Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

On the membrane keyboard, it's definitely something you don't want to do a lot of typing on, with barely any feedback at all. I keep expecting it to beep like a microwave's keypad. But to be honest, the keys that work feel better than any smartphone's on-screen keyboard I've ever touched.

It's so tiny that my 2007 netbook has a larger footprint.

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

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

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

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

mplayer "http://ice3.somafm.com/spacestation-32-aac" | stdbuf -o L grep "^ICY Info: StreamTitle=" | while read line; do stream=`echo $line | cut -d\' -f2`; len=$((`echo $stream | wc -c`+4)); Xdialog --infobox "$stream" 5 $len 10000; done

A few days ago, I used this shell one-liner to listen to Space Station Soma, and whenever the stream switched to a new tune, pop up a window showing what it was.

Instead of popping up randomly, I wanted to flesh it out so I could call up a pop-up whenever.