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@foone As a proficient laptop-and-handheld gamer, i'd rather make the layout a little more compact and duplicate the action keys, so that i can eat crisps with my left hand (or, say, use a trackpad. I track with left whilst i mouse with right) whilst gaming with my right hand
The modified layout. The first …
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oh hello you care to take a drink, for this #fursuitFriday?
(yes i know this is kinda an older picture now but still pretty)
a mii sitting in a pretty indoo…
(yes i know this is kinda an older picture now but still pretty)
a mii sitting in a pretty indoo…
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Going to @reffurence on saturday, taking this suit. Come say hi! #furry #fursuit
A Mii fox, sitting on an old ca…
A Mii fox doing a pose
A mii fox laying on the ground
A Mii fox, sitting on an old ca…
A Mii fox doing a pose
A mii fox laying on the ground
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alcohol, hot mix drinks, ask for advice
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Relatively recently discovered that I love alcohol like I love my woman, hot! 🤗 (i am so sorry in advance for this terrible pun)
I made this drink mixing tea, boiling water, rum, whiskey (in this case Canadian Maple Whiskey) and honey. It could use some hint of mint, but otherwise I love it and drank the whole pot!
I wanna experiment more with hot alcohols, does anyone have any advice?
I never was the biggest fan of cocktails because they were too cold to me, never thought about experimenting like this before but I really love it so far!
A cup of a brown transparant te…
I made this drink mixing tea, boiling water, rum, whiskey (in this case Canadian Maple Whiskey) and honey. It could use some hint of mint, but otherwise I love it and drank the whole pot!
I wanna experiment more with hot alcohols, does anyone have any advice?
I never was the biggest fan of cocktails because they were too cold to me, never thought about experimenting like this before but I really love it so far!
A cup of a brown transparant te…
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Coffee experts of Fedinet: why does my original stainless steel Bialetti (XL? It's rather big) sometimes randomly produce what I can only describe as the Mother of all Crema's™, a stupidly foamy crema that persists from the first drop right up to the time i shut it off?
It does not persist in the cup, and the resulting coffee tastes fine (the coffee out of this thing is god-tier anyways). It's just more of a curiosity.
Beans used: cheapish Hema medium-roast, freshly grinded on my handgrinder's finest setting.
It's the inside of the moka, sh…
The same coffee in the cup, the…
It's the inside of the moka, sh…
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Today I finished my first cartridge of typewriter/wordprocessor inkt ribbon. Don't worry, I have 4 more left, and it's plenty available for cheap so that's good (yes, I did the research *before* buying the machine. there are plenty who aren't as lucky).
And no stupid drm chips like some brand of printer I shall not name here...
A inkt cartridge past the end o…
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A brand new film ribbon cartrid…
The back of the package for the…
And no stupid drm chips like some brand of printer I shall not name here...
A inkt cartridge past the end o…
A brand new package for an inkt…
A brand new film ribbon cartrid…
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shoes, rant about modern consumer products
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Can we talk about shoes a bit? Having removeable soles is nice when the shoe can outlast the sole, but modern shoes are such cheap pieces of crap that they'll almost never do.
And then I end up removing my feeties in the most delicate way possible and *still* having to discount 5 minutes of my early morning routine to trying these shit pieces of sole back in! Just fix your damn soles better!
Speaking of which, shoes are one of these things I just have a fixed budget for (and fixed interest in). If your shit piece of shoe wears down quicker than expected don't expect me to get to replace it early; I'll just continue wearing a shoe that hurts my back and gets my feets wet until its time is due (ann will probably avoid your brand in the future).
These absolute please-avoid things looked worn down already two weeks after I bought them. They were 3 times more expensive than the Lidl shoes I had before, and that lasted well over a year! If in terms of quality a german discounter can do better than you please go back to the drawing board, your clearly doing something wrong.
A shit piece of shoe, heavily w…
And then I end up removing my feeties in the most delicate way possible and *still* having to discount 5 minutes of my early morning routine to trying these shit pieces of sole back in! Just fix your damn soles better!
