GandalfDG

joined 3 years ago
[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure of the person you're referring to, but I'd give Atkinson Hyperlegible a try :)

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I've started using Atkinson Hyperlegible variants for everything by default. It's designed for legibility and what could be more important for a general-purpose font?

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 1 points 3 hours ago

All of these rug pulls are exhausting, but it's keeping my motivation alive for migrating to selfhosted alternatives. Unfortunate how much time and expertise is required to do that so the vast majority of users are just along for the ride into total enshittification. Need more development on systems that allow groups of savvy folks to administer services for their communities. Yunohost is decent but not a perfect solution

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

thanks for the info, fortunately with it self hosted I can migrate if/when I have problems, but it's working fine for me for now.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 8 points 6 days ago

Did well at a casual pinball league night last night, working on a lot of self hosting stuff, and trying to find time to design some posters to put up around town for a socialist U.S. Senate candidate and connect with more like-minded folks in my area.

Pollen season has started so trying to navigate that while enjoying the weather. Hoping to get out for some exercise this weekend.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I host my own gitea instance and have been migrating my code off of github. Trouble is there isn't much traction on federated code forges seemingly, so if I want people to be able to collaborate on my code they'd need to set up an account on my gitea, and I'd have to set up an email server to send the transactional emails to enable that, etc.

Selfhosting is great, but I don't expect everyone to do it. I think the next step for data sovereignty is making it easier for the folks who are able to set up selfhosting to provide access to their services to members of their communities.

also, now having a gitea server running it's an LLM scraper bonanza, so I have fail2ban blocking IPs as they come in but that only works on scrapers that identify themselves, and the big ones have so many IPs it's still pretty overwhelming. Perhaps I'll start redirecting them to a tarpit when I have bandwidth to spare 🤔

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

It was probably when I bought my Link Between Worlds 3DS XL. I bought physical cartridges for it, but I think I was getting them on Amazon mostly. When I got the switch my whole collection was digital downloads.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

ah that stinks, yeah it's not the most comfortable for long sessions. Might be worth checking out emulation and playing with a control method that works better for you. You'll lose the 3D but you'll still get to enjoy some really solid games.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Haven't really had a garden of my own before so starting small with a little patch I've cleared out and added some compost into. So far I've put in a few beets which I started indoors, and planted some Broccoli seeds. Also planning to clear out an area of grass and replace it with wildflowers. Why mow?

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Such a huge fan of what Technology Connections is doing, especially more recently with his "we have the technology to be more efficient already" angle and just under the surface political rage.

I know my prius isn't as good as an EV for most of the driving I do, but it's way better than any other internal combustion system on the market. When my wife's beater kicks the bucket we're definitely replacing it with an EV and keeping the prius for long hauls.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I took my 3DS XL on vacation because I knew I'd be waiting in lots of lines. Dipped in to Tomodachi Life (3DS), made some more progress in Pokémon Omega Ruby, and had some fun with a bunch of arcadey titles like pac-man championship edition and the 3ds version of Dr. Mario. Also took some 3D photos with the 3DS' camera, which I didn't really give much appreciation to back in the day.

Back at home and I've gotten back into the Sims 2 which I'm playing on my Steam deck after tinkering around with a custom control scheme for a while.

[–] GandalfDG@beehaw.org 45 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm so tired, man

 

Going to try my hand at sniffing the data driving a WS2812 chain for some future projects, and I'm wondering if anyone has tried this or knows of any existing resources for doing this. I'm fairly confident I can implement it with some RP2040 PIO since I have some pi pico boards laying around. Web searches for the topic aren't turning up much of use, just a billion tutorials for driving the bus.

My only concern that might pose a problem is if the GPIO pins introduce noise or create other issues on the bus I'm trying to observe.

 

Started playing builders 1 on Steam Deck and while it's missing a bit of the visual polish of pokopia, it's a lot of fun so far. I didn't play it when it was new but it's definitely scratching a build/craft/explore itch without the decision paralysis of something completely open-ended like Minecraft.

Anyone else playing this for lack of Pokopia?

 

My main NAS box was running OpenMediaVault until a failed upgrade left the OS totally borked. Now I'm back up and running on a fresh Debian install, and I've documented everything that I'm running currently to keep it all straight.

 

I set up an instance of the ArchiveTeam Warrior on my home server with Docker in under 10 minutes. Feels like I'm doing my part to combat removal of information from the internet.

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