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@MRECheese Exactly something like that, yeah!

@dosnostalgic Ohh, I remember that. Kinda annoying to play, lol.

Spent 4 hours troubleshooting dad's computer (well, not the full 4 hours, but I spent 4 hours over at my parents' place in total, including free dinner) to figure out why it wouldn't work with dad's brand new big monitor.

Turns out that I needed to set the monitor from Displayport 1.2 to Displayport 1.1. Of course, the OSD with those settings wasn't even accessible without a working computer attached to it... so glad I brought my laptop along so I could actually get to the monitor's settings.

Couldn't display the full 4K resolution either on his old rig, but so long the aspect ratio was right, 1440p is fine for him. He wanted stuff to be displayed big anyway (scaled up his display by 175% on top of this too).

While I had my laptop around, I also made a shitton of notes about dad's equipment so that I have some reference material at hand next time I need to troubleshoot his PC again. Might need it next time when we go replace his HDD for an SSD.

All in all, the evening ended satisfactory... it's a lot easier to fix stuff if you have a reliable computer next to you. I love my laptop.
#Hardware #Techie

@freemo Like cows do with farting all day?

I don't see them getting any thinner... ;)

@FailForward Exactly, but I'm tired of wasting all this paper on just quick calculations and such, which I don't want to store for a while but merely needed to put my train of thought on something physical and then is promptly useless after it's finished. This tablet would be ideal for that purpose.

@FailForward Ooh, searching for 'schrijftablet' on bol.com actually yields very useful and cheap results.. I might highly consider this. Thanks for putting me on the right path. :D

@FailForward Yes, way too expensive. And that's still having a whole computer in it... :)

Something similar to this:
https://usb.brando.com/e-note-lcd-writing-tablet_p02391c035d15.html

I guess the more searchable term might be 'writing tablet', hrm.

@FailForward Basically the digital version of an Etch-A-Sketch. ;)

@FailForward I already have a Wacom tablet, but I really mean a simpler one where you draw on it straightly and you see the lines on the tablet. It doesn't need a computer, it's a standalone thing. That'd be handier for a very quick note like doing a little calculation or whatnot.

You know, I wouldn't mind having one of those drawing tablets where you can draw straight on it with a stylus and with the press of a button everything's gone.

Great for temporary notes without having to waste all this paper here...

@Trillenial The what?

@PsychoCod3r Ewwww...

@PsychoCod3r Yeah, I've stopped keeping track since 1999 or so. My study in a foreign country made that I couldn't manage my BBS at home anymore and then I switched over to the big internet which has kept me occupied ever since.

Still sometimes have a bit of nostalgia to the good ol' BBS times.

@PsychoCod3r Interesting. I've used uhhh... wow that's a long time ago, trying to remember all those names here...

I used FrontDoor as a mailer and a front-end for picking up calls as well for a BBS I used to run back then. That handled my mails from Fidonet, and some local networks...

My BBS had a fancy editor that my users could use to write messages to the networks, the name uhh... don't recall, but it was a nice fullscreen editor.

And then I used some external editor as well for myself to be able to write all those mails.

But none of them ever showed avatars, so that's interesting.

@zleap I get what you mean, but I've said this already: I'm not interested in the weather bot. My original comment was purely about the ANSI codes, so you don't really need to continue telling me all about this bot.

@PsychoCod3r Ahh Fidonet. I was a point there a long time ago. I miss those echomail networks.

Was on some local echomail networks as well, had a lot of fun!

But where on Fidonet would those avatars be used? I see this screencap is from The DUNGEON BBS, that's a BBS, not Fidonet itself?

@zleap Yeah, but my comment was purely about the ANSI codes. Good luck with your weather bot. ;)

I finished watching Hilda, The Mountain King. I've already watched the Hilda series before, and the last episode ended with an enormous cliffhanger. The movie continues on where the series ended at.

My observations:
Movie is very nice, totally a great continuation.
Not everything is what it seems.
Don't mix Witch Magic and Troll Magic!
Stupid doves just won't die.
Ending is satisfying, I feel that this Hilda story is pretty much finished.

I can recommend watching this animation!
#Movies #Netflix #Hilda

@zleap Personally I'm not really interested in having the weather forecast on Mastodon. But shouldn't you figure out a way to strip out the ANSI codes?