Speaking of which, shoes are one of these things I just have a fixed budget for (and fixed interest in). If your shit piece of shoe wears down quicker than expected don't expect me to get to replace it early; I'll just continue wearing a shoe that hurts my back and gets my feets wet until its time is due (ann will probably avoid your brand in the future).
These absolute please-avoid things looked worn down already two weeks after I bought them. They were 3 times more expensive than the Lidl shoes I had before, and that lasted well over a year! If in terms of quality a german discounter can do better than you please go back to the drawing board, your clearly doing something wrong.
A shit piece of shoe, heavily w…
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Can we talk a bit about how it still feels very much illegal, as a male-passing person, to buy fem clothes and gear?
Even for the sex shop I don't pass at all, which makes things all the more confusing. Here am I, an actual trans person too afraid to speak out; whilst in the shop window are a bunch of dvd's of "hottest trans chicks ever, you wouldn't believe her dick!".
The shop owner must be thinking I am buying it for my hypothetical girlfriend to have a fun night with; no I'm actually buying it for myself, to use on my own!
I present bigender at the very most, for my own protection. But secretly I wish it wasn't needed...
Girly back supporter thing kind…
Even for the sex shop I don't pass at all, which makes things all the more confusing. Here am I, an actual trans person too afraid to speak out; whilst in the shop window are a bunch of dvd's of "hottest trans chicks ever, you wouldn't believe her dick!".
The shop owner must be thinking I am buying it for my hypothetical girlfriend to have a fun night with; no I'm actually buying it for myself, to use on my own!
I present bigender at the very most, for my own protection. But secretly I wish it wasn't needed...
Girly back supporter thing kind…
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Time to repair my typewriter. It's printhead was not moving smoothly past 50% of the paper, which turned out to be a guidebar screw that had just come loose. Not even snapped off; i just rescrewed it back to place.
The whole thing looks cheap, feels cheap. It's litterally held together by two screws! But on the other hand, that makes it easy to repair I guess?
I envy folks who have these ifixit toolkits tho. I have to do it all with one flat-head screwdriver... not such a big deal today, but one spring had come loose; and the process of reattaching it back took the better part of an hour.
The typewriter, with the top re…
An image of a dislodged metal g…
Image of the (brown, single-sid…
That one damn spring
The whole thing looks cheap, feels cheap. It's litterally held together by two screws! But on the other hand, that makes it easy to repair I guess?
I envy folks who have these ifixit toolkits tho. I have to do it all with one flat-head screwdriver... not such a big deal today, but one spring had come loose; and the process of reattaching it back took the better part of an hour.
The typewriter, with the top re…
An image of a dislodged metal g…
Image of the (brown, single-sid…
That one damn spring
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@marcamos yay for total equity of my website's shitty theme!
In all seriouslyness tho, good tool
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A screenshot of the website, wh…
In all seriouslyness tho, good tool
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A screenshot of the website, wh…
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Ok, I got myself whilst thrifting one of these wakeup lights. Was not exactly the kind of oldschool indestructable beauty of a bed alarm I was looking for, but thought it'd be worth a try.
Was waken up by it this morning, and genuinly impressed. No sudden wakeup shock, but not an alarm-so-soft-it-gives-you-anxiety-you've-missed-it either. I don't even have to look at the alarm; i can gently start waking up through my eyelids, and when it comes time my ears get fooled by the birdchirps until they don't.
I still gotto see if I will wake up as smoothly every time. But for now, call me impressed!
A philips "wake-up light" alarm…
The same alarm, this early morn…
Was waken up by it this morning, and genuinly impressed. No sudden wakeup shock, but not an alarm-so-soft-it-gives-you-anxiety-you've-missed-it either. I don't even have to look at the alarm; i can gently start waking up through my eyelids, and when it comes time my ears get fooled by the birdchirps until they don't.
I still gotto see if I will wake up as smoothly every time. But for now, call me impressed!
A philips "wake-up light" alarm…
The same alarm, this early morn…
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According to the document I shared earlier (and other info I found online), the main role of the equalizing pulses is to make sure the vertical sync pulse of odd-line fields trigger at the same time as the even-line fields, despite the horizontal triggers being half a phase late.
