@ExplodingLemur @hacks4pancakes

Holy smoke, I want a ZPM-powered Direwall. I want it so badly.

@xaja

I... have no excuse, I'm in a badly lit room, using an old uncalibrated monitor, and I couldn't tell you the difference between #000080 and #000090.

@AVincentInSpace @Bwee

Have you read this? https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

Actually, a lot of the articles by the author might be of use.

@jackemled

According to https://serverfault.com/questions/283294/how-to-read-in-n-random-characters-from-dev-urandom#481171

Something like this should give you 15 ASCII printable characters. It works in my terminal at least.
`</dev/urandom tr -dc 'A-Za-z0-9!"#$%&\(\)*+,./: ;<=>?@\[\]^_`{|}~-' | head -c 15 ; echo`

Basically, emit random values, if they're not in the allowed list, skip them, then output however many you want.

@ntoskrnl

Does some part of the radio's buffer overlap with the RAM used by the framebuffer? That distortion is only at the very end of the frame, not scattered around like I would expect from corruption or induced noise.

@Bwee

I aim to please. Also in the mall we had a shop that made fresh caramel popcorn. The smell of them making buttery caramel, then tossing popcorn in it was absolutely entrancing.

These days the shop I worked in and the popcorn shop are long gone, but the Cinnabon is still around (sadly their reviews have declined somewhat as well).

@Bwee

All good choices. We have a donut shop a few miles from work that make a blueberry cake donut that's absolutely amazing. This is doubly amazing given that I'm not normally a big fan of cake donuts.

As to cinnamon rolls though... in the early 00s I worked in a mall, literally around the corner from a Cinnabon. Get in good with the Cinnabon manager, and they'll make you an amazing extra cinnamony, slightly under-baked, gooey, sweet confection...

@Bwee

Favorite sweet treats? I feel no need to limit myself to just one.. or even one dozen. I'm particularly fond of peach cobbler, pecan pie, lemon meringue pie, a good hot fudge sundae, extra gooey chocolate chip cookies... Tonight I had a slice of chocolate mousse cake, and last night I had hot chocolate and an almond biscotti.

What are your preferred sugary treats?

@KinkyKobolds

Thew kobolds need to hydrate and get some rest. Gatorade, water, pedialyte... Heck, even some nice hot tea (not too much honey) can help.