L'Etat, Chez Moi
@sys64738.bsky.social
I like to fix things. Especially old electronics.
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Background image by Tetsurou Kobayashi
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L'Etat, Chez Moi
@sys64738.bsky.social
· Dec 10
Stop Naming Adages After People and Calling Them Laws
taylor.gl
Good page of common adages. My brain is bad with names so I can’t remember these when I need them.
taylor.gl/blog/11
taylor.gl/blog/11
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
Throwing a wrench in these machines
One day they will stop clogging up our networks
Freeing us from these wretched things.
Throwing a wrench in these machines
One day they will stop clogging up our networks
Freeing us from these wretched things.
For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.
December 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Did you ever know that you're my hero?
Throwing a wrench in these machines
One day they will stop clogging up our networks
Freeing us from these wretched things.
Throwing a wrench in these machines
One day they will stop clogging up our networks
Freeing us from these wretched things.
Americans will happily devote supreme effort to keep a poor person from getting anything they don't deserve.
And will spend almost no effort doing the same for rich people.
Fuck this America. Launch the rich into the sun.
And will spend almost no effort doing the same for rich people.
Fuck this America. Launch the rich into the sun.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Americans will happily devote supreme effort to keep a poor person from getting anything they don't deserve.
And will spend almost no effort doing the same for rich people.
Fuck this America. Launch the rich into the sun.
And will spend almost no effort doing the same for rich people.
Fuck this America. Launch the rich into the sun.
November 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
At office depot and started giggling when I remembered @senatorivy.com's alternate lyrics.
November 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
At office depot and started giggling when I remembered @senatorivy.com's alternate lyrics.
Reposted by L'Etat, Chez Moi
I try not to curse as much as I used to, but every now and then there is a time and a place.
Get fucked fascists
Get fucked fascists
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I try not to curse as much as I used to, but every now and then there is a time and a place.
Get fucked fascists
Get fucked fascists
Trying to fix a jittery function generator and uploading its manual to @archive.org as you do.
Thermal cameras are handy. That pass transistor is ~*hot*~!
#FixingThingsIsCool
Thermal cameras are handy. That pass transistor is ~*hot*~!
#FixingThingsIsCool
November 5, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Trying to fix a jittery function generator and uploading its manual to @archive.org as you do.
Thermal cameras are handy. That pass transistor is ~*hot*~!
#FixingThingsIsCool
Thermal cameras are handy. That pass transistor is ~*hot*~!
#FixingThingsIsCool
Today's cheapo eBay test equipment acquisition: a Leader 100P combo oscilloscope/multimeter. Looks like it was made in late 1987.
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Today's cheapo eBay test equipment acquisition: a Leader 100P combo oscilloscope/multimeter. Looks like it was made in late 1987.
TIRES AIN'T PRETTY
An '80s central Florida nostalgia hit.
An '80s central Florida nostalgia hit.
Allied Discount Tires
YouTube video by weatherguru76
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
TIRES AIN'T PRETTY
An '80s central Florida nostalgia hit.
An '80s central Florida nostalgia hit.
Fun troubleshooting a dead channel on an old Tektronix handheld oscilloscope. The trace leading from the Sony ADC on the right to the ribbon cable is broken at the cable's pad. Fortunately, a convenient SMD capacitor provided an easy place to add a bodge wire.
#FixingStuffIsCool
#FixingStuffIsCool
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Fun troubleshooting a dead channel on an old Tektronix handheld oscilloscope. The trace leading from the Sony ADC on the right to the ribbon cable is broken at the cable's pad. Fortunately, a convenient SMD capacitor provided an easy place to add a bodge wire.
#FixingStuffIsCool
#FixingStuffIsCool
Everything is terrible and Palmer Luckey (or one of those tech dipshits; they all run together) owns one, but golly gee I would love to have one of these things.
Jetson ONE - Let the Jetson Air Games begin!
YouTube video by Jetson
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Everything is terrible and Palmer Luckey (or one of those tech dipshits; they all run together) owns one, but golly gee I would love to have one of these things.
🎶🎵The only one who could clip my toenails was the son of a Tweezer Man🎵🎶
October 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🎶🎵The only one who could clip my toenails was the son of a Tweezer Man🎵🎶
Reposted by L'Etat, Chez Moi
I really don't think Qualcomm buying Arduino is a good thing.
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I really don't think Qualcomm buying Arduino is a good thing.
Not sure we deserve Neko Case.
Magpie comes a calling
Drops a marble from the sky
Tin roof sounds alarming
"Wake up child"
"Let this be a warning"
Says the magpie to the morning
"Don't let this fading summer pass you by"
Magpie comes a calling
Drops a marble from the sky
Tin roof sounds alarming
"Wake up child"
"Let this be a warning"
Says the magpie to the morning
"Don't let this fading summer pass you by"
Magpie to the Morning
YouTube video by Neko Case - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Not sure we deserve Neko Case.
Magpie comes a calling
Drops a marble from the sky
Tin roof sounds alarming
"Wake up child"
"Let this be a warning"
Says the magpie to the morning
"Don't let this fading summer pass you by"
Magpie comes a calling
Drops a marble from the sky
Tin roof sounds alarming
"Wake up child"
"Let this be a warning"
Says the magpie to the morning
"Don't let this fading summer pass you by"
The #RP2040 has a Real Time Clock, so now my display has a clock. That makes a little over two dozen clocks in the house, I think.
Maybe I'll use the #picow and get the clock from the internet so it's self-setting...
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Maybe I'll use the #picow and get the clock from the internet so it's self-setting...
