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DesertFOX @dfx

Hey guys, I need a small favour. Is there anyone here, who can test these? 3 x KryoFlux and Apple DOS 800K sector images from the original Star Trek screensaver for Macintosh. I can mount them in Basilisk II and they seem to install fine. But I can't get the After Dark control panel to start. I am probably doing something wrong. I don't have much experience on the system.

Here are the disks I just dumped and uploaded:
archive.org/details/afterdark-

#RetroComputing #Macintosh #AfterDark #ScreenSaver #StarTrek #FloppyDisks

The StarTrek screen saver. All 3 disks mounted in Basilisk II.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets

I'm giving a talk for the Southern Maine Astronomers Club in a couple hours, and I have to update my slides. Since my last talk for an astronomy club 3 weeks ago, how many more Starlink satellites do you think are in orbit?

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Christian Gudrian @cgudrian

I believe that #LEGO set 387 (from the year 1976) is my first one ever. I’ve rebuilt the excavator from that set using #LDCad and rendered it with #Blender. As you can see there’s a rendering defect at the front bucket arm probably due to overlapping geometry. Maybe I’m able to fix that later. Also the gears are rendered flat instead of smooth. I’m not sure why that is. Perhaps the importer struggles with parts that ancient.

A rendered image of the excavator of the LEGO set 387. The excavator is built of simple bricks with a yellow upper and a red lower half. It is equipped with a yellow front and back bucket (each attached to a red arm) and runs on black caterpillar tracks. The arm of the front bucket shows a rendering defect: a black triangle.
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Paul Fenwick @pjf

Hey friends,

Anyone have any experiences (good or bad) with FrameWork laptops that they'd like to share?

After keeping my old laptop running for ~9 years, I feel like I'm nearing the limits of what I can easily repair.

Thanks!

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Vee @jugglingscarves

Our area transit authority just shifted from using physical bus passes to doing everything from an app on riders' phones. That was last week. Today we got sent an email advising us to open the app and have the pass ready before getting to the bus stop, because of "spotty" cell service in some areas making it difficult to open the app & retrieve the pass. You know what didn't need cell service to work properly? The little plastic pass they just got rid of. Idiots.

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Till Kamppeter @till

Urgent help for OpenPrinting needed!

As many here know, I am co-founder and lead of OpenPrinting since 2001, known as the print guru for Linux and free software by many. I also got one of the 8 fellows of the Linux Foundation for this.

Up to now I was working at Canonical, hired back in 2006 just to run OpenPrinting and also to maintain printing-related Ubuntu packages.

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Please boost.

#OpenPrinting #LinuxFoundation #getfedihired

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European Commission @EUCommission

hey guys isn't it soo annoying when you're using an encrypted messaging app and it tells you "could not decrypt" haha

good news: we're working hard on making this illegal. in a way

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nycki @nycki

retro tech is beautiful not just because of the chunky connectors and funny colors. like, that IS beautiful, but also: it's yearning for tech that doesn't break down. tech that you can keep repairing for generations.

"this was my grandmother's laptop", we'll say. "over the years I've replaced the keyboard, the motherboard, the ram, and the screen."

it still sends and receives emails, in plain or rich text. it still plays video games. not all of them, sure, but it plays five or six really good timeless ones. tetris, minecraft, balatro maybe. you can use it to edit photos for your digital scrapbook, or to write wedding invitations. you can use it to paint digital paintings or play digital concerts.

that's the goal. that's what we're all here for.

the hardware already exists. Framework is a good step in this direction but people have been converting Thinkpads into linux boxes since the early 2000s. this isn't a problem that requires an expensive new gizmo.

no, the thing between here and now is low-spec software. all the good apps use 10 times the ram they need, because the companies that develop good software are addicted to growth.

open source offers the dream of backwards compatibility forever, but open source software takes time and money too.

but hey, CSP runs on linux now. so don't stop dreaming. someday you'll have a computer you can give to your kids.

#retrocomputing #computers #hope

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Anna-Lena Marx @Allegra

Did you know I studied electrical engineering besides work? On Thursday, I finished my bachelor's thesis with the final presentation and it's time to finally present my project: ZEReader, a microcontroller-based E-Reader.
Inspired by the Open Book Project by Joey Castillo, I designed my own platform from scratch. My focus was on building a reader usable in everyday life that is capable of handling books in the EPUB format. The project is still in a very early phase, but it shows great potential, and I have lots of ideas for future revisions.

You can follow the project's journey and see its current state at marx.engineer/zereader/ and the linked GitHub repos!

And of course, a special thank you to @aislerhq for producing and sponsoring the PCBs!

#opensource #hardware #ereader #zephyr #kicad #makers #electricalengineering #electronics

A rendering of the. ZEReader PCB with a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 as a main component.
A picture of of the KiCad board layout view.
The assembled ZEReader device, with display and PCB. There is no enclosing yet and the text is 90 degrees rotated.
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sasutina13a 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 🇯🇵 🌐 @sasutina13

Once again, this is not a scam. This is a family trying to do their best to survive a really seriously tough situation.

The higher amount being asked for is due to expenses carried over from prior months. That is not suspect. Expenses do not go away or reset at the end of the month. They get carried over and compound, like interest, due to added fees, penalties, and, yes, even interest. Those who are or have been in the same situation know this too well.

Please do help as much you can. I am doing so every month.

@ajn142 @catbailey