<midfavila>
"I am still working out the component costs, so I can't give a price indication until the campaign goes live unfortunately :) "
<midfavila>
darn
<midfavila>
okay i lied i'm sorry qwq
<dery>
no worries
<midfavila>
i'm a little flustered atm
<dery>
nah fr nw
<midfavila>
one of the regulars at my job came in and started yapping about canada post and their union and stuff and aaaaaaaaa
* midfavila
facedesks
<dery>
I mean it's not that urgent tbh
<dery>
like, an ebook
<midfavila>
ye
<midfavila>
i saw some talk of people wanting to turn the hinge into an 18650 compartment
<midfavila>
i think that would be super slick
<dery>
been eyeing one for a while but I got like a pile of government-funded books cause I had maxed out my maturity exam
<midfavila>
hmm
<dery>
too bad it expired in a year so I bought a crapton of stuff all at once
<midfavila>
honestly i feel like the software on this might be limited for textbooks
<dery>
books and movies
<dery>
fuck yea
<midfavila>
at least rn
<midfavila>
apparently it only supports epubs atm
<dery>
wym
<dery>
how does it not support regular books what's the difference
<dery>
epub is crazy overkill lmao
<midfavila>
aren't most textbooks distributed as pdfs?
<dery>
yea
<midfavila>
i've had poor experiences trying to convert a pdf to an epub
<dery>
actually most e-books are epubs cause it's just text
<dery>
I mean, I don't see why it should suck so much
<midfavila>
yeah but textbooks have all their charts and schtuff
<dery>
ooooh sorry
<dery>
limited _for_ textbooks
<midfavila>
yeah
<dery>
not _to_
<midfavila>
yeah
<dery>
yea sorry my bad
* midfavila
pats
<dery>
yea I can see why
<midfavila>
s'okay
<dery>
although epub is just, like, html
<midfavila>
yea
<dery>
I don't see why one couldn't just convert each page to svg and slap in in the page
<dery>
there has got to be a page separator primitive in there
<midfavila>
maybe, dunno. it's not been released yet, creator said the source and schematic will be put out once it's all funded and in production
<dery>
yea right if it's open source (under a libre license I hope) worst case there has got to be an embedded pdf rasterizer or something
<midfavila>
also!!!
<midfavila>
unrelated
<dery>
even just a list of bitmaps would probably be fine lol
<midfavila>
i heard that there's a new company setting up shop in my city
<midfavila>
they're doing mineral exploration and mining ig and they want to hire a bunch of people
<midfavila>
and it starts at like 35 an hour
<midfavila>
ig they're already a big name in this province
<dery>
ohhh nice
<dery>
I suppose they also need IT people?
<dery>
or are you going to the mines
<midfavila>
i mean i'll do whatever you want for 35 an hour
<dery>
understandable lol
<midfavila>
i'll move boxes or dig holes if it means i can like
<dery>
it's like, how much per month?
<midfavila>
>afford
<midfavila>
uhhhh
<midfavila>
let me check
<midfavila>
like a lot
<dery>
wahoo
<dery>
midcraft time
<midfavila>
there's mandatory overtime but you get paid doubletime after eight hours
<midfavila>
plus your transport time is part of that
<midfavila>
so you get eight hours at 35 an hour and then 4-5 hours a day on top of that at 70
<midfavila>
i think that's for the miners specifically
<dery>
still sounds very sweet I think
<dery>
the grind begins
<midfavila>
if i get the job yeah
<midfavila>
inb4 immediately die of coal dust inhalation
<dery>
do they ask for qualifications or smth
<dery>
are there qualifications for miner
<midfavila>
no they train you
<dery>
this sounds too good to be true lol
<dery>
is this due to the rare earth thing
<midfavila>
that and they need to pull uhhhh
<midfavila>
potash out of the ground for fertiliser and shit too
<midfavila>
it's for a company called nutrien
<dery>
nice
<midfavila>
they're super big here, they sponsor a lot of events and stuff
<dery>
the only good thing that came out of the orange man is that everyboy's realizing that depending on a single entity is never good
<dery>
since they can casually go crazy out of dementia or something and ignore all treaties done before
<midfavila>
nah
<midfavila>
see
<midfavila>
here's the thing right
<midfavila>
americans you might want to close your ears
<midfavila>
trump is like
<midfavila>
the most honest and straightforward incarnation *of* america
<midfavila>
this isn't some aberration or deviance or whatever
<midfavila>
this is just what america *is*
<midfavila>
stripped of respectability politics
<dery>
well yea I get what you mean but we still have stuff like NATO and (had) free trade
<dery>
and most of those things came with conditions
<midfavila>
NATO and free trade are only benefits for the owning class
