@kelbot nah. I'll figure it out later.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 00:21:23 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) -
Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 00:21:23 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @kelbot more seriously, cf card readers are easy. Work over usb with adapters that are plentiful and cheap.
SBCs are plentiful and cheap.
Devices that play audio over USB are plentiful and cheap.
Rigging up a cheap, chintzy solution should be cheap and easy as heck. Going for something fancier should be straightforward.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jun-2022 00:21:22 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @kelbot cf is just ide in a smaller package.
Anything with native ide support needs a passive adapter for CF.
I'm sure shenanigans will be afoot.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Jun-2022 04:47:52 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @reiver yes.
We do both.
Recycled HDPE for injecting.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:15:40 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) Personally, there's another facet to all of this:
I use and maintain computers professionally, and recreationaly.
Sometimes, I want to do something that doesn't feel or look like my day job. Unfortunately, most of my hobbies feel and look a lot like my day job.
To that end, I have some weird old computers that I keep around because they're useful and also because they're Vastly Different than the computers I use at work.
My #zinestation, mac plus, and palm pilots fall in this camp.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:15:14 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) Sidebar:
I'm just a dude.
I'm a sysadmin. I spend a lot of time using computers, and specifically I spend a lot of time fixing machines that are failing in some way.
But I'm just some dude who thinks about stuff and imagines futures which are less horrible than present.
I've said that as a way to say: I don't claim to have The Answer, I just have some ideas. I'm going to talk about those ideas.
Sidebar over.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:15:13 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) So how did we get from the gleaming promise of the digital age as imagined in the 70s to the harsh cyberpunk reality of the 20s?
Centralization, rent seeking, planned obsolescence, surveillance, advertising, and copyright.
How do we move forward?
Re-decentralization, a rejection of the profit motive, building for the future/to be repaired, building for privacy, rejecting advertising, and embracing Free software.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:14:55 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) I've spent a lot of time thinking about what the next 30 years in computing might look like, the successes and failures of the last 30 years, and the inflection point at which a computer is Good Enough for most tasks.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about the concept of planned obsolescence as it applies to computing, and what modern computing might look like without the profit motive fucking everything up.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:14:44 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) But I'm here, talking to you, through a computer. I derive my living from computers. I spend most of my free time in front of a computer.
In spite of all the ways computers are lowercase b bad, computers enable a lot of Good.
I believe in the potential of computers, in our digital future.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:14:25 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) As I said, it's a summation. There's nuance. There are more problems.
That list should serve as an okay shorthand for the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Computers? They're bad.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:13:52 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) What's wrong with (modern) computing?
- Computers spy on us all the time
- Computers are insecure, while pretending not to to be.
- Computers enable new modes of rent seeking, further exasperated by shitty patents and worse laws
- Computers/the modern internet encourage behaviors which are bad for our mental health as individuals.
- Computers and the modern internet, in concert with modern capitalism have built a world essentially without public spaces.You know, all that bullshit.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:13:37 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) I haven't talked about my goal for personal computing in a while.
With Sundog nerdsniping me in to attempting to turn the LibSSH-ESP32 port in to the basis of a full fledged SSH client for the ESP32, I guess I should spend a few minutes talking about why I bother with this bullshit.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 09:13:36 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) Computers could be good, but they aren't.
That's the gist of it.
I guess I mean Good with a capital G, as in "a force for good in the world", but I also mean good with a lowercase g, as in "not super shitty to use, or think about".
I'm not going to waste a lot of bits talking about how computers are bad. I've done this a lot before, and you probably already agree with me. I'll quickly summarize the high points.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 00:16:53 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @suetanvil we were thinking mystery machine, but I could do frost and fire.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 00:16:37 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) My van.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 00:13:18 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) Alright,
So the domain is baud.social
the idea is to build an activity pub compatible/aware piece of BBS software. Add some local only posting, some member to member email, a few door games, etc.
But, ultimately, it's an activity pub aware BBS.
We access it over telnet, we have optional actual dialup.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 00:13:18 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) Alright I've been sitting on a domain name for two years or more for a project I want to start but haven't started.
I'm going to discuss the idea behind the project, and it's current status, and what it would need to come to fruition, and see if there's anyone in the fediverse that would like to help me see this through.
I suspect I will nerdsnipe sundog with it, but we'll see.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 01:10:19 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @screenbeard Okay, no, but:
Buzz Corey, commander and chief of the Space Patrol and Captain Kirk of the Star Ship Enterprise shared the screen in an episode of The Twilight zone set between the end of Space Patrol and the start of Star Trek.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 01:01:40 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @hhardy01 It's the rough plot of the series as a whole.
Cadets in academy get rushed out of academy and forced to pilot ships in emergency situations.
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Andrew (bookseller era) (ajroach42@retro.social)'s status on Monday, 30-May-2022 01:01:39 UTC Andrew (bookseller era) @hhardy01 Sure.
It's all the same basic Space Cadet story. I assume all the way back to Heinlein's Space Cadet.