@starless I love buffering cause people point at it and go "look it's so much more efficient for large files" and then you have to actually allocate memory on the heap which takes up more processor cycles than just doing the whole thing without buffering up until a certain size
Love to have a slower printf for small strings, luckily I never have to print short strings
@dragon lol no worries. I was just like "Wow, they must be talking about my little cat tarot printer project. Okay, okay, this is weird, but maybe not that surprising for mastodon."
Silly me. :P
@starless wait I havent seen that project :o whats it do?
@dragon https://social.pixie.town/@starless/108162394497787218
it's a little python script that prints out a pseudo-random tarot card (no fancy seeds or anything) and a little interpreted meaning on a receipt printer. I just updated it to work on a bluetooth cat printer off ali express ($20 if you've got cash to burn).
@starless oh that's cute!!!
@dragon Thanks! Yeah, the printer looked *adorable* so I got it and forked the repo that hacked the BT control scheme.
Unfortunately, the graphics resolution isn't as good as the espos python one that I'd been using before, so there's that, but like... It's pretty cool, and people really get delighted by it.
If I could trivially make a little android app, I'd make one that calls the script when the phone is turned over (gyroscope?) while the app is running so that you 'draw' a card by turning over the phone (displaying the image of the back of a card).
@starless but whats the point of having it on ur phone when u can have a cute little kitty give u ur fortune!!! also I think it works well like the resolution definitely didn't seem bothersome :3
@dragon nono, the kitty would! Just when you turn over the phone it would send the signal to print it
@starless omg sorry idk why I @ed you!!! also no thats super valid tbh