Rare Encounter

Lobsters, flat rods, and bone cancer.

Show Notes

Windows volume dimming

You are looking for the Sound control panel, not the sound page in the Settings app.

My music volume dims whenever a new program starts playing sound - Microsoft Community

Power | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

This website runs on a solar powered server located in Barcelona, and will go off-line during longer periods of bad weather.

Also...

The background of this website is a battery meter, designed to always display the relationship of the energy powering the website and the visitor traffic consuming it.

Stangenkunst

The Mechanical Transmission of Power (1): Stangenkunst | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

Flatrod system - Wikipedia

Delay line memory - Wikipedia

The Story of Mel

Lest a whole new generation of programmers
grow up in ignorance of this glorious past,
I feel duty-bound to describe,
as best I can through the generation gap,
how a Real Programmer wrote code.
I'll call him Mel,
because that was his name.

LGP-30 - Wikipedia

Anime

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 2wei!

This chick is absolutely badass.

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou (Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU)

She's got all the chips!

Europa Yuu

A VTuber project involving someone both AbleKirby and coldacid know from years and years ago.

DEBUT DEBUT DEBUT! - YouTube

Europa Yuu 🪐 (@EuropaYuu) / Twitter

Star Wars

Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined - YouTube

Obi-Wan's final fight as it couldn't have been in 1977, but as it should be today. Now this is a change that George Lucas should have made!