Notices by Andrew (Television Executive) (ajroach42@retro.social)

Hey internet hive mind: Does gnome-network-displays ... work?

Does it work with roku TVs?

For me, on ubuntu, it looks like it should work, it sees the remote display, it creates the p2p group, it finds the appropriate codecs, and then it starts to negotiate ports and sockets, I imagine.

But then I get an error message.

Before I put any more time or energy in to debugging this, I want to hear from the world. Have you ever gotten this to work? Any other avenues you'd consider chasing?

I regularly depend on a piece of software (the development of which I helped to fund, but) which has been shelved by the author.

It works, I use it to power our television network.

But it has a few flaws and paper cuts that I'd love to see get addressed.

I dont personally have the time to fix these things right now, I'm doing too many other things and most of them do not involve writing code.

Are there any #Rust devs in the fedi who want to take on a couple of bug fixes and a feature request for the latest version of ffplayout? Take a look at the code, send me a quote, if I can afford it I'll gladly pay it.

Hey look, it's @tkadathran

It's coming.

To be clear, this is still at least a month away from being released, but it is about 95% functional (one very bad pesky bug that I need to sort out, one not dealbreaker but unfortunate bug, lots of Q/A testing) and about 80% complete (I haven't written all the dialog, there's only one set of cut scene triggers, instead of six, there's no music, I need to do lots of Q/A and design the packaging and labels and ...)

But it is a playable, nearly finished, shockingly beautiful game?

I wrote the core game mechanics and designed the basic structure, and then worked with Elvies (https://elvies.itch.io/) to do the artwork and the bulk of the implementation.

Now I'm working on the dialog, the music, and this daggum teleportation bug.

(and, frankly, these days there's a lot of high water)

But yeah! #JupitersGhost the game will be out this summer!

And then, shortly on the heals of that we should have a JG comic, and possibly a JG cartoon!

And, you know, I'll get my ass in gear and release episode 3 of the podcast, and finish my rebuild of the website so it's easier for collaborators to join and participate.

We're doing shared universe scifi stories come hell or high water.

(More screenshots of the beta build. No descriptions.)

Just look at it! I'm so hype for this game!!

I really have to stop using gmail.

Installed debian on a couple of old pixelbooks (eve board).

I wish it was easier to get the firmware flashed to get the google scare screen out, but otherwise, it's a killer little laptop with a beautiful screen.

I got a set of dragon balls for us to sell at the next toy swap.

They're pretty.

Damn y'all, these toys we're making are getting good.

Soon, we'll start making bigger toys, and we'll start doing jointed figures.

"start"

I did my first injection molded piece in 2022. I also did a big handful of resin cast figures in 22.

I learned a lot about injection molding and 3D printing in 2022. We developed a plastics recycling process, we made a bunch of original figures. I was working with a partner, but his life got complicated and things at my day job picked up and I had to put it all back on the shelf for most of 2023.

I did my first jointed figure nearly 20 years ago, and some of the stuff I was doing in 2019 and 2020 was physically larger than anything I've done in the last 4 years.

But 20 years ago I was working exclusively in sculpyy, and for most of the last five years I've been working almost exclusively in resin.

Sorta.

So in 2023 the only toys we made were resin cast. There were some great new designs. I was really happy with them! And I got some of our old designs back in to production, but again in Resin.

I tried to pick up injection molding, but I kept getting stymied by problems with our resin printers and the fact that I am not much of a digital sculpter, and none of my usual contacts were available.

So, between those issues and all the attention my job was taking, I didn't make many toys at all, and definitely not any new injection molds.

And then in 2024 I ended up completely remodeling our cafe and opening a bookstore, and dealing with the fact that I left my day job, and ...

2024 was a mess.

But towards the end of 2024 Sundog and I picked it back up and again and started 2025 with a new line of injection molded toys! And we revived all our previous injection molded toys!

And now things have accelerated.