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PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to Technology in 24 of the best free alternatives to the most popular paid software

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 , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Your installation is about to get exploded

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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

PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to Technology in New ASUS router firmware now requires a user to be 16y or older and will restrict features and even security upgrades if you opt out

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

PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to Technology in Russia Says It's Assembled a Lithography Machine, Will Make 350nm Chips Soon

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval

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 , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in btw

Arch

PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in free and open source GPU compiled by hands

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 , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in free and open source GPU compiled by hands

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

PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in free and open source GPU compiled by hands

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech

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

PenisWenisGenius , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in I just wanted the workflow, ok?

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 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to linuxmemes in I just wanted the workflow, ok?

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 , 1 month ago to Technology in Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search

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.

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