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Egon Schiele-“Eros” (1911)
▲ 441 r/museum

Egon Schiele-“Eros” (1911)

This is a self-portrait rendered in gouache, water color, and black chalk. He died on Halloween seven years later, a victim of the Spanish flu. Schiele was only 28.

u/Conscious-Mulberry17 — 6 days ago
▲ 43 r/Twilight2000

Maybe it’s my age (early fifties), but I’d enjoy and maybe even prefer to play a version of the game set in the last half of the eighties. I know I could homebrew something, but I’m not enough of a historian or military tech guy to really make it work to my satisfaction, not to mention I’d enjoy owning and reading a product like this.

Twilight 1984, I guess?

Edit: You’re all full of great ideas. Thank you.

u/Conscious-Mulberry17 — 22 days ago
▲ 127 r/isopods+1 crossposts

I thought I’d share a few photos of dairy cow paradise before I replenished the leaf stock. (There’s plenty already but I spoil these guys.) Many of the adults spend the daylight hours in a warren of tunnels they made beneath the rock pile. The babies are a bit more active and enjoy wandering around. They come running if I leave some chow for them.

u/Conscious-Mulberry17 — 24 days ago
▲ 876 r/makethefuture+1 crossposts

r/cyberDeck was the first place I ever posted a link to cyberspace.online and the community received it very warmly (◕‿◕✿)

It's a grass-roots social media platform that takes inspiration from the 90s and hacker culture. No AI, no video, no ads, no algorithm, no crypto, etc.

Now six months have passed, and it's evolved so much! We're almost 10k users now. Since then I've added lots of fun new features, including:

  • Jukebox
  • Guilds with forums and chat rooms
  • Public blog (sharable posts visible to people not logged in or without accounts)
  • Map & Globe
  • VIM keyboard navigation
  • Web app support ("Add to home screen")
  • Fortune cookies & tarot deck
  • /slash commands in the chat rooms
  • Image uploading/hosting
  • Search
  • Wiki
  • Webring
  • API (there are two open-source TUI's and one CLI already!)
  • RSS for both the main feed and user feeds
  • Lots of new themes and custom theming options

This in addition to features we had already like IRC-style chat rooms, DM's called C-Mail, feeds, entries, replies, private notes, topics, profiles, user directory, pokes (lol), follow/mute/block/etc.

We are a community of wonderful nerds from all over the world, sharing thoughts and ideas on all kinds of topics. Hackers, modders, Linux users, cyberdeckers, 3D printers, DIYers, cyberpunks, gamers, philosophers, musicians and artists.

If you haven't already maybe come take a look and say hi?

u/Conscious-Mulberry17 — 1 month ago
▲ 13 r/makethefuture

I’ve been upgrading my Pi 4B in advance of my deck build. So far, I’ve installed a Pi Sugar 3 Plus uninterruptible power supply, a DAC HAT on brass risers (I’m still troubleshooting this: The sound keeps getting pushed through the HDMI display instead of the speakers.), and am working on getting some small idiosyncrasies involving this keyboard sorted out.

Once all of the above problems are solved, I’ll replace the seven inch display with a ten inch one, connect an old school power switch or button to the Pi Sugar, and possibly try to find a slightly smaller but still aesthetically similar mechanical keyboard to replace this one. I’m on the fence here.

After that, I’ll set the display for monochrome black and monochrome amber and green, and import a bunch of system sounds mimicking the computers of my youth. I’ll also focus on making the operating environment less distracting and focused on writing and tinkering with Python. I hope to make some old school Roguelikes and text based games.

Finally, it’ll be time to plan the casing and teach myself how to design it for my new 3d printer. Obviously, I have a long way to go, but I’ll try to share anything I learn along the way.

u/Conscious-Mulberry17 — 1 month ago
▲ 13 r/makethefuture

Want to build a cyberdeck? Not especially tech-savvy but hoping to learn? Awesome! I know exactly what that’s like. Here are 13 questions I wish I would have asked myself before I started on my own project.

  1. What do you want a machine to do?
  2. Have you done sufficient research to determine if all of these tasks are possible, as well as the time, physical resources, and costs involved in your project?
  3. Are you sure you want to invest the time and money? Would you be happier or better off buying a device and customizing it to the degree possible?
  4. Is your current skill level up to this task? Do you have any basic electronics knowledge? Are you comfortable with soldering if needed? Can you program or at least work with scripts?
  5. If your skill level isn’t sufficient now, are you okay with sidelining the project to learn what you need to know first? How will that affect your time and budget?
  6. What are the components you’ll need for this project? Single board computer? Memory card? Display, keyboard? Mouse or touchpad? Power source? Do you own all of them? Where will you get the ones you need? Is there a reliable retailer?
  7. Do you plan on scavenging or building the parts you can’t, or won’t, buy? How confident are you in your ability to identify, evaluate, modify, and install the parts? Do you know if there is any chance you’ll damage valuable equipment (or even hurt yourself) if something goes wrong?
  8. What is your budget for additional parts and unexpected expenses? (You will have them.) What are your time constraints? (This will take longer than you expect.) How patient are you? (Things will go wrong.)
  9. Presuming you’re able to acquire all of your parts, how much space will they need once they are all connected? How large will a prospective shell (container/case) need to be to hold it all, including space for wires, internal enclosures, securing brackets, and other materials?
  10. Do you plan on converting some sort of container into a shell? Will it be ergonomically suited for your purposes? Will it be big enough? Is it bigger than you planned? How much work will it take to make any necessary modifications? Do you have the tools to safely remove any internal components, cut access ports, make holes for cables? Do you know how to do these things?
  11. Will you use a 3D printer, instead? If so, will you design the shell yourself? Do you already know how to do this or can you use someone else’s plans? Do you have the money for the plan, filament, and any manufacturing fees if the printer isn’t yours? Do you plan on buying your own?
  12. Will you make everything by hand? Will you use wood? Plastic sheeting? Metal? How much will all of this cost? Are you sure you can assemble something secure and safe?
  13. If you end up finding the finished product hard to use or uninteresting, what will you do with it? Will you feel that you wasted your time and money? Are you sure you want to risk that? If so, move forward.
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