bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 12 hours ago

depends - the capactiy changed over the years. My floppies were 90k, while 8 inch at the time was a full megabyte. 5.25 floppies did reach 1.2 megabytes on other systems but they were never available to me - even if I could afford it the drives were never compatible with my atari while the 8 inch drives were (with adapters I only ever saw in magazines)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

5.25 inch floppy as homage to my childhood. Or maybe 8 inch - but while I lusted after that much space I never used one.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Tradition is you don't attack anyone at sea unless you are at war. Europe isn't officially at war so they are ignoring everything. They have plenty of Navy power, but on balance I call it better that they are not using it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I've bought android tablets for about that price. I'm sure you could too - but don't waste your time, they don't have enough power to be useful for anything. There isn't much difference between a picture frame and a tablet - both have a CPU, RAM, software, and a screen, it is probably cheaper to power android (and put picture frame software on it) than to write a new custom picture frame from scratch. Wifi and RAM is built in to several CPUs these days so probably isn't even an extra cost. There is a small cost for a touch screen, but not much - might even be cheaper just because touch screens are more common and so you get volume reducing costs.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

I've seen plenty of people claim the same of Trump over the years. I have no idea what the truth is - but in some cases it will be so disturbing I don't want to investigate or know either. I'm going to wait for those who really investigate to pass judgement, it might get people I otherwise like or people I otherwise hate - either way it is bad.

Right now there are a lot of claims, from people hoping the evidence supports their side and not caring about the truth. So perhaps it is better to say I'll wait 70 years (odds are I won't live that long) since that is how long it will take for this to settle down.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I would love to make a dashboard with something other than html. My house dashboard is slow, and I'm hoping that things can be better. Only time will tell.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

The photos show enough damage to suspect it won't be going anywhere until it spends months in repair at the very least (ideally in drydock). It isn't clear exactly how much damage was done, but enough to mean it is out of the war for now.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Wire and rust embedded in your skin is not good. In the eye is worse - I know of people who were wearing both a face shield and full safety glasses who got grinding dust in their eyes.

I don't have a good answer to the problem, nobody else likes any of their answers either from what I can tell.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If you look close, Russia has been careful to mostly recruit/kill the type of people Russians don't care about: immigrants, prisoners, or Russians from distant rural areas. They have also been careful to not conscript many people at all, preferring to make it seem like everyone is a volunteer. Russia is running out of ability to get those groups though and the rest of the world are trying to figure out when/who things change going forward.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

I combined Mexican and Indian traditions there in ways that I doubt either would be willing to claim as their own. Which makes this an American dish I guess. Whatever, it is good and you should try it.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

I'm guessing all those lower days of bad weather (drones didn't fly well) allowed russia to build up troops - then one day of good drone weather and they are all gone.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Curried refrieed. I normally 'cheat' with cans. Adjust for what you have.

a bit of oil/butter, cook a couple garlic cloves. Then throw some whole mustard seed in until they start to pop, some toast some whole cumin, then corriander until it snells good. I didn't use termeric last tine but that goes well too. Then add pinto beans, until warm and snash.

lentils do well too.

note that I didn't give amounts. I have done this so often that I can follow the dump the right anount in plan.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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