While I do have a love/hate relationship with Amazon, the ability to purchase kindle books and read them is very handy. I have several older 4th generation Kindles, D01200 models, that I recently had to switch to a new Amazon account. Unfortunately, registering them was painful.
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I have a love/hate relationship with Amazon. I was using it exclusively for years, a happy prime customer, renting and buying movies, using the Amazon Music, etc. All was great. Then, out of the blue, they one day banned me from Amazon. They locked my account, and sent me …
While doing a lot of work in Godot, I recently ran across an interesting error. I was attempting to upgrade from using Godot 4.1, which was the version used in my Udemy class on Godot, to the newer version 4.2.1. After downloading the newer version of Godot …
As I continue to learn more about using Godot, my Udemy course took me through building a tower defense game. It was really fun to work on, and I am really enjoying the course! It was interesting though, that at the end of this segment, for the tower defense game …
While trying to build custom roms for one of my cell phones, I managed to soft brick the phone. It was a Cat S42G, and I somehow managed to get it stuck in a preloader boot loop while attempting to change a stock kernel to have a TWRP recovery image …
Recently I started learning Godot 4 by taking a 3D game development course on Udemy. It's been a lot of fun so far, and it is helping me reach another goal of mine relating to making my own 3D game. I'm certainly not ready for prime time, and I'm a …
Kids and cats and fake original Nintendo controllers don't mix.
Well, at least that's my experience.
Not much to write on this one, but the kids are rough on the controllers. I can't blame them for that, it is hard not to jump to the right and drag the whole …
One of my side hobbies is learning how to make video games in Godot. I was going through a great tutorial, but I got sidetracked due to the usual life circumstances. Now I have a little more free time again, and I want to get back into learning Godot. One …
I would like to start this post by saying I'm not that bright. Further, there are way, way, way brighter people, of whom you should be following their blog. However, for what it is worth, this is my script for automagically updating my clickable app for Ubuntu Touch. You can …
After many hours of fiddling with my modded Arduino-TNC and my HTX-212, I finally got it to transmit a test email from my cell phone using WoAD.
I adjusted the HTX to "high" for transmit, half volume output, squelch full counter clockwise (off), turned of "T" and "T-Squelch".
I used …