Santiago Lema :amiga:

https://masto.lema.org/@santiago

:xcode: iOS app developer at :smalltech: smallte.ch, living in RJ 🇧🇷, born in 🇨🇭. I am a migrant ❤️

- :apple_inc: code :haiku: :haikubox:
- :procreate: arts
- :commodore: #retrocomputing
- :amiga: demo scene
- :homeassistant: home automation
- :rpi: :arduino: Pi, Arduino, ESP32 & electronics

:anAmigaBall: : Cookie / Asphyxia #demoscene
:deadbirb: : was @blackjack75

 Ala Suíça 🇨🇭 da Ursal 🐻
or as some say :fcknzs:. #NoBridge
Made https://butwhy.club

✍️ : FR 🇫🇷, PT 🇧🇷, ES 🇪🇸, EN 🇬🇧

🤷🏻‍♂️ Personal: https://lema.org
⚙️ Work: https://smallte.ch
🚀 Gemini: gemini://capsuleone.n4no.org/
🎬 PeerTube: https://video.liberta.vip/@santiago

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2025-04-20 21:04:02 UTC

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Wait, Boeings can still fly these days ?

2025-04-19 17:05:03 UTC

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Agreed. Unfortunately “decentralized payment” is a mined territory filled with crypto bros. I prefer state control to evil corporations or individuals.
Brazil for example has a state-defined system called Pix which means you can easily send money to a registered phone number or email (or a random key).
Works online or with that guy selling food on the beach (it is simply backed by a bank account). No fees for individuals.

2025-04-16 16:22:03 UTC

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Oh well it seems that to keep it cheap I’d have to accept some blurry 2x scaling. The price of these scalers are mostly above the projected Sentinel65x price itself 😅 (keeping in mind 🇧🇷import taxes will increase all of these greatly).
Good Lord, the top model is 750 USD .

2025-04-16 15:36:59 UTC

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I am thinking a 19” 1280x1024 like a Dell Ultrasharp might be pretty close to it (640x480 @2x 1280x960 + small border at the bottom). I had a Sony with similar specs but not sure I can fix it.
Shouldn’t be that far off from feeling of a 1084s (in terms of size, not CRT luxury). Maybe a decent scaler with subtle scanlines can make it acceptable (and small).

2025-04-16 14:47:22 UTC

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Got it. Different resolutions on different ports will likely divide a small user base so sticking to fixed 640x480 for everyone makes more sense.
CRT will always feel better but lacking space I can always get a HD screen and hide the borders under some physical frame. Worst part is the built-in scaling on LCDs :-/

2025-04-16 14:34:17 UTC

[@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) about barrier to entry for #Sentinel65X: is 640x480 the final resolution for it ?
I get it’s perfect for old CRTs but for those who don’t have the space (or muscle 😅) for these I find 640x480 very frustrating to display on a cheap LCD screen. Either they are minuscule (5 inches) or most available 4:3 displays seem to be 1024x768.
In this regard 512x384 seems ideal to me to allow for perfect 2x scaling on cheap LCDs. I believe multisync CRTs could support this too?

2025-04-16 12:33:13 UTC

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A ROM-based boot menu would make a lot of sense with options like:
1. BASIC (press enter)
2. Files (load & run from SD-card)
3. Boot over Serial etc
Also define a default file name that if presents autoboots SD-card like Amiga diskettes.
Thats a far-fetched projection at this point but I understand the hardware would be able even to run a GUI OS on the scale of Apple GS/OS or GEOS with a SNES mouse ? In 2035😅

2025-04-15 19:25:49 UTC

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It’s both a console and a computer right ? So maybe it needs to some menu that’d work from the controller (no keyboard), with built-in basic being an option.

2025-04-14 22:53:11 UTC

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So where are we in terms of being able to buy a first batch of that mini version ? Did I miss a crowdfunding somewhere ?

2025-04-11 14:20:12 UTC

[@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ) I know it’s a tad out of scope but have you considered bundling a wifi modem with the sentinel65x ? Basically a ESP32 super mini C3 you can get for 3$ on Ali these days .
The idea is that it could be very helpful in building a community — if this was on every board. Thinking of a serial-to-Internet thing so it would also be a terminal where Sentinel owners could exchange messages & data, in the spirit of #GlobalTalk but in text & byte arrays.