@raspberrypi.com #pico
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The #RP2040 has a Real Time Clock, so now my display has a clock. That makes a little over two dozen clocks in the house, I think.
Maybe I'll use the #picow and get the clock from the internet so it's self-setting...
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Maybe I'll use the #picow and get the clock from the internet so it's self-setting...
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Back on the Trilithic display.
Doesn't seem like much, but it's a major feature of interfaces. There's a lot below the surface! Initialize with zero, monitor the encoder for changes and update the display. Lookup bit patterns and OR them into the 80 bit stream.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Doesn't seem like much, but it's a major feature of interfaces. There's a lot below the surface! Initialize with zero, monitor the encoder for changes and update the display. Lookup bit patterns and OR them into the 80 bit stream.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
September 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Back on the Trilithic display.
Doesn't seem like much, but it's a major feature of interfaces. There's a lot below the surface! Initialize with zero, monitor the encoder for changes and update the display. Lookup bit patterns and OR them into the 80 bit stream.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Doesn't seem like much, but it's a major feature of interfaces. There's a lot below the surface! Initialize with zero, monitor the encoder for changes and update the display. Lookup bit patterns and OR them into the 80 bit stream.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Holy cats.
This popped up on Pandora and the combo of Radiohead-like percussion and Neko's ~*amazing*~ voice took me completely out of what I was doing. Not to take away from the harmonies or anything, which are lovely!
And Sebastian Steinberg on bass!
This popped up on Pandora and the combo of Radiohead-like percussion and Neko's ~*amazing*~ voice took me completely out of what I was doing. Not to take away from the harmonies or anything, which are lovely!
And Sebastian Steinberg on bass!
Case/Lang/Veirs - Down 1-5 (with lyrics)
YouTube video by WGON Music
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Holy cats.
This popped up on Pandora and the combo of Radiohead-like percussion and Neko's ~*amazing*~ voice took me completely out of what I was doing. Not to take away from the harmonies or anything, which are lovely!
And Sebastian Steinberg on bass!
This popped up on Pandora and the combo of Radiohead-like percussion and Neko's ~*amazing*~ voice took me completely out of what I was doing. Not to take away from the harmonies or anything, which are lovely!
And Sebastian Steinberg on bass!
*R.E.M. Feeling Gravity's Pull voice*
It’s a Dong Yang kind of night
September 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
*R.E.M. Feeling Gravity's Pull voice*
I used a spreadsheet to help me calculate tables for each digit and numeral so that I could put a given number in a given place more easily by ORing values into the serial data.
Was hoping to find similar tables in the original Trilithic firmware, but alas.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Was hoping to find similar tables in the original Trilithic firmware, but alas.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
September 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I used a spreadsheet to help me calculate tables for each digit and numeral so that I could put a given number in a given place more easily by ORing values into the serial data.
Was hoping to find similar tables in the original Trilithic firmware, but alas.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Was hoping to find similar tables in the original Trilithic firmware, but alas.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Grateful for a TurboNerd week off. Starting with scraping rust off my C programming skills and finishing with diving into code in foreign CPU architecture with #Ghidra.
None of it was for work and it's unlikely to impact my career trajectory, but I stayed off social media and learned a ton.
None of it was for work and it's unlikely to impact my career trajectory, but I stayed off social media and learned a ton.
September 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Grateful for a TurboNerd week off. Starting with scraping rust off my C programming skills and finishing with diving into code in foreign CPU architecture with #Ghidra.
None of it was for work and it's unlikely to impact my career trajectory, but I stayed off social media and learned a ton.
None of it was for work and it's unlikely to impact my career trajectory, but I stayed off social media and learned a ton.
Hey! Finished reverse engineering the positions of all the segments in the LCD and managed to shift in something coherent.
Rev-enging the segments was done using the rotary encoder, lighting up one at a time and noting the bit position and segment name.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Rev-enging the segments was done using the rotary encoder, lighting up one at a time and noting the bit position and segment name.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
September 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hey! Finished reverse engineering the positions of all the segments in the LCD and managed to shift in something coherent.
Rev-enging the segments was done using the rotary encoder, lighting up one at a time and noting the bit position and segment name.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Rev-enging the segments was done using the rotary encoder, lighting up one at a time and noting the bit position and segment name.
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Taking a break from the HCMS display to reverse-engineer this Trilithic Tricorder 3 front panel. The LCD is run by an OKI MSM5265. Each segment is somewhere semi-randomly in a 160 bit register. Have to cycle through to reverse engineer the LCD. :v
@raspberrypi.com #pico
@raspberrypi.com #pico
September 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Taking a break from the HCMS display to reverse-engineer this Trilithic Tricorder 3 front panel. The LCD is run by an OKI MSM5265. Each segment is somewhere semi-randomly in a 160 bit register. Have to cycle through to reverse engineer the LCD. :v
@raspberrypi.com #pico
@raspberrypi.com #pico
Slow going tinkering with the HCMS-2915. Still, I have added a font and can now just toss ASCII characters at it and have them show up:
@raspberrypi.com #pico
@raspberrypi.com #pico
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Slow going tinkering with the HCMS-2915. Still, I have added a font and can now just toss ASCII characters at it and have them show up:
@raspberrypi.com #pico
@raspberrypi.com #pico
I like a lot of covers more than the originals, usually simply because I heard them first.
This is one of the exceptions.
This is one of the exceptions.
September 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I like a lot of covers more than the originals, usually simply because I heard them first.
This is one of the exceptions.
This is one of the exceptions.