maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

gritty docudrama titled "far away in time: the echo beach story"

having just effortlessly removed an entire dip ic without ruining any of the pads on a 40 year old PCB i'm officially a desoldering gun fan

i'm not sure what makes this a likeable post

i unfortunately have way too many boundaries to be a good sub

Ass

turns out the carriage starts at an offset of 60 steps, so when i was scaling data to a full page width of 960 steps everything was offcenter to the right. i've corrected this in pypenwriter and made it not issue redundant moves to minimise penup/pendown noise

(this picture being offcenter is just due to the scale not matching the paper)

https://github.com/lana-chan/pypenwriter

my sister @angela really needs a break and some good things towards its way right about now

is there any source of the little MAX3232 converter boards on ebay that don't use fake chips that immediately burn themselves up or make the FTDI i plug into them short and blow up

silly me for expecting quality control on a 300 gbp piece of professional equipment

my oscilloscope stopped working inexplicably today showing no signs of life whatsoever

i decided to ignore the "no operator serviceable parts inside" warning and went to look over the power supply board

the AC in header was not at all soldered to the board. i have no idea how this scope worked for years until now

i forgot i can't tell a funny anecdote about computer on the internet anymore without getting unsolicited advice on how to fix the funny behaviour because computers can[t be funny anymore

sometimes windows is like "just closing this 1 app and then shutting down, boss" and you look at the list and the app is like

windows explorer

and it just randomly sits there. for like a minute. when in no other shutdown it has done this