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oh well nevermind. this is already well documented. yeah they just badly scaled clarus when they started using her in print preview clarus.chez-alice.fr/history.p

@jsit looks like apple themselves got it wrong in 1991 youtube.com/watch?v=Qc-8zQPwp2 that's probably where it started. but yeah, it's clearly a wrong nearest-neighbor rescale of the original

getting irrationally angry about how every "mac" "enthusiast" use a badly wrong-scaled version of the clarus dogcow icon enough that it is the one you find the most on the internet

is there a music recognition thing for android and also for desktop that isn't shazam

for my 30th year being activated i want everyone to take a cool look at all the stuff i've done maple.pet/ netizen.club/ soundcloud.com/svetlana especially my pride and joy maple.pet/webgbcam and send me nice messages especially if i've made stuff you liked because i've been really lonely lately

weird thing @LaserScheme just noticed: US/EUR dreamcasts say "compatible with". JP dreamcasts say "designed for".

tell me something good that happened. to you or in general. :boost_ok:

hey if you're awake enough to follow me. i have no true text anywhere, it's all a headache

restarting openssh server failed. open journalctl -xe to find out why

journalctl -xe: restarting openssh server failed.

love transfems on tumblr saying cohost is good because the ownership is 3/4 transfems joke's on you computerfairi.es and forum.transbian.love both have full 1/1 transfem ownership so it's better

bring back multi-column desktop website designs. stop making everything mobile-first. sometimes i just want my eye sensors blasted with information. look at this website lingscars.com/

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i'm not against more accessibility on the internet but i really have a sour taste left in my sensors about how much fun and creativity has been killed in the name of decrying them as "accessibility nightmares"

if i can control the printhead directly and bypass the entire controller so i can print whatever pattern i want instead of just text, that would be ideal. i just have no idea how to approach it

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i've tried to do this with an AVR board, but from what i understand GPIOs aren't really suited for closing contacts like this. maybe with a ground/voltage reference i could pull a pin to the same value, but i'm not entirely sure if that would work or what the circuit needs to look like not to damage any of the parts.

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here's a problem i've been thinking about for a couple years now

i got a Typestar 10-II, it is immensely cost cut and barely has any features.

i want to make it into an ASCII printer. i don't have a logic analyzer to figure out the communication or levels between the controller and the print head. i thought about faking keypresses but i'm not sure what i can use to close a circuit like a key. by my account if i wanted to use 4066s it would go out of hand in part count fast.

what would you do?

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