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  • The USB hub is powered, and the Pi needed a driver swap for better stability. So far works great.

  • Here we gooooo, the king of all junk setups.

    Yeah, I've collected some used disks over the years.

    The housing has been drafted in FreeCAD and then sliced out of scrap plywood.

    And yes, the temperature is okay.

  • What's currently running on mine:

    • 10 commodity SSDs through a powered USB hub forming a poor man's NAS with snapraid + mergerfs
    • Podsync for converting my favorite YouTube channels to podcast feeds
    • Syncthing for generic file synchronization
    • K3s for whatever projects coming to my mind
    • Retroarch for occasional gaming needs
    • MPD with a floppy disk interface as my music station
    • CUPS for printserver
  • Not exactly a terminal bell, but in my own phone I have replaced all system sounds with those coming from Doom 3 and Quake 2. Best UI sounds ever.

    Plasma rifle cocking for display unlock is music to my ears.

  • The only brand new one is the Motorola ROKR E2 in the middle.It's not quite often to see damaged units on sale, as most of them are headed to a dumpster/recycle shop.Just today I salvaged a portable cassette player in a decent cosmetic condition, I've yet to check the inner mechanics, but I'm pretty sure I'll bring it to life one day.

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    This noble delegation will represent the pioneers of mobile Linux and UNIX in my brief history adventure presented at VCFB 2025

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    found my old Compaq C140 Windows CE pocket computer (1997)

  • Ooooh that roomba brush is Muscat's favourite toy! He'd play the damn out of it.

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Yanked out damaged blurry lenses on my Moto G84, feels much better now, so here's an obligatory cat photo.

  • Bring Your Own Box

  • Homebox supports the https://<hostname>/a/<inventory_id> shorthand and does a 302 jump for you. Otherwise yes, I would have implemented the API search in a microservice.

  • Muscat is a totally different beast. Before any treats he would effin' murder for pets.

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Resting boss face

  • It's Nelko P21, around $20.

  • You're absolutely right here, this is my personal bias as I come from that part of the world (ex-USSR), where Palm's market share was almost negligible. I'll make sure to actually fix this in my presentation.

  • For now I use the vendor provided app, given it supports a share intent, so I can simply toss a PNG from Vivaldi at it and make it print the label. It does the job, and more importantly, it bypasses all possible obnoxious advertisement.

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Dat fluffy butt

  • Surprisingly, it works! I just checked it on my microservice, indeed now QRs are smaller. This is a lifesaver tip, thanks a bunch!

  • I keep track of lots of vintage devices in my basement, these lay on a CD shelf with narrow walls, and I want to keep track of their maintenance status, i.e. when did I charge the battery last time.This little printer is pretty handy for labeling tasks, with one noticeable problem: the resolution is quite low, so I cannot afford printing full length domain name on such a tiny label. What I ended up with is writing my own microservice that puts fake http://i.nv/ domain in front of inventory ID. That domain is provided by DNSMASQ that I run on my server, and there's also NGINX listening for that domain and doing 302 onto an actual Homebox page.Homebox sends URL parameters to the specified endpoint, and given that information it is possible to construct any label of any shape or form, it only needs to be a PNG image.

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    PSA: my short presentation on history of Linux and UNIX operating systems in pocketable computing landscape is scheduled at VCFB 2025

  • Grab Homebox here and start tracking your inventory!

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world

    Apparently Homebox allows setting third-party label rendering endpoint through an HBOX_LABEL_MAKER_LABEL_SERVICE_URL env var

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Some heartwarming news: the recent donations of my viewers and subscribers went to buy 30 kg of dry cat food and to fix leaking rooftop at Kotofeechka cat shelter in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    This landed in my mailbox yesterday. Won an auction on one Sony Clié, got 2 Palm PDAs instead. Not a bad exchange, I must say.

  • It's almost always 7. I'm a chonky boi, and I like the number 7.

  • cats @lemmy.world

    My sweet fluffy bud turned 12 recently.

  • Well, it just happened.

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    Managed to connect and login on a RaspberryPi over a null-modem from my Psion 5mx.

  • I see it's an Ericsson-branded Psion, the first to carry the Symbian logo!

    Pretty dope, need to try that myself some day. But first I'd like to setup URAN-1 SDR to spawn a DIY 2G cell tower 👀

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Cat's nest spotted 👀

  • Removed

    Nose down

    Jump
  • I call this position a "smooshface" 😊

    My cat usually does this after headbutting into my arm.

  • Obsolete Pocketable Computing @lemmy.world

    Premium foldable palmtop running Series60 UI on top of Symbian 9.x, one of its kind. This is Nokia E90.

  • cats @lemmy.world

    Dipping my nose into sunbathing cat's fur and taking a deeeeep sniff is heaven on Earth

  • cats @lemmy.world

    When the catnip kicks in 🤩