If you want to experience what it felt like to play with a virtual boy. There is a fantastic video game museum in Málaga, Spain that has a working Virtual Boy. You can't strap it to your head and move around as the headset is securely attached to a stand. But you can put your eyes up to the headset and experience early 90's VR.

The Museum is called "OXO - Museo del Videojuego Málaga". We accidentally stumbled across it while over in Spain on holiday from New Zealand last January (2024).

Very well said.

If someone claims they don't care about privacy because they have "nothing to hide", ask them to unlock their smartphone and let you borrow it for half an hour.

kinghezy, thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy life to give us your introduction show.
My own workplace of God's Pantry Food Bank, Lexington, KY, is a Microsoft software shop, so I fully understand as my day is spent on Outlook, Excel, Word, and Navision. Hence like you I love coming home to my Linux systems.
After years of using point releases with Linux Mint, I discovered Solus and later PCLinuxOS, which are both rolling release distros.
Looking forward to getting to know you more mate.
My own introduction shall be officially released next Wednesday: hpr4258

I love this podcast with my friend Peter. I've learned a lot.

Dave, what does your Dad want, really, really want?
I did not know that about him. Very interesting news.

One of my claims in life is that I have listened to the first BugCast show, although I did so in 2021, the year that George introduced me to you all.
Since then I have listened to over 50% of BugCast shows. Right now I am on a pause, just after Alexander was born.

Thank you for being an inspiration to many, including myself, to get into podcasting. We are all part of a chain of good peer pressure.

So glad to know you mate, and happy to call you a beer drinking buddy in the after-shows and podcrawl.

Thanks to Dave and Torin,

I am now aware of a thing that I can't actually hear! I developed tinnitus about 20 years ago, and, though it doesn't bother me very much, it does mean I can't hear sounds in certain ranges.

I think my microphone (a Samson C01U) is picking up the mains hum, maybe from my (now old) desktop or the fridge-freezer nearby. I recently moved the mic stand to the other end of the (shelf over the) desk, but although it seems to have fixed other distortions, it didn't do enough. I plan to remodel everything as soon as I can (probably over Christmas).

When I record my own shows I usually use my Zoom H3n recorder on a boom, and it doesn't seem to get much interference. I do sometimes use it for the Community News recordings, but I dropped it recently and broke the tripod mounting thread in the base, so it's not easy to use. I've 3D printed a possible fix, but haven't tested it yet.

I tend to run all my recordings through the noise removal filter in Audacity, but this particular show came from Ken's recording of the Mumble stream, so it would probably have been very difficult to clean up.

Anyway, thanks for the feedback (as it were).

Hi Lee.

I love Podcasts that leave detailed shownotes with all relevant links.

I too miss Linux Outlaws. Dan was great in particular.

I'm going to give GNU World Order a go.

Since you mentioned that 'Touched by an Angel' is religious with a lowercase r, I'm tempted to try it. Perhaps it's like 'Highway to Heaven'?

Cheers from The Emerald Isle.

While visiting Archer72 / Mark Rice today in his Rehab Hospital room we were talking about HPR, and he got excited to see this in the future feed:
> hpr4256 - Birds of a Feather Talk at OLF 2024 by Thaj Sara
I knew Mark wanted to be at OLF, but could not make it due to his car accident and care. It's also the same reason that he and I got together in person despite living 30 miles apart and chatting on Mastodon for over a year.
Mark asked me if I knew Thaj and the Urandom podcast, to which I responded that I did not.
So, tonight I checked Thaj's name link on HPR and found this discussion show. An excellent way to connect the Urandom and HPR dots for me.
My route to HPR was through personal contact with podcasters such as TheLovebug (Bugcast / TuxJam) and Kevie & Mcnalu (TuxJam), as well as Geospart from Tech & Coffee. Kevie's teenage son Lochyboy played a large part too. What connects these contacts together is Telegram and also Mastodon.
It was this group that encouraged me to record and upload my own introduction:
> hpr4258 Introduction and History of Using Computers by SolusSpider
Currently my HPR discussions have mostly been on Telegram, especially joining the group there, and via Mastodon with the #HPR tag.
Maybe I should join the Mailing List?
Not a fan of following a Podcast on YouTube - I mostly do that for church services, nor of Discord which I am really not fond of and dropped a while back.
What I see keeping this loose community together is the central website and personal contacts.
Thanks for the history and insight to what HPR means to you Urandom guys. BTW, I did laugh that you have a Facebook page, which I did join. Talk about being in the popular media! *grin*.
I am hoping to record more shows, but that comes from good friends personal peer pressure.
BTW: Maybe next year Mark & I shall attend OLF. For me the last time was 9 years ago in 2015.

Hey Peter,

So good to hear you on Hacker Public Radio, I hope this is the start of many shows from you, given how close you are to other podcasting communities.

I've heard bits of this story in various forms over the years, but it was incredibly interesting to hear the whole story from the start. Thanks for sharing!

I wonder if you'll stay true to form and go back to episode one of HPR (or even Today With A Techie - 300 episodes that immediately preceded HPR?) and work your way forward? 😀

Looking forward to the next one!

