Remote

kelp

@kelp@merveilles.town

hometown 4.2.17+hometown-1.1.2

Hoya! I'm kelp. Currently interseted in #3D modelling, #permacomputing and most fields of #programming

I like writing poetry sometimes.
I also like playing cooperative video games.

Am interested in far too many things.

0 Followers

0 Following

5 Posts

Joined March 16, 2023

pronouns:

he/him

site:

https://kelp.lt

kelp @kelp@merveilles.town

· 8mo ago

I built a pair of ploopy headphones this week!

I am enamoured by how idiot-proof audio equipment can be. I can't say that I managed to follow the provided instructions well, the TRRS connectors are soldered poorly, i managed to somewhat misalign one of the foam pads, but despite all that, the audio quality is great.

kelp @kelp@merveilles.town

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@ifixcoinops not sure if i agree, it's just another tool, usable for both good and evil and as far as "software used for evil", as terrible as this is to admit, even among open source projects, domestic abuse is pretty tame predator drones run linux, after all. My professional software career lasted for all of a year and i know for a fact that CPUs running my code have killed people. (router manufacturer, def did not five off obvious "we're gonna kill peeps" vibes) I do agree that devs should absolutely think more about their impact. Far too many people dead set on the engineering, almost nobody asks if they *should*. all of that aside, what would even be the solution? spying on HA users would just bring us back to square one (or worse). I don't have an answer, just a bunch of frustrating parallels between this and other similar arguments

kelp @kelp@merveilles.town

· 7mo ago

A very interesting new youtube channel has just emerged

https://youtu.be/HfSO-LCKmrA?si=xAZltE_WjRfWqTBO

There’s a Class 100 semiconductor cleanroom inside this backyard shed.

kelp @kelp@merveilles.town

· 7mo ago

Looking for advice on a laptop failure:

Anyone with a thinkpad x240 ever ran into an issue where the LCD backlight works fine but the actual matrix itself slowly goes from pure black to pure white as the computer boots normally otherwise? I've already tried to disconnect and reconnect the internal LCD cable, to no effect.

Is this an LCD failure or a GPU failure?

This machine is of retirement age, to me. It has served me for about a quarter of my life. It is about as well worn as a laptop can get. Bent hinges, re-glued shell, swapped keyboard, swapped trackpad.. I've already repaired it about a dozen times at this point.

Which is why I'm on the fence about repairing it it in the first place.

I am very bummed about losing this computer, but i would also be very excited about getting an MNT reform..

kelp @kelp@merveilles.town

· 8mo ago

@oppen@merveilles.town @ohnoitsnoah@merveilles.town I'm interested, but for shipping to europe