dtopping in tonight with a brief cyberdeck update!

UPS power supply makes a huge difference. the module i bought included a barrel jack adapter and a push-button switch, which gives me a proper tactile response turning it on/off!

usb hub will make routing the controls & potential i/o much easier.

the macro-pad keyboard is out. despite being a good-sized shell, squeezing a...

title is the question, effectively. have been looking for a phone with reduced scope, physical qwerty keyboard, and still able to access banking and maps. modern blackberry type of deal. any chooms have thoughts on the minimal phone 2?

https://minimalcompany.com/pages/minimal-phone-2

a song for the earlier dance-posting

i cannot dance.

(this is relevant and important.)

i want to dance very badly. i have a sense of rhythm but next to no coordination. i have nowhere to go to dance. so i do not dance.

kurt vonnegut said we are dancing animals. you’ve probably read his story about buying an envelope, and if not it’s below. ever prescient, he said the computers would “do us out of that.” that the “computer people” couldn’t or wouldn’t understand this basic fact.

he never saw the rise of “performativity” as an accusation....

added this to my "about me" section. by no means an expert - just read the term and did some searching.

"wikipedia definition: it 'was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader.'

when these countries' governments implemented censorship on the press, it fell to the resourcefulness of everyday press to share ideas, popular or otherwise. it was...

i have had a tattoo idea for a while that i’m too nervous to get without triple-checking.

guillermo del toro has his wonderful quote:

“Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing.”

what i’d really like is to incorporate something like

potential through failure

as part of a design. unfortunately, no knowledge of latin. any...

i don’t normally do the vent-posting deal anywhere but i think this place is probably the least likely to end up with it seeming like engagement farming or something? feel free to ignore if you don’t feel like reading this mess.

i feel like i am literally betraying everyone in my life, including myself, for no apparent reason. i can’t afford to move out on my own but i think i’m going to have an aneurysm living with my parents. i can’t maintain a long-distance relationship because of my job, which i...

dropping in to share the first steps of a hopeful build! some might have seen this on reddit previously, where i’ve made a post or two to log the build.

found a busted adding machine at a local thrift shop and spent the last year debating on hardware to make it an effective deck. current iteration runs on:

• a pi 5 8gb
• a waveshare 6.25” (720x1560) display
• a budget ergonomic...