L. Wasserman @Lwasserman@qoto.org

@lupyuen Hm. I'll have to see if I can get some out here to try. I was kind of a fluke that I got my hands on fresh jackfruit. I'd only ever hand the canned stuff before that. One day, I will have a yard and a little greenhouse. Then maybe I can grow one?

@lupyuen It's supposed to smell rancid, isn't it? Does it taste like jackfruit?

@lupyuen I volunteer to eat jackfruit for the cause! Actually, it's rather hard to get in Minnesota, and I really like the stuff.

@lupyuen Oooh...I can think of plenty of projects that I can get done with just digital I/O. Hell, I worked on a packaging line that could have been driven with this thing.

Hey radio and free-speech enthusiasts! Does anyone know anything about this? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/voice-america-will-sound-like-trump/613321/

I'll admit, I never considered that we ran this kind of foreign-targeted news organization. I should have. But this is all new to me.

@comphys Okay. I'll give that a go. Thank you.

@compass_straight_edge I'm running the stable version. I don't have any other graphics issues, so I think that it's my browser.

Question: I run Debian, and have had issues for a long time with my web browsers. I'm currently using Chromium and Firefox, but they tend to crash, and occasionally have trouble running things like video. They're better than they used to be in the Flash days, but still not great. Does anyone have a browser that works better, or a good browser fix?

@lupyuen https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390

@lupyuen Chickens are kinda like vegetables. They can live without their heads for awhile.

@lupyuen Vegetable Soup?

@lupyuen That said, it doesn't sound bad.

@lupyuen I hate to tell you this, but I haven't seen a computer with a true serial port for awhile now. I was excited because my motherboard has the holes for one, but no attached jack. One day I'm gonna get brave, and solder a dsub in myself...maybe.

@lupyuen Nevermind, actually skimmed the article.

@lupyuen It's kinda a waste of a serial port, isn't it?

@2ck Yup. Shut-ins for a cause. \o/

I found an instruction set reference for one of the low cost 32 bit Microcontrollers. It's got 51 instructions. It's sort of a mid-range complexity. Either way, you'll be fine. They probably won't start you on the big one.

@proto_azure Ah C, my old friend, my old nemesis....

Regardless, the core concepts are the same.

Basically, it's not the PIC chips are harder to use than Arduinos. There are eight-bit PIC chips that are quite comparable to the small Arduino units. Unfortunately, that doesn't look like it's what you'll be using. These 32-bit chips look a bit like my old Motorolla. Lots of peripherals, lots of instructions.