Andrew Roach

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@xmanmonk This is all too often the story.

Hi, everyone over 30: Who was your favorite local band when you were in highschool?

Did they put out a cassette?

Do you own a copy of that cassette?

How many other people, do you think, still own copies of that cassette?

Do you still keep up with any of the band members?

After a few false starts, we are up to 3.0.1 and in a better place to roll new updates out as they come.

I'll be moving us to daily backups today, and setting up a brutaldon instance soon!

We have elastic search! It might be resource constrained, but it exists. I'll be monitoring and balancing.

Big thanks to @danhunsaker for all his help!! Send them some good feels!

#retrosocialadmin
#instanceadmin

Also, our sidekiq queue is a little backlogged becuase it's retrying a bunch of jobs that failed last night while we were broken.

For users, this means stuff will be a little sluggish for a few hours. It'll start working normally after that.

Now, to write a custom theme...

This is a combo #RetroHardware and #HardwareHacking project: Running a 1980s monochrome CRT with a 6845 chip (found in a lot of Z80 and 6502 chip based machines of the time) and an Arduino Uno

https://imgur.com/a/DEcdK

Arduino with CRTC board

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@thegibson That's what happens when my instance is down for maintenance.

I fully recognize that my posts alone account for 1/8th of the total traffic of this network.

@ajroach42 Still in progress. Some of these DB migrations take a Long Time.

But we should be done soon.

It sticks everything in a folder, though, and I don't love that.

I'll make some updates.

Anyway, trade radio will be online soon.

retro.social should be back soon.

My tilde site will be up soon, although I lost a bunch of content, which makes me sad but whatever.

For future reference:

```~/ia download --search 'collection:georgeblood AND blues' --glob='[!_]*.mp3'``` will download the best available MP3 version of 78RPM records from the great 78 project.

I'll do a blog post later.

Here's a picture of one of my XT clones that I recently got working.

It's a sharp pc-7100, and it has a dead HDD, but it is beautiful.