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Good to know!

For now, I ended up reinstalling Nobara until I can test if Mint on 5.19 kernel has fixed the issue with my RX 6600.

Nobara is great for my gaming so far. But wouldn’t mind a more mainstream distro that has fixed some of the less common bugs I seem to always find.

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Lmao Fuck an a that’s radical man.

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Young zoomers communicate in memes. Tamarian, but with pictures.

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UK? Yeah that shit is scary. I am gobsmacked they’re pulling that authoritarian crap.

I’m probably full of shit but here is what I’m thinking. Some things like employers not paying enough and treating employees like shit in various ways-- that is depressing if we are totally helpless. If we can form unions and protest in effective ways, that actually get some reforms going, then it feels like maybe there is some hope.

Content isn’t the right response. Neither is giving up in despair. Being able to channel anger and frustration productively seems lots better.

If you’re lonely for a bit, or some things aren’t going great you can learn to live with that, for now while also working on fixing what you can. Spinning your wheels fretting and self-pitying doesn’t help but taking action does.

Some things will always be outside of my control.

It is probably best to find a way to accept those things. Rather than stewing about them. Because all that does is make me feel worse.

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People don’t need to toughen up. If they’re struggling they are already tougher than you realize and maybe tougher than you can imagine.

Yet even the toughest can’t go it alone forever. Nor should they have to. Sucking it up isn’t healthy and it isn’t a bragging point. It is unwise.

If you need help, you need help. Nobody has the right to tell you that you don’t.

This idea that we have to be rugged individualists is bull puckey and is probably responsible for a lot of suicides especially among men.

All people thrive with support and without it they crash and burn eventually.

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If you’re happier now then awesome!

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That makes a lot of sense, thanks.

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What if your needs take a back seat to your trauma? That can’t be good either.

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I think it is worth pointing out that while therapy can certainly help you manage stress better and be more content maybe, if you are truly struggling and falling further behind here in the US, no amount of therapy (which you can’t afford anyway) is going to make you stop being hungry, sleep deprived, heal severe injury or illness, or give your home back. And going without food, sleep, or housing can lead to death.

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That sounds pretty great. I get sick of having to switch gears for every layer. As a hobbyist it is tough to remember five or six languages well enough when only coding something a few times a year.

Since I do embedded, scripting, web front and back end this is sure tempting.

I have been hesitant to try to learn yet another language (this would make…ummm… idk I lost count ages ago). But with all the hype I may break down and give it a whirl.

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Is it not possible for Rust to optimize out unused functions as with C? That seems …like a strange choice if so.

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I do use python quite a bit for scripting and backend, app, and I’ve used MicroPython a little bit, preferring C, C++ for embedded. It’s pretty great for what I need.

I might mess around with Rust out of curiosity anyway, though the downsides you mention make it less compelling for me, personally. I’m not a big fan of verbose languages (e.g., Java, though I have used it for some apps).

Just moved to Linux: a follow up

I recently made a post discussing my move to Linux on Fedora, and it’s been going great. But today I think I have now become truly part of this community. I ran a command that borked my bootloader and had to do a fresh install. Learned my lesson with modifying the bootloader without first doing thorough investigation lol....

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Totally valid! Theoretically with more experience it may be easier / faster to fix but…idk

See this is why I keep /home on a separate partition (or drive in some cases). I can reinstall or switch distros anytime without worrying about all my files (they’re backed up, anyway but doing a restore is a pita).

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Sweet, welcome! :) I know the feeling. I just finished reinstalling Nobara after being dumb and goofing up patching. Then I tried to fix it and made the system totally unusable and I gave up.

A while ago I jacked my grub config and decided to try to fix it manually. I managed to stumble through it and learned some stuff, though I am still fuzzy on some details.

I mostly want to just use the computer without a lot of headache and both Mint and Nobara have been great for coding (various), electronics design, 3d modeling and printing, graphics, photo editing, and such.

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Also, what’s the plan to correct salaries for higher than normal inflation over the last several quarters?

(Or maybe that would get you fired idk)

I sort of left the hobbyist electronics world back in 2018, and now everything seems to have an embedded Raspberry Pi in it. What's the best way to catch up?

