I had an Amiga 3000 UX. These were made for a government contract, I think only about 3000 were sold in the retail market.
It was a full licensed implementation of AT&T SysVr4 on 150 MB 8 track tape as I recall. Really very lovely and stable. But the graphics implementation didn't take advantage of the Amiga's custom chips so X was dog slow.
We ran a diku mud on it called Roma Mud. Did uucp, internet mail gateway, ftp. river.uucp, later river.grand-rapids.mi.us.
That reminds me that I learned recently that, at the end, Atari tried briefly getting into the IBM-compatible market. I even used Atari at that time, and never heard about it.
I'm using the solar oven for the first time this year, even if the temperature is still cold-ish (<15Β°C) and windy.
The oven has reached almost 70Β°C, even if the wind blew the cover and for a while the temperature fell down to 30Β°C or so. I hope that the jar is reaching even more.
I'm baking apples, so whatever happens they are likely to be good (and safe to eat).
And now I should leave the computer and start sewing the fabric + mylar cover I've been postponing sewing for⦠years, I suspect.
Too late, the sun is going down, the #solarOven is back to 50Β°C and the apples have already been moved to the haybox so that they remain warm until dinner.
But you can get a high quality picture of the haybox, taken with a pinephone, where you can also see a bit of the oven
(And yes, βhayboxβ means βrandom box from an online store, with shredded paper packaging material from another online store", and later I topped it up and wrapped the box in a blanket)
hot take: the somewhat glitchy notificationsΒΉ on the pinephone aren't a bug, they are a feature.
They work this way to preserve your mental health by protecting you from constant notifications and the pressure to be always available for interruptions :D
ΒΉ they tend not to work while the phone is suspended.
I have to confess that I use it mostly to preview reST files that I've written with vim, but it's one of those nice bits of software that I like to have installed.
Also, I've installed it on my #pinePhone and it works! :D
I've finally finished the Pelikan 4001 in my preppy #fountainpen, and filled itΒΉ with the De Atramentis Document Black
On good paper the lines are slightly wider than the Pelikan 4001, but still reasonable, and it writes nicely (a bit scratchy when reverse writing, but I don't think I can expect anything else when reverse writing on a japanese EF :D )
Then I tried on a bit of the worst printer paper I had around, and I can say βit worksβ. I could see the line getting wider as I writed, but the result isn't bad.
I also needed a test of the red, so I used a dip pen (with a flexible nib)
and these are the backs of the samples above, with some ghosting, but bleedthrough is really happening only when I flexed the nib.
And now, I need to find the strength of mind to wait until I have finished at least a bottle or two of other inks before buying the whole De Atramentis Document series :D (also, nope, that's way too expensive to buy at one time :D )
ΒΉ not a full converter load, because I don't use it enough
I've not tried the De Atramentis Document inks ... I have their Salix which is an IG ink. Because they were easier to obtain here I've been using Platinum Carbon Black and Sailor Kiwa-Guro. For waterproof colours I like the Platinum Classic Ink IG series.
Isn't the salix from Rohrer and Klingner? I have their scabiosa (their purple-ish IG ink), but all IG inks aren't really waterproof as much as water resistant (i.e. what has been written will survive contact with water, but some dye can leak, and thus they can't be used e.g. with watercolours)
also, IG inks aren't completely lightfast, again a potential drawback when mixing them with watercolours β or when writing labels that are exposed to the light :D
Neither is a problem when writing letters or inside a notebook, of couse.
I've found the right incantation to enable the right agps on the #pinephone to get a fix in a reasonable amount of time (it was almost instantaneous, but the phone had been outside with gps but not agps-msb enabled for quite some time)
The script I've used to enable everything is:
#!/bin/sh
mmcli -m any --location-enable-3gpp
mmcli -m any --location-enable-gps-nmea
mmcli -m any --location-enable-agps-msb
mmcli -m any --location-status
mmcli -m any --location-get
(of course the last two are just to see that everything is setup correctly).
Now, I need to find out why Maps believes that the location services are disabled, and Settings is telling me that they are enabledβ¦
Those trying to update their @mobian #pinephone for the first time after receiving it, should carefully read our post on the pitfalls during this first update. There are a few complications: blog.mobian-project.org/posts/β¦
If needing to reflash the OS to the phone, which image was it that was installed on the Pinephone Community Edition? Would images.mobian-project.org/pine⦠be the right image to use?
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For some reason, I had to send a screenshot to a friend, and the context was #pinephone related.
So (after I had sent the serious screenshot done with import from ImageMagick) I took my pinephone, opened the Megapixels app, took a blurry picture of the screen, opened dino-im (which does not really fit in the screen yet, since I'm still using the packaged version in #mobian), tried to send the picture, realized that the 15+MB .tiff file would have been blocked by the server, opened the terminal, installed imagemagick, converted the .tiff in jpg, sent the jpg with dino-im, and of course it was rotated 90Β° from what I expected it to be.
Definitely ready as a daily driver, right? :D
(btw, this is just me being silly, it's not ready, but things *are* improving)
oh, and btw, last weekend I tried to do the same thing, and found out that one of the latest updates had fixed this: now pictures are saved as dng and jpg :) (you may need to install imagemagick manually for this to work).
That sounds great. I read from an other user too that he tried everything and Mobian was the best. I tried only Sailfish so far and UBports, saw that pine actually opted for Manjaro as default.
I've been using only mobian because I'm otherwise involved in Debian, but I have a friend who has been distro-hopping a bit and they also agree that mobian is currently the best.
They also say that manjaro + plasma looks nicer and feels closer to android, however, even if it works slightly worse, which can explain why they chose it as the default image (I guess also hoping that by the time those phones will reach their customers it will have improved too)
This is just an unlined mockup in cotton, but I have some leftovers of dark green wool from my old girl genius costume and they are already on my cutting table :)
A few days ago I was looking at some scraps of bark from what will become a new distaff and parts of my new backstrap loom. Then I was looking at the white wool on my other new distaff.
And well, this happened:
currently sitting on the balcony, wrapped in black fabric for at least one week, and I'll see what happens.
From what I've read, I suspect that the worst (but quite likely) thing that can happen is some shade of pink.
today it has spent the afternoon in the solar oven (I think it reached around 80°C, and I forgot to take pictures), then it was filtered, and now there are 20 g of wool in it⦠tomorrow I'll see what horrible shade of pink is happening :)
compared to pretty much all the alternatives, yes. It's the Democracy of OSs - the least worse. There is, of course, plenty of room for improvement and thankfully there's a large, smart group of people with the ability to do so and diverse motivations and intentions (which is the best we can hope for). Similar to functional democracies (as opposed to faux- or dysfunctional democracies).
Casual reminder, out of nowhere, that no, we are not entering a new decade on January 1, 2021. Decades don't work like that. If we called it "the 202nd decade" it would. But decades start on the 0 year and end on the 9, because we don't count them ordinally..
(In the same way, the 1900s and the 20th century are slightly different!)
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My shiny newΒΉ #solarOven, waiting for the sun to reach it.
Sadly I only have direct sun in the afternoon, so I can't cook lunch with it, but I'm making solar cooked apples for dessert this evening.
It's made of lasercut plywood with aluminium foil on one side, plus acrylic glass to completely close it, and easily disassembles flat. I still need to make a fabric cover (with a mylar layer sandwitched in) for added insulation, to make it perform a bit more like a box oven, while still having the portability advantages of a panel one.
ΒΉ FSVO new: I've had the panels laser cut just before the lockdown, but it took me quite some time to fix some model errors and apply the tinfoil.
My first test with water got to about 80Β°C, but the conditions weren't ideal (and I hope that more insulation will help). I've read about other people going above 100Β°C (with different ovens, this one is my own experimental design).
The apples are my staple solar oven recipe (I've had a cardboard one for a few years, already): they are able to cook even on marginal days and I like them even more than apples baked in a regular oven.
how late does the sun arrive? the best times to cook are between 10 and 14 (solar); if you completely miss that range you probably will only be able to use days that are fully sunny, and only during the summer.
My first attempt was with ovens made from cardboard boxes, so the initial βinvestmentβ isn't high, even if you discover that it doesn't work.
(also, I'm still using glass jars covered with black fabric, because I still haven't found a good pot to use.)
Maybe it's an embedded thing with no OS, but using a whole CPU was still surprising to me. I thought the complexity of a soldering iron amounted to a bimetal switch and a relay, but I'm happy to be educated on the delicate details of the perfect solder!
Instead of endlessly composing and deleting toots regarding frightening world events, I want to put out a single toot today.
If everything feels like too much, it's okay to step away for a moment and gather yourself and your strength, and help others do the same. I hope that you all are well, and you are able to find a moment (hopefully more!) of respite today.
I haven't played any rpg for more than a decade because of LackOfGroupError, and now I've been vaguely thinking it could be a good time to try to start one campaign via jitsi/videoconferencing.
Any recommendation on a game system we could use? Is Fate the current freely licensed cool things to do? (also, where does one start from for that? core? accelerated? condensed?) or is there anything else I should look into?
We have a jitsi server (where we do turn the webcam off for regular chat nights), but then I realized that on the same server there is also mumble, we've just not really used it :D OTOH, I think that the ability to turn the webcam on as needed can be useful.
For dice, it depends on how much the people involved will be fine with going for a storytelling-heavy approach (then we could keep the fun of rolling physical dice with the webcam on and trust each other); if they prefer a more D&D approach we'll probably need an app.
I've used Mumble with my campaign for the last six months and we've not had any issues. Solid, concrete dependability with no hiccups. I'm honestly surprised that more people don't use it.
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
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in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •Henry Edward Hardy
in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ • • •I had an Amiga 3000 UX. These were made for a government contract, I think only about 3000 were sold in the retail market.
It was a full licensed implementation of AT&T SysVr4 on 150 MB 8 track tape as I recall. Really very lovely and stable. But the graphics implementation didn't take advantage of the Amiga's custom chips so X was dog slow.
We ran a diku mud on it called Roma Mud. Did uucp, internet mail gateway, ftp. river.uucp, later river.grand-rapids.mi.us.
Henry Edward Hardy
in reply to Henry Edward Hardy • • •Here was the same machine in its later incarnation as ocean.ic.net:
web.archive.org/web/1996121923β¦
emacsomancer (has moved to types.pl)
in reply to Tomo Saigon • • •clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
in reply to emacsomancer (has moved to types.pl) • • •@'(E . `(Max ,O'Mancer)) @Tomo in Saigon Wow, TIL.
If only Commodore's attempt had been as brief.
progo suckin' in soot in NYC
in reply to Tomo Saigon • • •clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy πΈπͺππ°ππ
in reply to progo suckin' in soot in NYC • • •