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I still remember getting a USSR clone(Leningrad) at 5 years old. It is probably earliest memory I have.

Did not know English, could not read anything, but still spent hundreds of hours first playing, and then tinkering with it.

There was no OS to mess up, and it booted instantly to a Sinclair BASIC prompt.

Only Nikons I own are 35mm film FM2 and F4. The bodies feel like tactile bliss. FM2 has a dry lubricated system with crazy titanium honeycombed etched shutter and F4 is the last pro DSLR they made with no menu system.

On the digital front I found Fuji X-Txx series to be like tiny Nikons in their usability with all common controls on dials.

Why not both? I also use NixOS as the main router/fw/nat, and OpenWRT in bridge mode as dumb APs.

All updates except semi-recent DSA changes were seamless.

I don't want to sound negative, but I genuinely don't get the premise of Tailscale.

VPN as a service sounds wrong from security perspective, as you are giving away all the keys. The same goes to the VPN providers for Internet access, but that at least is not trusted as much as Tailscale is.

These internal services that are annohnced are just... Services you can run on the Internet with TLS.

I had to resort to my own Invidious instance plus Sponsorblock.

Its looks is very much like OG Youtube and it is unusually fast: no overdone JS. You can also sync it up to Clipious on the phone and get a clean, bloat free Youtube experience without ads or slow page loads.

20 Euro Colorlight 5A FPGA boards from Aliexpress come with dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, open toolchain to build a SoC that can access them as well.

LiteX allows me to use it as a Gigabit Ethernet powered logic analyzer with a lot of inputs.

Currently 3D printinga lot of Lego rail on my FDM printer. Although not perfect, it does snap onto original rail and to its 3D printed peers. Lego pieces do snap to the dimples as well, although too tight.

Main use case for me is to lay some track between rooms for kid's trains.

Oh yes, I dabbled a bit into using motion picture film stock for photography. It is fun to shoot it by the frame and not in feet, if you have a lab close to you to deal with the process.

Vision3 50D was recently(for film) introduced in 2011, and I had amazing results with it. Super smooth with very good latitude.

What tripped me when shooting and developing film is that it usually works in negative. With digital you are always looking for overexposure, while negative film is OK with overexposure. Light builds silver density, while lack of it leaves a clear base with no information.

Then you get an analogue NOT operation when printing the negative on the enlarger. Two negative processes make a positive.

Film photography is very interesting as it combines art with optics and chemistry. Just pure magic seeing the image fade into the paper when developing.

Same here! Very happy with their free service, and they do support 2FA.

UI is minimal and gets everything done

It is also old-school in a way of supporting Xresources based config, while at the same time being super strict on UTF-8 support.

Supports strange edge cases that I saw break other emulators like urxvt.

I saw them do A5/1 live cracking on stage in Netherlands. It is amazing what you can do with sheer determination. Learned a lot from their talks on GSM.

USB E1 is holy grail when it comes to E1 interfaces. Before that meant a PCI card, which excluded all laptops and SBCs. And it usually required some pretty specific kernels and modules to be installed.

He also has an amazing essay on futurology called Summa Technologiae. It clearly shows his insight into what is happening to our society as we advance in tech.

It was recently translated to English and is a must read.

PS2 was soft-locked to Sony supplied drives.

Nowadays that bay is very useful for booting games off any HDD. SATA is also supported by using a IDE->SATA board.