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Also BlackViper: http://www.blackviper.com/service-configurations/black-viper...

Tempest 3000 eh? I build Zarjaz Rotary controllers for that thing if you’re interested. ;)

Funny story actually...

How about an island, or any truly remote location on earth (or in space) that may lack broadband.

That’s good to see Vic writing for RS, like to see him busy.

I-odd FTW, Pro-tip it emulates thumb drives too.

What is the best way to help the project?

I’ve got an old Sprint Samsung Epic 4G slider (WiMAX, the old 4G), that would love to be a little mobile terminal...might be a little too dated though...

Anyway, this is a fantastic project and I’m eager to contribute!

How funny, I just started picking up some GURPS material because I wanted some RPG action that wasn’t all dungeon crawling hack n’ slash.

Between Cyberpunk, Illuminati, Atomic Horror, and a little Cthulhupunk, should be some good times; if I can get a campaign together...

Bookmarked.

Very cool, these are great modules and I will be happy to have them in my SCAD toolkit. Thank you!

I can’t believe that nobody has mentioned the Prusa FDM 3D printers are, and have always been designed in SCAD[0].

This alone has been instrumental in allowing community improvements, it’s the last “true” reprap, they run a farm of 300+ machines and iterate parts somewhat frequently.

Pretty amazing that there is one molded part on the entire machine, the spool holder.[2]

There was also some “archeology”[1] on the traditional CAD dead-ends from a specific extruder design that I found facintating.

[0]: https://www.prusa3d.com/prusa-i3-printable-parts/

[1]: https://reprap.org/wiki/Genealogy_/_Archeology_of_the_Greg's...

[2]: https://twitter.com/la3dpr/status/1072393398722670594?s=21

Fantastic, thank you Bunnie & crew, well done.

Somewhat related for ‘old school’ Winamp fans, if anyone knows what ever happened to Brennan Underwood and monkey radio[0], I’m two decades later still trying to get a full copy of the playlist.

I ripped the stream for several nights onto minidisc for chill portable music in high school.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20040616141942/http://monkeyradi...

Agreed, I run MikroTik on the wired side and UniFi for the AP side; have many installs in my charge and this is our default deployment when “more WiFi” is requested.

Windows update used to have a screen that said: “All of your files are exactly where you left them.”

I never trusted it.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WLwfpg8PAzTfihSb9

Luke is doing "good things" for the community by making Linux actually seem approachable and human; good work dude.

Keep it up!

Cool post, but an expensive SLA Printer is not required for this, neither is Fusion 360.

An OSS toolchain would be a reprap FDM Printer (like a Prusa), OpenSCAD for the design, so modules like the pogo cutout and the base structure can be easily and quickly reused in other projects, and then a Slicer program like Slic3r to turn the model into g-code.

Nothing against SLA: especially now that Prusa has the SL1 coming to market with good features at a sub-$1,500 price point, things are about to get very interesting.

Agree except for the 2x part, Dvorak has a deep, slow, gravelly delivery that does not lend well to artificial acceleration.

Also the audio production on the show is absolutely top notch for being done by one dude, the co-host, co-inventor of podcasting, and former MTV VJ, Adam Curry.

Plus the “morning zoo” bit is just a hilarious ruse; don’t let the “light tone” distract too much from the serious media deconstruction happening.

Twice weekly on Thursdays. ;)

That’s because KODI is really just a media player with a plug-in framework.

The plug-ins are NOT part of KODI’s core functionality.

Although it could be argued the native stuff are plugins too, they are built on the same framework but source your media from locally attached storage (USB, SD card, HDD) or network server/stream (RTSP, SMB, FTP).

Kodi is what used to be XBMC, once it was obvious a “10ft” interface was desirable beyond the needs of OG XBox hackers it was revised to run on PC (XBox is 99% a PC anyway).

Eventually nobody knew why it was called XBox Media Center when nobody really used it for the XBox. So they changed the name to KODI because it vaguely resembles REWIND STOP PLAY icons:

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So that’s a little history, but I still mourn the loss of legacy screensavers like the excellent ‘matrix’ and the native ProjectM/Milkdrop support which hasn’t isn’t present in the Pi version or newer PC builds for years AFAIK.

Anyway, this is like banning Chrome because you can go to a porno website.

TIS-100 is also available on iOS, but unfortunately iPad only.

Gonbes GBS-8200/8220 CGA/EGA/YUV to VGA Arcade HD-Converter PCB allows all types of RGB, EGA, VGA or YUV component signals to be up-converter and display on a 31KHz PC VGA monitor, TFT monitor, LCD display, or HD-TV with VGA connection. No need to set dip switches in order to figure out the specific input frequency as all inputs are detected automatically! A great alternative to purchasing a expensive, heavy CGA monitor.

[0]: https://www.mikesarcade.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?sku=GBS-8200

Mean Streets did in fact have digital audio samples that played out of the PC speaker, and it was a selling point highlighted on the box with a big red sticker: “Real Sound”.

Or the USB to PS/2 adapters.

An Android based e-reader no less, the form factor is wild and the price point is super high but damn, this is cool.

I’ve been down this road, re-encoding is always lossy, you’ll end up with smaller files with no “noticeable” compression artifacts, but the original MPEG2 will still be of superior quality.

> we still have no airplane as fast as one built in the 1960's.

Either that or we got very good at keeping secrets, getting stelthy, or the need for this “form factor” was depreciated with the advent of space based tech.

Heck there’s probably a Robocop-style human brain in that CIA space plane[0].

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

So PowerShell has an integrated dingus[0] now eh?

So, where’s the equivalent offline bash script zero dependency sed awk contraption that is the reason we don’t get “nice things” in our trusty workhorse shell.

Or is the answer to “quick” offline markdown to html conversion on Mac/Linux “install pandoc”?

[0]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus

US, Russia, and China all have intependant “Global Positioning” Systems, GPS, GLONASS and BDS.

All similar in function and implementation.

The coolest part about GPS is the fact that temporal relativity is employed to establish a 3D location from accurate flying clock radios, that’s rad.

You mean USB HID, Human Interface Device.

At least on Synology you can have your choice of storage vendors using the built in cloud sync app; it natively supports Rsync, AWS, Glacier, B2, Amazon, DropBox, Azure, whatever.

Go by the 3-2-1 rule: 3 backups, 2 different formats, one offsite.

Similar to the military mantra: three is two, two is one, one is none. (Meaning your "spare" should already be considered in production or broken, so you need a "spare spare" to really have a "spare").

Time Machine your Macs to a drive and also perform an image backup to a second drive, keep them both in separate places and implement a rotating image or Time Machine backup.

On your PCs File History is probably adequate, and you can image the drive with something free like Acronis.

Linux there are a hundred ways, but the o'reilly 'crocodile' book (backup and recovery) has many good solutions.

Also as a tip you can get solid LTO5 mechanisms for a good price these days on eBay and they're pretty robust and hold a good chunk of bits.

Synology NAS are good machines.