Archie @archie2870@mastodon.technology

great news in megis new blog post! previously it was advised not to use the phones usb port at all when its inserted into the keyboard case, but if i understand correctly it turned out that only plugging a power supply into the keyboard and then also plugging anything into the phone is bad. so it can be used with a (powered) dock after all! and theres no need to worry about burning your house down if you plug a charging cable into the wrong port! and if only the phone battery is low you can easily specifically charge only the phone! time to remove that tape everyone (also i assume no liability if this is wrong)

https://xnux.eu/log/#072

#pinephone #pinephonekeyboard #ppkb

after literally 6000 lines of code, I finally figured out how to get Android to detect a SIM card

no, no it can't connect to mobile data... yet

This is #AOSP with #Linux mainline and a completely open source userspace stack on the @oneplus 6

@archie2870 I was watching a video about it that had some science words in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xuuEolLR8

♲ @vtel57@diasp.org:

What's the strangest thing you've ever found in a book?

Here's my story...

About 20 years ago or so, I was at a Salvation Army auction one morning. They were selling of tons (literally) of junk they'd had donated to them over the last few years or so; stuff that wasn't easily sold in their actual stores. A lot of it was good stuff, too.

One thing that immediately caught my eye was a pallet (6' high, 4' wide X 4' wide) of nothing but boxed up hardcover books. I looked through some of the books in the top boxes and realized that there were some very old, and often valuable, books in this boxes. I decided I'd bid on it a bit and see where it goes.

The auctioneer kept bringing up lot after lot, but not the pallet of books. I was getting impatient by the time the morning wore on. Finally, when he'd pretty much sold everything that was in the yard back there that morning, he brought up the pallet of books. There was only a small crowd of folks left by then (about 20 or so). He described the contents of the pallet briefly by saying, "Here you go, folks... a bunch of books".

He looked around at the faces in the crowd and said, "I'm opening the bidding at one dollar." I about shit myself. I bid the $1 immediately to get things rolling. Well, after I bid, he looked around and said, "Once, twice, sold that man there for $1." I just laughed... and wondered how the Hell I was going to get this pallet home and what I was going to do with all those books.

When I asked the auctioneer afterwards why he'd let it go so cheaply, he said, "Did you see anyone trampling you to get in a bid?" I said no, I didn't. His reply, with a smirk on his face, was, "Gotta' know your audience in this job."

Well, needless to say, I got the books home and spent a few years going through them and selling some, giving some away, etc. However, that's not the point of this story. The point was finding things in books. So, with that in mind...

There were quite a few books in this collection that had the name of a fellow in them. His name was Charles Lounsbury. He was evidently a well-educated man; many of his books were text books from Cornell University. Anyway, whilst thumbing through one of them one day, a small business card fell out into my lap. It was a dentist's appointment card for Mr. Lounsbury. It also had his address and phone number on it.

Just for grins and giggles, I called the number on the card. An older-sounding man answered on the first ring. I said "Hello" and gave my name. I then asked the fellow if he was Charles Lounsbury. He said he was indeed. I told him about all the books I'd bought and how I had found this dentist appointment card in one of them. He was BLOWN AWAY immediately upon hearing about the books.

He told me that his sister had possession of his personal library at the time of her death, but he had not spoken with her in many years. When she died, it seems that someone cleaning out her house had donated all her possessions, including Charles' books, to the Salvation Army. Mr Lounsbury was very interested in possibly seeing his books again. He was wanting to leave some of them to his grandchildren upon his demise.

I made a date for him to drive from Sarasota, FL up to my home in Tampa and take whichever of his books he wanted back. The following Saturday he showed up. He was absolutely amazed to find all his books in the middle of my living room (huge stack of books, here's a sampling):



Anyway, he picked out 10 of 15 of his prized books and asked if he could take them. I, of course, said yes... for sure. After that we sat and had some coffee and he told me his life story. It was a wonderful afternoon! Charles and I became pretty good friends after that for about 10 or so years, until his death at age 88.

It's amazing, sometimes, the things you find in books. :)

*This posting previously published on my blog:

Nocturnal Slacker v2.0 | Letters to the void…

😂

War and Peas in Therapy

#comic #webcomic #warandpeas #funny #comicstrip #comedy

@maze

I just started with Home Assistant, i started playing with, because I found out #Sonoff smart light switches can be flashed to have an #opensource #firmware and connect to #HASS . I go #homeassistant running and found out that a LOT of my stuff already in my house was automatically detected. Solar panels, there's system monitors, my smart TV (which I had kept off my network but now it's on and blocked from the inter), HASS is AMAZING.

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (30/2022): Ubuntu Touch on FairPhone 4, and, maybe, RISC-V phones in the future!

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-30-2022/

#pinephone #pinephonepro #librem5

❝ We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them

—Warren Zevon

Well played sir, well played.

(The sir, in this case, is @ifixcoinops)

i literally have to firewall every Wi-Fi IoT device I own

i decided to take the plunge and connect my TV so I can set it up with my automations, and my adblocker is catching it trying to make something like 20,000 DNS requests a day trying to reach Samsung's servers

i fucking rooted my vacuum, i had to root my fucking vacuum to stop it from pinging XIaomi's servers

why the fuck is everything like this

GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don't let friends make certain types of #data #visualization - What are they and why are they bad. – https://github.com/cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends

#statistics #rstat #datascience #FriendsDontLetFriends

#ArchLinuxARM for @PINE64 #PinePhone / #PinePhonePro / #PineTab (2022/07/29) has released.

Release Notes + Downloads: https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/tag/20220729

A little known #neovim plugin to show diagnostics (for instance, LSP errors) on full lines, instead of the default merging of all errors at the end of a line.
I use it behind a toggle, to switch back and forth with the default behavior, as sometimes rust-analyser has a lot to say!

https://git.sr.ht/~whynothugo/lsp_lines.nvim

I've gone live!

Linux training with friends! \o/

#owncast #streaming #videogames #linux

https://stream.ozoned.net

Ok, so I'm having fun playing with #homeassistant . Just built my first real dashboard that I'm actually liking. I think there's room for a lot of improvement, but this is literally parsing data from #nws National Weather Service that is available as #freedata.