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Conrad Knauer

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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 29/09/2026
Most of the keys, even most of the function keys, are the same... but there's enough of a diff that there shold be a specific keyboard map used when "-machine tandy" is used.
Photo of an old Tandy 1000 keyboard, from
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tandy1000.jpg
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/09/2026
Then, on a hunch, I looked up the Tandy 1000 SX service manual archive.org/details/Tand... and checked the keyboard codes (what values are sent to the computer when you press a given key). It turns out some of these (cf. the function keys!) differ from what e.g. Linux uses github.com/torvalds/lin...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/09/2026
A problem I've noticed is that pressing F12 doesn't seem to be detected in-game. At first, I thought this was because F12 is used as a "host key" (does special things with other keys in Dosbox-X), but it's still a no even after explicitly changing it...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/09/2026
hxtxxmas .zip from www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog... $ flatpak run com.dosbox_x.DOSBox-X -machine tandy -set cputype=8086 -set cycles=400 -c "mount d /home/conrad/Games/Tandy/" -c "D:" -c "cd Xmas1987" -c "XMAS"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/09/2026
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/09/2026
From page 3 of the 1984 Radio Shack computer catalogue www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c19... "Trained experts are on hand to help you." Apparently so! ;D
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 26/09/2026
Remember the virtual ad that was TandyTown? ;D
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 26/09/2026
From page 17 of the 1986 Radio Shack computer catalogue www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c19...
Ad for FUNdamentals for the Tandy 1000 (item number 25-1124) from 1986.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 25/09/2026
On a (dark) tangent, that reminded me of this comic, from 2009. Source in alt text.
Six panel comic:

1) Blue skinned man is assembling a small human from a kit, with a screwdriver.

2) His arm, in a white sleeve, is seen lowering the tiny man, who seems to be naked, onto a field with a tree. A tiny woman, also apparently nude, rushes forward, excitedly with arms raised. A pair of tiny people holding hands can be seen at a distance in the field, also apparently unclothed.

3) The blue skinned man is cleaning up the mess from assembling the kit.

4) His blue hand reaches towards a tiny object remaining on the table.

5) His white bearded face inspects it; a miniscule screw.

6) A scene of futuristic total war among the tiny people in a burning city.

From http://www.spaceavalanche.com/2009/11/30/diorama/
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/09/2026
OMG LOL she looks like she wants to make a coat out of puppies too. bsky.app/profile/conr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry-Lynne_Findlay
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/09/2026
What he's worried about...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 20/09/2026
Compare to WWI anti-Kaiser propaganda...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 19/09/2026
🤡💀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 17/09/2026
So... America was "great" in 1807?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embargo_Act_of_1807

"Ograbme" is embargo, backwards.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026
You know how some Republicans just can't stop talking about gay people, and denouncing their "sinful" lifestyle, and talking in detail about the frequent S-E-X they have? Yeah. Same thing, but about a Muslim guy.
Man wearing a red baseball hat and sunglasses. Text says:

"So deep in the closet

having adventures in Narnia"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026
"The Panasonic Q is a [Japanese] hybrid version of the GameCube with a standard DVD player, developed by Panasonic in a strategic alliance with Nintendo... Its stainless steel case is completely revised with a DVD-sized front-loading tray, [and] a backlit LCD screen with playback controls"
Panasonic Q, via Wikipedia
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 15/09/2026
LOL my son picked up a used Panasonic Toughbook CF-31 Mk. 6, and right now he's using it as a Panasonic Q to play Pikmin 1 ;) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCube
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 14/09/2026
Yay! -c 1 works :) Let's try -s 1
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 14/09/2026
Known working: $ ./bin2video -s 16 -b 1 -c 3 -f 30 -e -i ../1K.7z -o 1K.mp4 Test: $ ./bin2video -s 16 -b 1 -c 1 -f 30 -e -i ../1K.7z -o 1K.mp4
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 13/09/2026
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 13/09/2026
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/09/2026
Pikmin 1 "The Happy End" video (transcoded from the H4M file on the Gamecube disk by my son :)
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 07/09/2026
How long until DHH starts working for Microsoft? 🤔 BTW, interesting that MS now makes over 2x from Office, compared to Windows itself; it would be a tempting target if MS is worried about lost revenue that they can't get from 365...
Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-microsoft-makes-its-billions/
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 07/09/2026
Yes, flat earthers, because we live on a planet a that's only a couple hundred feet wide 🙄
Cover of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 04/09/2026
I remember when Audacity looked like this; version 4 is a major UI improvement!
"Audacity 2.0.5 screenshot on Ubuntu operation system
26 December 2014"
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audacity_Ubuntu_%C3%BCzerinde.png
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 04/09/2026
Hairless cat in a dress and wig.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 30/08/2026
😏
Image of Captain America punching Red Skull, with a text bubble for the latter: "SO MUCH FOR THE TOLERANT LEFT"

via https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/so-much-for-the-tolerant-left
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 28/08/2026
Dutch Elm Disease in Saskatoon www.ckom.com/2026/08/25/n... Well this sucks; I drove over to Carleton- you can see the infected trees dying.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/08/2026
#Ubuntu #Linux 26.04.1 (Resolute Raccoon) release imminent!
Screenshot of https://releases.ubuntu.com/

