MicroRyo

No Racism

2020-06-07T10:53:00.001+01:00

Watching Victorious Marathon #stayathome

2020-04-26T17:18:00.001+01:00

Victorious Non-Stop.

Feeling: Motivated

The Fog Night

2020-04-21T23:02:00.001+01:00

It's on... Midnight April, 22nd

Played through Uncharted 2

2020-03-07T14:27:00.000+00:00

Yes, once again. Just finished Uncharted 2. What a great game.

Soon for 3... The best part of it all.

This Soundtrack always give me goosebumps

2020-02-22T15:18:00.000+00:00

Awesome.

On an adventure with Nathan Drake.

Greatness from small beginnings.

Hey that's my theme.

Ready for the Super Bowl 2020

2020-02-02T17:41:00.000+00:00

Yay.

This is not even everything I have ready. But there was no more room to show. 😄
Plan for the next 2 month: Diet

Added 2020-02-03:
Well, that was an awesome bowl. Wow. Patrick Mahomes really earned great respect now. Congrats to the team and the fans. What a ride.

Morning Haiku

2020-01-30T07:06:00.002+00:00

Here is my Haiku for today:

Joy in the morning

The sun is rising again

Emacs starting now

And in German:

Freude am Morgen

Die Sonne geht wieder auf

Emacs startet nun

-Ryo

And it starts again...

2020-01-28T11:06:00.001+00:00

Uncharted - Drake's Fortune remastered
Already having goosebumps bz listening to the epic soundtrack from the intro.
Let's go Nathan. For the adventure...

Distraction!

2020-01-27T08:40:00.004+00:00

You know you're distracted when you have 2400+ articles to read through but you're start playing "Tales of Wind" on your smartphone and blogging about it... 🥺 *sigh*

I'm getting ready for a new blog

2020-01-26T09:12:00.001+00:00

Wow, wait a minute. Another one?
Don't fear, I'm going to consolidate some of my blogs. In the end there will be only ryocentral.info and this microblog left, together with the new one. Several other will jump the shark and put in archive mode.
The new blog's language ist still undecided.
In addition to those blogs I will of course scatter articles unrelated to those topics on open platforms or services to decentralize as good as possible.

Oh and yes, I'll give Github Pages a try. It has some limitations, but it looks like a good solution for using emacs. And that's what I want. However, installation of Jekyll and Nikola both completely failed on my work system and can't be used. Sigh.
I'll keep up to that topic... Android App for Jekyll or Nikola anyone?

Just an update on the "The C64"

2020-01-15T10:43:00.001+00:00

The retro style computer called The C64 or C64 Maxi has been arrived in December as planned.

I talked about this in my weekly show before and I wanted to give you an update here.

The form of having a full sized C64 on the table is awesome. High compatibility with almost all .d64 and .prg files for both (!) C64 and VIC-20 makes it even more fun.

As a display I revived my old VGA LCD from Sony and attached a HDMI to VGA Adapter to it. It works great since the monitor is nearly 4:3 like the original output of the Commodore computers. On a 16:9 you have really some serious black areas left and right of the actual picture.

The solution with the included Competition Pro Style joystick to switch USB ports for joystick port 1 and 2 is great and brings back that feeling or rage we all had on that computer.
The joystick has microswitches which was that big thing those days. However mine needed a bit work by opening and using tiny amounts of Ballistol oil on the switches and all moving parts, so that it won't get stuck on random directions frequently.

To draw a conclusion, it makes a lot of fun playing around and even more to program in basic, saving and reusing it. That is exactly what I've missed. So yeah, while you can all achieve practically for free on your PC, it feels like the real deal. One step away from having an actual old C64 or VIC-20 on your table.

A Happy New(s) Year 2020

2020-01-06T12:56:00.003+00:00

Yes, I know I'm late.
The new year begins as stressful as the old one ended.

It's not to late though to wish you a Happy New Year 2020. 🥳

Have a lot of fun!

GMail now allows attaching a mail to a mail

2019-12-14T07:48:00.001+00:00

Big news... Umm... wait a minute.
Isn't that called "Mail Forwarding" and is around for ages?

Interesting how you relabel things, smack some optical mojo to it and tell people it's the new awesome.

Since I'm using FairEmail, which also can snooze mails, I'm with the "forwarding label".

Researching like crazy for today's shows

2019-12-09T08:07:00.001+00:00

I'm way behind the schedule.

I need some assistants... no not those "AI"-assistants.

But you know... dreams.

Now stop writing this blog-post and get to work, Ryo! :). Oh and by the way, I still don't dare to switch to the new blogger. Yes, blogger got a new update on the web. That's something for this week and probably ruin Christmas for me O.o.

1442 articles to go...😵

Coffee, vegan cupcake together the 8 Bit Guy newest video!

2019-10-02T08:32:00.002+01:00

Yes, that's a fine start of the day.

Pre-Ordered "The C64"... Exciting!

2019-09-09T12:27:00.001+01:00

Yes, the time has come. Screw online. I pre-ordered the upcoming "The C64". A licenced product. And I will actually use it for real. Not only for playing retro-games.

This is an awesome thing. Next stop is already planned: Buying a new Amiga. In the meantime I'm trying to restore my old original Amiga 2000, and enjoying working with the "The C64".

Working hard for today's netcasts

2019-09-09T09:12:00.002+01:00

A lot of news this week, but if you look closely, only a few are really interesting.
I'm having enough of politics killing off tech.
And I'm really fed up about trade and tech war. Eff you! You were too slow and too expensive, USA. China is king now. Live with it.
And that's it. I want new high tech, better electronics, more smart home, and faster processors. I and don't give a crap about from where it is delivered. Period!

EMUI / Magic UI 9.1 arrived on Honor View 20

2019-07-22T14:15:00.000+01:00

Yes... finally, the new Magic UI / EMUI 9.1 has arrived, including GPU Turbo 3.0 which makes a big difference in gaming.
You can select the games you want to run faster, while leaving others out of the Turbo when not necessary to get most out of the brilliant battery life of the Honor View 20.

There are also slight stability improvements in Desktop Mode (PC-Mode a.k.a. DeX) and some minor design tweaks, mainly regarding the icons. Now more non-optimized icons will adapt to the given design.

It also includes the latest available security patch for Honor phones.
Nice!

Ramping up for today's netcasts

2019-07-08T12:54:00.001+01:00

Wow, tech-news hit a new low-level this week.
Exciting? Not at all. The usual data doomsday warnings, security apocalypse outrages, and false spy allegations.
New tech? Seems like we are busy being scared about the present .

I want a ride with a time-traveller, say 100 years into the future.

I'm too fast for this slow tech world...

Watching Tron: Legacy

2019-06-25T14:09:00.001+01:00

Love the soundtrack and the Illumination.

Winter has just begun

2019-06-21T20:22:00.000+01:00

Today it's officially beginning of the winter period.

And if you say now: "What? Is he crazy?"

It means that you probably live on the northern hemisphere and assume that your seasons are valid for the whole planet. Nope.

Playing Neverwinter

2019-06-21T10:07:00.001+01:00

After a long period of abstinence 😁 I'm starting to play Neverwinter again. So many new features and changes. Having a hard time to get back into the game.

Shocked by the US blackmailing of Huawei #ImWithHuawei

2019-06-15T08:46:00.001+01:00

You see, I don't post as much as a manth ago. That is of me still being shocked by the open blackmailing from the USA against Huawei.

This is a sad thing, and I'm readying everything to move away from almost any US Internet-service and of course getting ready to have no Android on my Honor Phone. I will not, I repeat, I will not give in to US pressure. I will stay with Huawei and Honor, no matter what. And even if they will end up offering no phones outside China, I will only buy Chinese phones.

So this takes time, but many products are already switched. I'm ready for any Huawei-OS (Ark OS, Hong Meng or whatever they call it) and leaving the main Android OS, which seems to be fully under US-control and therefore unacceptable in the future.

Watching Sword Art Online

2019-06-13T19:57:00.001+01:00

Yay. Once again.

Huawei / Honor PC-Mode Shortcuts #ImWithHuawei

2019-05-27T11:48:00.000+01:00

Against all odds. I'm staying with Huawei, no matter what. Eff you!

And so it happens that I'm now even using my phone as a Desktop PC with the awesome PC-Mode. Here are some of the Shortcuts I could find:

Keyboard Shortcuts for Huawei/Honor PC-Mode

ALT = Emoji-Selection (GBoard)
ALT+TAB = Task-Switcher
ALT+F4 = Close app
Windows-Key = Open app-drawer
Menu-Key = Open app-menu (3 dots)
CTRL+Mousewheel = Zoom
PRINT = Screenshot
ESC = Back (not in all apps)
Shift+Space = Switch languages (including Japanese & Chinese input)
Multimedia-Keys = Volume, Play, Pause, Mute etc. works like a charm
Windows+E = Open filemanager
Windows+D = All windows to foreground/background (Desktop)
Windows+L = Lock Phone / Screen
Shift+Cursor/Page = select text on screen