DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab @djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology

Long ago, I thought I was special, different than everyone else, and I was surrounded by adults who reinforced that thought daily.

Eventually, I realized that I was special, different than everyone else, and so was every other person in the world.

They left out the important bit. We're each special and different and that's what makes us awesome.

I celebrate your special difference, friends, each of you. May it bring you the joy in the coming years that it has brought me getting to know each of you during the last few.

I remember showing up over here by following the jetsam [1] of the first infosec migration across the tumultuous seas of microblogging, slightly disoriented but little worse for wear.

There was a lot of space back then. You could swing a raccoon in a circle around your head [2] without having to worry about giving someone a faceful of frenetic fur. [3] Fewer than twenty-five thousand souls inhabited this archipelago [4] at that point, gathering on a handful of islands.

I was pretty sure I was destined to be consumed [5] by those who had arrived before my cohort.

In a way, I was. I am no longer the person I was when I arrived here. I have been changed by this place. I have been changed by this ever-changing group of groups of people. I have been changed by you. [6]

Fierce storms will batter these little islands. Battles will arise. Pain and grief are by-products of interaction.

But so are laughter and cheer and warmth and contentedness.

And love.

My neighbors, the very least that I wish for each and every one of you is to find days so filled with love that there's no time for hate and nights so restful that you rise burning with the force of the sun within you.

Mend what is broken. Build shelters you need. Make mistakes and make them count. This is your world and mine and it will be exactly what we make it, but the sky is the limit if we keep looking up instead of bringing ourselves down.

Thanks for being here, thanks for being you, and thanks for listening to the rambling of a silly old dog.

[1] unbeknownst to many, stale infosec memes are extremely buoyant
[2] assuming the raccoon consented to be swung such
[3] assuming someone wasn't throwing their face at the nearest bit of fur
[4] h/t to @priryo for https://linernotes.club/@priryo/100565446740959131 and @sydneyfalk for https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/sydneyfalk/updates/85279
[5] ​
[6] assuming I consented to be changed such [7]
[7] I did

achievement heckin GET

mastodon streaming on a #Kaypro 2-83 #retrocomputing

this is my semi-regular yet aperiodic reminder that this place here is a distributed federated version of Callahan's as far as I can tell and that is one of the most bestest things that can be.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon

Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.

Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.

Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.

I need to track down the code mrfixit2001 added to this debian build to make the power led flash with drive access so it can be added to, say, manjaro-arm too

this nvme module might be power friendly enough for the pinebook pro for everyday use, but here is a pro tip:

do not expect it to also power a usb3-connected spinning rust hard drive because it will not do so for long. trust.

With bs=1M, the transfer reading from emmc and writing to NVMe is averaging ~76 megabytes per second.

Now testing a Sabrent 256gb NVMe module, and have hopefully convinced it to go as easy on the amps as it can without just doing nothing.

Currently dd'ing the (unbooted) image on /dev/mmcblk1 (the 128gb emmc module) to /dev/nvme0n1 (the NVMe module) on battery power - so far so good

unbrick my heart
say you'll boot up again

(apologies to Toni Braxton)

For interested parties, I followed these instructions: https://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-7-2013/development/rom-t3569067

using twrp 3.3.1.0 and lineage 17.1 rom linked in that post, along with android-tools on manjaro-arm (yep, used a $99 laptop to re-flash what was a tablet costing twice that lol)

All right - lineage 17.1, based on android 10, does indeed run on nexus 7 2013.

Another google device has been de-googled.

#saveTheGibson

Might also take side trip through trying to wedge lineageOS on one or more of the Nexus 7 (2013) tablets I have stacking up in the lab, in hopes it goes well this time and they become useful remote 1080p touchscreen terminals for other projects

on tap for my non-auditory activities today, I'll be disassembling and reassembling my pinebook pro again (to swap out NVMe modules and put a working u-boot back on the eMMC) and then probably poking at some electronics with a hot stick.