Notices by Brian Swetland (swetland@chaos.social)

The C64 Ultimate is a delightful recreation of the computer I grew up with.

https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1

#Commodore64 #Nostalgia

@cwebber I pretty much only use wireless input devices (IR remote and ps5 gamepad) with the little PC hooked up to the TV for video playback and such.

Beyond any security implications, I just really never want to worry about charging or replacing *more* batteries in my day-to-day computing experience, much less RF interference/flakiness issues.

@whitequark Never finished my degree, instead diving into the career that I thought I would need said degree for... 30 years later it turns out it never mattered for that... but *now* it might be desirable to live in another (hopefully less broken) country (something that never had any urgency in the past) and, yeah, that'd be simpler if I had got the piece of paper back in my 20s...

@whitequark @lynne I was really wary of the demux'd controls when I ordered a cheap Siglent scope after my much fancier Keysight scope self-destructed some years back, but I got used to them pretty quickly. One button tap to select the channel is really not all that much of an inconvenience, I found.

Regarding the display, it's got HDMI out, right? Does it run at higher resolution on an external display?

@whitequark That I'd file under "now I have *two* problems".... well, I guess three, since the initial problem was "maybe the debugger should be more easily reconfigurable"...

Love what Rust is trying to do, but it just does not bring me joy. TCL on the other hand is like the avatar of EDA Tooling Trauma.

@whitequark Auuuuuugh.

Okay, I guess now I need to actually start compiling some code to run on the RP2350...

(Thanks again, @wren6991)

#Projects #Xdebug

Technically I also need to clean up various quick hacks and verify that I didn't manage to break things for debugging assorted *other* Cortex-M MCUs.

Oh and also generalize the locate-the-memory-AP code because one of those hacks basically assumes that all DPv3 devices are RP2350s. I guess at a minimum I could move that to trigger on the DP.IDR + TARGETID like the RP2040 multidrop support does.

#Projects #Xdebug

This is one of those points where I think "maybe I should include a scripting language so it's easier to add device-specific quirks without recompiling the debugger" and then I think "no, this is not a yak I need to shave right now."

@azonenberg @wren6991 @whitequark These two diagrams from the datasheet are useful if you haven't looked into RP2350 previously...

It is amazing the differences in the ease of getting questions on RP2350 boot and debug answered quickly and helpfully as just some random guy on a social media site vs the experience getting support from Qualcomm while doing Android kernel/systems lead stuff at Google.

I feel like this does not bode well for the future of Arduino.

Okay... if I upload a video clip, Mastodon will not loop it... but if I convert it to a gif, Mastodon will convert it *back* to a video clip and loop it...

Feels like there should be a better way to do this.

edit: Mystery Solved: @scy pointed out that if there is no audio track, videos will loop. (Looks like bsky also has this behaviour, but Discord and Slack do not)

#Anime #EgaoNoTaenaiShokubaDesu #Mastodon #Video #Loop #Sigh

@robey Yeah, I saw that and just thought "ugh." Somebody either does not get it or just does not care. I don't know which is worse.

@mcc @aeva I continue to be annoyed that whenever anyone brings up legitimate gripes with how bsky is operated, the staff claim "open protocol", "federation", and "user freedom", when the reality is that with only a handful of alternate towers that represent maybe a single digit percentage of users at best, for all intents and purposes it is not federated in any way that brings meaningful choice to the average user.

Calibrating...

20x20x20 calibration cube measures 19.93x19.93x20.02 mm

@whitequark Just the raw readings from the calipers.

@whitequark @mcc Didn't realize adb-over-network was an option on phones/tablets/etc (it was introduced for setup box-y things / Android TV). Fun.

@mcc I'm told that app installation via adb will remain as is (no need for accounts, identification, payment, sharing any credentials / certificates with Google, etc). Obviously you need a second device for that so more involved, but apparently they're not completely killing "unapproved" app installation just yet.

Why in the world they failed to mention this in the announcement, I cannot imagine. I mean sure people would still be pissed, but maybe just a little less pissed?

@whitequark It suffers a little from "enormous raft of options for everything", but I'll take that rather than having no control over stuff I care about.

Also, something that I didn't realize initially -- on almost every setting that applies to the current book, if you long-press you can save it as the default setting.