dantalion

dantalion, 2 months ago to Steamdeck

I find programs / applications that assume all storage is an SSD so infuriating, especially when it is blatent laziness or extremely uneseccary.

For instance, #dota only starts loading character models once you enter a lobby. If you use a harddrive you will be kicked (abandon) for inactivity before your screen unfreezes from loading assets... #valve the only way to solve this is to play a match against bots first

dantalion, 2 months ago to random

Having to buy 80 euro of 'fallen out of the truck' batteries for my #purism librem5 phone because they won't ship outside of US.

Curious how much of an eBay / aliexpress dispute pain this is going to be.

Really sad this is the only way for me to get replacement batteries for this phone to this day..

chris_gammell, 4 months ago to random

After stubbornly maintaining postfix mail relays/forwarding for many of my domains, I decided to stop the practice. I just am not good at it and I have lost a lot of comms over the years, including occasional business correspondence (that was the first thing that moved me off this system)

Interestingly, now I'm getting emails from lists I must have been on and soft bouncing for the past few years that I completely forgot about.

drwhax, 7 months ago to random

Quite astonishing how a lot of laptop hardware depreciates in value. You can pick up some pretty good/extendable hardware from a 4 years ago for <200 euro these days.

tubetime, 9 months ago to random

this is an aircraft avionics mystery! it's made by Bendix, but i have no part number because the cover is missing (bought it this way from our local electronics flea market). as this video shows, i got it to work, and this thread explains how...

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TT_392, 9 months ago to Electronics

Actually finished a project for once, both the hardware and firmware. I now have a nice little adapter for my playstation 2 taiko no tatsujin controller #electronics

Here are instructions if, for whatever reason, you also want to build one
https://github.com/TT-392/playstation_adapter_pcb

dantalion, 9 months ago to linuxphones

switching to the #librem5 was one of the most liberating decisions this year. Even with all the little earlier adopter issues and inconveinces. I have developed a lot of tricks, workarounds and solutions. Wonder if I should write a blog post about them..

dantalion, 10 months ago to random

Looking for an android phone sub 5.5 inch that can run #lineageos with android 11, 12 or 13 and has a headphone jack. Help me out pls

willoremus, 1 year ago to random

I went on a quest to find out if AI is already secretly writing a lot of the stuff we read online. I found more than I ever imagined.

From online recipes to mattress reviews to celebrity horoscopes, human writing is fast becoming the exception on the internet, rather than the rule.

My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/

drwhax, 1 year ago to random

This strain of COVID isn’t as bad as alpha was in 2020. But it’s still pretty annoying. Some symptoms gone after a night of sleep, downside, replaced with other symptoms. Fascinating disease.