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foone, 3 days ago to random

I've been trying to google/amazon this and having basically no results, so I'm asking here in case anyone knows:

I need graph paper. Specifically I need LARGE graph paper. Like, not an A4 sheet, I need A1-A0 (24/33" or 33x46").
4x4 per inch, or 5x5 per inch grid spaces. I basically need a graph paper with a TON of squares, and I'm not finding it.

foone, 3 days ago to random

a twitch streamer who has a 2D or 3D animated avatar on screen. They're writing C++ code with virtual inheritance

it's a vtuber vtable!

foone, 4 days ago to random

repaired, cleaned up, and re-capped a 68-key keyboard.

It had a keyswitch broken, and a few missing caps, so I repaired it and stuck some new caps on it.

foone, 4 days ago to random

I found an amazon listing that is for an "HD DVD player"

by which they mean a DVD player that supports HD output, because it's an upscaler.

YALL KNOW HD-DVD IS A DIFFERENT THING, RIGHT?

foone, 4 days ago to random

My temp job hasn't been able to have any hours for me for about a month, thanks to technical issues (I can't exactly run the scanner if the scanner is broken!), so I'm kinda completely broke at the moment.
If you've got a spare couple of dollars, it'd really help me get to the next paycheck.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone, 4 days ago to random

I wonder how illegal it would be if you opened up a VHS rental store today, and had unofficial VHS copies of modern films, dubbed from either Netflix or uhd 4k blurays

foone, 4 days ago to random

The kinda counterpart to the Torment Nexus is that sometimes as a writer you're not really trying to write a cautionary tale so much as thinking that if the Torment Nexus did exist, you personally would not be able to resist it, and would have a lot of fun (and probably screw up your life big time) abusing the Torment Nexus.

So you're writing about the Torment Nexus because it doesn't exist and writing about it is as close as you can get to being able to play with it.

foone, 4 days ago to random

I'm disappointed that progress in dial up modems seems to have stopped around 2002. You can buy a PCIe modem and it'll be 56k just like the PCI modem you bought back in 2000!

We should invest more into improving modems that work over plain old telephone lines.

foone, 5 days ago to random

Oh come on, America! It's not THAT bad of a programming language!

foone, 5 days ago to random

I could go down the long rabbithole of figuring out how to call g*mp's image manipulation tools from a commandline or API, or getting imagemagick installed on this PC and figuring out how to port it over there...

or I could be silly and take advantage of the fact that I'm applying gamma ramps to an 8-bit greyscale image. What's the difference between the "before" and "after" images? a different palette.

foone, 5 days ago to random

Based on this idea:
https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/112572811010797144

How about an email client that uses Glide, the 3DFX 3d rendering library?
Specifically targeting the voodoo 2. (I know it's PCI, but there are PCI->PCIe adapters).

The OS can't screenshot it because the OS has no idea what pixels are there!

kiwa, 5 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

hmm maybe i need to make a solar powered floppy disk server

foone, 6 days ago to random

I think this is what my next keyboard is gonna look like.