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It started with some nice software upgrades.
Had my laptop, monitor, etc. on the kitchen table for years, while my home office remained an unused junk storage.
Cleared out the junk and moved my laptop to my office so my girlfriend and I could sit at the dinner table.
Also tidied up the entire attic and my drums are now set up and functional for the first time in almost ten years!
Found my old PS2, ordered a TULIP to HDMI converter, a HDMI switch, and connected my NES Mini, SNES Mini and PS2, together with my PS5, to the TV.
The NES and SNES Mini's had been laying around, unplugged, for years, because I lacked HDMI cables and inputs (which the switch fixed).
Also tidied up the place so my coffee table doesn't have controllers and headsets laying around anymore.
In terms of hardware, I got airco in my living room, bedroom and office.
In two weeks my thermostats (that haven't been working for years now) will get replaced.
And I'm waiting for a quote for sunscreens (working on daylight, and can be neatly placed inside the window frames.
They'll fix the indoor painting as well.
Outdoor will be done next year since all painters have long waiting queues.
I also had to replace my locks and keys because it was apparently very difficult and pricey to had an extra key made
The gate lock had been broken for years, so I replaced everything with one key and they all work smoothly again.
It almost feels like a new home
Very happy with the changes
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To quote George Michael:
Quote: I think I'm done with the kitchen table, baby 
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Recommendations on how to get it fixed? Is there something I can do, or do I send it back to Dell? Or is are the people at Staples smart enough to fix this problem?
[edit]Huh, I finally found a page on Dell support that shows how to rollback the BIOS. Fingers crossed![/edit]
modified 8hrs 15mins ago.
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I started creating a way to connect devices to Winduino. You literally load up the hardware, which is a dll, and then you can set some arbitrary configuration properties if necessary, then you can connect the wires together - literally pin to pin connections from your virtual Arduino board to your virtual sensor, display, or other module.
Implementing an SPI slave and master setup by virtually bit-banging (both master/host and slave/device) at both ends is weird, fun, and challenging. It's basically emulating the hardware enough that you can then build the HAL code on top of that.
Here's code in the slave for processing incoming data as the SPI CLK line changes, looking for particular commands in the stream, and updating the framebuffer as SPI data comes in, much like the actual hardware would do. It's neat.
static void process_byte(uint8_t val) {
if (can_configure) return;
if (dc.value()) {
switch (st) {
case STATE_WRITE:
switch (offset) {
case 0:
write_col = val << 8;
++offset;
++bytes_written;
break;
case 1:
write_col |= val;
uint8_t r = ((float)((write_col >> 11) & 31) / 31.0f) * 255;
uint8_t g = ((float)((write_col >> 5) & 63) / 63.0f) * 255;
uint8_t b = ((float)((write_col >> 0) & 31) / 31.0f) * 255;
if (WAIT_OBJECT_0 == WaitForSingleObject(
render_mutex, INFINITE)) { uint8_t* p = &frame_buffer[column + screen_size.width * row * 4];
*p++ = b;
*p++ = g;
*p++ = r;
*p = 0xFF;
}
++column;
if (column > col_end) {
++row;
if (row > row_end) {
st = STATE_IGNORING;
break;
}
}
++bytes_written;
offset = 0;
break;
}
break;
default:
if (cmd_args_cap == 0) {
cmd_args_cap = 16;
cmd_args_size = 0;
cmd_args = (uint8_t*)malloc(cmd_args_cap);
if (cmd_args == nullptr) {
return;
}
} else if (cmd_args == nullptr) {
return;
}
if (cmd_args_size >= cmd_args_cap) {
cmd_args_cap += (cmd_args_cap * .8);
cmd_args = (uint8_t*)realloc(cmd_args, cmd_args_cap);
if (cmd_args == nullptr) {
return;
}
}
cmd_args[cmd_args_size++] = val;
switch (st) {
case STATE_COLSET:
if (cmd_args_size == 4) {
uint16_t r = cmd_args[0] << 8;
r |= cmd_args[1];
col_start = r;
r = cmd_args[2] << 8;
r |= cmd_args[3];
col_end = r;
cmd_args_size = 0;
column = col_start;
st = STATE_IGNORING;
}
break;
case STATE_ROWSET:
if (cmd_args_size == 4) {
uint16_t r = cmd_args[0] << 8;
r |= cmd_args[1];
row_start = r;
row = row_start;
r = cmd_args[2] << 8;
r |= cmd_args[3];
row_end = r;
cmd_args_size = 0;
st = STATE_IGNORING;
}
case STATE_WRITE:
if (bytes_written == sizeof(uint16_t) * (row_end - row_start + 1) * (col_start - col_end + 1)) {
st = STATE_IGNORING;
}
break;
}
break;
}
} else {
bytes_written = 0;
bytes_read = 0;
cmd = val;
if (cmd == colset) {
st = STATE_COLSET;
} else if (cmd == rowset) {
st = STATE_ROWSET;
} else if (cmd == write) {
st = STATE_WRITE;
} else if (cmd == read) {
st = STATE_READ;
} else {
st = STATE_IGNORING;
cmd_args_size = 0;
}
}
}
static void on_clk_changed(void* state) {
if (cs.value()) return;
if (clk.value()) {
if (bit_count == 8) {
process_byte(in_byte);
bit_count = 0;
in_byte = 0;
}
in_byte |= mosi.value();
++bit_count;
} else {
in_byte << 1;
}
}
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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#Worldle #609 3/6 (100%)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟨➡️
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜⬅️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🎉
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Wordle 826 3/6
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 826 4/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 826 3/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wordle 826 3/6
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 826 4/6
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
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⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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Wordle 826 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
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🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩
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That third guess
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Edge, that is. I just received the pdf for the preliminary design of a 35 mile 69kV power line and tried to print. Edge declared itself the default pdf viewer/printer application and attempted to open the file. After about 10 minutes it finally showed a preview to me, but when I tried to print the document (33 C-size pages) it froze for 15 minutes, then declared it couldn't calculate the size of the job, then stopped completely, showing me a black screen.
Silly Microsoft; you're d$%^ed invasive browser can't do everything, nor should it!
How do I get it off my computer? Grrr... Even if I could, that would probably break something else.
PS - Installed Acrobat and it printed immediately without a hitch.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Your "Microsoft QA Engineer" badge is in the mail.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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That's OK, "BitCoin will go to $500,000 in 2024", says so and so ... so you can get all your money back.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Please remember that a lot of youth who was claiming NFT to be greatest thing ever which will change the world, has attention span small enough to already forget that NFTs exist.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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I wouldn't count myself a youth but I had already forgotten NFTs existed. 
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I sold some of my "comic art" in grade school for a dime ... I think it's value kept pace!
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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As opposed to 100% last year? Seems to be an improvement.
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I find I can bear this disaster with tremendous fortitude.*
* And snigger while I read it ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Quote: "This daunting reality should serve as a sobering check on the euphoria that has often surrounded the NFT space," This daunting reality should serve as a sobering reminder of how stupid people can be.
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