[X] My Assistant

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Probably because Twitter was penalized $150 million dollars by the federal government for lying to
the users about their privacy and for selling user data to 3rd party buyers over six years time period.

Probably because Twitter was penalized $150 million dollars by the federal government for lying to
the users about their privacy and for selling user data to 3rd party buyers over six years time period.

I knew what it was.

I just hated reading their refusal to admit that what they did was actually "wrong" or to "apologize" properly. If they were actually feeling guilt, it would never have happened to begin with.

Got a pretty cheap (relatively speaking) used USB headphone adapter DAC thingy (not marketed as one; it's an accessory meant for a specific set of headphones that they never sold as a standalone product, but it's common enough on ebay used) that Vagabond suggested grabbing on IRC; it sounds great, and stronger than the output on my laptop. It was also under $60, which pleases me greatly (even if I still know most USB DAC's should be cheaper). Thanks for the advice.

It took some doing to make the volume dial on it control its own volume instead of my laptop's master volume, but I managed it by making it report different keycodes than the volume up/down ones so that I could have a separate script handle them.

/etc/udev/hwdb.d/93-bosejunk.hwdb:

CODE

# Thing sends xf86volumeup/volumedown which interfere with integrated audio controls (volume buttons on laptop itself).
# So we assign something else that I don't use.
# this is actually xf86launch6/xf86launch7 for some reason
evdev:input:b0003v05A7p4040*
KEYBOARD_KEY_c00ea=f15
KEYBOARD_KEY_c00e9=f16

volume down for device:

CODE

#! /bin/sh
if [ "$#" -gt 0 ]; then
  INC="$1"
else
  INC='1'
fi
if [ ! "$CARD" ]; then
  CARD='-c'"$(aplay -l|grep Bose|sed 's/^card //;s/\:.*//' | head -n 1)"
  if [ "$CARD" = '-c' ]; then
    CARD='-c4' # fallback
  fi
else
  CARD='-c4'
fi
amixer $CARD -M sset PCM "$INC"'%-'

For volume up, replace the '-' character at the end of the last line with a '+'.
FVWM keybindings:

CODE

Silent Key XF86Launch6 A N Exec exec $HOME/bin/voldown_bose 1
Silent Key XF86Launch7 A N Exec exec $HOME/bin/volup_bose 1

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 22 2022, 22:41

Just pulled up a fresh debian install, ripped out systemd, and got everything set up how I like it in record time (about an hour and a half without using any helper scripts).

It's good that I make backups of my personal firefox and seamonkey builds, since the debian package manager tries to push systemd on me if I install through it.

Now I'm just doing some of the 'extra' stuff like building mplayer.

Also, had to do a lot of digging to determine that the displayport on my thinkpads should be capable of "dual mode" support (which allows for using a passive HDMI adapter). That's good, since it will make it less annoying to find an adapter that will carry audio through. Unfortunately, it also looks like it's possibly limited to two sound channels where it would have been eight if they'd used an HDMI port instead. But maybe the 'dual mode' thing means I can get all eight channels with a passive adapter? I will have to see.
Had to go into the Intel Ibex Peak datasheets to find that info. Lenovo had no information at all. QM57 chipset btw.

I do have access to some "intel confidential" 'sheets that might shed more light than that public document if I need it.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 24 2022, 05:58

Wrote something for an [en.wikipedia.org] Addventure over the last couple days.

I kind of appreciate the bare-bones simplicity of it. But what I hate is when people try to do clever formatting on text colors and whatnot.

Wrote my entry in emacs and ran it through a postprocessor script I wrote to convert non-ASCII characters to 'escaped' HTML codes, since I don't think this Addventure guarantees UTF-8 support (it's from the 90's).

I have a user script for the "Never Ending Quest" (SFW) and BEA (NSFW) addventure games that lets me force most horrible looking pages into using less stylized forms by messing with HTML attributes of other peoples' chapters. And it also has a dark mode.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 25 2022, 21:32

I remember someone telling me the plastic is intentionally breakable so it protects when dropped and you can always replace it. always doubted it but the plastic sure does crack especially when aged a bit, all mine are as well.
did you just get them off ebay and do they feel like original quality? china has been inventing new ways to cheapen plastic to the point it feels hollow

Just got the last piece of my laptop in the mail today; it's the first piece I'm pretty sure is non-original (other than the battery, which I know for a fact is not original because they haven't existed for at least six years). It's the HDD bay cover/door. The tablet has its own special variant of the door that's not quite compatible with the non-tablet X201.

