Notices by vxo (vxo@digipres.club), page 8

@foone I have at least one arch system that even hates itself. Power went out while it was updating and it's just in a state of thinking its 1 year old packages are all up to date. I think it got stuck in a time warp and I'm hoping that if I try to fix it, it'll open a portal to 1995 and I can go to Radio Shack and buy cool stuff

@foone this is powerfully cursed :D

@foone I would have way too much fun with these places :D

@foone the tricky part might be finding a vacant channel unless you're running it down on a VHF channel... here in Sac I think there's really only one vacant UHF channel, and everyone has their wireless mics on it as a result. (Thankfully you can get a LOT of wireless mics into 6 megacycles of spectrum.)

VHF low band (2-6) would be a trip. If channel 6 is vacant and you use it the audio carrier can be heard on many FM radios. ATSC3 provides a special Franken-FM feature to allow this on ch6

@foone I wonder if that might have been another program that was still running at the time that doodled on top of it. It was really odd and I never saw it happen again after that.

@foone something I have wondered about for years: I thought I saw a mention somewhere about that screen being a bitmap image, but I distinctly remember having it glitch out on a really early version of Windows 95 and some extra text displayed over it in a really wide pixelated font. It said something like
whenLevel(
keyNumber

I have never seen this happen again since but it always suggested to me that this was just text being rendered in a funky low res font. Was that the case?

@foone I distinctly remember the instructions telling me that there were forbidden station configurations you could not use (basically any where the tracks curved while in the station). I wonder if this is why. What's odd is I swear I remember the manual having illustrations of a couple of forbidden configurations in the game's pixel art style

@foone @12 want to find the portal to a rabbit hole? look into the Bethel Church up there.

sooooooo fecking weird

(also really, really transphobic, they outright disowned an award winning olympic athlete iirc)

a perfect candidate for the game of Sink

@foone oh my glob i thought all memories of those things were safely gone

freaking qic

@foone I swear I once remember having some motherboard that supported a special variant of AGP for which I never saw a single GPU that matched it - the connector was extra long and had a bunch of power-only pins beyond the normal AGP slot. It was sufficiently weird.

Watch as every manufacturer decides to put the AGPe pins in a different position

yeah even if it wasn't rewound first

@foone that first picture looks like what I call Rainbow Death Snow when it appears on HD-SDI video sources that have Become Unhappy

Feed it to a Harmonic Electra X encoder and you receive... a Harmonic Electra X non-encoder, until you reboot it and are subjected to the longest five minutes of your entire life as you're dead in the water and off air

@foone Yay! Congratulations :3

@foone I cracked up laughing when I saw it happen. Fortunately all I needed was the IP address of the machine I'd plugged it into, but out of curiosity I opened up nano and it looked hilariously sparse.

@foone oh I've run into one weirder: we have some little field monitors around at work (ikam brand or--? I forget) where they have HDMI inputs that will accept 4K video and downscale it to whatever the small 7" or so panel actually is

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@foone so what's your high score at Giraffe?

@foone good to know, I'm guessing a bit of physical separation between the antenna and pi camera should take care of the issue.

@foone i'm entirely intrigued to see your experiments with Blowing Holes in Crap with a Scary Laser

@foone can they do multiple LUNs? I... cannot think of any good non-cursed reason you'd need this, so of course there should be some device doing it to emulate a bunch of separate drives when you plug it in

what if we kissed in the horizontal blanking interval