2025-03-26 21:55:08 UTC

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Essa mensagem tem algo particular? (Que causaria sua invisibilidade)

2025-03-13 13:34:20 UTC

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Repostando puramente por ego 😅
(Mas espero que muitos façam)

2025-03-09 02:17:25 UTC

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Of course the root cause is that I mostly just can’t do capitalism anymore… after somehow winning at it for a while.
SwiftUI like many other technologies are just an expression of it. I mean I like that it is accessible to write UIs fast once you get used to it. I just can’t get used to the fact that I had ObjC/UIKIT apps that were smooth on an iPhone 3GS or an an early Intel Mac and now the default is just being laggy. It’s everywhere.

2025-03-09 02:12:13 UTC

One of the reasons I just can’t motivate myself to work with SwiftUI (which is kind of slowly causing my ruin) is I can’t accept that so many apps with rather simple layouts are just plain laggy on my M1 Mac Studio Ultra.
This shit has 20 cores, 64 GB of Ram, disks that read more than the content of my boot drive from a few years ago per second. It is absurdly fast as most things but this is progress.. sigh.

2025-03-08 21:06:52 UTC

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O problema deles por enquanto é ser menos rápidos mas espero que isso seja um incentivo para diretivas incitando ao uso de sistemas abertos mas leves.
Ao final se a performance tem dez anos de atraso com a competição uma solução poderia ser otimização em vez de sempre procurar mais potência (no imediato).
Imagina a força de um estado desse tamanho empurrando para uso mais razoável de recursos em vez dessa corrida louca .

2025-03-07 14:59:11 UTC

Following @npub1vct…nqdf ‘s post example ( in 🇧🇷:
https://social.br-linux.org/@augustocc/114118143670811032 ) I modified the closed registration message on my personal mastodon instance to better redirect users to friendly Brazilian instances instead of risking to lose people on the overly complicated and joinmastodon.org — which also excludes a lot of the major global south instances because euro centrism is real.
https://masto.lema.org/explore
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2025-03-07 14:29:12 UTC

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O ideal realmente seria isso servir de exemplo para a termo virar regra no mastodon, misskey, snac, gotosocial ou outros de poder colocar direto a lista de instâncias amigas nas opções do servidor.

2025-03-07 14:26:48 UTC

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Sim já pensei. Acho que o ideal seria um script no github que o admin (que tenha essa possibilidade ) possa copiar em local para evitar todo tipo de risco.
Ai ele pega só .js é um .txt com a lista de instâncias a testar.
Vai lá na famosa lista !

2025-03-07 14:12:45 UTC

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Será que que esse campo deixaria incluir um javascript remoto ?
Estou achando que poderia colocar um script no rednet.social que a pessoa pode chamar com uma lista de instâncias predefinidas para mostrar diretamente as instâncias abertas nesse div. Digo se eu conseguir levantar e trabalhar o que é improvável 😅

2025-03-07 13:52:46 UTC

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Obrigado! É tão simples que não sei porque todo mundo não faz isso. Mesmo que seja listando direto no texto as instâncias escolhidas para não depender de outro site.
Copiei direto seu texto (+uma versão em 🇬🇧. Ajudou com o meu problema de preguiça crônica :-)

2025-03-06 23:51:23 UTC

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Opa ! Fiquei feliz até porque eu tinha uma tarefa para fazer isso um dia (escrever sobre o assunto , escrever algum patch)… e como sempre não fiz nada . Bom que você vai fazere vou poder desmarcar :-)
Seria muito legal se isso desencadeasse nisso virar padrão no Fediverso, de fato descentralizado mesmo ou pelo menos criando vários centros por regiões e / ou assuntos.

2025-03-03 12:32:08 UTC

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achei o conceito muito legal ! Espero que viralize e vire norma.
Ótima solução para reduzir spam e problemas de monitoramento de comentários em sites.
Anotei de adicionar no meu site um dia 🙂

2025-03-02 10:37:16 UTC

It’s kind of sad to see boycott campaigns against Americans products citing other (non-American) megacorps as alternatives.
It may come as a surprise but Volkswagen will also cave in to the nazis as soon as they reach power. It’s not like it would be their first time either.

2025-03-01 21:29:26 UTC

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Nitpicking: I feel left and right margins on buttons should be a bit bigger to compensate for the fact that the spacing seems larger visually (since fonts will rarely fill the full height).

