cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53549763

Twenty years? I want to go on a skiing trip with Mitch!

Can Tracy convince black americans to vote Republican?

To summarize: New study that shows that about 878 former NFL players died between 2016 and 2021. Of those, 215 had brains that tested positive for CTE, but the freaky part is that only 235 brains total were tested. Even allowing for some dramatic self-selection, that's crazy.

Additionally, the NFL couldn't get peer review to accept their study showing the new Guardian Cap reduces concussions by 52% but won't stop publicizing it, and the visually similar cap sold to youth and high school competitions is an even worse product than that.

Finally, as per Dr. Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. ("Chris Harvard" if you're a ![email protected] aficionado), the focus in this area of research has shifted from truly sub-concussive hits to the moderate and heavy hits they're now calling asymptomatic concussions.

Do you think I'll ever be able to get another one?

The golden goose is not dead or even on life support quite yet, but it got some troubling news at the last vet visit...

Not really looking for anything specific here, though some project is always just over the horizon with me. Seeing things like the RP2350 PC emulator and some retrocomputing videos got me wondering about intentionally low-end bare-iron devices that evoke the 8-bit computing era without emulation or FPGAs (both of which are cool and obviously the easiest way to recreate software and hardware, respectively) but also without being obligated to literally re-create an old machine with new old stock chips.

The easy solution is a Single Board Computer running Linux without a windowing system, but that's not really in the spirit of what I'm getting at. Like, what machines or projects do you know of that boot straight to a text based interface, or even a BASIC or Python prompt as the "OS", have some sort of removable storage, some sort of video and audio out, and support a keyboard, but are aggressively not a modern commercially viable architecture for PCs? Bonus points if it does have some enthusiast community.

All that said, I'm intrigued by this whole category, so I'd love to hear about your favorite retro-inflected projects even if they don't exactly match my poorly defined parameters (some FPGA stuff boggles my English-major mind). Some I've run across include:

• Microbeast, though it seems to lack "proper" video out without an add on.
• CODY
• Olimex RP2040-pc, though it seems only to run emulators and demo code
• Geoff Graham's Maximite and Picomite may be the purest expression of what I'm talking about. Fair warning: he does have some interesting ideas about open source (TL;DR he got burned not trademarking a name and blamed the GPL, though not exactly open source generally. Current software uses his own source available license)

Pretty sure most of the other recent ones were AI too, but these checked all the meme boxes. I think I got them all censored well enough not to dox us instantly.

• https://files.catbox.moe/gixxnq.jpg
• https://files.catbox.moe/9yj9c0.jpg
• https://files.catbox.moe/9yj9c0.jpg
• https://files.catbox.moe/urwsx3.jpg

I especially like that several of them mixed up the middle school's mascot with the high school across the street.

I suppose I might someday spackle the toggle bolt holes from the old fluorescent fixture, but jeez this blade bulb is plenty of light.

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Post wherever you want, but some say we got blackjack and Hookers over there. I mean, they're lying, but people do say that.

Okay, it's just me who said it, and I just said it the one time right now, but you get it.

Go Gators. Go Frogs. Reptile teams forever.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51637498

Okay, so by “controller” I just mean a specialized mechanical keyboard. Endless Sky is a spiritual successor to the Escape Velocity games.

• Gateron Black for most of the keyboard switches
• Also got momentary toggle switches and a light duty aluminum push button, because Millennium Falcon and Top Gun.
• “DSA” and “F10” profile keycaps
• laser cut (painted Masonite) and 3D printed (PLA)enclosure
• Layout built around the in-cockpit control mapping
• Hand-wired (aka “Dead Bug”) keyboard matrix
• QMK/VIAL programmable firmware on my last Promicro with a Micro-USB cable.
• Dymo-style embossing tape labels!!!

Okay, so by “controller” I just mean a specialized mechanical keyboard. Endless Sky is a spiritual successor to the Escape Velocity games. EDIT: I also realized this pic is from before I wired it up, but the only differences are four screws in the corners and the Micro USB cord from my long-gone Nexus 10 tablet semi-permanently coming out the back.

• Gateron Black for most of the keyboard switches
• Also got momentary toggle switches and a light duty aluminum push button, because Millennium Falcon and Top Gun.
• “DSA” and “F10” profile keycaps
• laser cut (painted Masonite) and 3D printed (PLA)enclosure
• Layout built around the in-cockpit control mapping
• Hand-wired (aka “Dead Bug”) keyboard matrix
• QMK/VIAL programmable firmware on my last Promicro with a Micro-USB cable.
• Dymo-style embossing tape labels!!!

Flags everywhere, and not just ‘Merican ones, actual flags for the branches of the armed forces. They even bought Space Force flags, for fuck’s same.

L-R:

• Platinum Prefounte (M)
• Montblanc 146 (M)
• Pilot Capless Decimo (M)
• Hero 330 (Parker 51 demi clone) from circa 2000 with a 1.3-ish stub I ground myself back in the day as a college student with a dremel and wet-dry sandpaper. Actually writes like a dream as long as you keep it in its sweet spot
• Lamy Safari Demonstrator with knockoff 1.1 stub (wife bought me two of them a couple of years apart, so the second one got the experiment)