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Clicked the future projects link. Thought the DidThis project sounded interesting. Aaaannnddd it's already a dead project as of 2 months ago.

I absolutely agree with you. However, living in Illinois I received a $397 dollar check. I had to go look it up to make sure I got the number right. On one hand, a massive chunk of the $650 million went to the lawyers. But $397 for each user, when over a million signed on to the lawsuit is pretty significant.

Wow I absolutely love that. The cost of the larger ones has been prohibitively expensive for all the stuff I want to do. I did make a small weather display with one of Waveshare's 6 inch screens, then I 3D printed a stand that gives it a nice frameless look.

Like, I understand why no iPhone 13 Mini support… but please? I can’t imagine too much extra work goes into chopping the top half of the case off and just having different sizes. Almost like it’s the Wii mote + case with the attachment at the bottom and everything is just in the sleeve.

My issue was that my 2019 iMac got updates that made the whole thing practically unusable. The storage became so slow that it would take like 10ish minutes to become usable after boot. I did have the version with a hdd instead of ssd, but it was fine right when I purchased it. I ran whatever storage tests that would show the drive wasn't dead/dying, so I was never sure what the issue was.

My options were essentially to either trade it back to Apple for $300, try to sell it myself for maybe $400 and pay a ton to ship it, or try to take it apart myself to swap out the hard drive for an ssd and risk breaking part of it and it being worth $0. I caved and traded it in to Apple just so I could stop looking at the box.

Hi! Sorry I didn’t see this when you commented. I would definitely be interested in trying to hack on one of these

I love and hate this response. The vast majority of people don’t know or care, and I always question if the things that bother me even matter.

I just need to make windows work for video games, but it kills me that I can’t make a 1 laptop lifestyle work.

As an Oracle DBA, I just complain about Oracle wherever I can. Is it to subconsciously lead people away from the high paying DBA jobs and leave them for myself? The software is garbage for sure, but after a while everything is garbage and idk what to work with anymore. PeopleSoft can burn in hell for the rest of forever though. I would quit my job if they tried to move me to that.

I have actually made a pi powered eReader with a 2.7 inch eink screen with Python. I could pretty easily swap the code over to work with the 1.3 inch screens they use here.

And no, I suck at doing write ups on my projects so I don’t have one lol. But here is the write up someone else did when they saw my post on Reddit. https://www.hackster.io/news/diy-e-reader-incorporates-mecha...

At one point I had a post on reddit about it, but I ended up deleting that. However my post did get scraped by hackster.io so here is the link to their post. https://www.hackster.io/news/diy-e-reader-incorporates-mecha... and here is my github. https://github.com/bwkrayb/37reader

Doing a write up has been a plan of mine for a while now lol I bought a 3d printer to move on from the gutted airpods box and a case has been in a half printed state just waiting for me to design the rest of it. I've run into a creative wall and haven't gotten much further.

I’m a little disappointed that this doesn’t go into the off the shelf screens from waveshare. That’s where the fun really is for me at least. I wrote an epub reader in Python and built an eReader with a raspberry pi. I guess it’s a little less hacking and more so developing.

Ha I actually had the same thoughts about building an eReader with an eink display and everything. I actually put it together and wrote it with Python for epubs and everything. Then I realized I suck at UI stuff so it’s just sitting at like 65% complete… which is better than my average project actually!

I actually almost exclusively use mine outside now. I sit outside on my deck with my cat lol. It’s a nice little after work treat of reading some blogs on lynx with a beer and a cat.

But I hate using it inside. I almost want like one of the gameboy worm lights adapted to this.

I also don’t regret buying this at all.

Honest question, don’t we see this constantly with Amazon AND news sites that constantly post “deals” on computers? “Buy this MacBook Air for $500 off!” But they never mention its from 2015 and will be not supported by MacOS much longer. Or you’ll constantly see deals like this on Windows laptops with 4th gen intel processors or refurbished business laptops.

In general nothing is changing for me. I still have to babysit EVERYONE I know through the computer buying process so that they don’t get screwed over.

In college I used this excuse when my apartment buildings self managed wifi cut off my internet for torrenting. I just went into the office and was like “a torrent? Idk what that is…”. But it wasn’t anything more official than a guy in my apartment’s office’s ability to turn my internet back on. I didn’t even have to prove I had an open Wi-Fi network.

I want to disagree with how you got to this conclusion, but in the end anecdotally this is 100% me. I’m a runner with ADHD and if I don’t run for a couple days I go crazy. Exercise in generally has made me feel infinitely better as an adult.

But I don’t think effects of ADHD should be limited to “acting out”. And there wasn’t the same abundance of cheap stimulation 30 years ago for me.

Sure! I’ve got a Tandy T-100 that I want to mod/repair/do something with. The needed electrical repairs are beyond my soldering ability, so I’m gonna try to hand off the internals to someone at a vintage computer fair. I also have an old handheld radio project that I want to mod to put a Pi in. Need the matching color to make it thicker to actually fit the components I have.

And I’m in the middle of printing a case for an eReader I’m building. I wrote the software in Python and it has mechanical keyboard switches for the buttons. It’s the main reason I bought a 3D printer, because it was previously built out of an AirPods box. Seems like it’d be cool in this beige.

Fine, I exaggerated. I have 3 other uses lol

This is like the 20th reason why I need to get a filament in the retro computer beige color.

Is it even that at this point? It looked kinda like Gizmodo now where its a few authors rewriting content from other pages, and then a ton of ads. I will say I scrolled for a little bit and my take away was generic tech blog, nothing too egregious but it doesn't do what it once did.

I forgot about Digg and just went to look at it. Not a single thing is recognizable about it.

He does also run a company (some kind of web solutions business?) and is heavily involved in Ansible (having written multiple books). The youtube channel came after that stuff.

I definitely planned on watching both of these and just completely forgot about them. They should just use this money on a Dreamcast 2 instead!

I think I'm more surprised that Sega even has $1B to spend...

We have weekly group meetings and no one ever really has anything to say, and I've tried steering the conversation to anything interesting or getting to know them and it goes nowhere. The boss is the first one to bail once hes bored of the conversation. There are bi-weekly group meetings with the director where its a forced conversation that he doesn't actually know how to lead ("alright everyone, find something to talk about").

Like, my whole issue could be entirely down to the job. I'm getting weird vibes from this place and these people (yelling in meetings about various things that aren't important at all).

I think what I'm finding out is that having great coworkers in my previous in person jobs either hid or overrode my new found hatred of system administration. If I liked what I did then maybe all of my comments would be different here.

I guess after 8 years of being a DBA/SysAdmin have taught me to stop applying for these jobs.

Edit: Like, I'm married. I have friends far away I see monthly and game with weekly. I'm not dying here. I just want the 8 hours of work to not be as lonely. My jobs won't get my best performance this way because I'm mentally so disconnected from what I'm doing since I'll never meet who I'm doing it for.

I literally never said that.

Our director started scheduling a big group video meeting with all the people that started since 2020 just as a chat room. But he did absolutely 0 planning or conversation guiding or anything outside of "so who wants to talk about something?" and we would just sit there in silence.

It completely feels like the scene from Arrested Development where Gob yells "everybody dance, NOW".

If you care that little about the social interaction at work, then you probably aren't someone that we are talking about or miss working with...

I started a new job during the pandemic (well, 2...). What sucks for me is that my boss has been like "Yeah, you can go back to the office." But both him and my direct coworker have said that they will never go back to the office. Pretty sure I will never physically meet them before I inevitably try to find some other job.

And what is more isolating than being home alone? Well, working completely alone in an office building meant to hold like 300 employees that was last updated in the 80s.

My basic idea about all of this is to restructure where people work. Take all the employees that want to come into the office on a regular basis and put them in the same building on the same floor.

I am there 100% too. And yet every time I bring it up somewhere like reddit I get responses like “just deal with it, I’m not coming into the office just because you are lonely.” Chances are that these are not the people that I would miss in an office environment in general. I probably wasn’t having fun office conversations with them.

I need my habits and routines, and I just don’t make myself stick to the routines when I stay home. Less of a reason to shower at the same time or at all, less of a reason to take walking breaks during work hours.

It has come down to me being able to handle a bullshit job when I like the people I work with and see them often enough to where we are inbetween work friends and real friends. But a bullshit job where my coworkers aren’t even interesting or nice to talk to? I’m just not gonna want to work with them ever again.

I missed the firesale but my old employer didn’t. They tried using them as POS devices and that never happened. One day they were just like “Get rid of these”. I played with cyanogenmod until all the batteries swelled up and I got rid of them.