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I tried to make it so that a few consoles are always plugged in and ready. Then there's the "jump spot" for taking consoles off the shelf an easy plug in.
Putting the TV on the wall with a swivel arm helped free up room.
Cable management is always in need of improvement.
Wanna come over and play?😊
#retrogaming #RetroComputing
#Sega #Nintendo #Atari #Commodore #NEC #PCEngine #NeoGeo
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Take a look at this fascinating data visualization of countries by their share of Earth’s surface.
There are over 510M square kilometers of area, but ❤0% is covered by land. Over 70% is the ocean.
Image by Nicholas LePan for Visual Capitalist. Details at https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-by-share-of-earths-surface/ #nature #science
Visualizing Countries by Share of Earth’s Surface
There are over 510 million km² of area on Earth, but less than 30% of it is land. We chart countries by share of Earth's surface.Nicholas LePan (Visual Capitalist)
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1C * 2/3 + 3C * 1/3 = 1.66C
BOTH of those are 'buried' under a layer of AIR.
The 'atmosphere' is invisible, so it's easy to ignore, but we are all SUBSURFACE dwellers...
#Science
#SciComm
#Atmosphere
#Aerodynamics
I've read that the mass of all Oceans is about .02% of the planet. Though water is also common on land and inside the planet, the best name depends on our perspective.. Personally I think of "Human Home Planet", but from space a visitor would probably describe it using water.
Internet Connected Pinball Machine Shows Off Scores
#microcontrollers #pipicow #pinball #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2Internet Connected Pinball Machine Shows Off Scores
Before video games, there were pinball machines. Not that they don’t exist today, but a modern pinball machine will likely have microprocessors and other fancy things that traditional pinball…Hackaday
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#ksp2 #ksp
https://store.steampowered.com/app/954850/Kerbal_Space_Program_2/
Kerbal Space Program 2 on Steam
Kerbal Space Program 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed space-flight simulation game Kerbal Space Program.store.steampowered.com
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OG DOOM Shows off the Origins of Multi-Monitor
#classichacks #games #doom #multimonitor #retrogaming #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2OG DOOM Shows Off The Origins Of Multi-Monitor
We have a thing for DOOM, and we admit it. The source was released, and clever hackers have ported the engine to every system imaginable. It’s a right of passage, when hacking a machine, to r…Hackaday
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/22/retro_metric_imperial/?utm_medium=erik.in&utm_source=mastodon
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
How did the world's largest economy get stuck with retro measurement?Iain Thomson (The Register)
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We've been working on a bunch of new stuff that just shipped this morning!
🕶️ Experimental WebXR Support
🎥 Third Person Camera
🚶 New Character Controller
🌐 Experimental Authoritative Networking
📦 New Engine Resource System
And so much more! http://thirdroom.io
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thirdroomio/status/1620151464260927488
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Anyway, great to see WebXR in action. I would also hope for not locking-in with Unity Engine for featured maps. What's the status of editing via Mozilla Spoke?
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Brought to you by Input Labs in support of their mission to "democratise #videogame controllers".
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-your-own-accessible-alpakka-gaming-controller/
Build your own accessible Alpakka gaming controller - Raspberry Pi
Meet Alpakka: a customisable, open source gaming pad with additional features to improve performance and improve accessibility.Ashley Whittaker (Raspberry Pi)
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Alas I switched out my Pi with a Mega. Can not have enough buttons and axes, no? 🙃
This is the demo where I still had the Pi in use thou: https://tube.tchncs.de/w/fjLs6Uzya5hSj6rtjpSGoP
Binary Watch Rocks a Bare PCB With Pride
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Secure LoRa Mesh Communication Network
#radiohacks #raspberrypi #mesh #network #peertopeer #radio #secure #hackaday
posted by pod_feeder_v2Secure LoRa Mesh Communication Network
The Internet has allowed us to communicate more easily than ever before, and thanks to modern cell-phone networks, we don’t even have to be tied down to a hard line anymore. But what if you w…Hackaday
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Wenn Du überzeugt bist, dass öffentliche Einrichtung auch über freie Social-Media-Kanäle mit der Gesellschaft kommunizieren sollen, kannst Du unsere Kampagne aktiv unterstützen.
#Fedigov #Behörden #Kommunikation #Fediverse #Öffentlichkeit #FOSDEM #Linux
https://gnulinux.ch/fedigov-fosdem-bei-dir
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(#) Follows Import?
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Compared to the videos, I go into more detail on each topic, and I also talk about more topics than what I can cover in the videos.
It's currently only on the website below, and there's an RSS feed to add it to your client of choice, I'll try and add it to other podcast directories in the future (but Spotify doesn't want it for now, spits out a random error, so it will have to wait).
https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/
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It seems like you didn't set DNS up
~ $ dog podcast.thelinuxexp.com @1.1.1.1
SOA thelinuxexp.com. 2h56m14s A "ns1.gandi.net." "hostmaster.gandi.net." 1668712404 3h00m00s 1h00m00s 7d0h00m00s 3h00m00s
There is a generated thumbnail, meaning it worked at some point. Now it doesn't.
