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Stardate: 20190718.2301 | |
Location: Home office | |
Input Device: Various (see post) | |
Audio: anonradio.net (Movement Through Thought by cev) | |
Visual: messy desk, chumby streaming anonradio.net | |
Energy: 40% | |
Mental: 40% | |
Emotional: warm, tired. | |
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I haven't been writing too much lately. I haven't felt like | |
writing all that much but a lot has been going on. No mental | |
bandwidth to process much, but I'm trying to keep on keeping | |
on. | |
I'm spending some time right now with a setup I've been | |
trying to tinker with. Right now, I am currently on the Dell | |
7202 rugged tablet, with the VuFine wearable display attached | |
to the mini HDMI port and I have the Gemini PDA tethered to | |
the 7202 via USB and running in a terminal, which is where I | |
am writing this. The VuFine is being used as a HUD for a | |
terminal session I am using to transfer mp3 files from a | |
locally mounted 2.5" hard drive on gojira (RPi2) over to 128 | |
microSD card locally mounted to the Pi. I am monitoring the | |
progress of the file transfer and have been copying things | |
over manually by folder (ugh). It's not too bad, but it is | |
taking some time. MicroSD is now affordable enough for me to | |
transfer my mp3 collection to 1 microSD card. I got the card | |
on the cheap ($19US, I think) during the Amazon Prime day | |
deals. Yeah, I participated. The deals were just ok and I | |
had cash to go shopping so I bought a bunch of cheap stuff. | |
I'm a sucker for cheap deals. | |
Anyhow, getting back to the file transfer, I have been | |
wanting to have a copy of my mp3 archive on external flash | |
memory for awhile now and it is now pretty cheap to do it. I | |
have copies of it from over the years, but I have some | |
cleanup to do. I know I have different files in different | |
places with duplicates and stuff. Hopefully it won't be too | |
big of a chore to consolidate everything into a master | |
archive. The microSD card will be for the GeminiPDA. | |
Hopefully it can handle a card that size...it should. | |
It just baffles me that it seems like not that long ago, I | |
bought a 100GB 3.5" IDE hard drive for my audio CD backups | |
for about $100US at one of those computer fairs in Pomona | |
that they no longer have. I thought that was more than | |
enough back then. Now I have a tiny 128GB microSD card for | |
$19US that will work in my Gemini PDA and house my entire CD | |
collection (converted to mp3s) and mp3s I have purchased over | |
the years. I still have the drive and it sits in a USB | |
enclosure and has not been spun up for some time. I wonder | |
if it still works and what the collection looks like from | |
back then. | |
Grr...the transfer has stalled again. I don't know why it | |
keeps doing that. Maybe the gojira is underpowered or the | |
USB sux0rz...transfer now, troubleshoot later. | |
After the transfer, I want to clean up the file names and the | |
metadata...have some kind of standardization with my files. | |
Maybe even re-rip some of my CDs. That's for later, but the | |
goal right now is to have the archive on the microSD card. | |
So regarding the VuFine...it's one of those things...I buy a | |
cool piece of technology without having a concrete idea what | |
I am going to use it for and now I end up trying to find a | |
use for it. I got looking into HMD/VR displays again since I | |
got my vacation payout :/ I didn't want to shell out too | |
much, like for the Vive or Rift or something, so I ended up | |
picking up the VuFine. It's a monocular. It is pretty neat, | |
but I'm not really sure what I am going to use it for. The | |
wires are tolerable, but still annoying and the screen is | |
just OK. For terminal use, it is a bit small unless I | |
embiggen the fonts...usable, but not ideal. It seems to do | |
better with images or watching video. Doing actual work is | |
probably cumbersome. Using it for the task I am | |
doing...transferring files and keeping an eye on it until it | |
is done, is fine. I have attached it to some Pi's, but it | |
probably needs a special GUI...I don't see using it for | |
regular desktop tasks. So far, using this seated at a desk | |
seems to be ok. I gotta try other things. Like maybe coding | |
cookbook style or something. If my kids were still | |
babies, I'd use it for remote monitoring while geekin. This | |
should be documented in my notes. Anyhow, bleh... | |
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