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Kazriko | @kazriko@alcatir.com

The usual. Software developer, former BBS sysop. Atari XE, Dos, OS/2, BeOS, Windows 2000/7 former user, Linux/FreeBSD/Haiku/OpenIndiana current user. The various places I post are listed: https://arkaic.com/

@requiem Someone on the Sudomod Discord grabbed a Pi 400, and tried it out. You can't power the 400 via the GPIO port, unfortunately. (And the USB-C port isn't hooked to the OTG port of the SoC.)

@avia @yamato_takeru_Z @zaitcev That was kind of ridiculous in the first part of Vietnam. Their aircraft were designed for beyond line of sight, but then they were forced to go visual confirmation only. Thus, they had an airforce of sitting ducks.

@zaitcev The YF-23 is a great looking plane. I would be amused if Japan ended up licensing the design, always thought it should have won against the F-22.

@requiem I use it to watch a few people that I used to watch on Youtube. It's mostly workable, but I'm not a fan of the electron interface for their desktop app. They released a new website for it called Odysee.com that basically pulls from the same back end protocol. It actually downloads the .mp4 file for the video to your system when you start playing it though, so you can view it via other players.

@requiem Possibly. You would need to have the charging circuitry in the battery pack itself likely, and plug the battery directly into the AC adapter to charge it, I don't think you would be able to use the USB-C port on the 400 itself. Other than that, you should be able to power the pi off the GPIO port.

@requiem https://youtu.be/OqpylxLhw98 There's teardowns. I don't think there's enough room inside for a battery. Maybe a very small one. It's not a particularly large unit.

Boost if you can hear this picture

https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ I love that someone is actually doing something with one of those old graphics terminal protocols.

@fribbledom I'm probably waiting about the same amount of time on the XSX. I am getting the PS5, just so that I can play my ~500 PS4 games at a higher framerate, on a quieter console. I skipped out on the PS4Pro.

@Sirsquid I guess I should take a crack at answering the question asked in the forum. If you use wget to retrieve the URL you pasted there, it gets a zero byte file.

--2020-10-06 16:56:32-- https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/feeds/
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 0 [application/atom+xml]
Saving to: ‘index.html’

So something is wrong with the feed, maybe check with the dolphin-emu folks.

@Sirsquid You mean the place they move threads that are garbage that they don't think are fit for public consumption so they don't end up on the main page, instead of deleting them?

https://www.crowdsupply.com/excamera/gameduino-3x-dazzler Looking forward to getting this board, should be a lot of fun to play with. An actual 2d GPU for low end processors to use.

re: uspol
@requiem That's another thing, both sides think that the other is trying to do as much damage to the country as possible. Both sides think they'll riot if they lose. Both sides think the other is going to completely destroy the country if they win. The rhetoric has gotten completely overheated during this election. You kind of have to wonder if we're not getting another divisive propaganda blitz this time like the one in 2016 with the Russian bots, but from China as well.

re: uspol
@requiem Funny, the other side was saying the same thing.

@fribbledom Depends on the definition of real. Real to me was my Fidonet Point software that I wrote in the 90's. I got it to where it could connect, download messages, upload messages, toss them into a JAM database, then read and reply to them. I only ever gave it to one person because it wasn't good enough. The next real one would have probably been the classroom scheduling app that the biology department at the college used. My first two real apps were both written in Pascal.

Another day, another instance of everyone I follow on mastodon.technology talking politics, and everyone on mastodon.social talking technology.

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