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https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/feed
The topics seem pretty much like a duplicate of the news video. So if you've watched the video the podcast is not really interesting anymore. It might be good to do more of an opinionated deep dive on a few topics. You can also do listener questions and feedback as part of the podcast.
If the idea is that the podcast is for people that don't watch the news video's then it works fine, but I wonder how many people that is
If it ends up not drawing anyone, I’ll rework it but from the feedback I got on the news video, this podcast seems to be what people were asking for ;)
As per guests, it isn’t planned, but who knows!


(Also, just finished the first episode, and yeah, your grammar was fine there. 😺)
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It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.
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Thanks for the clarity on this btw, i thought the software was WriteAs.
It also seems pretty lightweight, so just works on a wider range of systems.
Being a mere greenbeard of the #Fedi rather than total novice, I would appreciate knowing more about the person who would be volunteering to host my content and mailing list which they "reserve the right to discontinue without notice at any time."
We have technologies like WWW hosts (Wordpress, WriteFreely and while ActivityPub space), Gemini, IPFS, BitTorrent, Git, SFTP; rich formats like Markdown, office documents, PDFs; so many programs to write in those formats...
Computers were created from the beggining to write, process and distribute text. Using bloated centralized web service for sharing formatted text is really saying something about our current "smart" devices and habits.
It's the eternal question of what will win? Executive incompetence or the rich bailing one another out?
But I doubt that many People are willing to think about the implications of owning a Blog compared to just have One on a Plattform somewhere...🙄
Only be able to just think about the difference of #owning and #renting might be to much of a headache for many...
Here are all the Object types in the spec. A shared vocabulary like this is what enables all users of Mastodon, PeerTube, WriteFreely, Pixelfed, Gitea to follow and reply to each other.
Mastodon is most dominant and only supports "Note". Which has forced all other ActivityPub software to shoehorn all kind of content into a "Note", even though there's a rich vocabulary that's been standardized.
You can check also : https://bearblog.dev/
Many people use it ...
@wwwgem could give a feedback about his experience ?


I hope I can have a conversation with them this year to learn about the motivation and whether a change would be possible.
But I had prior contact with @dajb .
Well, I will move the conversation over to participate (as DM) I think.
We use WordPress for our main site and https://learnwith.weareopen.coop but we've learned over the last seven years to be tech vegetarians rather than tech vegans.
So, while we acknowledge problems with Medium, and have considered moving away from it, we're unlikely to be doing so any time soon.
If I understand you correctly those clients would need to migrate first before you could?
Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to me 😿
@aral @epilepticrabbit
What I could imagine, though, is to POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere).
But I don't know Medium's ToS OTOH.
@aral @epilepticrabbit
Another example would be our attempts to move from Google Workspace to Nextcloud last year. We tried at length to create useful workflows that wouldn't get in the way of our existing client work. But, despite helpful people showing us things, it just didn't fit.
The VC game goes like this:
1. You get investment
2. You scale (grow) as quickly as you can, as big as you can
3. You exit (sell) – either to a larger corporation or to the public via an initial public offering (IPO)
Nowhere in the game do you make it easier for people to leave your service for your rivals. On the contrary, you do what you can to lock them in.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/medium
I haven't posted there in a long time.
I looked at #WriteFreely and its ilk and I'm still curious, but for now I'll stick with my trusty WordPress blog that I've had since 2010.
#Blog
jimsblog@futurist.info
or something like that.
Is it just another nginx block in my existing? Has anyone done this?
As they turned on pay to view options it felt like I had to fight against their structure even more, so shut it down.
That said, I recognize there are a lot of legitimate gripes regarding Medium's history of pivots etc. I believe the current CEO is amenable to constructive feedback, so I am cautiously optimistic about the site's future.
(I don’t know if there’s anything baked in. Couldn’t see it at a quick glance. I guess you could always add a link to your posts to your funding site if folks want to contribute. It’s what I do on my blog.)
This minimal version seems like it might be a good fit for me wanting to post longer-than-note length bits.
Just to see what a generic, anonymous post looks like, I posted a #chatGPT -authored story into a mini #blog post here:
https://write.as/dfqdw6ua9rwsx
Just testing out the write.as anonymous posting platform.
What did this look like? Here is a short story from chat GPT. ------- The Sword of Truth Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a young prince named Alexander. He was known throug...Write.as
Maybe that's why they're doing this.
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Guess what? I will be talking about /e/OS and Murena!
Meet you in London on the 7th and 8th February.
#degoogled #smartphones #privacy #opensource #mydataisMYdata
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Home - State of Open Conference 23
OpenUK will be hosting a two day conference in Central London, “State of Open Con 23” in association with IEEE, the headline sponsor.State of Open Conference 23
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