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King Jim Pomera DM250US, DM250, and DM250XY

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FWIW if you do a lot of soldering (or desoldering), this guy has a lot of creative techniques for particular situations and components

https://www.youtube.com/@mrsolderfix3996/videos

kids these days...

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/silverstone-reveals-the-flp02-late-80s-style-tower-pc-case-proudly-beige-but-thoroughly-modern-inside

This was fun

Post from The Lobste.rs RSS feed:

In defense of an old pixel https://lobste.rs/s/6n9ues #design #video #historical

monday rhymes with book

"Thanks for entering your e-mail address, would you like to log in with an e-mail we send you?"

"Nah, I'm good, I have a password"

"Ok, please enter your password"

*enters password*

"Thanks, but since you just logged in, we're going to send you an e-mail and you have to click the link to log in"

everything's clock

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Apple left behind a secret way to create animated iOS widgets — let's take it to its limit! youtu.be/NdJ_y1c_j_I

"dada, hamlet is switching to soft tires"

This thing is the new EU cookie permission popup

I wonder how much would need to change to make this work with the Pimoroni Pico Plus 2W which has 8MB of RAM so it could emulate a 4MB Mac Plus

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pimoroni-pico-plus-2-w

what the heck is this UI

To bring up OpenBSD on the RK3128, I have to compile a kernel on my laptop, copy it to an SD card, remove it, put it in the target, test it, remove the card, then repeat

The Badgerd SDWire allows one SD card to be used on two systems without physically swapping it, one over USB and one over MMC

Wienermobile!

I hear IBM offered to sell them some used punch card tabulating machines

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/

"dada, the porsches are having a party"

I've started publishing semi-daily updates on my website of my hacking on the Pomera DM250 to try to get OpenBSD running on it. First up is getting u-boot updated and working enough to be able to boot OpenBSD's armv7 EFI loader, then I guess it's endless driver porting.

https://jcs.org/2025/03/14/dm250

currently using "level of coil whine" as a blind diagnostic tool before the uart is available

This pogo-pin probe clip from @adafruit.com made it so much easier to get at a uart than soldering temporary wires

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5433