I got a soft spot for SUSE. In the late 2000s, Novell partnered with my highschool to teach a certification class, so it became the distribution I cut my teeth on if you don't count my time playing with compiz window effects on a free Ubuntu live-disk in junior high.
Readit NewsIs there a video which showcases the unique aspects of RA2 gameplay with Phobos?
Scroll through the extension docs:
https://phobos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/New-or-Enhanced-Logi...
They have recordings of most of the different features Phobos enables.
sodaplayer commented on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS ctrl-c.club/~captain/post... · Posted by u/capitain
Wondering if I could run this on real hardware, I realized I have no idea what happened to my Palm LifeDrive when I changed to Blackberries. I miss that little chunky PDA. It was amazing for its time.
I just came across my old Palm Tungsten E2 last week while doing some cleaning. If I can also find its charger, I'll report back on running it.
I think it's `systemctl reboot --firmware-setup`
And in Windows it's `shutdown /r /fw`.
This is so true! While planning a trip abroad last year we were unsure about whether $thing is legal in $country. Google proclaimed in bold letters that, yes, $thing is legal in $country, but this line was taken from a site with the title "common misconceptions about traveling in $country" an in fact $thing was not legal.
Such a basic mistake, I haven't trusted the instant results ever since.
I remember there was another story here about Google returning bad results for what to do for a particular medical emergency. The page had a list of "Do"s and "Don't"s, but Google had grabbed the list of the "Don't"s and displayed it as the immediate results.
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sodaplayer commented on The Two Cultures (1959) [pdf] apps.weber.edu/wsuimages/... · Posted by u/raviksharma
During my CS degree, I had an opportunity to take a course which sought to bridge these two cultures.
The class was described as a kinetic art and embedded systems class opened to EE, CE, CS and art students.
We'd study some essays like Snow's "The Two Cultures" and create reports on contemporary artists before breaking up into groups consisting of both engineering and art students with the goal of designing and implementing kinetic art. Coming from the engineering side, it was fun for me to get the chance to experience an academic art setting, and I think the class overall helped me overcome being immediately dismissive of more conceptual art as well as showing me tools and the frame of mind to approach and appreciate art.
For the artists, I think the goal of our professor was to build some technical literacy, and provide them with the technology that could inspire them, expanding their breadth of what could be feasibly done.
Though like this essay, the relationship between the two cultures could seem like it would turn adversarial or pretentious or dismissive, but I believe everyone in the class had a great time, and were all just excited to create things together.
sodaplayer commented on The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise brooker.co.za/blog/2023/0... · Posted by u/luu
I also downsized camera gear and much, much prefer it. A version of the old saying, the best camera is the one you'll actually take out.
Yup, bought an old, used point-and-shoot last year, and the low stakes of it have me using it more than my DSLR. Much easier to slip small P&S is my pocket for a vacation or hike. It's got the CHDK firmware on it as well, so it still outputs RAW, and I can keep my development process.
sodaplayer commented on The Hottest Gen Z Gadget Is a 20-Year-Old Digital Camera nytimes.com/2023/01/07/te... · Posted by u/hecanjog
Oh this is kinda funny for me. I just bought a 2009 model PowerShot for $10 last summer so that I could experiment with the Canon Hack Dev Kit, [0] and use it to get RAW photos on my trips without having to lug around or risk my DSLR. Some of the eBay listings of that same model are going up to $70 now.
The PowerShot has been pretty nice to have. Been developing the RAWs with DarkTable, and the PowerShot's auto mode is sufficient for me to develop a nice image, and it's better at capturing a random moment where I would otherwise have been trying to adjust my DSLR.
I'm also not surprised at this new trend. Most of my close Gen-Z friends have Fujifilm instant cameras or a PaperShoot, a digital camera that markets itself emulating the film look, and I could see them jumping on this.
I understandably was fairly burned out by writing after that. I also tend to cycle out hobbies. So I got into making electronic music for a bit. (Fun but hard.) Lately—a surprise to me—the hobby that's been the more rewarding is knitting. I think I just really needed a more tactile thing to do in my free time. I've been really enjoying knitting and it's so much fun picking up a new skill.
But the whole time, there's a little voice in the back of my head going, "You know, if you spent this time working on a new book, you'd get more money and recognition..." Hitting middle age and starting to really feel the finite nature of time definitely doesn't help.
I wonder if it's something similar for you where it's easier to sink time into random projects before you start thinking of your time as a finite economic resource.
I also got a small collection of synths and grooveboxes, so seeing you start your Tiny Wires channel was a nice reminder that even those authors have things outside of software.
One of my favorite moments lately was just hanging out with my wife in the living room after setting up all my synths there and just jamming with her present as she also worked on her hobby.