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lotrjohn··on Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
Picard was great! Romulans, Borg, Q, Data!! What more could you ask for?!
lotrjohn··on Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%
Been there. Done that. Even attended the “spawn till you die” festival in ‘98 but all I got was a stupid t-shirt.
lotrjohn··on How to Increase OpenBSDs Resilience to Power Outages
Reader beware. Article is from 2022 and stuff has probably changed a lot. OpenBSD is currently in version 7.9, article talks about 6.6.

Also the PC Engines APU2 the author speaks about is EOL and no longer in production.

I do like how the article is clearly dated at the top. I believe all internet articles should be dated - it provides a huge amount of context imo.

lotrjohn··on TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console
> Later revisions of the PPU did offer RGB output options but most NES and Famicom systems had the single pin output.

Anyone have any insight on this? The article does not elaborate.

I have a “New-style” NES. Do I have the “upgraded” PPU?

lotrjohn··on Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says
Perhaps they live in DC?
lotrjohn··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
20 year Dota player here. I always play support and I’m ok with low wealth/ low xp. High impact tho!

Only thing I’m good at carrying is wards.

lotrjohn··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
I was gonnna click the link, but then I got high.
lotrjohn··on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)
Excellent, memorable scene.

But it is Red who suggests it should be filed under ‘education’!

lotrjohn··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
Genuine question: how did you conduct your job search? What steps did you take during those two years? Do you have a degree?
lotrjohn··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
They can encrypt data coming out of both ends?!
lotrjohn··on Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data
Completely anecdotal, and mostly unrelated, but my NES from 1990 is still going strong. Two PS3’s that I have owned simply broke.

CRTs from 1994 and 2002 still going strong. LCD tvs from 2012 and 2022 just went kaput for no reason.

Old hardware rocks.

lotrjohn··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Hey bossman thanks for pointing this out. Will have to look for it next time I watch. Yam seng.
lotrjohn··on U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis
User name does not check out. :-)
lotrjohn··on The “Wow!” signal was likely from extraterrestrial source, and more powerful
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1732/

@13,500 BCE

lotrjohn··on Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr)
Awesome read. Ty for sharing.

>For nearly a decade he was the world's only radio astronomer.

lotrjohn··on What is HDR, anyway?
> Outside of that, we have a "retro" corner in our home with a 32" trinitron.

A 32” Trinny. Nice. I have the 32” JVC D-series which I consider my crown jewel. It’s for retro gaming and I have a laserdisc player but a very limited selection of movies. Analog baby.

> Sadly though, as I get ready to take on a mortgage, it's likely most of my CRT's will be sold

Mortgage = space. You won’t believe the nooks and crannies you can fit CRTs into. Attic. Shed. Crawl space. Space under basement stairs. Heck, even the neighbors house. I have no less than 14 CRTs ferreted away in the house. Wife thinks I have only 5. Get creative. Don’t worry about the elements, these puppies were built to survive nuclear blasts. Do I have a sickness? Probably. But analog!!!

lotrjohn··on What is HDR, anyway?
Hello fellow CRT owner. What is your use case? Retro video games? PC games? Movies?
lotrjohn··on US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s
Can you point me towards these ‘workarounds’ so I can learn more? TY.
lotrjohn··on Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet
I knew that TAS meant “a computer” but for those, like me, who forgot/ didn’t know, TAS stands for “tool-assisted speedrun”.
lotrjohn··on The 88x31 GIF Collection
Username checks out…
lotrjohn··on Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head: The oldest known human portrait in the world
Wouldn’t it be Slovak?
lotrjohn··on Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]
Man, this video is giving me some serious Neverhood vibes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverhood

lotrjohn··on People who won't give up floppy disks
Perhaps this explains why I have a collection of over 10 CRT television sets squirrelled away in the various corners of my house…yes, I know it’s a sickness.
lotrjohn··on The Lord of the Rings Family Tree
The Balrogs (Sindarin for ‘Demon of Might’; Quenya Valarauko) were Maiar (“Ainur of lesser degree than the Valar”). Other Maiar were Gandalf, Sauron, Melian. Gothmog and “Durin’s Bane” are the only two named.

Basically bad Maiar.

lotrjohn··on Apple is turning William Gibson's Neuromancer into a TV series
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

For those not in the know.

lotrjohn··on How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus (2020)
According to Wikipedia it was Darwin’s second child (eldest daughter). I believe that is who you are referring to.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Darwin

lotrjohn··on Verizon, AT&T customers sue to undo T-Mobile merger
Sheep for wheat?
lotrjohn··on New plant-based pork ribs to feature edible vegan bones
So, basically the McRib?
lotrjohn··on Show HN: A central bank simulator game with a realistic economic model
That site has an awesome text/font. Reminds me of a CRT screen with scan lines! Mind sharing?