Posts by MatStace@octodon.social
(DIR) Post #1778358 by MatStace@octodon.social
2018-12-06T19:11:16Z
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@kelbot work and personal macbook pros are in the incase plastic clamshell things. Personal X220i (super cheap ebay refurb model) just goes in the laptop compartment of my bags as it is.
(DIR) Post #1778500 by MatStace@octodon.social
2018-12-06T19:16:51Z
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@kelbot My current one was £80, so I don't feel too emotionally attached to it, which makes it easy to take to things like EMFCamp. It's such a low spec it doesn't have a webcam too, which is nice :-)(disclaimer: I'm ignoring the SSD/RAM/extended battery which I moved over from my previous X220 in the mental accounting ;-) )
(DIR) Post #9gG3NGwpOiPXajtgnY by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-02-27T10:34:23Z
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With Netflix's Marvel shows being cancelled (presumably moved to Disney's new streaming service), and now the announcement of #BritBox from the BBC and ITV, which I assume will also have some sort of show exclusivity around it, I can only foresee an increase in piracy, not a decrease.When will companies learn to reduce friction? If I have to pay for one streaming service, fine. If I have to pay for three or four? Then I'll be looking at torrents and usenet again...
(DIR) Post #9hQgeEJP59tX6HhodE by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-04-03T11:53:09Z
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@kelbot Ooh, that Odroid HC2 looks like a lovely little bit of kit. Seems like the perfect thing to configure with an always on VPN client, then swap with a friend to have mutual off-site backups.
(DIR) Post #9hQq6TgsOiQEUZEHwm by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-04-03T13:39:04Z
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@kelbot $50? OK, now I'm jealous. The dollar equivalent of the price here in the UK is about $85.Although I am in NYC at the start of March, maybe I can order a couple to my hotel...
(DIR) Post #9hSrSeMhsWysEwqr1k by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-04-04T13:03:44Z
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@kelbot I went for a mini-itx board with pfsense.Probably a little overkill for home, but it lets me play with vlans, act as an openvpn server and/or client, and do firewall things like block my IoT subnet from using anything other than my own DNS
(DIR) Post #9ieYlzU8oLoEIXxz6W by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-05-09T23:06:04Z
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@kemonine It usually takes years of work to have an overnight success ;-)
(DIR) Post #9is2hVjXfG2L34ANzE by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-05-16T13:48:16Z
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@kemonine @kelbot y'all are costing me money here... 😉 I was intending to just make a mental note of that controller for future projects, but then I clicked around and found this for lead acid batteries https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1795.html and now I'm redesigning one of my ham radio projects 😂
(DIR) Post #9jZGeFFPG84kNH3WSW by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-06-06T10:58:25Z
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@kelbot I suspect the code might be no use to me in the UK, but I'm definitely interested in more details about the display
(DIR) Post #9kCoRPEZ3njw8EM5JY by MatStace@octodon.social
2019-06-25T12:50:47Z
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@kelbot Mate of mine has been plugging away at something like this https://hackaday.io/project/16459-grimmplayer (The "doesn't toot very often at all" @grimmware )