Maker, breaker, geek. Just off a decade workin' for the bookstore and the coffee shop in Seattle. I'm now back home in Colorado.
Dwyer's Corollary to Scalzi's Law:
The failure mode of friendly is "creepy".
So there's this product, right? And it is perfect. It works everywhere on everything. It does what it is supposed to do, nothing more, and nothing less.
I love this product. And I want you to use and enjoy this product, too. And I want to tell you all about it.
However, it only exists through blatant disregard of intellectual property rights and /will/ get shut down the very second the rights-holders get wind of it.
So anyway... please visit $URL and join me for a game of $PRODUCT!
I miss the old days when you could just email people.
#plex changed their repositories and require people to make changes to their linux boxes. However, their instructions included the "sudo echo ... > file" construction, which doesn't write the file as root.
I left them a note using the "did this page help?" comment at the bottom of the screen, and this actually worked!!
Today, they replaced it with "echo ... > sudo tee file" which... writes to a file named 'sudo'. Oops.
@alyx I recently moved back to Colorado from Seattle, and all the moss that had been growing on my car is now struggling to survive and flaking off.
I feel kind of bad about it, honestly.
@halfpress ooooh. I misunderstood the whole "male" part of the spec...
Ummm ... Someone I follow here was making cursed DE9 and similar connectors as a joke a few years back by coupling the standard DB or DE shells, standard pins, and 3D printed plastics into surprisingly effective plugs and sockets in cursed configurations.
I wonder if something similar is possible here. It seems non trivial to do though. And I haven't the slightest idea where to get the pins.
@halfpress
Check with the Commodore fans. These were used as the power supply connectors for later versions of the VIC-20, and apparently there was a market for the sockets for modding other obscure Commodore models.
@Computeforloot @mediaarchaeologylab
Have you seen the Obsolescence Guaranteed models? I don't have an 8, but I've got two others. They are 6:10 scale and are actually Raspberry Pi running simh.
These were the computers I saw as a kid, and I'm still disappointed in how few switches and lights and dials modern machines have. 😛
I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab
I can't get the words together to say how amazing the experience was. Their collection is broad, deep, and varied. Yes, I got my obligatory game of Super Mario Brothers, but I also played with a collection of cell phones, old typewriters, all generations of Apple devices, a PDP/8, and so much else.
Colorado, did you even know this collection was in your own backyard??
Hey, today is MAR10... You know, like the Italian plumber of Nintendo fame? I just happen to be in the shadows of the Flatirons without a set plan for the day.
Seems like the perfect day to try dropping in on Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab!
I feel confident betting they've got an NES there... I wonder what other retrotech is hiding in their little basement lair...
