Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

@melissasage I mean, we still had interpersonal strife, but not monetizing eyeballs solves so, so much.

@melissasage This is also how things used to work in the age of fora before social media. Especially for newer generations of folks that didn’t get to experience it, it’s worth a reminder that the bizarrely toxic, enforced-by-bots, nihilistic social media context is the anomaly, not the norm.

Local admins can just ban the shitlords. No appeals process. No zillions of extra accounts if their instances are configured properly. It’s that simple.

More experiments from the experiment table.

@salameleon@snouts.online I really want to know how they managed to make the Wart fight work. It was amazing.

@Taylor All of the old 1-2am information got written to the new 2am when clocks rolled back one hour, because that’s how this particular time series handled going back in time.

“Siri, what does DST ending feel like to a computer?”

@LazyTechsupport@cybre.space Yeah, the only preprocessing I’m doing is Imagemagick, then PIL to load the file into their Python library. It’s super simple.

@Jo @Canageek@cybre.space Looks like the 7.5 inch one is ~$75, though, so that could be a starting point.

Also, if you build such a thing, make sure to select the two-color models. The tri-color ones take forever to refresh the screen (the refresh rate on these is also pretty long, though apparently there are others that are faster).

@Jo @Canageek@cybre.space Yeah, this one is definitely not good for reading longer text off of. They have larger displays, but they're a power of 2 increase in price, with the >9 inch ones running $200 or so (ie, more expensive than buying a Kindle and deconstructing it).

You also have to do the text wrap and/or conversion to BMP yourself, though I'd bet some output format from Calibre could work.

I used Cacti for graph generation, and the software was all FOSS as far as I'm aware.

(The Nordic Thingy is not part of the build, by the way. The entire computer is hidden under the solar panels, since it's about the size of a Tic Tac container once it had its tiny heatsink and GPIO pins installed.)

For those interested in building their own, this is:
* One Raspberry Pi Zero W. I used the Vilros starter kit (~$35)
* One Waveshare 4.2 inch e-ink display ($10-40 depending on wholesale rates)
* One HI-S025 solar charger (~$40)

The thing is wireless and can do USB and HDMI too, which is just crazy.

And we now have a solar-powered computer, tracking solar power and energy usage for the whole house.

Update: it’s still running a few days later: