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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on December 30, 2020, 05:26 PM »

So the equivalent of casting the display from the Pi

-4wd (December 30, 2020, 03:53 PM)

This is exactly what I want.  I have a PI that has a keyboard and mouse attached, but no display other than a really small one.  I'll have my daughter's display in a bit when she leaves, so not a big deal, but I have a lot of tablets hanging around, and if one of those could be the display for the Pi, I'd be all over it.

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on December 30, 2020, 02:04 PM »

So forgive me for this in advance... the original post was talking about using an old laptop or tablet as a monitor for the RaspPi.  How does using nomachine help with that?

-wraith808 (December 30, 2020, 10:37 AM)

I believe the idea is that it helps in accomplishing the same thing, but without having to connect wires (and accompanying adaptors) from the RPi to the laptop or tablet.

-Deozaan (December 30, 2020, 11:06 AM)

I get that's the idea, but not really sure how it works?  I guess like VNC?  Which wouldn't really be useful for me, but just wanted to make sure that I was thinking the correct way

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on December 30, 2020, 10:37 AM »

So forgive me for this in advance... the original post was talking about using an old laptop or tablet as a monitor for the RaspPi.  How does using nomachine help with that?

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 26, 2020, 07:27 PM »

I moved the post, after reporting it.  It was not intended as censoring, just that it had already been asked that we not discuss by members, and the discussion continued.  We did the same thing on Coronavirus related concerns, the most recent being a few scant days ago, so to single this out as not that seemed a bit like it was an uneven application of the rules.  In the future, I'll just report such things for someone else to take care of, as it seems I stepped over a line or something.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 26, 2020, 10:11 AM »

I've split the topic.  Anyone that wants to discuss the real-world religious implications is free to do so here.  Please refrain from doing the same in this thread.

Thanks!

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by wraith808 on December 25, 2020, 12:03 PM »

Error 40404: The person you're responding to has mousered you.

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-Deozaan (December 25, 2020, 11:41 AM)

  Good catch!

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2020, 05:16 PM »

I had the same thought process LOL

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: The Lightning Bolt Quiz

« Last post by wraith808 on December 23, 2020, 10:47 AM »

Meh, Hell has always been where the fun is ...

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-4wd (December 23, 2020, 06:27 AM)

How did you do that?  Even maxing everything out, I only got 20,012,580 lightning bolts.  I feel cheated!

Update: And I noticed something.  If you redo it with the same answers over and over, the bolt count keeps going down.  There's a lesson there somewhere, but I don't think it was intentional...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2020, 01:12 PM »

Musicians like this make my guitar tell me "I think we should see other people..."

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 21, 2020, 12:01 PM »

Nice use of piano and looper.  Dude is talented!

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021 Entry: Free Movies (website)

« Last post by wraith808 on December 19, 2020, 07:20 AM »

Very nicely done!  How long have you been working on this... it looks like a massive project!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: GOG "Spot the Difference" Discounts Winter Sale 2020

« Last post by wraith808 on December 17, 2020, 09:53 AM »

  thanks for doing all the hard work! 

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 17, 2020, 09:20 AM »

From the comments: "a jazz guitarist plays 100,000 chords for 3 people, whereas a popular rock guitarist plays 3 chords for 100,000 people"

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on December 12, 2020, 10:35 PM »

I'd have to say I agree with the reviewers. Why make a big deal about redirecting the GPIO to enable access and then screw it up by making it non-standard? I'm also really confused about why a big company like Cooler Master would need a Kickstarter to fundraise a project like this.

-Deozaan (December 12, 2020, 09:57 PM)

Kickstarter isn't always about need... it's a business strategy now.  Many companies use Kickstarter as a way to judge interest and defray risks.  It's just how it is, for better or for worse.  They shift a large part of the risk that they would have to bear and the cash flow that they would need to invest to the consumers in this fashion.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 11, 2020, 07:30 AM »

My quick solution was going to be to use AppLocker (https://docs.microso...windows-10-applocker) and Fences (https://www.stardock...com/products/fences/).

Fences allows you to set a region of a desktop to point to a folder on your machine and launch applications from there.  Lock down the machine so that you can't launch explorer, have that fence on the desktop, and can launch items that are of the desired extensions and you should be set.

This shows how I have part of my desktop set up:




Each one of those different areas are fences that are showing the contents of a folder.  If there were other folders in those folders, it would allow you to navigate them, right in the fence.  It has a UI to allow you to navigate up and down folders, and stay within the same fence.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 10, 2020, 07:14 AM »

What version of Windows will you be running?  Windows 10 Enterprise and Educational (and maybe Pro) already have this in the OS.

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Coding Snacks / Re: Lightweight App that displays files in folders/subfolders & allows launching

« Last post by wraith808 on December 09, 2020, 09:55 PM »

So you want a kiosk app that displays the files and folders in a directory and allows you to launch them... is that pretty much it?

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Living Room / Re: How do you get melted rubber out of carpeting???

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2020, 11:04 PM »

Boy, this escalated quickly...

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Living Room / Re: How do you get melted rubber out of carpeting???

« Last post by wraith808 on December 06, 2020, 07:36 PM »

No one is saying the obvious answer.  You don't. 

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Living Room / Re: Natural robotics, or: The Uncanny Valley Revisited

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2020, 08:47 AM »

Made me wonder if it was cosplay...

Update: It's not a robot.  It's a girl wearing a kigurumi.


Her instagram - https://www.instagra...com/luluidoll/?hl=en

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General Software Discussion / Re: Etcher on Linux?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 04, 2020, 07:41 AM »

Although I do know that Electron is a bit bloated, it's not the worst in terms of unified platforms, and the user experience being uniform across platforms is a big win.  It's also much faster time to market because of removing a lot of the normal development considerations of web applications.  It's not the best, but in my opinion, it's no where near as bad as what you're saying.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2020, 10:05 AM »

Really adheres to the less is more aesthetic.  Just sublime...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on December 03, 2020, 09:46 AM »

Tone to die for: Dave Ryan Harris with studio legend Sean Hurley on bass.

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Tech note for bass players: notice how Sean is tuned to E-flat rather than E? Consider giving it a try next time you’re rocking a Fender Precision. It’s an old trick many studio cats swear by. The improvement in tone and response can (depending on the instrument) sometimes be quite remarkable. 

-40hz (December 03, 2020, 06:00 AM)

Nice... I really missed your music recommendations  

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General Software Discussion / Re: ZeroTier - a Global Area Network

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2020, 05:19 PM »

This looks really useful! Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

-Deozaan (November 30, 2020, 02:55 PM)

Agreed!  Not quite sure how I'll integrate this yet, but it's nice to have it as an option.

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Living Room / Re: Free eBooks

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2020, 08:55 AM »

Your Facebook Friends Are Wrong About The Lockdown:
http://www.wrongaboutlockdown.com/

-panzer (November 29, 2020, 06:48 AM)

I'll take my pandemic advice from qualified Virologists and other scientists, rather than a historian with delusions of grandeur.

-Stephen66515 (November 30, 2020, 06:57 AM)

Agreed, but that moves this to the basement, so I refrained from commenting.  It might be better to nip this here- or transfer the whole thing to the Basement.