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It’s a small cable in a 4x8x10 or so box. That’s not inefficient to ship or anything. Whatever. Of course, the Wif is watching Girls, so I’m totes not alerting on projects… note I’m cooking dinner.

Well I cleaned more. There’s now duke floor space in the Den of Inequity. Gotta keep pushing on that. Everyday. Gotta do this everyday.

First, before I forget, I need to learn how to fold origami unicorns.
I went to grab the garbage and recycle cans and whatever, but there were two dudes with way too much hair product talking. I skipped that. the cord shipped today so I can’t do that stuff until tomorrow. So I get home on time, helped the Wif make some dinner, err filled out her FAFSA, now we’re watching Girls.
I probably can get an hour of productivity crammed in before bed, but I want to declare today a wash. I think that’s the wrong choice.

I did dishes. I did laundry. I took out recycling.

Its a start. Tomorrow I’ll have my microHDMI cable (yes, mini and micro are totes different form factors), and I’ll be able to start digging into the Beaglebone in earnest when the Wif is studying. Otherwise my main goal is daily basis move stuff out of the den. I appreciate its fun having tons of rando free supplies, but I think I need to start drawing the line on only keeping useful supplies.

So.

Wash and box bottles.

 

Recycle stuff I’m not using. Lets move it out.

Barring distractions, it’s time to make another debt in laundry, and while that’s doing it’s thing… take out recycling. Lots of recycling. Basically, I need to clean the Den of Inequity enough that I can remove everything that doesn’t belong in there. I’m looking at you sporting goods and millions of jackets. Also, I need to start reclaiming my bookcase for books.
Baby steps. Laundry and recycling.

I just ordered a cable on Amazon. Not a rare or special cable. Just a not getting trashed over the coals by brick-and-mortar stores that might not have it, will charge too much for it, have to talk to people for it.
On other notes, that means on Tuesday night, I’ll be doing step one of my earlier discussed Beaglebone based laptop. Step one is a little behind, but stuff.

I think my last post will be the direction I’m going to go. The more I mused in the back of my head, the more I realized I want that extra control. While the idea of buying someone else’s infinitely more powerful machine, that’s comparably priced for power, there are a stack of small sticking points. The problem is it’s like a porcupine, the points might be small, but they dig in and irritate you for the rest of your life.
I want good materials. I want style. I want expandability. I want upgradability. I want freedom to have what I want on it, rather than what someone else says. I want to not pay more to have less.
Choose life.

Build or buy. That’s the question. I think I’ll start small. I’ll start working on my Beaglebone while the Wif studies. I can plug the Beaglebone into the tv and go from there. Then, it’ll be updating. Next, build the keyboard this weekend. Either way I want a smaller, more me keyboard. Do I want to to shred a game controller for the “mouse”? Figure I have at least a free game controllers that haven’t been used this decade. I guess this leaves the kicker. How do I want to do the screen and battery?
The screen really leaves me tempted to find a commercial solution. They’re not optimized for mobile, but oh well. Option two, in Captain Lazy realm, would be to grab one of the controllers off of eBay. The advantage of this would be I could look at ways to reduce the price, in terms of power, of the backlight. Option three, which shouldn’t be on the table at this time would be driving the pins directly, or using an FPGA, with a salvaged LCD.
After all that, add up everything and add the juice.

Back to thinking about this, which means I’m back to running my head in circles. I think for efficiency I might just buy. It still bums me out about the premium that gets charged to not install Windows, and I’m still in the situation of asking why a lot, bit I think I need to get productive first, picky later.
I’ll start by looking at the one offering from System76, and compare does with big boxes to see how that feels.

There’s a lot of them. I should finish some. I think I should make shit a lot more. I think I’ll be productive after work.
Though, full disclosure, I’m very happy with how well England is doing right now, though I’m not sure why France never got around to picking that war. Europa Univeralis is a time sink like no other.