And after a few days of modeling and a 3D print, it looks like a handheld! And it has a handle too 😊
Raspberry Pi 3A+
Pimoroni Hyperpixel square LCD w touch
Rii mini BT keyboard
2 x 18650 cells w LX-2BUPS
Volume knob for two rear speakers
Which one of you spectacular bastards did this?
EDIT: The author, it seems. https://bsky.app/profile/rockymntnmike.bsky.social/post/3mpiybeiifc26
Sometimes the compass app on my #AppleWatch is completely wrong, and it takes a reboot to fix it. How can you get something like that wrong? How many lives have been lost, I wonder
Here are the ghost pipes bursting through the duff I mentioned a while back
OK, by popular demand: https://www.zazzle.com/yellow_cyan_magenta_black_tri_blend_shirt-256663848952341859
If you want, you can wait a week or two for me to get a shirt and proof it.
They value me in goose eggs
They pay me in woims
No Child Left Behind 2026: making sure every kid gets enough tokens to finish their assignments
“Hmmm. It’s aaawwwfully quiet…”
“Haha. Right? You have kids?”
“No. Plate tectonics.”
Leave Flock cameras alone!
Hadn't considered this, but it's true. One thing the slopocalypse has done is given professional computer touchers the same bone-chill fear that professional computer touchers have long been happy to force on the unwillingly computer-afflicted: a genuine dread of clicking the update button, knowing both that they have to do it, and absolutely can't trust whatever's going to happen because the people behind that button have taught them they can't be trusted.
“That’s not in your diet…”
“Cheat day!”
“You’ve had it.”
“I’ve had one, yes. What about second cheat day? Wednesdies?”
@crash @Alice @TwoClownsEating
Today’s winning timeline juxtaposition
A future governing body known as National Assembly and Senate of the Conservative American Republic (NASCAR)
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845909858983452
These thoughts are important. BASIC and HyperCard were both borderline miraculous in their way — limited, yes, still tricky, yes, but as an entry point, as an invitation? Magical.
My addition to this list: Smalltalk. The lessons of its aspirations and its limitations are as relevant as ever.
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Many human languages use different words for the same idea. Contractors use familiar words for different ideas. For example, “tomorrow” means “this time next week, I ought to have some excuse prepared.”
“And what do you do?”
“I’m a philosopher.”
“Oh! What branch?”
“You name it, we out here tryna work out just what the fuck.”
Well, that woke me up #earthquake #pnw
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/uw714040221/executive
What is the goose’s value in woims?