Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I now own a computer I've been wanting since the '80s for no reason other than it's as utterly cheap in price and quality as a fully functional home computer could get: A Timex Sinclair 1000. The picture quality is delightfully crappy. Unfortunately, half the keyboard doesn't work, which probably means its super-cheap ribbon cable kinked & broke.

Thank goodness for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. I had to take my (secondhand) A500 apart to see if a RAM upgrade I was eyeing is compatible, but I found this weird little Kickstart switcher card I couldn't identify in the ROM socket instead. http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=669

Just put your 0.75 PB of data in a zip file & email it to yourself, Linus. If it's still too big, keep putting the zip file in another zip file until you're down to 64 KB. :V

(Linus Tech Tips exploring cloud storage solutions and exploiting Google Drive.) https://youtu.be/y2F0wjoKEhg

@maxinered That seems most true on your instance in particular. :3

If LB isn't real, it probably should be.

LB: my brain when I'm trying to go to sleep.

@JulieSqveakaroo You fit them all quite well. :3

Anyway, back to streams & pop-ups, I fleshed it out into two shellscripts & commented the heck out of them.

I listen to radio streams at work with one script, $HOME/bin/radio: https://pastebin.com/rPsrKP94

And find out what's playing with another, $HOME/bin/radio-xsonginfo: https://pastebin.com/DHx7TraQ

Also, you can control mplayer with or without a terminal window if you do this:

mkdir -p $HOME/.mplayer

mkfifo $HOME/.mplayer/fifo

echo "input=file=/home/you/.mplayer/fifo" >> $HOME/.mplayer/config

Then, while mplayer's running,

Quit mplayer:
echo quit > $HOME/.mplayer/fifo

Pause/resume mplayer:
echo pause > $HOME/.mplayer/fifo

Play next file/stream:
echo pt_step 1 > $HOME/.mplayer/fifo

Play previous file/stream:
echo pt_step -1 > $HOME/.mplayer/fifo

@maple "a11y allies" has a nice ring to it.