fedibuzz alleges that you can follow a single specific instance with their relay, and I see nothing to suggest that I can’t use it better federate with mastodonapp.
I did note, though, that both my instance and mastodonapp are connected to relay.intahnet.co.uk - and whilst it has a few issues in the logs, it has none since i reset the instance again after attempting limited federation mode.
But ruby is so hard :(
I come from c# land and my skills are soft and squishy
You don’t need something huge. Remove the DVD drive and the old mechanical drive from a USFF machine, stick a pair of 4TB drives in it, and put a basic debian image on it. Configure SMB with a shared folder or two, and voila: you now have a comfortable NAS for maybe £20 plus drives. Add in a sata pcie card if you can find a decent low-profile one, and that’s an extra four or even six drives. It won’t give you the cream of top performance, but it will be perfectly serviceable for a homelab.
Hmm. Git is far too organised for my play style. I may take photographs at some point, assuming I can actually find components (and learn how to do… well, any of this).
After a night’s thought, this might be an interesting idea. Although I’d need to figure out how to add a programmable interface to it.
Neither. This is a purely personal project, and I’m using as much off-the-shelf as possible. The dac itself doesn’t have to be top of the line, just decent. The PCB itself I’ll probably just have printed, rather than trying to breadboard it or make some ungodly wire mess.
Some stuff I can get for almost pennies, like a USB-C controller and the actual sockets and plugs, so this is a non-concern. The actual dac chip though, I’m expecting (or at least hoping) to find something around the £30-£40 mark, although this may well be aspirational. That said, this is something I can theoretically transplant to my next device, and the next after that, assuming I create custom housings for them.
I’ve put some thought into it, but realistically I lack the experience to flesh out the idea.
I’ve seen a few small DAC concepts out there, like https://www.elektroda.com/rtvforum/topic4091483.html or that iPhone modification that Strange Parts did a few years ago, but none of these really 100% match my needs. As for the sizing, the only real answer I have for you is “small” - whilst it is intended for integration into a phone, I’m going to be building a housing for that phone from scratch, so the size requirements are somewhat led by the dac itself. I had a few ideas about using a flexi-strip in place of a solid PCB too, but I think that’s aiming too high for my non-existent skillset. Instead, I have no problem redesigning the board to be long and thin if necessary, or squat and fat in the alternate. Realistically, it’s probably going to be somewhat L-shaped, but there’s a good two inches or more of width and something like six inches of height to work with - minus the PCB of the phone, that is.
The actual handset it will be accompanying is a Sony Xperia 1 IV, but that’s largely meaningless as we can add pretty much any additional size to it up to a reasonably large handset within the last ten years (preferably with an OLED display, but I’ll be somewhat limited in terms of compatibility anyway and might have to end up running the screen in an alternate fashion somehow, I haven’t thought too hard about that side of things because the project is useless if I can’t design a DAC inthe first place).
The heatsink stuff was really just a suggestion, I’m not actually sure if it will be necessary, but it’s good to have the option.
Specifications wise, it essentially needs to do four things:
The bit that I’m stuck on, really, is the addressable EQ. I could possibly go with some sort of Arduino-esque solution, but that’s a lot of lifting for a single-purpose device. I have no idea where else to start looking - I know there are RISC chips out there that run on nothing but a button cell, but again I’m clueless as to whether or not this is a good idea.
I’ve looked at these, but they lack the integrated amplifier (afaik) and the configurable equaliser. Those are two super important features that pretty much break the idea for me.
Can we get that udev rule? Or at least a rough idea how to put it together? I had to put a windows box up just to get this phone talking to a pc
I get the feeling that it would be more feasible to build a separate kernel at this point. Its a lot of work, but adding another option to the comparatively small array of kernel options that we have might actually be a good idea -and in doing so, it word demonstrate r4l’s willingness to maintain the project long-term. There’s no need for this pissy behaviour, and there’s no need to take the drama to social media.
I have an SFF PC currently running Mint, with Bello and steam as well as xemu and a few other goodies. The flexibility is great, if something is a bit borked I can usually just play it in VLC, and the compute allows me to run pretty much any emulator besides Xenia or that PS3 one. Once I plug a GPU into it, those should be fine too. Not bad for a cheap i5 system.
Forewarning, wine appears to be a bit broken on Mint at the moment. I was recently experimenting with it in a VM, and I could not seem to get it installed properly - even after adding the winehq repo. Debian, by contrast, just works. I still use winamp for my music library, and play a few games that are windows based.
Holy shit this looks practically perfect. Thanks!
Oh, no, sorry. I mean that I can’t appear to get any posts from mastodonapp.uk, whether by relay or federation