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@blakeyrat ... In the beginning of the video you linked, you eventually said you wanted to turn the graphics up, commenting that you were pretty sure your computer might be able to handle it. Once you put the detail to max, the game became very choppy, and you were forced to turn it down again, commenting that DOSBox was such a good emulator, it emulated the CPU speed as well.
That's what.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
DOSBox was such a good emulator, it emulated the CPU speed as well.
That's literally one of its selling points though.
Essentially, if it didn't need rate limiting (i.e. the game's speed wasn't dependant on the CPU clock), then they should have left it on dynamic, no tuning needed (well, maybe to select the best cpu core mode or whatnot).
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I have a feeling I'm going to be ignoring the post slider graphic....
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Status: OMG All my Unread seems to be reset!
Oh well, I only had < 25 topics on my todo list....
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Status: Wondering how I'm going to build a voltage sensor for Windows to detect whether or not power is applied to the system. Many "embedded" systems have this built in, but it doesn't seem LattePanda does.
I don't really care to have a LiPo charger circuit, this is going to be wired into the car so that's not really necessary, but I can't seem to find a simple device that does this...
All to avoid hard reset of the thing when I take the key out of the ignition (since I don't want it sucking down power off the battery when it's not on).
Hmm...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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I have a feeling I'm going to be ignoring the post slider graphic....
Yeah, it just shows where you've scrolled on the page.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
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I have a feeling I'm going to be ignoring the post slider graphic....
Yeah, it just shows where you've scrolled on the page.
It didn't used to. I wonder what changed...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how I'm going to build a voltage sensor for Windows to detect whether or not power is applied to the system.
Oh god...
Looks like if I want to implement this natively I'm in for a long haul...
Funny thing, I think if I want it to be compatible with Linux I'd have to do pretty much the same thing there too...
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
how I'm going to build a voltage sensor for Windows to detect whether or not power is applied to the system.
Oh god...
Looks like if I want to implement this natively I'm in for a long haul...
Funny thing, I think if I want it to be compatible with Linux I'd have to do pretty much the same thing there too...all of these things seem bad....
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Either the wind is gusting at just the right speed and direction to resonate with something on the outside of the building, or someone brought their husky in today.
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@carrievs
Well, the easy way to tell the difference is to look for a pile of poo on the carpet. That will blow away the wind alternative.
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@tsaukpaetra If the LattePanda's ground is the same as the car's ground, you might be able to get away with two resistors (forming a voltage divider from the 13.6V car bus to the 3.0V the 'puter's GPIOs run on (yes I know those numbers are wrong but better safe than witnessing Magic Smoke)) and a small app. AIUI you don't need Windows to be aware of the state of charge of the car battery but just want to trigger events like "emergency hibernate", which you can do outside of power policy.
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra If the LattePanda's ground is the same as the car's ground, you might be able to get away with two resistors (forming a voltage divider from the 13.6V car bus to the 3.0V the 'puter's GPIOs run on (yes I know those numbers are wrong but better safe than witnessing Magic Smoke)) and a small app. AIUI you don't need Windows to be aware of the state of charge of the car battery but just want to trigger events like "emergency hibernate", which you can do outside of power policy.
I'm not reasonably certain it will be though. I already have a good program I brewed that uses Windows' power states to great effect (with a nice "system will hibernate in X seconds" overlay too!), I just didn't think it would be this difficult to tell Windows "hey, you have a battery now!"....
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra If the LattePanda's ground is the same as the car's ground, you might be able to get away with two resistors (forming a voltage divider from the 13.6V car bus to the 3.0V the 'puter's GPIOs run on (yes I know those numbers are wrong but better safe than witnessing Magic Smoke)) and a small app. AIUI you don't need Windows to be aware of the state of charge of the car battery but just want to trigger events like "emergency hibernate", which you can do outside of power policy.
I'd caution against that without some clamping, automotive power is just horrific. I saw load-dump boost the supply to a peak of ~80V. It was a few tens of milliseconds but you only have to inject a few microamps into an I/O pin once you're above the rail to stimulate latch-up.
