Notices by Ryan Finnie (foo@fosstodon.org)

I have an uncanny ability to start watching a livestream just as the host is saying "well that's about it for this stream..."

@foone See how many USB classes you can emulate in one device. Hold down another button and your keyboard turns into an HID mouse which is controlled Asteroids style by the keyboard. Hold yet another button and it becomes a webcam which displays abstract animations depending on the keyboard inputs. Etc, etc.

@foone The GP2040-CE is an open USB gamepad input encoder design. It's got a button on the PCB which turns it into a USB flash drive (because it's based on the RP2040, so that's not new). It's got another button which turns it into a USB ethernet adapter to give you access to a configuration web site.

@Nagaram Lenovo is good about this too. I recently needed to ship back a 50lb P620 workstation to my employer, and had saved the shipping box they sent it to me in. The box looks like it was designed to survive about 5 trips through commercial shippers, which is just the right amount of resiliency for the lifetime of the product. Same deal with their laptops.

@ipg See also: Street Fighter 2 Turbo Alpha 2 v2 final FINAL(2).xls

@squinky @nemothorx @annathyst I'm checking my company HQ's floorplans and one of the conference rooms is named Bullet Train for some reason. Even my employer is telling me to watch it, apparently.

@Screwtapello The Hobbit - Harmy’s Despecialized Edition (it’s just a reprint of the first run of the book)

@Screwtapello You get to choose which riddles outcome you want on the DVD main menu.

Someone once said they saw Buckaroo Banzai as having the energy of an improv show where each new character enters the scene with the goal of being the main character, only to be upstaged by the next main character.

The first time I read The Hobbit, I got a similar feeling from all of the characters.

I want a modern Hobbit movie which only takes from the book. And I don't just mean not making up 75% of the runtime like the did in the trilogy, I mean don't even retcon anything from LotR.

The wood-elves should be overly jolly and sing songs. Their king should be stern but animated (and not named Thranduil). Hell, give Thorin a personality other than the dour he had in the trilogy. Gandalf's just some cool wizard, maybe it's just him, maybe he's part of a race of thousands, who knows.

When you don't want to get out of bed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE

The only time I got addicted to gambling was playing the Money Making Game in Kingdom of Loathing. It was effectively a bunch of people just doing Martingale betting with each other, with a tiny (0.1%) house cut. Sad to have learned it was removed over 5 years ago.

https://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Money_Making_Game

There is a version of Ballroom Blitz which has been in my head for years, and I have no idea where it's from. In frustration, I once listened to every cover I can find, and none come close. My best way of describing it would be a Joan Jett cover with Bad Reputation energy.

(And no, it's not the Wayne's World version; both being by women are pretty much the only similarity.)

Remember, GitHub Actions runner environments are throwaway and ephemeral.

```
- name: Gratuitous destruction
run: |
# Create a future Google screening environment
sudo mv /bin/mv /bin/-
# We don’t need this anymore
sudo rm -f /etc/passwd
```

@foone If it helps for reference, I once wrote a Wireshark lua dissector for 2ping, a low-level UDP protocol. Though as a warning, I haven't looked at it in about a decade, so it may not even work anymore.
https://github.com/rfinnie/2ping/tree/main/wireshark

@brooke This helps: https://github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

The CDC says you can continue to use glxgears as a GPU benchmark.

#CDCSays

@nemothorx Coincidentally, I was looking at rental companies today. I have a bunch of old semi-processed logs in the backyard, and want to get those processed down to firewood, which means a chainsaw and a log splitter. Apparently you can rent a large chainsaw without receiving a psych assessment?

Animal Crossing: Deepwater Horizon

@xan Apropos of nothing, I'm obsessed with how she pronounced "autofocus". First time I watched this video, I was like "wait, WHAT did she say?"

https://youtu.be/DR4MCZHBUhQ?t=48