The problem is that with the horizontal and vertical syncs embedded in one signal, the TV detects a vertical sync when the horizontal sync's vsync integrator goes beyond a thrashhold. Hence, it's imperative that that thrashhold gets hit at exactly the same time both fields, which requires both to be discharged at the same time despite the capacitor in odd fields holding half a charge.
According to this logic, one would need 6 short blanks to discharge a half-charge capacitor fully.
Of course, the reason this peeked my interest is the potential to replace the 0-½ interlace pattern of traditional television with a 0-⅓-⅔ pattern, potentially increasing vertical resolution by 33%.
If my logic is correct this would require to increase the amount of short blanks from 6 to 8. This is assuming that one full syncless line accumulates 12 units of charge, and the maximum retardement we'd face would be 8/12th of a line.
The way to accomplish this would be to sacrifice one scanline for creating an extra half-line sync pulse. Yes, this would imply 287 and not 288 active scanlines, and would mean that our effective active resolution would be 1440x861 and not 1440x864. Details, details!
Then we can just shift the first blanking line post-equalizing pulse ⅓ and ⅔ instead of ½, and we'd get a 3-field interlacing sequence instead of a 2-field interlacing.
Interestingly, the implication is that if a digital system ain't aware of what the heck's going on, it'll show the first field correctly and then interpret both of the second fields as one odd-line field.
One small note on my research: i have no heck the idea what i'm talking about. The role of the equalizing pulses is ill-explained on wikipedia and the internet in general. But the clue of their role I found actually on the wikipedia page for the old British 405-line system which *lacked* them. It said they needed to be synthesized for integrator-type sync seperation systems (by the broadcaster or by the set) and was not needed for other types of sync seperation. So I googled "integrator+equalizing pulses analog video" and got what I needed.
I find in general info on non-525/625 video systems lacking, I'd love to know more about 35p, 180p, 441i, and other early video standards even if I'm never gonna find signals to test them with. Also did you know France had a monochrome 819i50 system at some point?
Oh well...
An image of the role of the syn…
The same image with some modifi…
The problem is that with the horizontal and vertical syncs embedded in one signal, the TV detects a vertical sync when the horizontal sync's vsync integrator goes beyond a thrashhold. Hence, it's imperative that that thrashhold gets hit at exactly the same time both fields, which requires both to be discharged at the same time despite the capacitor in odd fields holding half a charge.
According to this logic, one would need 6 short blanks to discharge a half-charge capacitor fully.
Of course, the reason this peeked my interest is the potential to replace the 0-½ interlace pattern of traditional television with a 0-⅓-⅔ pattern, potentially increasing vertical resolution by 33%.
If my logic is correct this would require to increase the amount of short blanks from 6 to 8. This is assuming that one full syncless line accumulates 12 units of charge, and the maximum retardement we'd face would be 8/12th of a line.
The way to accomplish this would be to sacrifice one scanline for creating an extra half-line sync pulse. Yes, this would imply 287 and not 288 active scanlines, and would mean that our effective active resolution would be 1440x861 and not 1440x864. Details, details!
Then we can just shift the first blanking line post-equalizing pulse ⅓ and ⅔ instead of ½, and we'd get a 3-field interlacing sequence instead of a 2-field interlacing.
Interestingly, the implication is that if a digital system ain't aware of what the heck's going on, it'll show the first field correctly and then interpret both of the second fields as one odd-line field.
One small note on my research: i have no heck the idea what i'm talking about. The role of the equalizing pulses is ill-explained on wikipedia and the internet in general. But the clue of their role I found actually on the wikipedia page for the old British 405-line system which *lacked* them. It said they needed to be synthesized for integrator-type sync seperation systems (by the broadcaster or by the set) and was not needed for other types of sync seperation. So I googled "integrator+equalizing pulses analog video" and got what I needed.
I find in general info on non-525/625 video systems lacking, I'd love to know more about 35p, 180p, 441i, and other early video standards even if I'm never gonna find signals to test them with. Also did you know France had a monochrome 819i50 system at some point?
Oh well...
An image of the role of the syn…
The same image with some modifi…
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