aka freamon@lemmy.world, freamon@feddit.nl, and any username from lemmon.website

This account is currently parked, and I’m using https://piefed.social/u/andrew_s

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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • I don’t think catbox.moe has the bandwidth lately.

    It works, but it plays slowly (It took 90 seconds to download all 17.5 MB directly, which is longer than the gif lasts).

    I’ve been playing around with animated WEBP files. These are much more efficient than gifs (the linked WEBP is about 330KB), but am having a hard time making them work for Lemmy.

    Option 1: upload them directly to Lemmy, they get auto-recompressed and then often look like garbage
    Option 2: direct-link to external host, Lemmy copies it in and auto-recompresses it with the same effect
    Option 3: URL-link to an external host, which then people are reluctant to click
    Option 4: Include as an inline link in the body of a post, then it looks like a text post, and support for it is variable among web clients and mobile apps



  • I can’t remember. It wouldn’t have been for emulation, because I’m never been that bothered about that. I remember it seemed terribly important that I get one, because I paid extra to skip the queue of pre-orders. I ported software directly on the device itself, but - yeah - I think it was mainly for audio/video stuff (using it like a fragile and cumbersome iPod touch)


  • I use to play around with a little device called Open Pandora (from when System-On-A-Chip really became a thing; it looked like a bulky Nintendo DS and was mostly used to emulate old games (including Nintendo DS ones, interestingly).

    I made an alternative desktop environment for it (so you switch from using XFCE to Openbox).

    Anyway, this wallpaper reminds me of that time:




  • I’m using it right now on new.endlesstalk.org

    It’s beautiful yes, but it’s also kinda dumb. Lots of page elements (like the community banner and notifications section) need manually refreshing to show anything, and I need to press ‘Go’ after changing view (like Subscribed/All or Hot/New) like the web of ancient times. This may just be how it’s implemented at endlesstalk, but there’s other irritations like not having the option to upload a picture when creating posts, and it not actually doing anything if I change my settings to toggle ‘Show NSFW’