(Cries in Rich Hall)
Rich Hall made frequent appearances on QI and one of the questions they always prepare for him is “How many moons does Earth have?”. Since we’re always discovering quasi moons and transient bodies, the answer is always different despite him learning from his previous appearance.
It was, and I remember that too. Was just being farcical…
…to balance out the downer ending.
They actually did follow up, and the episode was one of the better ones:
Spoiler: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Course:_Oblivion_(episode)
Though between “Demon” and “Course Oblivion” that’s a good question. We don’t see Voyager itself getting duplicated, so I guess they spent the time building it out of rocks and then forgetting they were duplicates.
15 posts for a 3hr old account. Slow your roll, Louna.
Update: Yes! Seems to be. Calipers confirm the diameter. TYVM!
Thanks. I’ll grab my calipers and confirm if the measurements are correct. Specs say MHF4 is 1.13mm.
Those letters probably wouldn’t be very helpful, so it’d basically be a $25,000 dick joke lol.
(Or whatever the grand-prize value is these days)
Ooh, I haven’t tried RTL-SDR on it yet, but I think I’m nearing capacity on what it can do at once lol.
Here’s the block diagram for it (in spoiler below). Everything’s up and running except the Bluetooth Receiver -> Snapcast (it works on the bench but I don’t have the scripting/automation done yet). I’m also adding an SMA connector for an external antenna, but the new base part is still printing. Photo shows it “as is” of this writing.
SSL for the web apps was a PITA since I wanted real certs. Had to make a wildcard domain under my main hobby domain, so all my apps are like “https://{APP_NAME}.mobile.mydomain.xyz/”
As soon as I can get the Bluetooth + Pulseaudio scripting done, I’m gonna try to do a write up and maybe a show/tell post.
I would love to have a small Wikipedia browser that can survive the apocalypse.
I’ve got the full 120 GB Wikipedia dump running in Kiwix on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Works great (surprisingly)
E-ink display, mini keyboard
Have been using a Minimal Phone for a few months now which has both of those. Can connect to the Pi easily.
multiple ways/ports to transfer info,
Add a USB-C hub (or add a hub to the Pi) and you’re set
All wrapped up in a heavy duty equipment case that’s able to survive a building collapses and burns in an earthquake, that’s shielded from EMP.
And that’s where I’m limited - My 3D printer can only do so much lol. 😆
I’ve been working on a side project this week with a Orange Pi Zero 2W (Pi Zero “clone” but with better specs). It’s got the Kiwix+Wikipedia like my older Pi (described above) plus a bunch of other neat stuff. It’s kind of a combination travel router, portable web app server, party box, and extremely over-engineered bluetooth speaker all-in-one. Hoping to put together a show-and-tell post about it when I get the last of it squared away.
“let’s call ICE”
–Shannon Kobylarczyk
Obviously they match, but which came first? The attitude or that haircut?
For sure. My shower thought is just that they won’t be anything like the simple pleasure of the DVD screensaver. It would probably ads that cycle through.
What kind of mad person shuffles their whole collection?
Me! lol
The musical whiplash is strong. It’ll go Pantera, Slipknot, Lady Gaga, Children of Bodom, the theme from Three’s Company, Spice Girls, Waylon Jennings, N’Sync, Foo Fighters, STP, Britney Spears, etc. You never know what’s next.
The sad thing is I have a fully functional MPD + Snapcast setup I could use (including a TUI MPD client), but this is just what I’ve always done. Old habits and such lol.
I know right? If you can find a better one that pays out, send me a link and I’ll happily update the post. I couldn’t find one that wasn’t forced and only went in the corner.
A totally appropriate reaction!
I felt that. It took me 3 overnight sessions to download the “Throw a pie at Bill Gates” screensaver over 14.4 dial-up back in the day.
Mine is also from the “Born to be a Bureaucrat” song but it’s the “born to be all obsessive and snotty. I made my friends and relations fill long applications to get into my tenth birthday party” part.