Stepmania/ITGmania was a notable program that just seemed to work better on Windows for me, but I know people are using it happily on Linux. Hopefully I can get it running nicely 🤞

I set up a Debian partition from the very beginning with this computer but I haven't used it very much. Tonight I booted it up and upgraded from bullseye to bookworm. It seems to have gone smoothly!

Like, maybe I *could* buy hundreds of dollars of networking equipment that I don't really need, that will make extra work for me. As a treat.

The enum also takes a const generic parameter for the size of an array, another feature I just figured out how to use. This part felt a little weirder but useful to know.

Yep! I've had it working for a while actually, I have a bunch of details here: github.com/joshhead/fsr...

Recently I've been working on some mostly-aesthetic upgrades.

Colors! The rainbow effect here is based on the first rainbow cycle code snippet I found; I want to do some different animations and color gradients later on. I am deep in a yak shave with the firmware/software that drives the lighting effects so who knows how long until I get to that.

It's a little plain without color, but it's meant to have colorful backlighting! See here with individual lights showing clearly through the frosted decal, and then heavily diffused by an Ikea cutting board in between the lights and the panel.

The design is printed on frosted vinyl, with front adhesive (the ink and the adhesive are on the same side), and there is a layer of white ink underneath to make it closer to opaque. Here it is from the other side.

Hello Kate specifically, good to see you