2025-02-28 12:48:26 UTC

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To be fair the pre-existing contract was probably the result of prior lobbying aka corruption.
My only hope for the US at this point is for China to buy it back at a cheap price on a bored Tuesday and try to restore a functioning government.

2025-02-21 18:32:46 UTC

#INeverDoAnything but I have this persistent idea of an operating system (could be initially Linux based for simplicity) where all components are based on a GemText editing / display view.
Your about box is a .gmi file, your apps for native notes also , your “email” and IM, newsgroups etc. All standardized in a way that excludes the modern web but centered on communication from person to person just exchanging structured text files (and linked images I guess).

2025-02-18 22:47:01 UTC

- Ator da Globo
- Diretor de cinema
- Professor
- Magnata
Títulos recebido na praia com barba de 6 dias, chinelas e uma camiseta de 6$ do AliExpress.
#JáPensouSerBranco

2025-02-14 14:57:34 UTC

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This gets me wondering how many eggs per week do these people eat for this to matter. I say that and I eat a lot of eggs but surely variations on the price of energy would affect me more .

2025-02-10 11:01:38 UTC

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A bit of perspective from Latin America: a US take over rarely start with tanks.
If you don’t have solid laws preventing purchase and control of all private newspapers, radio & TV channels (and politicians… ) and social networks you will soon have all your media claiming for annexation.

2025-02-01 14:01:57 UTC

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I reached a point where starting over would be probably be a week of work full time. Two weeks if I have to deal with other people in this house in panic with stuff not working anymore 😂
Still have a few issues but transition wasn't as bad as I feared. Managed to do it all while wife was asleep. Thankfully HAOS has add-ons for most of the stuff I used. Hard part is remembering each detail I had hacked manually.

2025-02-01 13:44:23 UTC

Sure it doesn’t have the reliability of an actual data center — being vulnerable to 🐱 cat-in-the-middle — attacks but it’s what combined specs you can get for self hosted #proxmox servers these days.
It’s two mini Chinese GenMachine mini PCs, each about 300$ (bought one used now, other two years ago) with older (non-SSD) USB drives for backups.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/928/926/538/953/223/original/e23b7e6b44ab14a8.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/928/926/786/586/568/original/4bae80d66ebc6371.png

2025-02-01 02:49:24 UTC

Well this here made is very easy to get #HomeAssistant running on #Proxmox
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/guide-install-home-assistant-os-in-a-vm.143251/
Now I think I will wait for a day with nobody home and a very peaceful mind and a lot of previous reading before learning how to migrate from a custom Raspberry Pi Install to HAOS ..

2025-01-30 15:17:28 UTC

Não acredito que a Dilma desejou um feliz ano novo da serpente (em mandarim!) e nem mencionou o Temer !
https://youtu.be/TPXRFFsexWk?si=TQf5nhNCAjg_TMcs
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/917/968/143/171/915/original/eb9f44b3be90d0b4.jpeg

2025-01-28 20:19:51 UTC

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Wow, #DeepSeek is *very useable* here. I asked it to build a simple DNS server in Go reading from a sqlite DB (because I did exactly that some time ago).
43 seconds to get the Go version (first prompt, a bit long)
5 seconds to get a python version of the same
18 seconds to make a C++ version
That's on a 2022 M1 Mac Studio Ultra with 64GB unified memory. As you can see in iStats Menu GPU is of course at 94% and the 20 cores mostly idle so machine stays responsive.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/907/832/033/756/208/original/a9fdea41cd26b3c7.png
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/907/832/549/258/457/original/644a28a43fcc5b22.png

2025-01-28 18:47:49 UTC

A bit tempted to see what I can run locally with deepseek on the M1 Ultra over here.

2025-01-27 19:14:25 UTC

Nothing frustrates me as much as when fiber goes out and it falls back to 4G but signal suddenly becomes weak enough to become useless (even though it’s a dedicated receiver up on the roof).
And then I look for alternatives and I remember the only option here is nazi-sat 😞
I swear I am going to sign up for the first Chinese company offering comparable satellite service here. Can’t be worse.

