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cmnybo, to opensource in I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone".

This is a pretty good tutorial to get started in FreeCAD. Just watch out for the topological naming issue. They still haven’t fixed it, but if you know how to avoid it, you shouldn’t have too much trouble.

cmnybo, to selfhosted in Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history?

If you wind a 2 or 3 layer pancake coil the size of the platter out of 12 or 14AWG magnet wire and dump a couple kJ through it from a capacitor bank, the platter will launch into the air. Don’t try it indoors unless you want a platter embedded in the ceiling.

cmnybo, to selfhosted in Hosting private UHD video

That wouldn’t surprise me. I’m sure they don’t want people using youtube their own private video archive. Storage isn’t free after all. If they didn’t want people to set videos to private, they would have removed the option though. Just don’t expect the videos to stay there forever.

cmnybo, to selfhosted in Hosting private UHD video

Another option is to make the youtube video private. Then you have the option to only share it with specific people. If it’s unlisted, then anyone with the link can view it.

Hosting on a VPS will get expensive. 4K video takes up a lot of space. If you want adjustable quality, then you will need to store multiple copies of the video at various resolutions and bitrates. A cheap VPS won’t have a GPU to do real time transcoding.

cmnybo, to linux in What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?

I managed to do that back when I was new. Luckily it was a fresh install, so I didn’t lose much when I had to reinstall.

So far, that has been the only time I really screwed something up outside of a virtual machine.

cmnybo, to comicstrips in Everybody gangsta until Task Manager appear

kill -9

cmnybo, to askelectronics in Simultaneous joystick 3-axis protocol

Only having one ADC can be an issue when you need readings to be in phase, but for reading any sort of human interface device it doesn’t matter at all. Just cycle through your inputs one at a time. Some microcontrollers even have hardware to scan through multiple inputs automatically. You can use DMA to read the ADC and send data out over whatever communication peripherals your microcontroller has without using much CPU time.

If you are using USB HID, you are limited to a 1000 Hz update rate and that’s really overkill already. You can have up to 8 analog axis in a USB HID game controller plus lots of buttons.

cmnybo, to selfhosted in Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?

When the ads come from the same domain as the content, which is the case with youtube, you can’t block them with any DNS based ad blocker.

cmnybo, to selfhosted in Minisforum MS-01 announced. 2x10g sfp+, 2x2.5gbe, pci slot, 3xm2 slots. 2xUSB4 40g. What do we think?

That is strange that they would have size limit for the SSD. Maybe it only supports single sided M.2 drives, but if that’s the case, they should have just said it.

cmnybo, to linux in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS To Get 12 Years of Updates

Ubuntu is already immune to the 2038 bug. The Linux kernel even supports using a 64 bit time_t on 32 bit systems now. Of course some poorly written software could still be affected, but that’s not the fault of the kernel or operating system.

The 2038 bug will certainly cause problems in some embedded systems that still use a 32 bit time_t if they are still running by then.

cmnybo, to asklemmy in What do normal people look at on their phones?

My phone has an FM tuner, so I usually listen to local radio stations. Sometimes I watch TV shows or movies I downloaded on the SD card, but I prefer watching videos on a larger screen when possible. Cell service is crap around here, so streaming is not very practical.

cmnybo, to linux in I'm so frustrated rn.

That printer shouldn’t even need a driver to work. It should just show up if it’s connected to the same network as your computer.

cmnybo, to askelectronics in USB Cable check

There are simple testers like this. It’s rather overpriced for what it is, but it would be trivial to make one yourself. That will only do a continuity check though. If you want to know what the current or speed ratings are, you will need to read the chip in the cable.

cmnybo, to linux in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

The context menu key is more useful when it’s remapped to the compose key.

cmnybo, to linux in New laptop

A dedicated GPU will mean reduced battery life. If you are only going to edit video at your desk, I would suggest getting a laptop with a thunderbolt 3 or USB 4 port and an external GPU. Make sure the port provides 4 PCIe lanes, not all of them do.

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