2024-10-09 04:56:05 can't hang around to discuss, but i'll leave this comment here and be back tomorrow. along the lines of the comment i made earlier, that the freedom of forth seems to be counter productive for me because i waste time chasing squirrels tangential to the problem... i'm starting to question whether my fancy meta interpretive relocatable cross compiler falls in that category 2024-10-09 04:57:23 i had arrived at the conclusion earlier this year that forth works best for me if i regard it as a really nice macro assembler. i think i may have been right and just lost sight of that. 2024-10-09 05:00:22 i was about to start jtag-ing a pic eval board with my forth when i wasn't satisfied with how i was doing cross compilation, and that's what set me down this path. but maybe what i was doing was fine, it just needs some polish. 2024-10-09 05:10:53 anyway, parting thought: i don't think i'm giving up, but more that i think i'm going to finish and then maybe revisit simpler techniques again. that's sort of what this is all about for me. i knew i would do anything producrive this year, the goal was to incubate a craft for future productivity. 2024-10-09 05:10:53 s/would do/wouldn't do/ 2024-10-09 16:19:19 my bots will be going down for a bit; upgrading to openbsd 7.6 on the server 2024-10-09 16:36:42 upgrades complete :) 2024-10-09 22:38:51 Ah, neat... One annoyance of the new computer was that the function keys are function keys by default, and you have to push the Fn key to get the alternate functions like volume up, volume down, and so on. I hated it. Anyway, just figured out how to assign keyboard shortcuts for those five functions (vol up, vol down, mute/umnute, +10% brightness, -10% brightness) to those five function keys. 2024-10-09 22:38:53 Now I don't have to muss with the Fn shift key anymmore. 2024-10-09 22:41:24 usually there's a toggle for whether Fn are Fn or special somewhere 2024-10-09 23:01:56 are you sure it's a good idea to use the same key for mute and unmute? 2024-10-09 23:14:30 i have ^f10 bound to play/pause media 2024-10-09 23:16:18 the second script was one to make the synth shut up