OliveMate

I've always found the Gameboy Camera to be an interesting and novel bit of kit. During the pandemic I picked up a GBC and camera in the hopes of diving into the world of low-fi photography... But I kept putting off modding a better battery & screen into the GBC, and most the methods out there for getting the images off of the cartridge are outdated or rather cumbersome.

Matt Walsh did a neat video about using lenses to make colour pictures with the camera - https://youtu.be/FPkJaEG-C_M

>But one thing he was clear about from the beginning: It was all right to end this game of living in the digital shadows.

> “I mean, my name is already out there,” he said, acknowledging the fact that, after the doxxing, he had at separate points confirmed his name on both Twitter and Reddit. “It’s in my Wikipedia article. Maybe people need to grow up. Just accept that I’m not like Santa Claus. I’m not a magic elf who posts.”

Even if he's not Santa or a magic elf, there's still good reason why stories of them are passed down.

I've known about his name for years, but it still feels odd and almost wrong about being able to put a name to dril and part of me doesn't really want to acknowledge it (even if it's literally at the top of the page). Of course there's a human behind dril, but it was never JoeyBob's dril.

On top of that, when gimmick/silly Twitter accounts get big they either sell out to scammers or the person behind it comes forward and uses the joke account as a personal one — so for dril to still be dril even with internet wide personality is a statement in of itself, especially when they keep doing what they're great at.

For the curious, here's a direct comparison of the different fonts they commissioned for this. Bierstadt won and is now known as Aptos - https://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/1387421368581455874/

Personally I was behind Grandview, which was based on Bahnschrift – my go-to font for basic printouts at work. But I've no issue with what they've picked.

Theres definitely stockpiles of nuclear weapons out there, but they're a fraction of what they were 40 years ago, and really up until the last few years relations between the West and Russia have been less tense - Not to say there hasn't been friction from all the effort put into influencing politics in the West or assassination attempts on Western soil that have definitely soured things.

For reference, the big cultural fear when I was young was terrorism and rogue states, and then around adulthood it was ISIS and the like. These things still exist, but the cultural focus here has shifted for a while.

I heard about this constantly growing up, and it was only until I was 17 that I decided to look it up online thinking 'oh it's only a film i'm proper hard me' – and it pretty much ruined me. It's harrowing, to say the least. On top of showing what would happen, the exploration of life after a widespread nuclear conflict is just as bad, and it's not just the immediate aftermath that's touched upon.

The film ends with a timeskip over a decade later, with the populace reduced to pre-industrial life struggling to survive as they farm off the irradiated land, and those who've grown up in that world speak a very damaged version of English (as if it was hard for everyone to understand Yorkshire accents in the first place!). There's attempts to keep people educated from what they can remember and scavenge, but it doesn't hold a candle to what was once.

It's a very mortifying film that hits you hard, and even skimming over bits of it as I type this, the shot of the mushroom cloud behind Sheffield city centre has made my gut sink – and this is from someone who was born after the Cold War, God knows how distressing it was for those who watched it during the height of it.

>And the only thing I remember about the film is the scene where a woman is looking on in horror, and there's a closeup of her urinating in her polyester trousers.

The entire film is harrowing, but that scene of the nuke hitting Sheffield has to be the most gut-wrenching thing I've watched in my life.

But mentioning her in particular, if you need a quick laugh to jut your head out of the depressive slump this film puts you in, her iMDb page is an oddly funny read - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/

> He remarked that high-density UIs confuse and overwhelm most people, while technical people have developed the skill of sifting through lots of on-screen information and controls.

Meanwhile every day I see people struggle to work with the more minimalist UI designs we see today. A lot of options are obfuscated and hidden away under the guise of keeping it clean, when instead the focus ought to be on laying out tools in a way that makes sense and remains in people's memory.

And of course every bit of software has different ideas about what minimalist and clean is, so you have to remember multiple ways how to do the same tasks.

I knew before checking it out that 'just' would be on the list, I've always used it liberally and only recently focused on cutting it from my writing.

It [just] feels natural and I'm not sure why. When saying it out loud it helps reinforce something naturally and no-one really notices, but when plastered all over writing it really pops out and shows that it's not all too useful.

Every now and then I go through a period where to recover from work I grab something quick to eat and spend the rest of my night lying about in bed – Like you know it's bad if you can't even stomach sitting up at your desk. One day I came across Symphony of the Night for less than a fiver on the Google Play Store, thought why not, and after connecting a controller to my phone it instantly became one of my favourite games.

My old man recently got a bunch of boxes from my childhood out of his, including multiple tubs of mixed Lego and a box of incomplete instructions. This will prove to be a valuable resource in the coming months, thank you very much!

I keep staring at all the artwork included on some of the early Bionicle instructions and I love that dark mysterious island aesthetic.

I tried it out for a while, I'm sure that it's a great program and it's various free sync options & encryption system may immediately put it ahead, but as a basic user I found it much more complicated to the point where I couldn't figure out how to simply sort files into folders (and I don't know if that's something you can do). There's an interesting tagging system to search posts with and there's a ton of plugins out there if you want to do things you can usually do.

I really ought to give it a shot again when I've got a clear head.

If you want a FOSS alternative to Obsidian that's just as simple you could try Zettlr, but currently it's rather rough. You have to change the UI settings to get the folders/file view that Obsidian has, and I found readability to be rather poor. Initially there's no way to make in text larger without zooming in the entire UI, font, and the themes that are available aren't the best for writing or reading notes (and if you like one specific theme you're sod out of luck if you want a darker version of it) – if you want to change things to your liking you have to experiment with the experimental Custom CSS option.

Give me a shout when you get around to writing something. Even if what you post goes over my head I'll be happy to check it out!

Thanks for this! It'll make finding everything posted in that thread much easier, and the random blog button has already sent me down a few rabbit holes (even if I don't understand half of them!).

I often find myself coming back to this piece from Sean Tejaratchi which was partly stolen by Banksy – https://web.archive.org/web/20120314093434/http://www.readin...

Minor anecdote: During the pandemic a lot of the billboards and bus stops around me suddenly didn't have advertisements plastered on them any more, and it made my daily commute a lot calmer. No longer were sudden blobs of highly saturated colours and popping text dragging my attention away from me, and I'd do a lot of things to have that back. At least AdBlock is a thing in the digital domain.

This'll probably sound silly but like everything else on the site I do it manually. I take notes of major changes I make to the site and write them down on that page.

I couldn't wrap my head around Jekyll* or any other service you can self host, so I figured that I could still put my stuff out there by making each page like it's 1999.

I realise that it's not the best option for the future, the other day I decided to change how the title tags looked, thus I went ahead manually changing it on every page. Without some script to fix that for me, it'll become a larger task with every post I make.

* I've only recently installed Linux on my ThinkPad – a process I'm procrastinating writing about – and my head's been a tad too scrambled at the moment to focus on it.

I feel a tad awkward because 1) I only started this last week 2) I'm not super tech-y or owt like everyone else here, I'm just a bloke who knows his limits. It's very lightweight & basic and inspired by the likes of bearblog and other small blogs.

https://callmeo.live

It's for expressing general thoughts really, and it serves as a fun trial by fire as every little change inevitably runs into problems, but it's a nice learning experience. Hopefully my writing isn't terrible!

I'd say that half of the issue is that even if the term is accurate, people hear the word autopilot and expect it to be a lot more than what it actually is.

Bit odd to see this a week after they returned the "sort by Oldest" back to YouTube (months after removing it for no given reason) - https://mashable.com/article/youtube-sort-by-oldest

Over the last few years it's became an outright necessity to use search operators to find what you want on Google. Back in the day the only skill you needed was how to phrase questions to find the best results, but nowadays I spend a lot of my time telling those around me about site:, before:, etc.