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Jayenkai
Created : 07 May 2020
 

#466 - The News is High




Weekly Newsletter


; The News is High

#466 - Thursday 07th May, 2020

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; Hello World


My experiments with a keyboard for my Android Tablet have gone pretty much as well as can be expected.
A lack of decent software is blocking me at every step, and I honestly don't think it would make for a decent Desktop Replacement, even if it contained just the right software.
Which makes me think about other alternatives, and whether it would be even vaguely possible to get Win10 running on the device.

I started looking into that for a few hours, early on in this week, but the results seemed to circle through those terribly dodgy looking sites that seem determined to have you download crazy looking programs and a general rule of "Just blindly run all of these things on your PC... What could possibly go wrong?!"
I looked at a few sites, closed half-a-million popups, then went back to coding again and mostly forgot about it.

Maybe I should look into it a little more, but at this point, why would I not just use my laptop?
Seems like a lot of effort for what would more or less be the same result!

On the other hand, if I don't do anything with it, it's a whole tablet sitting there doing nothing.. Bit of a waste of tech, really.

Not a clue what to do, at this point.

Hmmm..

SoCoder


; Electro-Steve

Steve fashions himself an energy saving light, capable of running from a practically dead battery.
We'll all be needing these, come the end of the Covid journey, once all the power plants have been shut down.
          socoder.net/?Topic=7872

; What have you been up to?

We're halfway through Week 7, since the UK's official Covid Lockdown, and all the coders are starting to get restless.
But what are they creating?!
Post the results of your boredom in the thread!
          socoder.net/?GotoPost=75241

I made my 52nd game of the year, this week..

SoWordy


; Rabbit!

The word of the week is a nice and simple one.
Rabbit!
What can you do with that word? Create a game, Draw some sprites, Animate a little scribble, Write us a story, make a hoppity choon!
Be creative, and let us see the results.
          socoder.net/?Topic=7875

I swear, all week I've had the Rub Rabbits/Feel the Magic "Rub-it!" sound repeating through my head. Bah, humbug!

SoStayIndoors


; Covid Chaos Continues


Governments around the world are currently contemplating opening doors. All eyes are on Italy, as they start to reduce the limits of their intense lockdown.
Will it have been enough time?
We're all thinking, maybe not.
Meanwhile, the UK's fucked it all up with their absolutely abysmal app which doesn't work properly on iPhones, and works via sending everyone's location to a centralised database.
.. Oh yeah, no issues there. None at all.

Yup.
It's all going smoothly.

          bit.ly/35Dftxh

; RIP

Tony Allen : Drummer
Millie Small : My Girl Lollypop
Florian Schneider : Kraftwerk
          socoder.net/?GotoPost=75222

SoOffTopic


; Musical Chips

Pakz send us off on an odd journey to see the musical talents of Artifical Intelligence.
With a little work, the computers are learning to "sing", or at the very least, reconstruct samples in such a way that it vaguely resembles the sound of vocals.
It's not perfect, but, boy is it half decent.
As with all AI Music, results vary wildly, and they've obviously only picked the cream of the crop to show off, but even still.
Yowsers.
          socoder.net/?Topic=7871

SoMuchMore


; Be in Bill and Ted 3!

I can imagine the creators of Bill and Ted 3 were probably hoping to have a few hundred extras as a giant audience in a big concert scene, during the end credits, or something..
But plans have obviously changed, and now they're asking people to send in video clips of themselves dancing, playing along, or otherwise, to a piece of music.
Film yourself having a most excellent time, submit it, and then wait to see if YOU get into the movie!
Go on, Spinal..
DO IT!!
          socoder.net/?Topic=7876

; Strangeness in Space

Trevor and Simon's epic audio space adventure. Watch out for those shoes.
This is 5 years old, and I only just found out about it.
Free, btw, and also available via most Podcast methods. The iTunes Podcast App seems to have a whole bunch of little audio extras that the website doesn't.
          strangenessinspace.com

KiloTube


; Nuts

The times they are a-changin'

View on YouTube

; Nuts..

They're not Nuts. They're Balls!
          youtu.be/vzKuobmi3iI

; Nuts..

They probably are Nuts..
          youtu.be/ZBk5l_nNcF4

; Nuts..

The trens are all nuts.
          youtu.be/7msoqnz2bcY

MegaTube


; Hot Wheels

The hottest wheels in town?

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; Power Wheels

Wheely great!
          youtu.be/2LiDZFHsBzY

GigaTube


; Double Your RAM

Twice the memory for half the price.

View on YouTube

; Time Travel Communication Conundrum

Unless you have a psychic TARDIS telepathic translator, or a Star Trek Universal Translator, exactly how would you communicate with people in the past?
          youtu.be/Y63dBBlHlSk

; Adam's Channel!

Tested.com has become pretty much just wall to wall Adam Savage videos, during lockdown.
No complaints, here!!
In this video, he modified his table saw's handles.
          youtu.be/0nLlCmZspVM

New Show


; Nebula 75

Episode One of a new Supermarionation show

View on YouTube

80s Cover Corner



View on YouTube

          youtu.be/aVruMxvrGgo

          youtu.be/mxDSbUbVlnw

          youtu.be/O2LLLPqMnLU

MovieCover Corner



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          youtu.be/xiAsPXxuEwM

          youtu.be/FVqFpcwj0C8

          youtu.be/3e_1bdLrC2U

VGRemix Corner



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          youtu.be/9GdG6-8q-es

          youtu.be/TIgxjva8Jc4

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