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JauntyWunderKind
@jauntywk.bsky.social
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Iteration & expansion of our mediaforms.
Embodying ourselves amid the digital.
Singing life to the new bodies electric.
To properly become connected together we must devise better forms to commune with the machine & connect w ourselves.

#BetOnTheWeb.
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jauntywk.bsky.social
That's so sick. Damn I love scroll wheels and knobs.

I totally got this new Keychron M5 vertical mouse because it had a second scroll wheel, on the side.
Two vertical mice on a mousepad, one with a scroll wheel on the inside thumb side.
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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But with a little prompting AI will gladly strike far into the deep tension of disreality & not being that lord emperor Dobbs's reign bespeaks,
October 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Bob Dobbs lives.

Alas I couldn't think of any great quips and neither could the AI.
October 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Anyone else a big user of VESA quick release stands?

I'm converting my few remaining un-setup monitors & arms to them now, some of the lighter stuff that was using tablet mounts on 1/4" screw mounts.
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VIVO VESA quick release plate unboxed crudely on a wooden desk.
October 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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My kingdom for a planet where every review includes actual details on performance! Usable watts output is so hard to find, so rarely covered!

So much "It charged my phone 2.5X"; oh screw off Jimmy, that is *not* a real review.

& Ya'll went so much further! Charge input! Yes!! Energy density! 💯
Table with "ultralight battery comparison".
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Ya'll, I haven't had a Little Debbie Zebra Cake in probably >20 years, but this was totally what I'd grab then gift-economy distribute in highschool. And and and... I just found an (unopened) box, free, on the metro home! The gods favor us!
Four pack of little Debbie Zebra cakes. A wired magazine behind, on a I dunno fake rock counter surface or some shit.
October 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Rather than buying anything I scraped together a decent new monitor arm from parts, yay. Solid feeling build yay.
A camera monopole extended to ~3 ft mounted upright to the back of TV tray. A leg-clanp supporting the bottom, a couple claw magic arm near te tray height. Another magic arm at the top to affix to, but no screen. Gray concrete porch, some kind of synthetic porch mat in white with black block designs and a dark brown shag mat on ground. Arm rests, an e-reader, battery, and silicon head scratcher on the side of the tray. Brick wall and a door diagonally across the back left of the scene, further brick on the right.
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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the support bars arent bad. ideally I want a thin table I can slide directly up to and under. the bar here goes down 1.5", and it's pretty acceptable. otherwise being under it is fine, not much to get tangled in, and nicely wide enough to scoot under.
An underview of the camping table, showing the gridding underneath the roll up table surface. A tape measure dropping through the table deck, showing crossbars underneath dropping down 0.75 going back then below that another bar 0.75.inches thick going side to side across the table. My legs would not ally be right below this bar as I sit.
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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ThinkPad TrackPoint keyboards you've served me well but some day I gotta go nice and tented with my around-town gear.
Left hand on keyboard on desk. Steam Deck on left side, plugged into a display. Wrist wrestle and tea cup on right. Mouse-pad under keyboard.
October 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Like, it's a pretty good outline of the things, & fairly filled in good pictures of the scene (an early sample included). Didn't delay at all to get it hammered down. The Year of Dreaming Dangerously (2012).
Slavov Zizek's The Year of Dreaming Dangerously softcover book held before camera, somewhat concaved. Zizek stands in a foreground, in a white shirt olive pants, hands in pocket, not totally erect but pretty upright. Darkened eyes and serious down pressed mouth. In the background a car burns well in the middle of a street that Zizek stands before, engulfed with bumper falling off. Three hooded people in the background, two with white hoodies and behind them a third in darker maybe helmeted outfit. A fence of white boards and light blue planks receeded behind them & fades out the local scene. Tablet of contents: Contents (chapter number, title, page number) 1 Introduction: War Nam Nihadan 1 2 From Domination to Exploitation and Revolt 7 3 The "Dream-Work" of Political Representation 19 4 The Return of the Evil Ethnic Thing 35 5 Welcome to the Desert of Post-Ideology 47 6 The Arab Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall 63 7 Occupy Wall Street, Or, The Violent Silence of a New Beginning 77 8 The Wire, Or, What to Do in Non-Evental Times 91 9 Beyond Envy and Resentment 113 10 Conclusion: Signs From the Future 127 Second page of Chapter 2, From Domination to Exploitation and Revolt. capitalism: the long term trend of shifting from profit to rent (in its two main forms: rent based on privatized "common knowledge," and rent based on natural resources); the much stronger structural role of unemployment (the opportunity to be "exploited" in a long-term job is experienced as a privilege); and finally the rise of a new class that Jean-Claude Milner calls the "salaried bourgeoisie." The consequence of the rise in productivity brought about by an exponential growth in collective knowledge is the changing role of unemployment. But does this new form of capitalism not also offer a new prospect of emancipation? Therein lies the thesis of Hardt and Negri's Multitude, in which they endeavor to radicalize a Marx for whom highly organized corporate capitalism already was "social- ism within capitalism" (a kind of socialization of capitalism, with the absent owners becoming more and more superfluous), so that one only need cut off the nominal head to reach socialism proper. For Hardt and Negri, however, Marx's limitation was that he was histori- cally constrained by the centralized and hierarchically organized form of industrial labor, which is why his vision of the "general intellect" was that of a central planning agency. It is only today, with the rise of "immaterial labor" to a hegemonic position, that the revolutionary reversal becomes "objectively possible." This immaterial labor extends between the two poles of intellectual (symbolic) labor (the produc- tion of ideas, codes, texts, programs, figures...) and affective labor
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Digitalia Weirdo garden plant
October 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I just can't imagine that!
A steam deck gaming console. Which sometimes go on sale for ~$300.
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Excavating this deep cooked (by accident) pizza and feel like yeah this is one that Ask A Navy Seal would be good on!
theonion.com/ask-a-navy-s...
Some well cooked pizza extracted onto a wooden cutting board from a rectangular deep dish pan. Extracted pizza is roughly the middle 3rd of the pizza. Two spatulas. Lots of sauce spreading everywhere and lots of overcooked crust pretty baked onto the edges. Sauce and cheese
September 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Attempt #5 worked though! Passive coupler + found a DisplayPort to usb-c female adapter!

