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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • The 100% fake enthusiasm, especially if it comes after buying a mediocre product.

    The annoying corporate speak.

    The bad voice over where lipsyncing is completely gone, this is mostly a thing of the past here in Sweden, but from time to time you get ads from companies launching a product across europe and only record one video to the ad and then translate and do a new voiceover for specific languages as needed, but fail to sync the audio with the video.

    Annoying music, for months now a company has been pushing their financial services withe the same terrible ad that is a slideshow and an increadibly annoying music, there is no person talking, they just have a fast tempo music track. I have vowed to never buy anything from them because their ad sucks and is annoying.

    Reusing ads, sometimes a company buys almost all ad slots on YT over months and reuse their one ad video so it is completely grating.

    Self-righteousness, some ads go from being overly enthusiastic to being intolerably self-righteous. There was a new clinic chain of companies that started a big push a few years ago on yt and for several months you had to listen to an overly kind and happy grandmother wearing a company branded sweater, faking a hearty laugh and telling people to go to their clinic.











  • I am a big fan of Ducky, and I’d recommend you to look at their popular One 3, or Shine series.

    I have not used a Shine in many years, but I am daily driving the One 2 series, the One 3 has replacable switches, RGB and a good design.

    As for what switch you should get…

    MX Brown are tactile, so no deliberate click, but just about any mechanical keyboard will make some noise depending on how you type.

    With replacable switches you can get other switches if you find the default not to be to your liking.



  • I don’t have a lot of crazy stories, but I have one unusual story.

    I got to go take a private train with my dad.

    We had one first class car and one locomotive.

    My dad worked in the train industry, he sold equiment used for railroads.

    He called me one day and asked if I wanted to ride a private train, I had time so I gave the only apropriate answer, “yes”.

    So after having worked a night shift I slept far too little, got on the train to the city my dad was in to ride the private train back.

    He was doing a demo of his company’s equipment and had arranged for them to use a private train, I just joined him on the journey to our city as a fun and interesting experience.




  • THE solution is not to buy the wife an Android, that is ONE solution.

    In total, there are a few solutions, I number them to make it easier to refer to them, not to order them from best to worst.

    1. Get yourself an iPhone
    2. Get your wife an Android
    3. Wait for iOS 18
    4. Switch to a messaging app like Element or Signal.

    1 and 2: Unless you yourself can accept switching to using the other system, it is unfair to demand that the other part does that.

    I have tried to switch to Android, I did it back in 2019, but I just disliked the feel of the OS enough that after dropping my phone and smashing the screen after 2-3 months, I didn’t even bother to get it fixed, I just moved back to my iPhone.

    1. iOS 18 will have RCS, and will probably solve this.




  • This is not just one simple question.

    You need to break it down into smaller tasks.

    First things first, you need to get data from a Pixelfed instance, ok, start by looking up how to connect to the Pixelfed API.

    Once you have a way to connect to the API, you need to request the data you need.

    Once you have the data, look at the actual data, do you need to do extra formating?

    Once you have the data, it is time to get/build the display.

    Once you have the display, you need to figure out how to get your computer to talk to it, is it as simple as just sending the number to the serial port or do you need to use something like the GPIO interface on a Raspberry pi?