I am pretty sure this is not original because it's glossy and flat plastic instead of matte finished/textured.

But it fits, so I don't really care. OEM ones have been unobtainium for years.

I guess I can always sand it if it really starts to bother me, although that opens a can of worms too when you have to make it look even.

Worth noting that the screw they included with it did not actually fit (either too short or too narrow to thread). But the screw I already had was fine with it. I'd been using a modified non-tablet cover with a piece of electrical tape prior to this.

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Thought: Patreon's updated its UI and it's now worse than ever before.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 25 2022, 22:09

Are seat warmers in BMW cars really worth the $415 price tag?

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He warned us. We have no one to blame but ourselves, and nothing to blame except our own complacency.

Just when I had started to think I could dig my heels into the ground with my decade-old computers any further than I already have.

Just fixed up my laptop, hopefully i'll be more careful with it now and it'll last ages.
Desktop's been a champ for ten years, and now that it has a new power supply I hope that it will last another ten... or thirty.

(IMG:[files.catbox.moe] https://files.catbox.moe/8wsi42.png)

That POWER9 desktop/workstation is looking mighty attractive now...

Are seat warmers in BMW cars really worth the $415 price tag?

No.

Get the seat heater pad out of a Buick (or nearly any car with seat heater options) and connect it to 12V via a switch, and then slide it between the upholstery and the foam in the seat.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 26 2022, 22:13

That POWER9 desktop/workstation is looking mighty attractive now...

Isn't it just lol. Hopefully RISC-V/ARM/POWER9 workstations keep popping up and improving while not bending the knee. Something to keep the dream of open computing alive at least.

This post has been edited by Scumbini: Jul 26 2022, 22:11

I don't know what I'm doing

Isn't it just lol. Hopefully RISC-V/ARM/POWER9 workstations keep popping up and improving while not bending the knee. Something to keep the dream of open computing alive at least.

Hopefully I can afford the POWER9 soon.
Also Qualcomm chips apparently are getting Pluton, too.

I never liked ARM as much due to their licensing policies, anyway. And they're "too mainstream" (adjusts homburg).
RIP, MIPS.

It's pretty weird that IBM is making a chip that digital rights advocates actually want.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 26 2022, 22:32

Kinda want to get myself and mess around with some sort of RetroPie, maybe fun project for later.
Not sure how powerful the newest Raspberries are so what kind of consoles it could run though.

My recommendation is to buy an old laptop instead.

But RPi's might handle a PSX alright.

The Wikipedia's Android app crashed persistently at launch. Started happening a few days ago on both phones on the same day. Clearing cache and reinstallation didn't solve it. Anyone else experienced this as well?

My recommendation is to buy an old laptop instead.

But RPi's might handle a PSX alright.

The mini ones might struggle but the pi4s handle PSX pretty easily. They can handle some N64 and dreamcast as well, some PSP games.

It depends on your case / cooling solution, as they have worked out how to overclock them a fair bit.

The Wikipedia's Android app crashed persistently at launch. Started happening a few days ago on both phones on the same day. Clearing cache and reinstallation didn't solve it. Anyone else experienced this as well?

No, I haven't. But that's because I don't use special purpose apps for things like wikipedia that are actually optimized for– and better viewed in– a web browser.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 27 2022, 19:29

dang, Adobe creative cloud is expensive for an annual subscription.

Did it go up again? Or is it still just a bad deal like it always has been?

I wonder what the most pirated software in the world is. Probably Windows itself? Although lots of machines get windows licenses when they're bought, so IDK... Maybe MS Office. Photoshop is definitely somewhere on the list though.

I don't count shareware crap like WinRAR where you disable the nag by entering a cracked key or whatever.

Also:
I am still mad that GIMP removed its Lanczos filter option.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 28 2022, 17:01

Did it go up again? Or is it still just a bad deal like it always has been?

I wonder what the most pirated software in the world is. Probably Windows itself? Although lots of machines get windows licenses when they're bought, so IDK... Maybe MS Office. Photoshop is definitely somewhere on the list though.

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You can get cheap grey versions of windows and office though.

I got the shits with photoshop when they stop supporting my ancient copy. If the old software does everything I need, why would I update for the full cost again.

Also:
I am still mad that GIMP removed its Lanczos filter option.

Oh that's random.