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Al right peeps, the 1:1 ( | https://www.buildsbybaz.com/) build is basically done but Baz is stuck now. He made plans for a trailer to haul it around but he is out of materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EfnB02gxFg

Baz is not asking for donations yet. Personally I think he should, because his builds spark joy in the heart of people. Like his awesome build of an suit for the benefit of sick kids in hospitals did before.

We may even support him without some GoFundMe. If you’re into you may be interested in some of his at https://shop.buildsbybaz.com/.

I’ll update this should I learn about a GoFundMe campaign, of course.

Edith says: Awesome, apparently it took one night for some sales to appear and Baz can proceed building the trailer now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8O9MK_vu1k

I touched and I’m in awe (or should I say ? 🤓). What an awesome piece of software for all audio recording and editing needs.

Audio editing with Ardour stretched over three displays. In the foreground is my button box - that piece of my https://simpit.dev that also assists me during daytime work due to it's shiton of buttons and the extra display in the middle.

And I’d never have found it if it wasn’t for quitting on me yesterday. Which, in all fairness, could be tracked down to an Oopsie in the USB stack for the microphone. A good old fashioned reboot fixed this in the end.

Anyway, I’m in love and I kinda expected it already but @unfa@mastodon.social really has a great quickstart video on it as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfTAKv4htDE

TIL: google-chrome ships a script to maintain and update signatures to `/etc/cron.daily/google-chrome`

This failed and brought down the whole update progress in the background due to an unknown signature for the google-chrome package

Found out by chance today – updates are usually that smooth that I didn’t notice they stalled for weeks o0

> The GPG keys listed for the “google-chrome” repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package.
> Error: GPG check FAILED

Solution was to run that script manually (as root) so it could update it’s repository config.

Hello, this note is written with . If you are reading this with any other software via : Gratulation.

Apparently there is a lot of rage about WordPress COM (that’s the company) changing their terms of service.

This here is just another self hosted WordPress instance (that’s the software) federating with the Fediverse *since 2019* – just like a shiton of other software you may never have heard about – and is not affiliated with said company in any way.

So… mebbe cool your jets. It’s not the software that makes weird policy decisions.

Still have the urge to block, bEcAusE WoRdPReSs? Go ahead 🤷 Just waiting for FediverseIsGoingGreat to pop up any day now.

Tried – an online Arduino simulator – and ditched it again after fiddling with it for 5 minutes.

Looks good on first glance, admitted.

Raised my first eyebrow after not finding a diode. Ah well, used a 0-resistor instead as placeholder. I don’t see how I can demo a button matrix like that though.

Checked the download as ZIP function. Hm, there is no upload function, guess I have to register for saving online. Guess I can also just import the project text files via copy and paste again. Not comfortable but I can live with that. Found open tickets for both btw.

Made a little power distribution strip on a mini breadboard. Annoying, I have to adjust the colour of each connecting wire. Nice: The text editor allows mass selection just like vscode, so I can easily update a bunch of colours after making all connections. That’s something at least.

Added and wired up two Neopixels. That was annoying, they default to a perfect rectangle wich results in overlapping connection wires on the auto grid. Always. Tried to add a rotate property of 45 deg on a hunch – that worked! Why is there no option for this like with the resistors?

Eventually I tried to upload the Adafruit NeoPixel lib to get some blinken lights going… please subscribe to upload a library with a monthly fee of (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

I get it, we all want to earn money. I added whopping _5_ objects and run into the first brick wall. Not like this!

Guess that was a futile exercise.