<dery>
like, free trade if DRM and copyright and whatever
<dery>
and patetns
<dery>
patents
<midfavila>
they exist to stabilise and open markets to exploitation so that capital investments can move freely
<midfavila>
and, thus, capitalists
<midfavila>
rich people can literally buy citizenship
<midfavila>
in like, many different countries
<midfavila>
and they can fuck off around the world whenever they want on their bullshit jets and cruises and whatever the fuck
<dery>
yeye but again, even europe is liberal and whatever
<midfavila>
and it's not even a big thing for them
<dery>
and they had to bend quite a bit to make america happy and whatever
<dery>
and now america is like "nah nevermind"
<midfavila>
>oh i can get citizenship in greece for 500kUSD? nice
<midfavila>
meanwhile that's like ten to twenty years of wages for some people here
<midfavila>
most people, even
<dery>
cory doctorow points out that we have DRM, 90 years of copyright and shit cause free trade
<dery>
and trump casually said no
<dery>
we could literally make DRM illegal and nothing would change at this point
<midfavila>
well yeah
<dery>
which would mesh super well with eurostack and other stuff
<midfavila>
europe isn't an equal partner
<dery>
and that's the only good thing that came out of this mess, that we're starting to realize that
<midfavila>
i mean europe isn't exactly a victim either, there's a lot of fucked up shit that europe does to the global south
<midfavila>
ugh look can you let canada join the EU
<midfavila>
i'll even settle for the EEA
<dery>
like, we have open source public administration apps here in italy and not only is the corporation behind terrible (private contracts, ik), but they also depend on fucking google attestation
<midfavila>
we have a land border with denmark and you can swim to france from canada in like ten minutes
<dery>
yea ik europe sucks ass too but it's like the least terrible rn I think
<midfavila>
i just want free education :sob:
<midfavila>
and like a small house to live in
<midfavila>
and to be able to walk to the store without almost dying
<midfavila>
i'll even learn to speak european smdh my damn head
<dery>
talking bout that
<dery>
have you considered getting one of those lesson-slop apps
<dery>
for language
<midfavila>
ugh, no, i would never
<midfavila>
they're a total waste of time
<dery>
yea
<dery>
but maybe even just to buil muscle memory or something
<dery>
if you have trouble with learning, dunno, french or something
<midfavila>
the new brunswick government offers free language training in french but i don't qualify for it any more since i had to move
<dery>
oof
<dery>
but yea I'm happy that we're starting to wake up from the big tech dream
<dery>
eurostack ftw
<midfavila>
idek if that matters at this point
<midfavila>
like it's good but it's only a symptom
<midfavila>
and idk if people writ large are willing to look at the underlying cause
<midfavila>
tired, boss
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dies
<dery>
at this point I'll take anything
<midfavila>
need the next hit of hopium
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<midfavila>
man i wish payphones were still common
<midfavila>
like what if my phone is dead or i'm out of reception or something
<dery>
ye
<dery>
it's just dumb to assume that I have a personal communicator available 24/24
<dery>
back when I had only a broken phone around I had to unironically ask random people
<dery>
damn I hate smartphones more and more
<dery>
you know what I would really like to see? VoIP phones like that one you sent me
<dery>
just give me an optimized device for VoIP communications, including encrypted ones like with telegram or whatnot
<midfavila>
see i'm even fine with like
<midfavila>
carrying a separate pda
<midfavila>
or a laptop and then only checking my IMs on those
<midfavila>
a device like the uconsole or beepis or similar is perfectly fine for that
<midfavila>
plus then you can do linux stuff in your pocket if you want
<midfavila>
the thing with the wiphone is like
<midfavila>
every public hotspot has a fucking captive portal now
<midfavila>
and it demands your goddamn firstborn just to get some shitty connection that barely works
<midfavila>
and weh
<midfavila>
also i've been discovering that a lot of the things i like are based on the esp32 lmao
<midfavila>
the wiphone is esp32, the tangara is esp32, the pocket mage is esp32, and the diptyx is esp32
<midfavila>
so i bet you could get irc running on it
<midfavila>
and if you can get irc running on it...
<midfavila>
oh shit
<midfavila>
you could get gopher running on this actually
<midfavila>
!
