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For the past couple years, I’ve fiddled with multiple programmable keyboards and various remapping software like Piper to try to customize my input devices to work they way I wanted them too. All the while, I had a RPi Pico sitting, unused on a shelf. Finally, in 2026, I discovered HID Remapper.

Most linux users are probably familiar with the curl | bash syntax. It’s used as a convenient way to download a script and immediately run it on your system. Most users are also familiar with the frequent warnings telling them that they should never do that.

You might be thinking, though: “I’m safe. I always check the source first, so I know what it’s going to do before I run it.”

…but what if the source was lying to you?

After about two weeks of additional reading and tinkering, I think I’ve got a slightly better informed opinion about Meshtastic and it’s uses.

After hearing so much about Meshtastic over the past year or two, I finally decided to purchase a device to play with, specifically, a Heltec v3 (with a LilyGo T-deck+ scheduled to be delivered in a month).

I recently learned that the CompuServe website is not only still online, but features current events, news, and photos.

“Wait, what?!,” you may by thinking, “didn’t they go out of business in the 2000s?”

Let’s explore a bit.

Just a quick PSA: According to the Neocities Blog, the entire Neocities domain is being blocked from Bing search results…

As someone who works a desk-job and has mostly computer-related hobbies, I realize that I spend a lot of my day looking one screen or another. In a low-effort attempt to reduce “screen time,” I recently purchased another screen: a PocketBook Verse, and connected it to my Komga instance…