Man, I wish modern smartphones didn't have asymmetrical camera bumps in back. Or chunks carved out of the screen for front cameras.
@jordan I do have an old Samsung Epic 4G with a slide-out keyboard in a box behind me, here in my office
@elithebearded Well, that's at least a bump along a different axis than that one that makes a device flop around when placed on a table
I guess, alternatively, just go whole hog including the postage and design your next device housing as a Gömböc so that it at least has a nice stable position
Hmm, thought I heard a cat meowing outside my window just now. But, alas, it was just a human child.
@soypunk Nah, I thought about offering a Churu, but the parents would have been unimpressed
@socketwench Hmm, quite so.
@hrefna having implemented boids in a toy project, that does seem like a neat framing to me
@SkipfordJ Well, of course the military will revolt against the gubmint along with the real patriots 🇺🇸
re: minor spoilers: STRAWBERRY MANSION (2021)
@toolbear Hmm, this seems relevant to my interests 🤔
@SynapticRewrite Those look like real nice handy kits!
@aardrian That mug... :chick_chefkiss:
@danhon are you okay?
@tithonium @IamMrsGeek I got sick once and coffee tasted like poison for a few weeks, so I can sympathize with this horror
Eh, yeah, I'm gonna return this Keychron K12. Feels very solid, nice key switches, no Bluetooth problems.
But, the inability to remap the keys and inconvenient cursor key placement is just wrecking it for me alas.
@objectObject @ZachWeinersmith Oh, nice!
Working on a theme rewrite for my Mastodon export static site generator and considering drafting a blog post entitled something like "How to use Web Components like an absolute gremlin" when I'm done
Like, Web Components are fun! You can totally just make shit up in terms of elements and they work fine in CSS. And then you can write HTMLElement subclasses to make them do even more weird shit in JS.
Also, MutationObserver and IntersectionObserver are neat APIs I hadn't used that much before.
Also also, it's fun to screw around building web pages without a framework or a bundler at all.
@mttaggart @mav Yeah, some instances (like hackers.town) are not-so-enthusiastic about search indexing :)
Also, re: downloading your whole account... I've been working on this static site generator for Mastodon exports with client-side local search. Still early yet, but maybe handy soon?
Kinda feeling like with everything I tend to like on the TV getting cancelled by the big streamers, all I'm going to end up watching are old shows ripped from DVD on my Plex server and "actual play" TTRPG streams like Critical Role and Dimension 20
Been watching Dimension 20's "Burrow's End" season, the last few nights over on Dropout. It's been pretty neat.
Second episode features a ridiculously detailed, squicky, and trigger-warning-tastic miniatures battle map sculpture based on the internal viscera of a giant bear. Was just nearly too horrific for me 😅
@chuck Yeah, we're pretty much there. In our house, we've tended to go with a one-month-and-cancel plan with with streamers anyway and only ever have one going at a time.
We've got none going right now, since we've mostly been watching re-runs or putting on a Twitch stream in the background while doing other things. PlutoTV and antenna TV tend to fill in otherwise.
@zkat Ohhh, I've never heard of this HP Sprocket printer before!
I took a detour from pen & paper to try an e-ink tablet for awhile, but thinking I'd like to get back to paper. But it's been nice to just drag pictures & screenshots into something like Obsidian. Didn't really occur to me I could do something like that on paper all that easily
Suddenly tripped down a rabbit hole of portable photo printers on Amazon and realized there are a bunch of super cheap toys that use thermal paper like ye olde Game Boy Camera printer
I don't really think I need one of these but 🤔
https://www.amazon.com/Printer-Portable-Compatible-Bluetooth-Wireless/dp/B09KZR533K/
LRT: "not even ChatGPT could decrypt it"
There just really are a lot of folks out there who think hacking like in the movies is real, aren't there? And they believe every plausible sentence generated by an LLM, apparently?
I feel like one of the cleverest things I've internalized is that most clever things spilling out of my brain meats aren't all that clever and could really do with some vetting before I assume that I really know much of anything.
But I feel like there are a lot of folks who really seem to think that, despite all odds, they got a secret protagonist angle on a deep truth no other human has seen
@zkat Yeah, searchable / queryable was the angle I was hoping for with this e-ink thing. Now I have a pile of PDFs containing my handwriting which no machine seems able to decipher.
Meanwhile, I have about 20 years of pen & paper journals that I can read & flip through just fine, like you said.
Part of me kind of wants to futz around with training a model to transcribe my particular handwriting, but who knows if I'll ever do it
Now, that's not to say folks don't have interesting & unique perspectives that are worth sharing. And that's not to say there isn't weird shit out there to be discovered.
I just mean that it's highly improbable that you alone have cracked the code of the financial system's machine elves via copypasta'ing garbage into a ChatGPT session
@zkat I have "move printer / scanner next to writing desk to digitize journal pages" on my long "todo someday" list, as a vague handwave toward this 😅