2025-01-25 12:19:28 UTC

Marx 🐱 loves the smell of a light breeze in the rainforest on a hot sunny #Caturday
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/888/956/230/416/380/original/1c293953613be00d.mp4

2025-01-23 20:55:26 UTC

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Where is this hosting ?
If you want to start small at 5$ monthly I think these AMD cloud instances at OVH offer much more value (2 cores, 2GB ram, 40 GB SSD unmetered bandwidth unless hosted in Asia and Australia).
I am not saying they are the best but I have been using them for a very long time and aside from once famous fire in a data center I don’t complain in relation to price vs quality. You of course get the service you pay for at 5€.
https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/vps/

2025-01-22 22:20:24 UTC

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I find this worrying but then again I have no idea if this usually happens like once a month or never ? Is that a very rare event ?

2025-01-22 22:03:55 UTC

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Has nobody made a Fediverse app designed specifically for musicians and their followers ? I mean one with a native app that supports individual musician profiles, group profiles, each with their posts, with events etc and daily posts with rehearsals etc (even if the video is hosted on YouTube for cost motives and sales on usual channels not to compete with big business).

2025-01-22 20:51:16 UTC

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As always anything that looks remotely complicated will be ignored. We hosted a show here at home recently which ended in open-mic. If you sing one song or maybe two it’s hard to end with “Thanks you I am @ ThisGuy on Insta and BTW you can also find me as ThisGuy on this place you never heard about huh, well it’s many places, you just chose an instance and huh”.

2025-01-22 19:25:01 UTC

Most musicians in Brazil are still on #Instagram because well they kinda have to because every show (by a non rich & famous artist) ends with “Follow me on Insta @ something ”. I understand it’s not easy for them to leave, even now.
I was just told by one of them a lot of their accounts suddenly started automatically following JD Vance unwillingly. They are all from the opposite political spectrum — and wouldn’t care much about a foreign vice president anyway. WTF.

2025-01-20 02:35:40 UTC

Migrating from Mastodon to snac seems supported nowadays:
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/snac2/snac.8.en.html
I’d be a bit sad to lose all past posts but then again it’s not like I posted anything important.

2025-01-19 16:24:47 UTC

I think Lagrange is nearly perfect as a Gemini Browser but I wish it focused more on streamlining the subscription to page/feed process. More like a feed reader, also inciting to open your own with blank folder for “my own capsules”.
You start with a tree of subscriptions in folders and have a one click subscribe button on the page which would ask for a category. Right now it is still a bit confusing as a newcomer.

2025-01-15 14:17:52 UTC

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Concordo plenamente (mesmo se eu gosto). Como indicado no post acho que no ideal o self hosting pra quem não quer ficar refem de sistemas em mudança permanente deve ser orientar para conteúdos estáticos (no sentido de ser gerados previamente) que são menos complicados a manter na parte que é pública.

2025-01-13 23:39:03 UTC

The thing with Ali little cables and connectors and components is they like to deliver in bulk and a month later the postman arrives and says “these 12 packages here are all yours” and you don’t remember waiting for anything specific :cowroll:

2025-01-11 03:25:49 UTC

Testing image post
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/807/585/951/141/534/original/73c5284c72adc5f8.png

2024-12-27 23:54:47 UTC

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É que a experiência de chegar ao céu pra mim seria São Pedro rindo: “E aí cuzão sem fé ? Quem tava certo no final ?”.
Espero que Chocotone seja tão surpreendente ! Tem marca boa ?

2024-12-27 20:33:18 UTC

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Coming out: nunca provei chocotone.
Fiquei chococurioso.

2024-12-27 20:26:47 UTC

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Também achava que todo vinho era vegano por definição, igual ketchup.
Porém a minha experiência com vinho vegano (europeu) não foi boa. E não acho que tenha a ver com ser vegano ou não. Deve ter muito vinho bom que é de fato vegano e nem menciona.
Temo que alguns comerciantes aproveitem a oportunidade para vender vinho ruim a preço de vinho bom. Atendem a demanda do mercado por etiquetas.

2024-12-25 20:37:42 UTC

I used this today and none of the guests made any remark. I am not sure if they didn’t get the reference or just know me well enough to not engage.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/715/384/068/802/899/original/63d256a20e83423b.jpeg

2024-12-20 17:46:36 UTC

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🎶 Cucurucu pa- ?

2024-12-20 09:43:30 UTC

These guys woke me up at 5:30 jumping on the door of our bedroom and act like nothing happened
#CatsOfMastodon
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2024-12-17 20:16:45 UTC

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Hadn’t heard about these Curta calculators. I googled and first result was an eBay listing ..for 9k 🙀
But I suppose it’s worth it since it looks like it could be used also as German hand grenade or a hipster coffee grinder.

