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Interesting that they are using Enyo still. Had some fun using that back in the day.

I used to use Slackware back in maybe 2003-2005. It was great. Eventually migrated to Ubuntu but I always appreciated that it got me hooked on Linux.

Now that I think about it I think Unraid uses Slackware, so I guess I'm still running it.

m0ngr31on Bladecoder: Point and Click Adventure Editor/Engine

I grew up on Point and Click games. I'd love to see them make a resurgence. I tried using Adventure Game Studio a few years back after seeing some games made with it, but it wasn't intuitive enough for me to use it. I'll have to check this out.

m0ngr31on Google says iMessage is too powerful

What a sad place we've arrived compared to where we started

m0ngr31on Google says iMessage is too powerful

Back in the original Palm Pre days, webOS had the best messenger app.

Would do regular SMS messages but you could configure your AOL, MSN, and even Facebook messaging at one point IIRC all inside of the same interface. It's too bad it lost out compared to Android. Was so far ahead in so many areas.

m0ngr31on DIY Off-Grid Solar Power

The house or the shuttle bus?

m0ngr31on DIY Off-Grid Solar Power

Just from some local classifieds.

m0ngr31on DIY Off-Grid Solar Power

I live in an off-grid house. Solar isn't perfect, but it's been pretty good all things considered 6 months in. Converting an airport shuttle bus into an RV now, so I'll have to look this over for that.

m0ngr31on All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

I've worked for video streaming companies the last 5 years or so. ffmpeg all the way down.

m0ngr31on Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop

Honestly, I haven't seen any difference so far from my previous Dell Precision with 32GB ram. But I went big up front to keep it for years. I use it for work and home

m0ngr31on Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop

No complaints from me

m0ngr31on Tuxedo Stellaris: A Powerful Linux Laptop

I've been pretty impressed with my Framework so far. 64GB ram and it runs Ubuntu perfectly. Only thing missing is a dGPU and maybe a bigger battery.

m0ngr31on Tailwind CSS v3.0

I'm in the same boat. Started using Vanilla Extract (https://vanilla-extract.style) earlier this year and it's the best CSS setup I've ever worked with.

m0ngr31on Privacy.com Reissuing All Cards

Always bugged me when I tried to use a Privacy card on Digital Ocean

m0ngr31on Wolves make roadways safer

Deer are pretty smart like that. Where I live there are deer all over about 2 weeks before hunting season. Then they dissapear into the hills. They just started coming back now that the hunt is over.

m0ngr31on Firefox is the 45th result when searching for “Firefox” on Windows Store

Back in the Windows Phone days, they'd send you a phone for developing an app. I wrote a crappy calculator app during a CS class and got a free phone out of it.

I spent more time doing the app submission than I did writing the app. They didn't care what it was. Similarly Blackberry had a similar program a little while later where I just ported the same app and got a Playbook tablet.

It was fun as a poor college kid, but look where it got both of them.

m0ngr31on The fast-food workers’ season of rebellion

Good for them

m0ngr31on Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid

I'm off grid and have all of those things. I don't worry about battery level because I have an appropriately sized system.

m0ngr31on IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district

We would write scripts to essentially make net send DOS attacks on different labs.

m0ngr31on The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

Yep, I'm off grid (minus fiber internet), and you wouldn't be able to tell

m0ngr31on The Off-Grid Laws of Every State in America

Pretty high overview, but good overall. I built an off grid home this last year and it's pretty great.

m0ngr31on M1 Inside a G4 Sunflower iMac

Wouldn't the resolution on that be pretty trash if they haven't replaced the panel?

m0ngr31on “Kids who grew up on smartphones do not know how to do anything on a computer”

I have a friend who teaches classes at a technical college. During the day one of the classes is a programming class for high schoolers. He said that none of the kids knew what a file was when he tried to get them to open or save something.

m0ngr31on The Insane Innovation of TI Calculator Hobbyists

I was the same way but with Casio calculators. Got me into programming and the casiocalc.org forum was the first online community I was ever active on. It's like a ghost town now but it was a good time back in the day.

m0ngr31on Anthony Levandowski to Larry Page: Google's self-driving project is broken (2016)

Let's not get ahead of ourselves...

m0ngr31on New York Public Library ends all late fees

Will Mr. Bookman be out of a job?

m0ngr31on Amazon’s new Kindle Paperwhite

I have it running on my Unraid box with a million other docker containers and all my media. That way I don't need to worry about keeping my ebooks organized on more than one machine.

m0ngr31on Show HN: Virtual Linear Channels for ESPN+

Last week I was contemplating what to do about watching NHL games this season since it is moving off of NHL.tv and on to ESPN+ for out of market games. I thought it'd be nice to have everything integrated with my current setup (OTA channels with HDHomerun + Pluto.TV + ErsatzTV), so I decided to write this up.

This creates 100 channels in case there are that many simultaneous events happening at once, and then figures out channel to put each event on.