ppxl

foone , vor 2 Tagen an Random Englisch

Finally, Netscape Navigator 4, for android!

foone , vor 7 Tagen (Bearbeitet vor 7 Tagen) an Random Englisch

designing my next keyboard PCB is going well

EDIT: There's a typo in the alt text. It's supposed to read "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll design a keyboard.' Now they have two problems"

foone , vor 9 Tagen an Random Englisch

oh sweet jesus. I found some raspi-based GPS/RFID devices at ewaste, right? and they had a mini-PCIe WLAN card, complete with SIM card in it.

The SIM card is still active.

foone , vor 17 Tagen an Random Englisch

Time to look inside a thing!
I got this at the ewaste place a few weeks ago.

foone , vor 21 Tagen an Random Englisch

Bad idea: since there's a mechanical limit to how much you can cool down a CPU, design a motherboard with a rotary barrel.

While one CPU is used, the other five can be cooling down!

foone , vor 23 Tagen an Random Englisch

I've been trying to google/amazon this and having basically no results, so I'm asking here in case anyone knows:

I need graph paper. Specifically I need LARGE graph paper. Like, not an A4 sheet, I need A1-A0 (24/33" or 33x46").
4x4 per inch, or 5x5 per inch grid spaces. I basically need a graph paper with a TON of squares, and I'm not finding it.

foone , vor 24 Tagen an Random Englisch

I found an amazon listing that is for an "HD DVD player"

by which they mean a DVD player that supports HD output, because it's an upscaler.

YALL KNOW HD-DVD IS A DIFFERENT THING, RIGHT?

foone , vor 27 Tagen an Random Englisch

we need metacomputers.

one of the big features of computers and how they improved productivity was how they let us automate a lot of things that we had to do by hand before.

well, most of the things I have to do by hand these days involve badly designed software.

foone , vor 29 Tagen an Random Englisch

I should be able to charge my phone over PoE from my laptop. I don't know why it would have this feature, but it should

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

You're never gonna believe this, but it turns out I'm gonna need to build a new keyboard

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

As someone who spends a surprising amount of time at ewaste/junk shops:

non-bluetooth wireless keyboards should be banned for environmental reasons.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

I extracted all 5000+ frames (with a bunch of duplicates!) of Rambley The Raccoon from Indigo Park: Chapter 1.

https://archive.org/details/rambley-raccoon #rambleytheraccoon #indigopark

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Bad idea that could still make a lot of money:
A small desk-size washing machine, with proprietary soap packets, designed to clean keyboard keycaps.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Why doesn't microsoft make Recall take pictures with your computer's webcam too?

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

when is GCC gonna have support for shock collars?
it might help to shock the programmer whenever the compile fails

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Terrible idea: Christian programmer who comments their code with references to Bible verses which are applicable to the code's situation

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Here's something cool I never realized existed:

PCBs distributed through magazines!

From Radio Electronics (June 1987):

https://archive.org/details/radio_electronics_1987-06/page/n68/

foone , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Properly photographing a 3.5" floppy disk for archival is annoyingly complicated. The label has THREE sides!

I've already built an automated system to take a picture of the front of a disk, but really I need to take THREE photos if I want to get the whole thing.

That means either three cameras or I need to rotate the disk 90° and then 180°, which is going to really stress the limits of my mechanical engineering skills.

foone , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat) an Random Englisch

I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

whitequark , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end

just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something

stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit

arstechnica , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

Connected devices with awful default passwords now illegal in UK

The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/connected-devices-with-awful-default-passwords-now-illegal-in-uk/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

I just got a cold call from another country because someone wanted to buy my minecraft account

the future is weird

foone , vor 2 Monaten an Random Englisch

The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.