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PenisWenisGenius

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Let's take low power a tech gadget that gets good battery life and make it no longer have good battery life. What a great idea.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

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Microsoft went too far in 2001 when they included a new online activation feature in Windows XP which spearheaded the future of drm and enshitification. They've been one-upping themselves ever since. All the most recent stuff is just more icing on the shit cake.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Congress is making laws about bathrooms and genitals like a bunch of 6th graders running a minecraft server. Of course we can't handle fucking asteroid defense.

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Windows ME didn't have the ability to automatically install USB drivers and it was fucking bullshit even back then.

You can't install a flash drive driver if you need the flash drive in order to transfer the driver to the computer, everything is always 0.1mb too large for a floppy drive so CD has to be burned which is clunky and stupid and time consuming.

PenisWenisGenius ,

When they start making affordable arm or risc motherboards that can take pcie cards and ram sticks, then I'll be interested. The "pi" motherboard form factor has its place but we need better stuff.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I don't think that replacing order taking positions is stealing anyone's job, in fast food at least. I worked at a fast food joint one time. We were always shorthanded and we always had to do order taking while doing a bunch of other things. It was such bullshit. From an overworked employee perspective, if there was any way to get out of doing drive through orders while doing all my other tasks, I would be happy to use it.

PenisWenisGenius ,

It's probably going to be like twitch. I'm sure they'll eventually succeed in making it so you can stream videos without watching ads but they'll never be able to stop people from downloading the video and skipping the ad in vlc.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

PenisWenisGenius ,

I only use Gimp for my image editing and I can literally do everything I ever attempt. I do stuff game modding and 3d model textures sometimes. Wtf else do people want in gimp, an automatic dick sucking machine?

PenisWenisGenius ,

Krita can't do the same things Gimp can though + I already know where all the buttons are from years of using it. I fail to understand why people hate gimp so much. I've never run into an image editing task that I couldn't do in gimp.

PenisWenisGenius ,

If paying all that money to use photoshop is worth not learning a different ui to you, then you are their intended customer. I'm glad you found something you like.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Imagine getting banned from all of adobe just for drawing a dick with the brush tool in their expensive image editor.

PenisWenisGenius ,

If you haven't found one you like yet, consider trying Debian. It's basically the same as Ubuntu, everything works the same on Debian as in Ubuntu but it's better because of less bloat.

Due to a slower update schedule, it may be worse at steam proton gaming than arch or something with a rolling release because that stuff heavily depends on how up to date your mesa or Nvidia drivers are. I can play everything except Starfield on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop pretty much.

PenisWenisGenius ,

There is a command line program called tesseract that does image to text generation. It produces plaintext from a picture of text. I didn't look into exactly how it works but iirc, image to text that's actually good and accurate needs ai shenanigans.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Remember how smartwatches were a big deal and now no one cares? That'll probably happen with ai. Hopefully in 10 or so years whatever losses corporations suffer when all the money they've invested goes to waste will help the common person somehow. Maybe gpus and computer parts will stop costing so much for example. Maybe their leadership will collapse, things will change and the tech industry will be a good place to work again.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I like Atril too. It has easier and more fluid zoom in/out capabilities than Okular but Okular has a dark mode. I keep both installed because they're both really good.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I don't buy routers unless they can run dd wrt.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I have a $60 ac1750. My privacy and being able to actually rely on port forwarding is worth $60.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I use void which is kind of like arch but it trades software availability for making it less likely to bork itself. I'm really pissed that I can't have virtual box or monodevelop on here. There certain c# related things that can only be done with either monodevelop or Microsoft Visual Studio. Next time I do a distro reinstall I'm going with Debian.

PenisWenisGenius ,

That's like late 486 early pentium 1 era. You don't need a supercomputer for everything. The chip situation could be much shittier.

PenisWenisGenius ,

So this means regular people are allowed to legally fly drones without line of sight too now.. Right? (bet it doesn't) :padme meme:

PenisWenisGenius ,

Arch

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Surely figuring out home made pcbs is easier than that. Based on things I've made that don't work very well on a breadboard but work better on a pcb, this guy is likely working hard not smart. (I've gotten 2 layer homemade pcbs to work before but stopped when pcb fab services became more affordable to hobbyiests)

PenisWenisGenius ,

This is a reasonable typical perfboard build by comparison. The above is insanity.

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I mean, if you put in the work to figure all the stuff out when the alternative is to pay $400 for 5 pcbs that take 2 month to get delivered, then yes it is a more viable option. Luckily that's not the case anymore, but if things so south in China I imagine the only hobbyiest pcbs you can get will be via this method again.

You'll have to modify or build a heated laminator until it can apply photoresist film perfectly to a sheet of copper clad fr4. The you'll have to build a uv exposure chamber and a light diffuser (I used a picture frame and a shower curtain). Then put that on a turntable for even light distribution like in a microwave and figure out some way of pressing all the layers together tightly enough so it turns out right and light doesn't get under the clear stencil you printed the pcb layout to. This will take a lot of trial and error to get right. Then you have to figure all the variables to get it to etch properly through even more trial and error.

