@user224@lemmy.sdf.org

user224

@user224@lemmy.sdf.org

18M I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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user224,

Can confirm.


<span style="color:#323232;">Traceback (most recent call last):
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  File "/data/data/com.termux/files/home/test.py", line 3, in <module>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    print(age + 4)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          ~~~~^~~
</span><span style="color:#323232;">TypeError: can only concatenate str (not "int") to str
</span>

Is not my age.

/j

user224,

Your words struck a chord with me, and I find myself nodding in agreement. I wholeheartedly agree with everything you’ve said. It’s refreshing to hear such a clear and well-articulated take on “this”. I couldn’t have said it better myself.

user224, (edited )

I’ve seen such video. The dude struggled to move because he just barely fit in enough to still be able to breathe. There was water in there, and he said he has to return because it’s starting to fill with water.

Fill with water? Nope. Nope. Why would I go in such space.

Edit: Maybe this could be it: youtu.be/6Yf0gDzUMFA
https://youtu.be/6Yf0gDzUMFA

user224, (edited )

GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program
GNU’s Not UNIX Image Manipulation Program (X = “CS”)
GNU’s Not UNICS Image Manipulation Program
GNU’s Not UNiplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program
GNU’s Not UNIX is Not UNiplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program
GNU’s Not UNiplexed Information Computing System is Not UNiplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program

Oh no.

user224,

Which distro and DE are we talking about?

I have the same issue with Windows. I’ve been using Linux since I got my first PC. Trying to navigate Windows is a pain in the ass. It’s just old programs somehow put together. When I find some solutions online it’s often opening who knows what via Windows+R or better yet, changing something I have no idea about in regedit.
And even the most basic things are hidden away by many steps.

user224,

Manjaro + Plasma with Oxygen theme

user224,

Happened to me today. Turns out MIUI optimized the Clock app.

I allowed it to autostart, I disabled battery optimization, I locked it in recent apps.
It may still occur.
But hey, I only woke up 30 minutes later. “Something isn’t right.”

user224, (edited )

Sounds like my Moto G5s Plus. I updated it to Android 8.1 and it started having issues like lagging, completely freezing up, randomly restarting, battery drain, overheating, etc.
Oh, well. It ran PixelExperience 11 just fine. It also allowed me to use the notification LED that Motorola disabled in software for reasons unknown.

Edit: I just like this part from bootloader unlock license agreement on what doing so may cause:

Cause the Device to overheat, explode and/or catch fire, exceed SAR values, exceed safe volume settings, and otherwise be unsafe, including creating the potential to cause serious bodily injury, including death

user224,

And keep going for the rest of your life, just at a lower frequency because there’s more screw-ups to keep getting reminded of.

user224,

I don’t know about vanilla Arch, but on Manjaro each update breaks at least one thing. I never had issues with Mint. I wonder if I’d still get more stability from Mint if I installed Plasma on it. Anyway, I already got used to AUR and not having to deal with version upgrades. But I still wouldn’t recommend Arch-based distros when stability is needed.

user224,

I do, in VirtualBox. I have a 20 year old printer, and the drivers don’t work in newer Windows versions. I mean, at all. The installer crashes, and automatic driver installer only gets the scanner working.

Anyway, I don’t use Windows. It works on Linux. Kinda. In Linux Mint, I just can’t use high DPI, but I can scan, print, and see “remaining ink” just fine.
Manjaro is another story. Only “Normal Grayscale” works, hp-toolbox doesn’t even show the color cartridge. So I just use Windows 7 with the drivers as the heaviest printer driver ever.

But when I have to use Windows (e.g.: at school), I prefer Windows 7. Windows 10/11 have really weird control, and they are SLOW. Also, when installing Windows 10 onto school computers, nobody bothered to install drivers.
I like the ThinkPad T440s laptops that are in one class. But after upgrade to Windows 10 they have some battery charging issues, and some of them just fail to boot from time-to-time. I use the last one with Windows 7 because it just works.

What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?

Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other...

user224,

Probably the best thing I got there was clone of RSP1 with selectable band pass filters for €20. 10kHz - 2GHz range with up to 10MHz of bandwidth in Zero IF mode, although it seems it’s more like 8MHz that’s actually usable. It’s not sold where I bought it anymore, but maybe you could still find it.
It’s this one: https://i.imgur.com/ic2dflg.jpg

The only problem is compatibility, and the fact that I had to install some proprietary API from SDRPlay on my laptop as a SystemD service.

Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

user224,

Do you have Nvidia GPU? I am not sure if that could be related, but sometimes my old laptop would behave funky after resuming it from sleep when using nouveau driver. Although generally I just wouldn’t get any video output. But I could never get past login screen, and it sounds unlikely it would affect WiFi, but who knows?

user224,

Hmmm…

It’s mentioned here: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html so I thought I just didn’t notice it before.
My home instance is currently on Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.5, so there’s some new features, and I thought this one was here already since it’s mentioned on join-lemmy.org.

Anyway, there’s also “controversial” in this new version. Currently the most controversial post on Lemmy is this: lemmy.world/post/3234363

Sorry if I caused confusion to someone else than myself.

user224,

I prefer Scaled over Hot as it gives boost to smaller communities making it more fair.

user224,

Actually, it’s 5 going straight. But maybe he could have swerved to kill the 1st guy behind lever and then drifted to kill 6 more.

Just saying.

user224, (edited )

I have a QR code in my backpack with rickroll that works offline. It has the “Never gonna give you up” ~2 second cut compressed into 8kbps MP3 and embedded into base64 data tag so you can open it in web browser.
But there’s still a better way. OPUS can do as little as 6kbps and still sound better. Modern browsers should support it just as well.

And theoretically speaking, there’s something called codec2 which goes down to 700bps. Maybe the rickroll would still be recognizable with that. That could do ~22 seconds of audio inside a QR code.
Edit: Forget it. This is how music sounds with 700bps codec 2: auphonic.com/media/…/music-test_700bps.c2.wav
https://auphonic.com/media/audio-examples/codec2/music-test_700bps.c2.wav

user224,

Be happy the shutdown procedure doesn’t start by opening regedit. I wouldn’t be surprised, to be honest.

user224,

Someone installed Windows server 2008 on one of our school computers. The shutdown option was missing. So I asked the teacher about it. He also had no idea how the hell to shut it down. Pressing the power button would just log-out the user.

For at least 2 years it did fine with forced shutdowns.

I use linux for the same reason I wear fuzzy socks and sweaters

My understanding of the history of fashion is that back in the 1950s America it was expected that you wore a suit/dress at work unless you had a different uniform. There were a bunch of very boring people who thought that we should be wearing office job garb all the time, because they wore suits so much it was their default...

user224,

True. But as I found out, the ISO file needs to be stored on a partition formatted with NTFS for that to work.

user224,

Same, I love AppImages for that. I just wish they also had way to contain configurations instead of putting it on the system. That would make it even more portable.

user224,

I mean, Microsoft also has their Linux distro, sort of: github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner

I want to study psychology but won't AI make it redundant in a couple of years?

I know it’s not even close there yet. It can tell you to kill yourself or to kill a president. But what about when I finish school in like 7 years? Who would pay for a therapist or a psychologist when you can ask for help a floating head on your computer?...

user224,

By the way, if you want to try Eliza, you can telnet into telehack.com and run the command eliza to launch it.

user224,

Unrelated, but I just noticed that Lemmy 0.19 already allows exporting your settings and choosing to open links in new tab. Cool.

user224,

Because it was a new comment then, so it got highlighted. As of Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.5 it’s orange. Or yellow. I don’t know what it really is.

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