"Archive-Update-in-Progress" highlighted under "Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/08/2026
"AI at Work"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 27/08/2026
Wow, I haven't seen a tattoo of corporate marketing that pathetic since the Zune guy. arstechnica.com/information-... (ICYMI the Zune was Microsoft's lame iPad knockoff two decades ago) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zune
Lame dude, with lamer Zune tattoos.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 25/08/2026
cf. Mike Lindell...
Cover of Mike Lindell's autobiographical "What Are the Odds?: From Crack Addict to CEO"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 23/08/2026
Yeah, i raised my eyebrow at that too. But I think it's just missing an Oxford comma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_... Either that or this 'Maple MAGA' guy is so far right that anyone left of Hitler is too 'liberal' for his liking 😒
Funny example:

"With the Oxford comma:
We invited the strippers, JFK, and Stalin."
[4 people shown; two strippers, JFK, and Stalin]

"Without the Oxford comma:
We invited the strippers, JFK and Stalin."
[2 people shown; JFK and Stalin *who are the strippers*]
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/08/2026
This is just... pathetic.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/08/2026
My circa 2021 ThinkPad running Ubuntu (not known to be the most svelte Linux, ne?) 26.04, on a fresh bootup idles at... ~1.4 GB RAM :) bsky.app/profile/conr...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 22/08/2026
😭 Literally this old tweet being made real in the US right now...
"as a Canadian, this is how it feels watching American elections these days"

[Election results image:
50.1% Everyone Gets A Puppy
49.9% Diarrhea Forever]

9:39 AM · Nov 8, 2022
https://x.com/patdubois/status/1590006089541914624
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 21/08/2026
I don't have a fancy mouse to test with, but I just got back to my Ubuntu (26.04) system; double clicking the downloaded DEB opens it with App Center. Seems to run :)
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 20/08/2026
And when you're all done, just shutdown and you can reboot back into your regular OS like nothing happened (unless you nuked it by selecting install... if so, then welcome to Linux! ;)
Ubuntu shutdown menuRemove thumb drive and press enter.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 20/08/2026
I'm getting a bunch of likes on that, so thought I'd take some pics of what booting from the thumb drive looks like. I don't run Windows, but vids like youtu.be/v51G7F17sw8 show process of making the drive in Windows with Rufus (pretty straightforward) Just select it on boot (F12 on my ThinkPad)
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 18/08/2026
Some dark humor:
"What's the difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump?

Donald Trump would charge you for the Kool-Aid."
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 14/08/2026
by @babycakesbbz.bsky.social on www.instagram.com/reel/DZgBMzu...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 13/08/2026
Say @jmkorhonen.fi I just noted something interesting... bsky.app/profile/conr... Also if you click on some of them, note the flag.
https://pris-stats.iaea.org/reactor/556
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 12/08/2026
Not just these days; cf. this vid made when Vista was new (~2007) bsky.app/profile/conr...
"No One Does
BLOATWARE
Like Microsoft"

A still from an old video i uploaded here in https://bsky.app/profile/conrad.knauer.ca/post/3mbq2qbxcvc2e
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/08/2026
I see where the problem starts... so this GEL is only accurate to 233? Need to look at documentation to figure out why :/
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 11/08/2026
I wrote a short little GEL script for finding the fractions, expecting to find more like 16/113, which have big gaps to the next. But instead, i found that from the 338th to 339th one, it's 3x, then 2x to *at least* a billion (i told it to stop there)...
Note: for this run i omitted display of all 2x ones. I thought something was broken because it was working nicely, showing various results, then got 'stuck' at 339. Rerunning w/o filter showed, no, it was all just 2x after that...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 10/08/2026
I am continuing work on the fractional approximation of pi that I was playing with 5 years ago x.com/ConradKnauer... Brute force confirmed the numbers i found then are increasingly accurate approximations of pi-3... Also 1/7 is actually the start point.
1) 1 / 7
2) 16 / 113
3) 4703 / 33215
4) 14093 / 99532
5) 51669 / 364913
6) 244252 / 1725033
7) 3856363 / 27235615
8) 7468474 / 52746197
9) 18549059 / 131002976
10) 66727762 / 471265707
11) 114906465 / 811528438
12) 392898098 / 2774848045
13) 670889731 / 4738167652

For two numbers A/B and next better approx C/D, you can calculate third E/F by:

nC-A / nD-B

Where n is an integer (shown by i.e. 294) that is discovered... still don't know how to calculate that. But these are the closest fractions larger than pi.
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 06/08/2026
An old tweet of mine, from 2022:
https://x.com/ConradKnauer/status/1507411987927425028

Imagine how different the world would be if Paul's neighbor, and McCain's doctors, had both been successful... https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTdqIlfp8XE

11:39 AM · Mar 25, 2022
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 06/08/2026
Parody of anti-drug (meth) PSA:

"This is not normal
But in math it is
[various overlapping equations]
Math
Not even once"
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 06/08/2026
Did he steal that off Jimmy Swaggart's corpse? 🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart

Image from
https://religionnews.com/2025/07/14/jimmy-swaggarts-rise-and-fall-shaped-the-landscape-of-american-televangelism/
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 06/08/2026
$ figlet LOLOLOLOL
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