2024-12-15 17:35:45 UTC

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BTW observing your project got me thinking about how we got to vector fonts. At lot of it had to do with printing back then which was when resolution difference was big enough to make it a necessity.
Old macs which had vector fonts but not yet high resolution screens and some apps kind of looked worse because if you picked the wrong font size it still was more or less OK but not as perfect as handmade bitmap fonts in few sizes which forced you to adapt the UI to fit.

2024-12-15 11:54:03 UTC

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The “started a hobby OS focused on simplicity” to “accidentally started working on a Quark X-Press port” pipeline.

2024-12-13 00:10:46 UTC

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Haha no. It is true the pronunciation particularly in Portuguese opened the path to innuendo.
But it was just a miserable joke comparing the stomach effect of a famous Canadian plate vs that of a Russian dictator. But really Poutine is mostly from Quebec right ?

2024-12-13 00:01:29 UTC

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The actually dangerous Poutine

2024-12-12 23:50:23 UTC

Browsing for Xmas gifts for kids and I keep getting suggestions for office decoration.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/642/531/824/465/315/original/c64d99d67187e04c.jpeg

2024-12-12 14:07:23 UTC

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“to be accepted into the App Store and Play Store, PeerTube had to include a list of allowed servers that meet Apple's and Google's guidelines. For the time being, the iPhone app won't let you add any video platforms that are not on that list.”
Sigh. How is that even legal for a company to allow only select servers ? I can understand not indexing unknown content but it’s a browser, any URL should work.

2024-12-11 13:09:23 UTC

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Connection the dots: more American troops arriving, Icelandic being phased out preventively. I am afraid you are getting soft-annexed !

2024-12-10 17:32:47 UTC

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Makes one wonder how much the CIA is fighting the government in its own country…

2024-12-05 21:30:10 UTC

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Did you see the Argentinian movie “Relatos Selvajes” ?
Can’t help but think about that “Bombita” character. Looks like this guy — while a bit darker in his actions — will surely be just as popular.

2024-11-28 19:24:16 UTC

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Or you could make it USB only. It’s still a bit tricky on a pi3. I don’t really remember what’s the issue with some drives and pi3 boards. But all Pi-4 series will boot off USB and that has enough power to get a pair of leds blinking.
I am not sure why but I like the idea of some fancy (mildly useful) additional hardware to transform a Pi into something else.

2024-11-28 19:17:19 UTC

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I wonder if there’d be energy to drive a pair of weak leds ? It seems the SD card port has totals of 100 ma available only though. So that +eMMC might be pushing it.
Just thought that to make such an hypothetical “boot rom” more special it could have a few color weak LEDs that apps or the system could use. Like the floppy drive led on Amiga. Not something required but a touch of additional fun.

2024-11-28 19:05:58 UTC

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I wonder if stuff like this is SD-card+eMMC is reliable ? I mean more than a plain SD-card at least which can be destroyed so easily.
A thing like this could be put in a nice :capivara: 3D-printed box to fit the Pi400 color(s) and sold as “official firmware”. Would be great merch and be useful.
Nothing a user can’t build him/herself but a great thing to both have and show support and also makes like much easier for learners.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/562/141/117/785/376/original/404730d47ebb6909.jpeg

2024-11-28 18:57:25 UTC

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Maybe that could be done in the form of a USB disk with a eMMC inside. In a way I would find that more appealing than shirts .

2024-11-28 18:55:07 UTC

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It’s sad that Pi can’t seemingly boot alone on serial (I think?) like some BananaPi can.
Would be cool to be able to buy/sell just a Capi boot “ROM” with a customized cheap ESP32 board and plug at the back of pi400 to connect to serial. So you could boot the base of Capi on (flashable but) permanent memory.

2024-11-28 14:19:58 UTC

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I love seeing that evolve in real time !
Is that 1pixel transparent (blue) border on the right+bottom in the dark gray rectangle a test for transparency or an off-by-one error ?

2024-11-27 22:21:50 UTC

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Also a lot of hobby OS were killed by the browser taking over everything and this impossible hyper complex element becoming the “minimum” requirement for any OS.
After we saw how wrong this went, I hope Capi and other hobby systems will trace another parallel timeline for the internet — making gemtext a first class citizen for example.

