todo - there are more notes to be added, I've just been busy/lazy.
 Alpine white |
Hardware >
This is a low-end low-cost laptop. It was on extreme sale, and as it has USB 3.1 it'll do fine.
Very highly recommended: This thing is awesome in every way. Exception: It's childishly-glossy.
2018-06-08 - I used Windows 10 on it.
Not to be mistaken for Thunderbird.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057790/
(archived website)
Based on a space station, a super high-tech secret organization performs rescue operations worldwide.
Wow, this is really good. Great effects.
Nerds made http://thunderbirds.wikia.com/wiki/Thunderbirds_Wiki
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Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/
This plugin allows you to add code snippets as an alternative to directly editing a theme's functions.php.
I used to manually edit functions.php for my child theme Parament-spiralofhope.
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Software > WordPress > WordPress Plugins >
http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/footnotes
http://manfisher.net/plugins/footnotes/
http://cheret.de/plugins/footnotes-2/
2018-03-07 - The new redirect page is broken. I don't know if this project is abandoned or not. As a start, the
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Software >
Chocolatey: naps2
https://www.naps2.com/
A simple little scanner. Does its job and has great auto-naming features.
Not Another PDF Scanner
 Uses a single cable |
Canon CanoScan LiDE 120
I checked SANE's supported devices list, and saw that the LiDE 120 is supported, however the model I received uses a different and apparently-unsupported chipset! (GL848+)
Herein are notes of my misadventure.
https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
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Software >
https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/
A beautified text editor with the widgets around the edges removed.
I started using it because I couldn't trivially get Geany spell checking working.
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http://www.mayflash.com/Products/PLAYSTATION/PS2047.html
A PlayStation 2 controller macro device.
This is a middleman between a standard PlayStation 2 controller and the console. It can also be chained through to a USB adapter or other such device, to ultimately let an original PS2 controller work with a computer.
Unfortunately, this has an limited number of button presses that it can do! I think it's 9 or 10.
