Make no mistake: I actually rather love my samsung tablet I've been using... but a proper portable linux device would be nice.

(I need to email Clockwork - the uconsole isn't taking any usb input, and it's not the OS, or the CM5...)

Then again, tablet computing has been kinda outmoded by mobile OS's - ipads, especially. TBH, kinda unfortunate. I know there are projects to, say, drop Linux on machines like MS Surfaces, and I might have to look into that for my surface pro 3 from *ages* ago, but... y'know. A little long in the tooth, that one.

Guess who got reminded that some blueprints are just straight credits off the market?

500k on blueprints alone. More on the actual construction. I wish I'd known this *before* the double xp weekend, but... Well, here we are

#warframe #JustGiveMeMR30Already...

About a month and a half ago I started a new Vampire game with some friends. Online only, ToTM, on Discord, using a mix of Demiplane and PDFs.

NGL, I fucking missed this.

The Anarch Baron is a tremere... Or is she? (Let's just say the new book gave me some really good ideas.)

The Camarilla are here and working on the same problem the coterie is.

One of the Coterie is, herself, Camarilla. (She dropped it as a throwaway line during their first Cammy encounter, and I'm yes-anding that straight to gehenna.)

WoD remains my favorite place to play.

#vtm #worldofdarkness #ttrpg

Went house hunting last night in Elite: Dangerous, surveying systems for one to colonize.

Found one with a terraformable water world, and grabbed it on that basis alone. That's a pretty good point of interest. Also has asteroid clusters and a ringed gas giant.

That last one was just neat... Until I probed it out. Low temperature diamonds, void opals, *and* tritium hotspots.

With the new mining ship coming... Yeah. This is worth developing.

(Side note: This is about 850 ly from Sol, in guardian space.)

#elitedangerous

Randomish tip: Ctrl-alt-(f1-f6) will switch between virtual terminals on most linux systems. (This will vary depending on your system.)

Especially useful if Steam insists on crashing your Gnome session and you need to recover it... or kill -9 it so you can rerun it, without rebooting the whole damned system.

(Goddamnit steam.)

#gamingonlinux

Uconsole is in and largely assembled. >.>

I say largely because the OS isn't recognizing the KB or trackball. Checked/reseated connections. Reseated the core several times.

Side note: This .5mm thermal pad is effective, but tears at the drop of a hat. I've had to replace it several times because it's meant to establish a thermal connection to the backplate, but I keep having to remove the backplate because the device won't power down fully and I have to open it to pop the batteries. Not great. :/

Let's see what progress I can make by rewriting the OS to the SD card...

#uConsole

3d print of the antenna array cover completed successfully. :D

And now I go on to spamming F5 on the various package tracking services. In theory, they're all here tomorrow? No matter the weather I might go walking with it just to give it a shot.

(Unless it's raining, natch. This thing has no IP rating, nor should it be expected to.)

As I'm typing this, I'm starting to print up a cover to fit over HackerGadgets antenna array board for the SDR/Meshtastic/GPS/and more extension board.

Bearing in mind I haven't actually gotten the uconsole in yet, I can't complain about too much - but I don't like that the array board is meant to just kinda sit out there. You essentially screw it onto the back, and that's that. :/

Easy fix with an already-built solution, thanks to strtfnst on github ( https://github.com/strtfnst/uConsole-Parts ). Just gotta print it up.

He also has a modified back you can mount the official passive cooler to, too - the CM5, while 2-3x faster than the CM4, does have higher thermals apparently (to the surprise of no one) and thus requires a little more cooling. Other solutions are in the offing, as well, but I'm curious to try this one. That's next print, though. I want to run them off separately just in case one part fails, so the other part isn't junked because of it.

#uconsole #3dprinting #amateurradio