2024-11-25 12:47:19 UTC

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Isn’t it the GPU scaling ?
I cannot wrap my mind around this sentence “The accelerated graphics support is not available on the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 and with AARCH = 32 only. “
https://circle-rpi.readthedocs.io/en/stable/subsystems/vc4.html

2024-11-24 21:01:08 UTC

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BTW Still considering eventual support for the Pi3 (64 bits but only 1GB RAM and slower cores) ?

2024-11-18 18:42:48 UTC

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Did I miss an episode or wasn’t the final rendering output going to be 16 bit RGB ? One would need 24 bits to see all the shades of gray.

2024-11-18 14:43:39 UTC

Short of working a custom set of shortcuts and scripts is there a ready made app that would ideally run on Linux on a Pi that can just play a set videos at the touch of one key ?
Like one key to show a list and a key to play each predefined video in the list ?

2024-11-15 22:55:22 UTC

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You can download here a patched version of Mac OS 9 modified to run on unsupported Mac Mini.
Just burn the CD and install (it will trash the whole disk contents!).
http://macos9lives.com/downloads

2024-11-15 01:42:10 UTC

Finally got my DVI cable and toyed a bit more with the 1.5Ghz mini. Works beautifully on Mac OS 9 (patched). Only annoying thing is builtin audio output sounds horrible. Looks physically damaged.
Anyway spotted an M-Audio FireWire interface in the wild so of course I clicked :sadness:
It’s “nice” (for me) that Apple dropped support for FireWire adapter in recent system updates because people start dumping them out at lower prices.
#Retrocomputing

2024-11-14 17:31:26 UTC

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Didn’t circle have a serial boot thing for rapid iterations?

2024-11-14 16:00:37 UTC

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By 16 bit color you mean the palette entries will be 5-6-5 bits for RGB ?

2024-11-13 02:24:10 UTC

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Nowadays a 15” screen on a desktop feels like something from another time. Which is exactly the goal in this case.
No. YOU have a screen accumulation problem.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/473/267/222/034/747/original/cc8daab26e29f347.jpeg

2024-11-13 01:47:10 UTC

Got my articulated arm to elevate the 15.6” HD USB-C screen. People using it with the builtin holding led are going to break their back. Well, same as any tablet.
For now it is connected to a Pi4 running #RetroPie and also makes a nice console for my tired eyes with Termius 16x32 font. The good side of using retro stuff on it is I won’t get frustrated by the 6 bit color depth. Definitely not a screen for a picky artist but fine for games and terminals.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/473/121/379/500/117/original/018da66fb208297d.mp4

2024-11-12 18:09:19 UTC

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Indeed if you manage to get it to work smoothly also on a Zero 2w it’ll make a difference in all parts of the world where 30$ isn’t in the same “fun budget” range as 100$. Not to mention it opens a lot of possibilities for customized builds.
This being said standardizing on the Pi400 as the baseline is smart. Like for Commodore machines unique standardized hardware with the proposed software helps keep a platform coherent & manageable.

2024-11-12 17:42:58 UTC

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I sincerely appreciate how your projects take affordability into account as it really changes the demographics of the people who are allowed to participate in the creative retro world.
Aiming for universally available hardware really makes it easier for everyone on earth.
Hell in Brazil even a Pi400 is relatively expensive (taking into account import taxes and relation to cost of living).

2024-11-12 17:24:53 UTC

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As I understand it you’d have insane amounts of unused memory on a Pi so this could be used to duplicate a lot of things. Like each app having its own copies of separate full screen graphics buffer that you’d just switch over when they became active. That would reduce a lot of need for locking, limiting it only to the few things that really need to be synced and unique.

2024-11-12 17:02:19 UTC

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Considering this will always run on a multi core machine like a Pi maybe it would make sense to have several lua VMs running? Like one for the active app, one for the previous app when you just switched, one for widgets or menu bars.
Idea is that you could wait more gracefully for loops in apps that are not on screen to stop even if their drawing calls are ignored.

2024-11-12 01:00:46 UTC

It really must suck to be severely addicted to hard drugs.
Hm… there’s another G4 Mac mini for sale around here. I mean the one I have is a dedicated MorphOS machine. And the Cube ended up on Leopard because of MIDI volume sliders. So I am here with absolute zero Classic MacOS machine in my office. Like a Neanderthal.
I technically kind of *need* it.
Therapist: …

2024-11-11 19:09:16 UTC

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Great! That sounds like a good step, not only for closed-source stuff but also in the event at some point in the future RISC-V becomes more relevant (once some open or at least documented GPU takes hold ).