Hi Dave. My ancient MP3 player only accepts .mp3 files so I went with that [I much prefer .ogg files]. I just listened to the audio again here on this webpage and it's actually more like a low hum than a buzzing but it's certainly quite noticeable when using earphones.

Hey Dave (perloid)

I've had a listen to the OGG file, and - like the MP3 I got from the feed on my podcatcher - there is a definite buzzing (possibly mains hum?) behind your audio.

Dave (thelovebug)

Hello,

many thanks for the effort made. :-)

Jan

Hi Torin Doyle,

As the "English Guy" on the team, and having listened to the show using the version available from the OGG feed, I heard nothing that could be described as "buzzing".

Which format were you listening to?

Kevie, very clear and concise talk on examples of using the command line.
Thank you for giving the terminal some love, and encouraging us all to do the same.

I thoroughly enjoyed Millie's Oggcamp talk and I'm delighted to hear that she is considering more options and also this left us with a hope that she will be also starting to record a few HPR episodes. She had a great delivery style and she had me gripped for the full 30 minutes. This brought me right back to the talk in Manchester; thank you Ken for tracking her down and recording this.

Ahuka, wonderful summary of Doctor Who and how it all got started.
I agree that "An Adventure In Space And Time" is an excellent docudrama and a must watch!
The Doctor Who show does take a lot of twists and turns along its long history, and continues to do so with the latest incarnation. Still, it remains true to the concept of the Doctor and the TARDIS having adventures.

Alex was SO young at 2.5 years old.
This might be a couple of years after I paused listening to The Bugcast back catalog. I need to get back to that.
The mention of the Duffercast was a blast from the past too. I have listened to every published episode. Unsure how many got lost in time with the lawnmower!
Dave, this was a fun first HPR by you.

Lochyboy / Alexander / Teenguy, thank you for giving us the History of Nintendo. I learned much.
It will probably not surprise you at all to learn that I have never owned a gaming console, well not a proper one... I have Walkman style cassette player from ALBA that has a version of TETRIS on it, named The Wall.
Arianna did own an Atari 2600 back in the day, and says it still exists at her Mum's house.
My nephew Nathan enjoys his DS.
Arianna did own a Switch, but gave it to my niece Star in 2022 just before we met with you in Inverness.
Keep on enjoying your gaming mate!

Hi Ken et al.

Please don't encourage hunting. I heard the Scottish guy [sorry I don't recall his name] mention hunting.

There was a very noticeable buzzing from the English guys audio [sorry I don't recall his name].

A great show as usual.

Thanks, guys.

Hi Charles,

I downloaded bashpodder from bashpodder gothub repo, copiedhttps://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php > bp.conf.

When I ran it, it downloaded the entire list without issue.

See https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_hub/issues/61#issuecomment-1922

Can you send me a zip of the bashpodder instance you are running as well as the following:

sed --version
wget --version
xsltproc --version

Thanks.

I just now listened to this on my usual morning walkies. I realized why I don't podcast regularly as I hate the sound of my own voice. Great interviews Ken.

Growing up in Scotland Doctor Who was part of my culture. First Doctor was also Jon Pertwee. I drifted in and out of watching Classic Who, but have been catching up on Britbox - moved to Kentucky, USA in 1999.
My wife and I enjoyed watching Christopher Eccleston, the 9th Doctor. He remains our favourite.
Since then I have watched on Amazon Prime, Max, and now Disney+.
Doctor Who still remains a large part of my culture, and I thank you for this introduction for the benefit of everyone else.

Hi Charles in NJ,

I opened a bug report for this issue.

https://repo.anhonesthost.net/HPR/hpr_hub/issues/61

Ken

I liked this show, but I almost missed it. My bashpodder-based podcast handler is no longer working for HPR. Instead of getting the current episodes, it downloads a file called "ccdn.php". This is not useful. If I can fix this, I may record a show to describe how I did it. But if it takes too much time or trouble, I may quietly fade away.

Sorry to put this in such stark terms, but I have a lot of things to juggle these days. Fussing over the HPR feed is not something I have time to do.

Charles in NJ

Yes Ken, it is all about hardware I have.

The plexiglass is the only hw I have not tested; I have purchased one but not tried yet how it would work in the scanner or repro. I tested a thick glass plate for repro first, a plate intended to put under bottles, that plate was not optimal in any way.

But else, yes, have and used, work in progress to conclude what I believe is best method, settings etc for my needs and equipment. What I know is I get good quality with both methods.

I'm a huge fan of mpv itself. It plays anything you throw at it, audio video etc.

At one point I decided that the home theater software at home would be bash+mpv.

Amazing how good people get at unix when they have to.

I am a huge Terry Pratchett fan.

Did you ever check the headers of HPR ?

Hi Henrik

Did you already go over the hardware you have and used ?

Ken

I'd love to say I watched those episodes, but to be honest I was hiding behind the couch

Remark on my repro setup:

My digital camera is mounted on a repro stand. The stand is similar to the stand used in an analog darkroom.

The "duplication direction" is opposite to the analog darkroom: The camera is mounted on the stand, while the object to be duplicated is placed on the base plate.

I have a light table on the base plate when a negative or positive is duplicated.

Mounted on the camera, depending on lens, may an extension tube be needed to achieve the macro distance to duplicate a small object.