Notes

For some reason I thought only electrolytic capacitors made during the "capacitor plague" era fail early, but my garage door opener from 2008 died the other day and it just needed a replacement 35v 300uF capacitor on its logic board to bring it back to life. The bad cap didn't bulge or leak though.

Maybe we can try this on more than just trains...

"We couldn't make this software secure, so this update adds googly eyes to it"

"Sorry your meal was awful, but we hope these googly eyes drawn on the bill will make up for it"

The TrackPoint cap and fingerprint reader filler were 3d-printed with flexible TPU filament which required a lot of experimentation with temperature and print settings to get a proper color, flexibility, and as little stringing as possible

The TrackPoint buttons and "i" in the ThinkPad logo were painted with a custom paint I had made to (eventually) match the final TPU prints as close as possible while also matching the actual Dolch logo

Dolch X1 Nano
(and its inspiration)

tired: overnighting car parts from japan

wired: buying car parts from some rando on ebay and hoping they're not fake or wrong when they arrive a week or so later

current headline font-size values:

bbc: 28px
npr: 32px
reuters: 40px
axios: 40px
wsj: 52px
nbc: 60px
ap: 60px
nyt: 64px
cnn: 104px
washpo: 115px
msnbc: 128px
huffpo: 250px

I added a USB port inside my ThinkPad X1 Nano

https://jcs.org/2024/05/29/x1usb

Will today be a happy day or a sad and expensive day...

Do you set NO_COLOR in your default shell configuration?

yes
no
what

why

when you keep typing your sudo password wrong

Whoa, these old PowerBooks have Wi-Fi!

hi past me

Many of my projects seem to end right at the point where I have to design a PCB and then I give up. I need a Tinkercad for lazy PCB making.

Maybe instead of replacing everything with Rust, we can start by not relying on 25,000-line autoconf shell scripts

FWIW, this eBay auction is not mine, they just ripped off my pictures and description. Not sure if this is just a scam listing or if they are actually selling old PowerBook batteries.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/166672331810

🤔

Supposedly a non-root RCE in OpenBSD up to 7.4, appears to require NFSd running though?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_JOkHaCdzk