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Paradroyd

@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
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I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds).

I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers.

I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work.

Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Joined October 10, 2018
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Jun 13, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Over my shoulder...

#cat #caturday #catsofmastodon

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 31, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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BBSing with Quax...

#bbsing #retrocomputing #cat #catsofmastodon

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 28, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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I created a couple of ASCII aquariums with a couple of small ESP32-based display boards using this project...

https://github.com/POWER-PILL/ASCII-Aquarium

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 28, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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@jimsalter@fosstodon.org I'm thinking of grabbing another personal domain. I'm currently using Godaddy for the couple of domains that I already have, but after listening to Ep 299 of 2.5 Admins where you talk about a lot of the issues with Godaddy, (and yeah, I've always had a feeling that they were more than a bit sketchy in many ways) who would you use for a casual personal domain these days?

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 23, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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BBSing on the TI99/4A last night.

#ti99/4a #retrocomputing #bbsing

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 22, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Black and white...

#cats #catsofmastodon

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 19, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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They have found the sun.

#cats #catsofmastodon

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @inverseatascii@techhub.social
@inverseatascii@techhub.social @tschak@oldbytes.space It's interesting to me that this article doesn't mention Mastodon or the Fediverse at all (unless I missed it). I would be interested to hear their opinions with regard to that.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @inverseatascii@techhub.social
@inverseatascii@techhub.social I used to just run caffeine, which worked reliably in PopOS 22.04. It just doesn't work correctly in 24.04 (in my case, at least). Might be a Wayland vs X11 thing. I would chase it down, but it's easier to just lock the machine and plug one of these micro controllers in. It works 100%, every time, on any OS, and an update's not going to break it.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
@inverseatascii@techhub.social Even at home it's a good idea to manually lock the machine while one of these is plugged in and a big job is running, if for no other reason, it mitigates the issues that could be caused by a cat walking across the keyboard, etc. Can't really just close the lid, because of the heat being generated by having all the cores lit up during long encodes.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @inverseatascii@techhub.social
@inverseatascii@techhub.social Yeah, you'd want to be careful where you use something like this, especially if you're in a corporate environment, which thankfully, I'm not. This fills a very specific use case for me. My laptop is by far the most powerful machine I have at my disposal at home for doing big video encodes (Handbrake, etc), compressing large files, and other things like that. I got sick of being hours into a job and having the machine suspend / power save and having to start over.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
Also, yes, I know that you can kind of do something similar with caffeine / caffeinate, (https://linuxvox.com/blog/caffeinate-linux/) but that wasn't working reliably in the latest version of PopOS / Cosmic, so I resorted to using hardware, which has been 100% effective.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
I got the micro controllers on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0836WXQQR?th=1 I'm sure you could get them somewhere else cheaper, but I wanted them fast in this case. # microcontroller #attiny85
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · May 07, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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I bought a set of 5 Attiny85 micro controllers and used the Arduino IDE to dump a sketch onto them that makes them into mouse jigglers..

Basically they plug into a USB A port and emulate a mouse. It moves the pointer back and forth one pixel between every 10 and 30 seconds randomly.
The movement is nearly undetectable to the naked eye, but it will keep a computer from going into suspend or locking if you give it a lengthy job to do.

It's not my code.

I found it here:
https://github.com/LucaReggiannini/mouse-jiggler-ATTiny85

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 28, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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BBSing a while back on some of the retro computers down in the cave.

#retrocomputing #AtariST #TRS80 #C64 #bbsing

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 28, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Quax...
(pronounced "Kacks")

#cat #catsofmastodon

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 24, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social
@nixCraft@mastodon.social If it's only available LinkedIn, it's NOT available. it simply doesn't exist. I feel pretty much the same way about Discord.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 15, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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On a Sunday night in early July, 2018...

#bbsing #retrocomputing #trs80 #decserver

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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 11, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @ironicbadger@techhub.social
@ironicbadger@techhub.social Thanks!
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 11, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
@ironicbadger@techhub.social One of the things I like about the older Pis as opposed to the newer ones..they don't need active cooling. Fans are a big point of failure. This thing doesn't need one. The other thing is, older Pis have a FULL SIZED HDMI port. I hate micro HDMI..very finicky. Kind of irrelevant in this case since I just access it over ssh, but that's been one of my beefs with the newer pis.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 11, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org
@ironicbadger@techhub.social I could call that URL/querystring from the Vera+ using Lua (the Vera+ did everything in Lua) or I could just access the URLs directly from browser shortcuts on my phone. The Vera+ has long since been retired and replaced with Home Assistant, But that Pi B1 is still out there in my garage rafters, doing that same job it has for about 11 years now. I've thought about replacing it with something like an ESP8266 tied directly into Home Assistant, but it works fine as is.
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Paradroyd @paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org · Apr 11, 2026
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@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org

I do a lot of #retrocomputing, #retrogaming, and #BBSing, and I have a fair amount of real retro hardware. I also have couple of #FPGA and some dedicated emulation machines (mostly handhelds). I occasionally do electronics projects and board-level repairs/upgrades, as well the occasional project with #microcontrollers. I also do quite a bit with various models of Raspberry Pis and other SBCs, both at home and at work. Also, #cats. We have cats and they often make appearances in my posts.

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Replying to @ironicbadger@techhub.social
@ironicbadger@techhub.social I did something kind of similar in 2015 with a Raspberry PiB (V1) and a Piface Digital hat.I have the relays on this thing wired in parallel with the wall buttons for my garage doors. I didn't have Home assistant back then (I was still running a Vera+) there's basically a python script that runs a simple web server and brings in the Piface Digital library. When I go to the proper URL, with the proper querystring, it activates the proper relay, and opens the associated garage door.
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