Once you have all this stuff figured out, you have to figure out a way to deal with vias. The best way I found was to manually solder a wire or pin for each one and make sure to make them big enough that this can be done by hand. Keep in mind that regular through hole pads won't be connected on both sides so you need to solder the unused ones for your design to work out.

I wouldn't go as far as to call this "worth attempting", especially if you're trying to make stuff more complicated than an 8 bit computer but for really simple stuff that doesn't require high precision, super thin traces and lots of vias, it's not too bad. Simple designs won't require the same levels of process perfection as trying to make something like an atx motherboard.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I'm going to think twice before enerting any big box store because of this.

PenisWenisGenius , (edited )

I'm installing Debian next time. Arch is OK but it breaks too often and keeping everything working in an Arch installation is a full time job. Void Linux is like Arch but more stable. Voids weakness is that some of the underlying libraries are different (something about multilib and glibc I think) and there are certain Linux programs that can never run in void and you can't get them. Monodevelop and virtual box for example. I might have to switch to something else soon just because I need this stuff. (yes I know about qemu and bochs, yes I know about compiling basic c# programs via the command line, and all of that is unsuitable for my use case). Void seems to be a great choice as long as you don't need to use Monodevelop or virtualbox though. It's great at gaming once you switch to x11.

There's a good chance Debian will have a harder time playing steam games due to older mesa drivers or something but it might be a necessary tradeoff.

Edit: also, WTF is the font situation in Void Linux? Half my webpages are have some shitty font front the 90s instead of whatever the normal font is and most of my pdfs look weird and can't be printed because of it. I have just about every single thing in Void repository with the word "font" installed yet I still have to get out my Ubuntu laptop every time I want to print a pdf.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I've had a Debian server in my basement for 4 or 5 years. I've encountered a total of 2 entire issues the entire time I've had that running. One of which was actual bullshit that I'm still pissed about but the other issue I eventually fixed on my own. It has worked well enough that Debian deserves a go at being a daily driver next time I do an os reinstall.

I really really wish I could come up with a command line script way to issue a command that makes the computer reconnect to the wifi without human intervention of any kind, without so much as even a single ui password dialog, but that's not a distro specific thing. I use iwctl right now, it seems to be the most reliable and I've tried them all.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I did nothing but shitpost for the last 4 or so years of my time using reddit. I posted shit just as dumb as putting glue on pizza. I was such a prolific troll that I'm expecting to see something I wrote show up on Google ai some day.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I use Arch

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PenisWenisGenius ,

This is amazing

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I do random hobby tinkering and search results have become so useless that I'm having to read a lot more books. Everything takes longer this way.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I've been using Gimp for years. It's the only way I know. If I tried to use photoshop I would have a hard time getting anything done too. I'm really good with gimp though.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I will never switch to windows to use software or play a game.

PenisWenisGenius ,

REEEEEEE Windows doesn't live rent free in my head.

proceeds to boot up DE that has been modified to have the exact appearance of Windows Vista even down to the UAC dialog

PenisWenisGenius ,

I would like to think we're further away from losing most modern technology than the world's only chip factory getting struck by lightning but the world is a fickle place I guess

PenisWenisGenius ,

The original "I use Arch btw"

PenisWenisGenius ,

Typing in 80085 can get your calculator privledges revoked welcome to the new normal

Wait wtf, is that gnome-calculator? You'd have to do some truly extreme shit to get banned from an open source program.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Now it's just cable again. What a stupid timeline.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Wow that's a really long time. 7! works out to 5040 but 7!! is a stupidly huge number.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Uncensored ais are the best. I can ask them all the immature sex questions I want and never get banned.

PenisWenisGenius ,

ACKTCHUALLY it's GNU + Linux.

PenisWenisGenius , (edited )

Intentionally induced shortages should be illegal.

Where does Samsung get their chips made anyway? Sure would hate for some homebrewers to find a way to make ssds out of mouser or digikey parts when prices hike back up to $1 per GB. Would be a shame for corporate profits indeed.

PenisWenisGenius ,

Death by cop is getting replaced with death by corporation.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I used to use Gnome all the time but I have to install a bunch of extensions for it to be usable. This one addon, I think it was called window list, is the most important and invaluable one of them all. There is no way I can use Gnome without it and I don't understand how other people have the patience to deal with not having that. The number of times I updated Gnome and found out window list was so out of date the only way I could get it working was if I download the source code and fix the issue myself, is too damn high. That addon should be part of Gnome by default.

Now I use cinnamon or kde depending on which one works better in that respective distro's repository. Some installations of your favorite desktop environment come with better configs than others. For example last time I tried KDE on Ubuntu, it was a broken buggy annoying mess to the point it was was less functional than Windows 11's ui. On Arch, KDE is the epitome optimization and polish. On Arch, cinnamon is respectably borked out of the box. Cinnamon on Ubuntu usually only comes with a few bugs however I rarely end up finding a way to fix said bugs.

LXDE is the same across distros usually but I only use it if running Linux on an absolute potato. That lack of a start menu search is awful, I don't miss those pre-search bar era uis. I need a search bar dammit.

PenisWenisGenius ,

I guess it's just a roll of the dice on how borked the config files in the repository package were that month.

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