<midfavila>
gemini too...
<dery>
I mean
<dery>
I'm not necessarily advocating for WiFi itself
<midfavila>
yeye
<dery>
even just LTE or hell even NR
<dery>
just like, let's drop the whole obsolete phone stack and move that to voip. No VoLTE or... VoNR???!??
<dery>
Just literal IP packets, make everything network based, it literally unlocks VoWiFi for free, without operator shenanigans
<midfavila>
the wiphone has an lte backplace fwiw
<midfavila>
backplate
<dery>
yea
<dery>
but in general I'd like to see more versions of the wiphone, more efficient software stacks and who knows what
<dery>
like I don't know if I said that already, but I wonder if anybody tried the modem-sleep architecture of normal phones
<dery>
where there's a tiny microcontroller always listening which wakes up the main CPU only when receiving calls
<midfavila>
i think the esp32 has an ultra low power coproc so that could be a thing
<dery>
uhhh yea, good catch
<dery>
although I wonder how feasible it would make to have a literal shim that looks and feels like an LTE/WiFi modem but that also exposes an USB wakeup call or something
<dery>
I have a dejavu lol
<dery>
I'm sure I talked about this already lma
<midfavila>
not to me
<midfavila>
maybe elsewhere
<dery>
damn I think that I could work on it. Like, it would definitely tingle the right neurons
<dery>
I'd work hard on it fr
<midfavila>
this is what makes me want to go to school :sob:
<midfavila>
i would love to work on this kind of stuff but i'm a fuckign BRAINLET
<dery>
I don't think this requires really school
<midfavila>
and have no idea where to start
<dery>
like, USB LTE modems are actually serial
<dery>
they use a protocol called AT to transmit messages
<dery>
I know that cause broken pinephone lmao
<midfavila>
it's not at
<midfavila>
it's the hayes code
<dery>
nuh uh
<dery>
wait
<midfavila>
...it's literally the same system dialup modems use-
<midfavila>
close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
<dery>
hey the code calls it like that
<dery>
nyways
<dery>
it's a dumb serial protocol
<dery>
I don't think this is stuff they teach at school, at most they'd teach you how to figure it out i guess
<midfavila>
idk maybe i'm overestimating it
<dery>
EPS32 definitely has serial if not even USB handling functionality, I'm sure that it can easily communicate with it with minimal to no hardware communications
<midfavila>
i've taken some intro classes before on OCW and edx and i've always found it really boring and condesceding
<dery>
also it's free on linux SoCs
<dery>
I mean that's what I mean when I talk about tingling the right neuron
<midfavila>
fair ig
<dery>
maybe it is for you or maybe it's just the lesson format
<midfavila>
nah it's just like
<dery>
I'd unironically say "try it", EPS32 has got some real sweet official APIs based on FreeRTOS
<midfavila>
idk i've written (small) patches for linux before and fiddled with X's source code and other stuff. nothing crazy, but i at least know the basics of C and the principles behind some common algorithms and data structures and *stuff*
<midfavila>
and i've fiddled with curses and sockets and so on
<midfavila>
so to go from that to like
<dery>
oh I see
<dery>
well yea school would help with that yea
<dery>
I think
<midfavila>
>this is hello world in scratch woooooooow
<midfavila>
>look at that it's a compuuuuuuuuuuuuuuter!!!
<midfavila>
is pretty insulting
<dery>
dunno in high school we had some very crappy c-with-classes-c++ courses
<midfavila>
my high school only had BASIC and java :\
<dery>
but university from the little I could manage to do before burning out completely it looked pretty advanced
<midfavila>
10 print fuck
<midfavila>
20 goto 10
<dery>
lmao
<midfavila>
run
<kris_>
fuck
<dery>
fuck
<midfavila>
fuck
<midfavila>
tfw this is peak new brunswick education
<kris_>
i was walking down the street and some guy comes up to me on a bicycle and is like "yo bro can i give you something" and obviously im immediately uncomfortable/weirded out by this and im like ehhh
<kris_>
he goes "its just a note, you can read it whenever you want" and hands it out to me so i accept it
<kris_>
and then he just rolls off on his bike
<kris_>
i look at this shit and it reads "be gentle to yourself and others around you, your environment is shaping who you're to become"
<kris_>
this guy was rolling around spreading positivity
<kris_>
literally made my day, floored me
<kris_>
i still have the note, im gonna find some random fucker to hand it to like he did