So I can subscribe for 1 month, download all the exclusive content, and then turn my membership off/back on based on the value I think I’m getting?

media.ccc.de is a great specialized “streaming service” too, mostly supported by NewPipe (oddly not Grayjay yet). I can understand German decently so I don’t have issues with the bilingual content. If you like Chaos Congress talks, you can also try DEFCON and other ones available on YouTube but I didn’t feel like including any of them because they’re just uploads of slightly different kinds of media, much like HBO’s Last Week Tonight channel I also subscribe to.

Because I manually download videos to watch on the bus or train (thanks Grayjay & NewPipe), most of my subscriptions are for long-form, often listenable content:

Retro Tech: Techmoan, Technology Connections, Posy, Janus Cycle, CRD, Ben Eater, DiodeGoneWild, pannenkoek2012, videolabguy, Adrian’s Digital Basement,The Science Elf, previously LGR and 8-Bit Guy/Keys

Science: Kuvina Saydaki, BobbyBroccoli, Numberphile, Computerphile, carykh

Tech News & Discussion (not always long-form): Louis Rossmann, Mental Outlaw, Brodie Robertson, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Asianometry, Atomic Shrimp, previously Thunderf00t

Urbanism: Not Just Bikes, Adam Something, Alan Fisher, Tramly, BritMonkey

D&D Story Narration: CritCrab, Puffin Forest

Bold channels are most underrated imo

Thanks! Finally a suggestion.

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“Ripped” from a fx “natural display” calculator’s shutdown screen (except the ® is smaller to fit)

Made wider and probably closer to the real proportions:

3310’s aspect ratio:

A rare logo so wide it only uses 13 rows!

They can! They are all licensed under CC0 (public domain dedication) and so are almost all of these

You are correct, thank you! This also shows I wasn’t imagining the different “m” I used in “blamba.de”.

Also, $42 for a font that a hacker group used widely (so it’s presumably Creative Commons)?

These are more like wallpapers (although most phones that support them also support actual wallpapers and often also “screensavers”). The boot logo can be customized on some models by flashing a modified ROM using weird cables and programs that don’t work on modern Windows. Here is a video about the 3310 specifically

Idk but they used to use the font a lot more in the 2000s. I can’t see it outside the homepage now but I found videos and magazine scans using it.

convert pot.png -filter point -resize 800%x800% pot8x.png

It’s really tiny. Here it is at 8x scale, in WEBP to save space:

convert kitty.gif -filter point -resize 800%x800% kitty.webp

Yup. This will not work on Android, iOS or “post-J2ME” feature phones. However, we still have 2G in most of Europe so the old phones can be and often are still used.

The 3310 and other 84x48 LCD models are special in that they use a non-square pixel aspect ratio, approx. 7:8. Logos in green were designed for such phones and will look vertically squished on color screens, and vice-versa.

Flood-filling with a pattern is very easy on a technical level, even Nokia 3410’s picture message editor can do that automatically. You lose half the resolution by area (pixels are basically √2 bigger on each side and in a 45° grid) to get a shade of grey. The hard part is knowing when such a sacrifice is worth it and when not (not often for a height of 14) and to guess or A/B test which phase of the pattern preserves most detail. Sometimes you want more complex dithering or even combined with an outline like the glossy FreeBSD logo.

I couldn’t fit the weirdly underlined 𝚂 in a circle so I combined the initial and logotype. Yes, probably should have omitted the 𝚜 like I did with ⓔlementary.

It’s not very clear on the website or in the talk but Blåmba normally only runs on CCC event networks. However, if you privately chat with Manawyrm she can fire up her modem on a commercial network and send you the SMS manually. Make sure to know which operator (by MCC/MNC) the logo should be assigned to, you can’t store ones for other networks.

Without bothering Manawyrm, you can also try Ringtonetools (source-available program which Blåmba uses) to convert the pic into SCKL (hex-encoded) messages that can be sent from any phone, as opposed to the binary ones that are 2x more efficient but you need to directly interface with a GSM modem for.

Areas with loam touch all three sides. So… Some kind of loam exists without sand, some without clay and some without silt. I am not a soil scientist but I’d guess that any substance that contains neither is a kind of loam.

I literally predicted that old.reddit.com would shut down in 6 months after u/spez said it’s not going anywhere, just like Apollo. I wasn’t sure how seriously to take this but I think I will be pretty close.

Can we finally get mixed zoning??

I did Math HL and still got bored so I picked the affordable calculator on which I could play Solitaire, Tetris and Mario. CASIO calculators also had games and a friend sometimes lent me his CFX-9850+ (pictured) where I would code up Mastermind, TriPeaks and Snake in CASIO Basic, which was friendlier than TI-BASIC, as well as a manual image importing program. I later made a cable so I have them backed up to this day, I will publish them once I found the source.

Not very common? It is easier and cheaper to buy a 10-year-old used TI-84 Plus than a comparable CASIO.

I am still in the Czech Republic. I just did IB (mezinárodní maturita).

Once they gave us faster processors and enabled ASM programming, they were objectively the superior option. I am still wondering if we ever get a programmable & graphing calculator with a a 128x64 reflective display, either a rechargeable Li-Ion cell or one AAA battery that lasts forever and does not make the unit terribly thick so that it fits comfortably in a pocket, and has USB-mini-B or C of course. I wrote Snake, Mastermind and TriPeaks for the pictured CASIO CFX-9850 PLUS and coding was a better experience than on TI. However, our course taught TI, there were no affordable second-hand CASIOs and I wanted ready-made ASM games like 2048, Mario and Tetris so I went with the TI-84 Plus for IB.

The programs I wrote are still somewhere on my hard drive and I will publish their source as text as well as a CA-124-friendly file at some point. They work on newer programmable monochrome 128x64 CASIOs too if you remove colors and adjust for the faster processor. Unfortunately, the lack of comments and single-letter variables mean that the code is a mess but I might have the reworked versions somewhere too.