And 0.8m usb-c cable. Was wishing I had some better usb-c patch cables, shorter. But it worked! That active coupler needed to go.
Outdoor mini desk with fiber optic DisplayPort->DisplayPort coupler->do to usb-c female adapter->usb-c cable. Keyboard. Foxl G2-09 candy bar sound bar. InnoView 18" monitor. ZMI power pack 20k pro powering the monitor.
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Oops, attempt #3,

But uhh, that active coupler?
September 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I lament to report it is in fact possible to Stop The Signal.
Fiber optic DisplayPort to DisplayPort coupler to DisplayPort->HDMI changer to hdmi patch cable to hdmi->mini pigtail to 18" portable monitor
September 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
jauntywk.bsky.social
Once again barely pulling success from the lion's jaw. Yesterday, it was trying to run a rapidly fraying shifter cable through my bike.

That absolutely pathetic good for nothing tiny tiny tiny rubber band I've kept in the rubber band bowl? Clinched it!

Shown on a burr, but also used at cable start
A frayed shifter cable, with a rubber band tightly woven around a burr that wouldn't go through a cable sleeve.
September 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A successful #atproto_nyc! Trying to get one last print out to go from @henryzoo.com .
A table with laptops notes pizza plates receipt printers and more.
August 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Concurrent "phil is so cool" expressions here at #atproto_nyc. @bad-example.com on and on! Sorry our border sucks! Miss you here! See you in the microcosm! With @maxbittker.bsky.social and @awarm.space .
Some nerds at a meetup psyched about microcosm
August 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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@henryzoo.com hey, look, it's you and @bmannconsulting.com presenting your atproto printer!
August 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The Vessel on the skyline, from Weehawken side of the Hudson.
NYC from across the Hudson, before Lincoln Tunnel.
August 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Probably not where I should go to for council right now, but it's been sitting out in a visible spot to de-tsunduku. And Mark Fisher showed up yesterday in a psychology v (implicitly) Marcuse article.
Post Capitalist Desire. Final lectures of Mark Fisher.
August 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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YouTube Music doing a Chromecast audio session was indeed burning juice, so was Chrome.

Found developer settings's GPUWatch which has a CPU & GPU usage monitor, & either app running was high. Post reboot though Chrome is much better!
August 18, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Was kind of hopeful, thinking maybe perhaps possibly camera-based adaptive screen control was implemented smartly, a low res photo every 5s or so.

But man my phone crushed it's battery today. Demolished it. & would barely charge when plugged in. Warm warm warm. Camera sensor notably warm. 🥵

Bye! 👋
"Keep screen on while viewing" option in Android screen settings.
August 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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It'd be neat if as an org we could mark deprecated parts of the dom we didn't want folk using. Even better, here's our taxonomy of the 353 properties on document.body (Steve's is pretty good though!).
Pie chart breaking out the 353 properties on document.body: Style: 1% Layout: 6% Accessibility 14% Events: 37% Attributes: 15% Constant: 5% Content: 20% Environment: 1%
August 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM