This DIY portable media server for a road trip looks like a comic book bomb. It could use a cheap plastic case.

Not bad for a $12 Pi Zero, 512GB card, and a 5k mAh battery that lasts for over 8 hours. It creates its own hotspot that serves media over DLNA.

Also has a bunch of music- trying to figure a quick and dirty way to auto-pull new podcast episodes/tv shows on when it is on wifi elsewhere, but that’s for later.

Maybe 50 movies on there, not  even 1/4 full.

Streamed 4 different movies to 4 devices without a hiccup.

Heres a how to, it went very smoothly.

https://hackaday.io/project/199227-mini-pi-media-server

“SHADOWS OF THE STAR CITY”

update 1.2 – added map and some other goodies

https://svonberg.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/nokerpg_012.html

now with roanoke wiener stand and small batch liquidation, reworked the map a but to get closer to real locations, smaller individual travel options(4 per page) , Pepito and Betty the shop cats at Misfit and Dragon Bite, Evie’s Bakery with trinket trade, grandin region with snap farmers market and co-op, and a bunch of others. Fixed the d20(now spellbook at dragon bite combat effect) and a bunch more!

Added light and dark mode, black dog salvage, dixie caverns, taubman, the Texas Tavern, and the Salem Duck Pond, as well as some monsters, artifacts, and a money system (some enemies drop cash as well as possible “magic items”)

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July 1912 wasn’t going so well for Franz Kafka

July 1 Too tired.

July 2 Sad.

July 3 Today is my birthday.

July 4 What are you? I am miserable.

July 5 To have to bear and to be the cause of such suffering!

July 6 Unhappy night.

July 21 Miserable creature that I am!

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Day 20,986

Lil tiny possum!

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Listening to two couples discussing what they are naming their kids (Campbell Meridian / Angel Lavender for boy/girl) and was reminded of:

Bahby names 2026

*Beef Thunder
*Blast Hardcheese
*Brick Wolfpunch
*Rip Steakface
*Throckmorton
*Biff Ironjaw
*Tank Beefslab

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Bethesda just dropped a massive roadmap: Fallout 5, remasters of Fallout 3 & New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls VI, and more.

4 Fallout games in the works, including a new one from Obsidian. Skyrim sold 65 million copies, and modders have earned over $10M via Creation Club.

They confirmed the Raven Rock expansion for Fallout 76 in 2025 and a new Starfield DLC for 2027. 

I wonder if they are redoing any audio?

https://bethesda.net/en/article/7wrffyXajE4BmCLJVpOkcN/a-note-from-bethesda-game-studios

Some smoke added pics of roanoke today

skinny lil possum, stinkothy the skunk, mosquito bomber

july 17 2026

#roanokeva #backyardzoo #skunk #possum #opossum

Day 20,984

Seed 570515054211

Current Mood: 🍟 hungry
Current Music: The rhythmic gurgling of my own digestive tract

So.
Yesterday was the day I crossed another threshold into official, undeniable Middle Age: my very first colonoscopy.

Below the cut, the glamorous details of my lower GI tract

Continue reading Colonoscopy follow-up →

Watching the *Time Bandits* series, based on the movie of the same name. Halfway through it, and so far, it’s not terrible, but doesn’t yet hold a candle to the original.

Basic plot scene from the original below:

https://clip.cafe/time-bandits-1981/to-be-quite-frank/

You see, to be quite frank, Kevin, the fabric of the universe is far from perfect. It was a bit of botched job, you see. We only had seven days to make it. And that’s where this comes in. This is the only map of all the holes. Well, why repair them? Why not use them to get stinking rich?

Chronological seed 570513134151

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Today’s animal visitors

The raccoon sounds are so cute!

Off to get a procedure done, first of two this week. Old man stuff. Epidural for my back today, colonoscopy Thursday. 

Current listen:

You’re Dead Norma Tanega 1966

I am always often frightened of being knocked out, and I guess that is the norm for colonoscopy? I thought it was a local, but i guess they don’t want folks awake for it these days.

Chronological seed – 570512014008

update, pic, all seems to have gone well

got some munchkins and an unsweetened Arnold Palmer after at Dunk’s. Love the view from the parking lot there.

especially this little patch above the blue spruce

July 14 2026

https://youtu.be/UDiBHRuu3bM?is=8FFMhaAJItzHEOhS

https://youtu.be/U9GonfanXmk?is=iLr5WLYw-u_l-AMO

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/sep/10/arlen-parsa/evidence-shows-most-47-men-famous-declaration-inde/

Man, woman, know thyself! 1908.

https://archive.org/details/manwomanknowthys00bart/page/40/mode/2up