This happened in a thing I designed as a baby engineer. The transient was so short that just adding a 100nF capacitor to the low-side of the divider (to make a low-pass filter) stopped it, but the processor randomly latched-up (and promptly died) otherwise.
Something like this works very well (values for 3v3 I/O):
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Status: It sounds like the person above me has trained his/her pet elephant to use a pogo stick.
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: It sounds like the person above me has trained his/her pet elephant to use a pogo stick.
I once lived in a dorm where the upstairs people loved to bounce a basketball off the floor at random intervals. At 2 AM. If it had been constant (or had some rhythm), it would have been more tolerable.
Bounce. Bounce bounce. bounce. bounce bounce bounce bounce. ...
Drove me insane. Along with the guy at the end of the hall who liked to randomly pluck the strings of his electric guitar, plugged into the amp, with the amp turned up, at midnight. With his door open. <rage>
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@hardwaregeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Drove me insane.
So that's what happened... :P
Ok, let me rephrase. Drove me so far past the edge that it overflowed and wrapped back to sanity. Yes, my brain uses two's-complement ints to track how insane I am. Don't ask me why--I didn't design it.
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I just discovered that Google's Backup & Sync app has support for multiple accounts. You get a tray icon and Google Drive folder for each account. This simplifies my life so much.
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@tsaukpaetra It might be possible to use a separate Arduino Leonardo to handle this. While most Arduinos use a cheap FTDI chip to tell Windows, "Hey, I'm a USB serial port!" the Leonardo uses a slightly more expensive one that can be programmed to say other things, like "Hey, I'm a keyboard!" or "Hey, I'm a gamepad!" There are even sketch templates for doing so right in the Arduino IDE. You could load one up and tweak it slightly to say, "Hey, I'm a
batteryPowerSummary!" It may even be possible to use the LP's built-in Leonardo to do this, but its FTDI chip might be too busy with other things to do that. The alternative involves ACPI tables and driver signing and blehhh...@Cursorkeys Very, very good point. I'm glad I don't have to deal with that sort of thing. Those two diodes are zeners? I don't think I've ever seen them drawn that way before...
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@twelvebaud said in The Official Status Thread:
Those two diodes are zeners? I don't think I've ever seen them drawn that way before...
Yep, just standard zeners. I remember there was a very good reason for putting a less-standard symbol in my symbol library but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.
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I made a mastadon account so you can follow me there or whatever: blakeyrat@mastodon.social
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Status: Attempting to figure out why sorting an array isn't working as expected.
I went from 0, 2, 0, 1, 3, 4 to 3, 2, 0, 0, 1, 4.
Bugger.
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@tsaukpaetra How do you sort it?
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
I made a mastadon account so you can follow me there or whatever: blakeyrat@mastodon.social
Mastodon is a federated social network, with similar microblogging features to Twitter, but administrated as a decentralized federation of independently operated servers running open source software.
I expect a rant about it being awful in, like, 24 hours tops.
More seriously, so it's like Twitter, except you can host your own "community" if you run a server, forum-style? I wonder if it has any chance to take off - the trend is generally to aggregate social media instead of splitting them, and being at a losing position to Twitter's preexisting userbase splintering the few people willing to try it out into separate communities isn't going to do them any good...
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@maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
I expect a rant about it being awful in, like, 24 hours tops.
Eh, I've clicked around for an hour and honestly? It's just Twitter all over again, but with a dumber column-based UI. (Yes I know you can get other UIs/clients.)
Unless a TON of people I follow on Twitter move to Mastadon, I really don't see the point. I signed up mostly to reserve my name.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Unless a TON of people I follow on Twitter move to Mastadon, I really don't see the point.
Yeah, the network effect is going to be working against it heavily, and since my initial reaction to the site is that of utter confusion (I don't know, for example, just how decentralized it is, and how it handles people/content on different servers - or what happens if the server I signed up on goes poof), I don't expect them to have it easy breaking into mainstream either.
Which is a shame, because Twitter sucks. I swear every time I open a Twitter link I have to go through multiple API crashes until it actually shows me what I want to see.
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@maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, the network effect is going to be working against it heavily, and since my initial reaction to the site is that of utter confusion
The UI is certainly working against it there. Twitter's not some marvel of design, but it's about an order of magnitude more simple, and doesn't make the mistake of creating a psuedo-window-manager inside a browser window. (Something which not only takes a TON of work, but leads to a worse outcome-- WHY!?)
@maciejasjmj said in The Official Status Thread:
(I don't know, for example, just how decentralized it is, and how it handles people/content on different servers - or what happens if the server I signed up on goes poof),
It'll be like back when StackOverflow required people to use an OpenID provider to sign in, then when the OpenID provider went kaput you either had to beg and beg to get your account recovered with a new login, or simply lost all the data SO had stored on your account.
(After this happened a couple times, they added a system so you could make MULTIPLE logins to each account because they were sick of manually recovering accounts. Not sure if Mastadon allows that, not that I can tell from the site UI.)
(And of course, once that piece of shit Atwood left, they finally created the simple username/password login that everybody fucking wanted in the first fucking place, OpenID was obviously garbage, why did so many people want to use it! It was like the Markdown of a decade ago: something anybody can see if obviously flawed, yet nerd-geek-developers love so much they force people to use it anyway.)
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
I do not understand how I could have so much stuff to be moved.
Rule #∞ (in both renting and ownership): Stuff always expands to exceed the space available.
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@blakeyrat Update, talked to someone on Twitter who knows and:
Mastodon has no way of migrating accounts to another server. It can put up a signpost that says "this guy has moved", but has zero solution to the problem when a server shuts down entirely.
Once again, developers writing software in 2017 who haven't listened to any of the lessons from 2007.
EDIT: special bonus open source developer being a dick to his users for no reason: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/177#issuecomment-291892172
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status annoyed. Don't know if it's FF or WTF, but every time I click 'Unread' or one of the unread links, I get a blank page. F5 or clicking the link and pressing return makes the page appear. Whatever. I'm going home now.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
and doesn't make the mistake of creating a psuedo-window-manager inside a browser window. (Something which not only takes a TON of work, but leads to a worse outcome-- WHY!?)
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
status annoyed. Don't know if it's FF or WTF, but every time I click 'Unread' or one of the unread links, I get a blank page. F5 or clicking the link and pressing return makes the page appear. Whatever. I'm going home now.
Hmm. Things are working better at home...
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@adynathos said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How do you sort it?
Like normal. The problem was that C++ doesn't use a sub-classed object's sort method if it's been cast as a super class.
So, it was essentially comparing pointers I guess.
Fixed by re-creating the array as the right type of objects, and boom! I was not so enthusiastic.
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Recently on this forum someone complained about those "everything is normal, nothing to report" notifications, and I can't find the post anymore. Anyway, here's a notification for you:
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
Recently on this forum someone complained about those "everything is normal, nothing to report" notifications, and I can't find the post anymore. Anyway, here's a notification for you:
Kill it. Fire not required.
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@dcon Is that toggle just for "nothing to report" or is it for "all notifications even the ones I want"?
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@lb_ said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon Is that toggle just for "nothing to report" or is it for "all notifications even the ones I want"?
I'm pretty sure it's just the generic "I just did this" one. Because the access into that is:
I would consider finding a virus to be not a non-critical notification.
edit: But I am using logic here. And this is Microsoft. So...
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Status: $deity dammit...
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@tsaukpaetra question mark emoji
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Status: installing Windows XP VM in hope that Shockwave games will run better than on Windows 10 x64.
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Wait. XP installer has sound!?
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Wait. XP installer has sound!?
The OOBE? Yeah! It's supposed to have some music and navigation sounds.
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@tsaukpaetra well, I never had sound drivers preinstalled.
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Also, TIL the post-installation Tour has nice animations and pretty female voiceover.
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And of course:
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Hey, I cannot access Google.
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@gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Hey, I cannot access Google.
You know, I thought it was just me....
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@tsaukpaetra I solved the problem by enabling TLS 1.0 in Internet Options. Apparently IE6 has it disabled by default.