2024-11-11 17:56:30 UTC

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This reminds me I don’t boot my Cube on Mac OS 9 enough (it just is better on OSX to use it as an audio Mixer).
That moment in time where pixel art met isometric icons on resolutions between 640x480 and 800x600 was a sweet spot in the history of cool looking icons.
Shot from an old post … by myself (thx Google, not my brain 😅)
https://masto.lema.org/@santiago/112752984815316303
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/465/608/667/221/381/original/73f2241e5261d6e1.jpeg

2024-11-11 17:38:58 UTC

From time to time I stumble upon 25 year old pixel perfect 32x32 icons from BeOS and I still think they are the best thing (even more than the same in higher resolution in #Haiku).
I guess I am old.
Screenshot from this post.
https://mastodon.social/@256/110860217640469152
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/465/539/746/041/635/original/4ffec47d82f424a7.png

2024-11-10 21:25:32 UTC

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I have often been disappointed at perf of GUI stuff on the Pi. Especially at high resolutions. But I suspect it has a lot to do with most software being ported “down” from much more powerful PCs.
RiscOS feels always snappy though, even on my Pi3. Not sure how much depends on acceleration and how you get that in circle pi.

2024-11-10 21:17:59 UTC

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I really look forward to seeing this on a real device. I am curious at the perf / stable framerates that it is possible to get for graphics at 960x540 @ 2x.

2024-11-10 19:52:58 UTC

Another mischievous Chinese plan to destroy the west: making a (rather expensive) mouse that looks exactly like the one in the original :kare_mac: Mac.
It even has the charger at the bottom like the current Magic Mouse :blobcat_cwy:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLgyf9Q
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/460/404/277/813/657/original/aaf0b7cd3e668cd2.jpeg

2024-11-08 16:45:24 UTC

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Look nice. The thick vertical parts vs thinner horizontal parts are reminiscent of old pixel version of Chicago mixed up with (something else?). It all fits well into the retro mindset.

2024-11-08 12:22:06 UTC

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Eu colocaria um cron (no root) cada dia/hora com um script do tipo
#!/bin/bash
apt update -qq
count=$(apt list --upgradable 2>/dev/null | grep -c "upgradable")
echo "Atualizações disponíveis: $count" > /tmp/nbupdates.txt
É um cat desse arquivo nbupdates.txt a cada login no .bashrc (caso usar bash).
Obviamente precisaria lançar esse script manualmente após uma atualização manual para não ficar errado.

2024-11-07 23:05:57 UTC

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Just saw the other post about this being for accents and the like. In this context it makes sense. I must say that even if English is not my language for nerdy/retro stuff I don’t worry much about accents. It all depends onto where this is going in the long run of course.
Would make lots of sense to read Gemtext for example.

2024-11-07 22:58:32 UTC

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I do like the font as is .

2024-11-07 07:58:48 UTC

Same 4:40 sunrise view from outdoors
#RioDeJaneiro
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/440/609/218/661/895/original/8886d85de77695fe.jpeg

2024-11-06 10:43:26 UTC

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This looks awesome ! Thank you

2024-11-05 19:21:50 UTC

In moments of tension there’s nothing like tuning in on the right wing comedy channel
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/431/970/449/940/700/original/54136e1c39b7a15d.jpeg

2024-11-05 19:12:10 UTC

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Indeed 640x360 x2 with a gap at the bottom feels great on this 8” screen. Very readable.
Not sure I’d actually use it on this thing because the cramped keyboard is really painful (as evidenced by all the bumps and adhesives to make it bearable).
Probably the soft spot is around 10” or 11” which can get you a useable keyboard size. Wish I had kept my 2011” MacBook Air (1366x 768).
https://cdn.masto.host/mastolemaorg/media_attachments/files/113/431/932/267/239/557/original/2b59559c3d929038.jpeg

2024-11-05 18:06:33 UTC

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I am really curious to see where this can go in the mid-long term. Particularly once network functionality is added.
It could become a nice alternative timeline in which actual content matters.
BTW do you have any clean PNG screenshots out there ? I was curious to see the proportions and appearance on actual hardware here (notably a 1280x800 T60 ThinkPad and a small 8” Linux laptop on same resolution ).