I’m an EE by trade focusing on embedded devices, but most of my work is in relatively low-power STM32 applications. When I stopped following developments in hobby kits, it was mostly Arduino Unos slowly driving I2C OLED displays....

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PS: to me RPi is overkill for all but the most intense compute requirements. So is the esp32 to a lesser degree. Don’t always need 240MHz dual core RISC with FreeRTOS and 2.4G radio…

I default to Arduino, usually attiny devices for simple, low power stuff. I am really liking the new TinyAVR line. Quicker programming, way more functionality, etc.

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You might want to check out OpenMV Cam which does some cool machine vision stuff and runs MicroPython.

I would probably start looking at OpenCV software for RasPi if you need more processing power.

I’ve been playing with ESP32 lately. I’m frankly kind of shocked at how well documented the API is and how well it all works. And it’s mostly open. I haven’t done anything with ESP32 Cams I bought, yet. No idea what is possible there or where to start.

Hopefully that helps.

Meanwhile I’m over here trying to wrap up a simple Bluetooth-enabled amp project for the last couple months lol. I should do more with machine vision.

Can someone help me identify this potentiometer from a third party Xbox controller? (lemmy.one)

Trying to repair a Hyperkin Duke Xbox controller where the left trigger doesn’t respond. Found that the resistance of this potentiometer doesn’t change when it’s moved, so I’m looking to replace it. I’m a novice with this stuff though and I’m having trouble identifying it. Any help is appreciated.

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Linear checks out for this kind of application.

Potentiometers are pretty basic things. About the only thing I can think of that would be specified electrically is value (10k), wattage rating (but I doubt much current is sent through these in this application), linear/logarithmic taper, tolerance (often 5%, or 10%) and maybe the type of contact/track or something (probably doesn’t matter).

Those numbers could be manufactured date or lot codes or similar.

How does the thumb “wheel” attach? Or is it built in? I can’t tell from the single pic.

Other things to consider are the pin spacing and physical dimensions.

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How many pins does it have in the circuit board?

Someone said it might be an encoder but I see “103” on it which is used on potentiometers to indicate 10k ohm (10 x 10^3)

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“Mommy why is Santa packing a Winchester 1200 Defender 12 gage?”

[SOLVED] Davinci Resolve Plugin Issue on Nobara

I’m currently daily driving Pop!_OS and absolutely love it! I’ve even riced it a little. In the almost 2 months that I have been using Linux as my main OS I have seen a lot of talk about Nobara. I’ve got a spare SSD in my system so I did a quick install on there to see if it would be worth moving. My main priority is...

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Since there are no replies yet I will take a stab that I hope will help get you closer and not send you off on a wild goose chase because of me being an idiot or something.

You may also know all of the following, if so sorry.

I run into Undefined symbol errors usually when some software is trying to call a function it expects to be in a library but the function isn’t because I have the wrong version of the library.

So yeah I think it may be a dependency issue.

The next thing is to figure out which package holds libharfbuzz so you can determine what version of that package you have vs what version is required by Davinci Resolve.

Something I learned about Nobara is that updating software has to either be done in the Nobara package manager or with a specific set of commands on the command line or you might break stuff (like I just did). It seems plausible that if you updated with a simple dnf update on the command line it may have caused issues.

Also… Are you installing Resolve from a Flatpak or …?

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Via Google search for libharfbuzz, It’s a “text shaping engine” – github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz

I then searched Fedora distro harfbuzz and got this – src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/harfbuzz

I would then go look for it in Nobara package manager and see if it needs updating or not and see what version it is running.

Another thing I would check is what version is standard in the supported distros. I’m guessing that list includes Fedora and Ubuntu and/or Debian. If the version they expect is different from what you have then we need a way to make the right version available. I’m not sure what is the best answer but I have a few ideas that I would try if it were me.

Man I tell you, apps that have one off install approaches like this are so annoying. I’ve run into this a few times. It just leaves me feeling dirty. Why can’t they just distribute an AppImage or rpm for Pete’s sake?

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