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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I definitely recommend Baba Is You and FEZ as well. Similarly to FEZ there is a mobile game Monument Valley (and Monument Valley 2) which I adore. It’s spendier in $/time, but I find is highly worth it.

    Bastion isn’t a 2D game, but I’d like to recommend it while I’m at it, it’s play is perhaps close enough, and it’s stunning.





  • It’s always hard to decipher poor English, but that does seem possible. If you have a multimeter, plugging the socket into a cable would at least allow you to verify the ground and +5v easily. The data etc pins should be doable too, by using a USB A to C cable, and doing a continuity check to the pins inside the USB A side, which would be easy to look up reliably.

    As far as swapping the wires around in the plug, that’s one of the easiest plugs to do it with. If you do need to, you’ll be able to.



  • The fact that phones haven’t been able to to this easily/natively/what have you is wild. Similarly, the fact that you can’t use old tablets as external monitors without, in my experience of quite a few, significantly buggy software that’s got significant lag in the best of times, is pretty wild. Sure, the technical hurdles aren’t small, but damn.

    I’ve got a reasonably high end newish tablet (Galaxy S7+) that I can use miracast to use wirelessly as an extra PC monitor. It works quite well… if I’m near to a high quality new router. But can I just plug the tablet in and use it as a monitor with my laptop? Not remotely well.

    It’s been a year or two, maybe I should check for new software again.




  • I actually own and use drones for these things:
    Scouting out roads/hiking-biking trails/camping spots/photog raphy spots. The drone has saved a good bit of time, and kept me from going down some real nasty roads for no payoff or just regular roads that dead end somewhere that has no view, or already has someone parked at. Similarly my ebike is also helpful for scouting out roads to see if it’s worth taking the van down. Yes, I’m conscious of drone laws and how obnoxious they are, I do my best to minimize noise and am careful about not bothering people, people deserve to hear nature in nature.

    Figuring out if I have to clean the gutters again.
    Make friends.
    One time I used it as a birds eye view with VR(ish) goggles for fun. It was fun, it was awful.
    Take pictures of a friend’s van’s solar installation for insurance purposes.

    Things I do that aren’t weird:
    Take aerial photography/videography.
    Fly around and have fun.

    I may use a drone for the following, but have yet to:
    Get a different view to see if I’m gonna run the van into tree limbs, rocks, etc.
    Fly a cup of sugar to a neighbor who would like to borrow some.
    Have an outdoor “ceiling” light.

    If you have any questions, ask away.