbed built in - I'm thinking that might be my plan for 2026.