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by avhon1 1y ago
I've lived in a fair few places, but I've never lived in a place where an unlocked bicycle wouldn't be stolen. I'll keep using locks, thank you very much.
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by avhon1 1y ago
If you're interested in buying secondhand laptops, I strongly recommend you look at any "business-class" model from any manufacturer. Laptops that cost $1,000+ and are aimed at business fleets, rather than individual consumer
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by avhon1 1y ago
If you're really concerned, you can buy two $100 secondhand laptops. If one fails, you can use the other. Good secondhand laptops in that price range will be more like 8 or 10 years old, but still usable as basic daily computers. I&#x2
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by avhon1 1y ago
If that's the only thing keeping you from buying and using a raspberry pi, you can get secondhand monitors or TVs for $20 or so.
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by avhon1 1y ago
I'm not sure how you're getting that from this. > In early 1903, Samuel Langley attempted to launch his tandem monoplane from a catapult, but it crashed after its frail wooden structure failed catastrophically. > By the end
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by avhon1 1y ago
Passwords in this style (passphrases) are also much easier to transcribe to devices that don't have or support password managers, or when sharing a password verbally or in writing.
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by avhon1 1y ago
80x25 is by far the most common standard for console size
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by avhon1 1y ago
Given that the article's author used Blender to create their model, I'm surprised they didn't use it's built-in paper model exporter. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.1//addons&#x2
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by avhon1 1y ago
Seems like you can https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/diagrams-one-cut-hept... The one cut is to remove the perimeter of the square that lies outside the heptagon. Without the cut, you could make a crease, and
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by avhon1 1y ago
IIRC, Red is not yet fully self-hosted, so it makes sense that the download would embed a copy of the original 32-bit x86 Rebol to bootstrap / compile.
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by avhon1 1y ago
With what GUI library? The unmaintained GTK1?
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by avhon1 1y ago
Not written in, but AutoCAD supports scripting in TCL (and in its own AutoLisp, which is much less popular among users than TCL).
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by avhon1 1y ago
The linked paper "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" is a good read! https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf
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by avhon1 1y ago
FWIW, showing recent changes is a very common wiki feature. Here's the page for my local makerspace's wiki, which runs on mediawiki: https://bloominglabs.org/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&li...
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by avhon1 1y ago
Every frontend offers only a small subset of ffmpeg's total features, making them usable only for specific tasks.
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by avhon1 1y ago
But now I have to wait several seconds before I can even start to process the webpage! It's like the internet suddenly became slow again overnight.
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by avhon1 1y ago
But how does playing pac-man make especial sense in text?
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by avhon1 1y ago
Any decent battery system measures the current that goes into the battery, and the current that goes out. Off-the-shelf ICs "learn" the battery's initial capacity and its state-of-charge to voltage curve, and thereon can obse
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by avhon1 1y ago
The wikipedia article has links to the official websites, and not to the scams: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY
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by avhon1 1y ago
Debian (and many other distributors of compiled binaries) uses "i386" to refer to all 32-bit x86 processors, including the Pentium 3.
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by avhon1 1y ago
I have AMD Geode hardware circa 2007 (18 years old) that only has partial support for i686. Requires a true 3/4/586 kernel.
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by avhon1 1y ago
I fear magnets inside the connector would draw ferrous debris into the connector. I'd really rather that not happen!
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by avhon1 1y ago
It's not that weather is difficult for markets to provide. It's that it's worthwhile for the government to make it freely available to everyone.
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by avhon1 1y ago
People pay to have a tempest weather station https://tempest.earth/tempest-home-weather-system/
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by avhon1 1y ago
KDE is running a campaign. https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/
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by avhon1 1y ago
The 2025 Moto G Stylus has one!
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by avhon1 2y ago
I read standard .epub files with KOReader on my Kobo Aura H2O. It's faster, nicer-looking, and more customizable than the stock reader, and the installation instructions were complete, correct, and easy to follow.
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by avhon1 2y ago
You can easily look this stuff up: Liftoff was published January 3, 2023 Reentry was published September 2024 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v... https://benbellabooks.com/sh
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by avhon1 2y ago
Eric Berger, senior space editor for Ars Technica [0], has written two books about Elon Musk and his role at SpaceX: Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX [1] Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rock
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by avhon1 2y ago
> In some cases, with certain DIMM models that don't adequately lock down the chip, the modification can likely be done through software. So on some systems, the hack could be performed entirely remotely.

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