So, to try and take a positive spin on the lockdown period, I thought I'd create this thread for us to share anything we have had more time to do.
Perhaps it's learning a new skill, trying something new, tackling a long-shelved project, recapping your Egret or just grinding through your backlog.
For me, there hasn't been as much time as you'd hope, but Easter gave me five days of time which allowed me to:
1. Exercise my rudimentary electronics, to solder up a dual led with some resistors and some spare Noctua fan cable for my Ultimate 64 Elite. Works a treat.
2. Backup the HDD of my (probably dead) Amiga A4000. Data that has been on a disc that's not been spun up in 14 years. I used my OpenPandora handheld (as it's a Linux machine) using dd. Amazingly, the only data corruption was on a few non-essential files on the system partition.
3. Played two episodes of Life is Strange:Before the Storm. Which is really good.
4. Played about five hours of Zelda:BOTW, which was therapeutic and beautiful, even more so when I caught a jet-black, wild horse - which, after quite a chase and several kicks to the head, I called her 'Beauty' like any 70s-child would!
5. Configured my Odroid XU4 (bought from someone here back in 2015 or something) to build soft-arm code as a cross-compiler for my Pandora. Then I built the same gcc that built the kernel on my Pandora, which I will be needing for some other projects (gcc 4.94 and I needed to modify the code a bit).
6. Make a sourdough starter and get good at baking bread. My first starter didn't work out (bleached white flour doesn't have much natural yeast left, it seems) but my organic, rough-ground rye starter is now three weeks old and very active. The bread is getting better, but I still have much more practice at kneading and forming to do, to get the perfect loaf.
Anyway, so have you guys and girls been able to get something out of the extra time at home?
Tell us what you've been up to!
Perhaps it's learning a new skill, trying something new, tackling a long-shelved project, recapping your Egret or just grinding through your backlog.
For me, there hasn't been as much time as you'd hope, but Easter gave me five days of time which allowed me to:
1. Exercise my rudimentary electronics, to solder up a dual led with some resistors and some spare Noctua fan cable for my Ultimate 64 Elite. Works a treat.
2. Backup the HDD of my (probably dead) Amiga A4000. Data that has been on a disc that's not been spun up in 14 years. I used my OpenPandora handheld (as it's a Linux machine) using dd. Amazingly, the only data corruption was on a few non-essential files on the system partition.
3. Played two episodes of Life is Strange:Before the Storm. Which is really good.
4. Played about five hours of Zelda:BOTW, which was therapeutic and beautiful, even more so when I caught a jet-black, wild horse - which, after quite a chase and several kicks to the head, I called her 'Beauty' like any 70s-child would!
5. Configured my Odroid XU4 (bought from someone here back in 2015 or something) to build soft-arm code as a cross-compiler for my Pandora. Then I built the same gcc that built the kernel on my Pandora, which I will be needing for some other projects (gcc 4.94 and I needed to modify the code a bit).
6. Make a sourdough starter and get good at baking bread. My first starter didn't work out (bleached white flour doesn't have much natural yeast left, it seems) but my organic, rough-ground rye starter is now three weeks old and very active. The bread is getting better, but I still have much more practice at kneading and forming to do, to get the perfect loaf.
Anyway, so have you guys and girls been able to get something out of the extra time at home?
Tell us what you've been up to!
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