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Our TV has a wonky HDMI port. When the cable gets bumped the picture on the screen goes to high-res static. This is not the behaviour I would expect from a digital signal.
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@uoou Sadly, best I can do is 1080p, which I guess is fine since my eyes aren't 4K anyway.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I'm actually hearing a few people going back from 4k to 1080. 1080's certainly enough for me.




I've been using a web site for #soroban practice that generates exercise sheets. They offer a service where they'll send you a worksheet by email on a scheduled basis, and I finally signed up for that. When I did, I was presented with a captcha. I normally despise these, but I think I'll let this one slide.






How do I know I'm getting old (and boring). I literally got excited about a new pill organizer.


As useful as GnuCash is, I wish it had a TUI. There's really no reason for it not to.


weird shower thought/rant about abacuses

A while ago on a whim, I did a somewhat deep dive into the abacus. I thought it would be interesting to learn about a device that is sometimes credited as an ancestor of the modern computer.

I've come to be of the opinion that it's not really a fair comparison though. An abacus is not a computer... at least not a full-fledged computer. It doesn't compute anything. Your brain does that. I think it is fair however to compare it to memory, though.

An abacus is essentially an array of memory cells. Instead of storing bytes, it stores digits, but that's a trivial distinction. You even have to allocate those memory cells to accommodate the structure of the data you are operating on, just like you would with the memory in a computer.

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weird shower thought/rant about abacuses
@drhoopoe I've had a very similar thought. I didn't know it had a formal name.


I hate that modern ICs aren't hand-solderable. I mean, I get why that is, but I still hate it.

Edit: typo



Can anyone recommend a #RasPi alternative for #embedded #electronics projects? There's the #Arduino, which is nice, but sometimes you need something with a little more oomph.

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

esp32 and esp8266, the latter is cheaper and would work fine for most of your needs.


My mother-in-law overestimates my command of the Spanish language (though knowing French is admittedly helpful).

She claims that I understand 80% of what I hear. It's closer to 30%, but I can piece a lot together through context.

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I love that every single time we order cat food, we get a tracking number after it's arrived.


Why does @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻's web app work better than the actual official Android APK for editing files? That's kind of bonkers.



Just got a push notification on my phone:

To receive nearby offers and coupons, you need to agree to the location service's Terms and Conditions.

Um... no, thank you?

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pH: medication

Just took my first dose of metformin. The only thing I had on hand to take it with was Coke

This was not well planned out. I'm clearly off to a great start.

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Great. The pharmacy's changed suppliers for one of my meds, and now I have two pills that look very similar. I can no longer tell them apart at a glance.





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