the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

does vaporeon have fur, or are they more like a fish

consider: horse, but with paws

Nice big screen, too. not the largest CRT we've ever seen but definitely up there

We picked up a neat old CRT that the university was throwing out today

It's weird and not really the best for home use because it was part of a surveillance system, so it uses BNC connectors for its RF inputs, it doesn't have any composite or component inputs, and it's only got mono audio

But it does have two s-video inputs, which is nice, plus it's a color CRT and everyone likes those, low latency and stuff

We do not have room for it in our apartment though

why was it 1.44 megabytes anyway, why that specific number

Do they make composite-to-component video converters? We don't need even an upscaler or anything, just a converter

Searching only seems to return composite-to-hdmi and component-to-hdmi things and we don't want hdmi

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/visual-communications-company-vcc/A1B/A1B-ND/3150374 I'm happy to learn that neon indicator lamps are still being manufactured

Today, some stuff we ordered is set to arrive, and we are probably going to be Productive and get things Cleaned Up by Quite A Bit around the TV

rather than having two chained power strips we'll have just one with more outlets on it, and we'll have a bunch of wires going into selector boxes instead of hanging out to be swapped manually

I wonder if this is a deal-with-stress mechanism and if it is I don't like it, we don't have money to spend and it makes us likely to spend it on stuff we don't need

We've gotten into the habit of looking into expensive stuff we kind of want but really can't afford lately it seems

right now it's "our laptop is like 30% superglue right now and gets pretty hot, we should look into replacing it"

inverse kinematics is some deep magic

"pansexual? no, I'm pantsexual. I won't date anyone who wears shorts."

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Question for someone more knowledgeable in vernacular than us: Would it be correct, if oversimplified, to say that "fam" can be used as a gender-neutral form of "bro"? Someone we know asked us about it and that's the answer I gave, but I'm not 100% sure that's correct.

I think the reason piano/keyboard feels so unintuitive and difficult to us is because the physical distances between notes isn't constant, the way you move up one half step is different depending on what you're starting from

they should make keyboards with all the keys in a simple pattern, not this weird thing with white and black keys

you're all a good bunch of people on here

hyenas... good

random thought: what would an anime adaptation of the lord of the rings look like