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by jmrm 5y ago
There is one nobody mentioned: Space Hackers (2007) In the space race era, two Italian brothers mount a big antenna in their house with a RF transceiver to communicate with those in the outer space. They not only talked with some astronauts
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by jmrm 5y ago
If you want electrical isolation between the input and the output, they use AC in the middle to achieve that, but if you don't want isolation, you could use a boost DC converter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost
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by jmrm 5y ago
That's true. If both conversions are 90% efficient, we are talking a 81% efficiency in both process, wasting nearly 1/5 of the energy used. That's not good at all.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Lenovo Yoga models aren't the same in construction than Thinkpads, but I have tried some non-Thinkpad Lenovo laptops and their touchpad software is a total garbage. If you know what brand is, I would totally try to look for an OEM Syna
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by jmrm 5y ago
I personally had only Windows laptops and had no problem with the trackpads, even with the tap-to-click option activated, which I really love. Tap-to-click make me drag and drop a lot faster than any other way. One problem in Windows laptop
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by jmrm 5y ago
This happened in some European cities, and now, a mortage or a rent are equally expensive even to high wage people, like engineers and surgeons.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Yes, please!
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by jmrm 5y ago
Did you heard about the 'Comic Mono' font? https://github.com/dtinth/comic-mono-font
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by jmrm 5y ago
This could be a nice alternative, and even faster to parse than others, if indicating the type is mandatory. Also, this could help a bit to find errors.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Totally true. I have seen even how some companies dropped supporting some of their hardware in Linux without any reasonable cause or problem (some models of TI MSP430), and having to use third party tools in order to continue working in Lin
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by jmrm 5y ago
In most of European cities the use of electric scooters have skyrocketed, both private bought and as a service (like Lime). I don't know how is in France, but in Spain there are new regulation, and new ones halfway, to have a regulatio
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by jmrm 5y ago
That's totally true. There are a lot of nice restaurant in the middle of the cities, outside the centre or the most crowded places, where the food is great and usually cheaper than the others. At least this is my experience as an Europ
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by jmrm 5y ago
Doing it over the phone or over other instant messaging app is faster and more convenient. I done that last Saturday, and the call lasted exactly 39 seconds. No app install, no registering, and no entering my card information.
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by jmrm 5y ago
I paid totally happy with the service they gave me, and I would pay monthly if that would mean having total privacy.
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by jmrm 5y ago
This is the kind of news where the most important part is a really short Twitter thread. This thread specifically: https://twitter.com/ashishkjha/status/1449789507814010883 Anyway, the TL;DR here is not mix politi
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by jmrm 5y ago
I remember how Windows ME, 2000, and XP had an ActiveX in Internet Explorer to select what updates to download and install in a web page, and if i recall correctly, it was called Microsoft Update. That download and installation process were
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by jmrm 5y ago
$20 a FPGA board like that? Pretty interesting price to have a platform to learn more VHDL/Verilog.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Pretty funny how today's Dilbert strip was about that :-) https://dilbert.com/strip/2021-10-18
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by jmrm 5y ago
Sincerely, as a person between 25 to 35 years old, i don't know how to get out my social bubble outside friends, family, or co-workers instroducing me new people, specially as an introverted and "interested in things"[1] kind
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by jmrm 5y ago
There are some desktop and environment changes, but Pop also have a really good power management module that no other distro has, and good compatibility aroung different GPUs combination, and that is a big deal in laptops. I had some proble
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by jmrm 5y ago
Totally correct. The several distros I've tryed in the last 10 to 15 years have no problem handling NTFS partitions and any kind of data in them.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Bad experience are even more valuable than good ones. I think that because you probably can tell what and why happened, and what you could and couldn't to prevent that situation.
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by jmrm 5y ago
An ESP32 with a 160 MHz CPU and 4 MB of storage? That's totally overkill for a project like this ;-) Jokes aside, probably any microcontroller with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi interfaces could do that kind of job without any problem. Is just pr
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by jmrm 5y ago
From personal experience, reducing calories intake is the only thing that works. Exercising only burns a noticeable amount of calories to if you are a really good or elite athlete who does a lot of hours everyday at a very high intensity. A
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by jmrm 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: I prefer a laptop with a barrel jack than other with only USB-C for charging. Not only is easier to find, also a lot more sturdy and easier to repair. I have changed some of them in relatives' laptops pretty easily,
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iPhone 13: A Repair Nightmare – Teardown and Repair Assessment(youtube.com)
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by jmrm 5y ago
> When iPhone and Android hit the scene the 'rich' web experience was primarily flash, silverlight, and some java applets (taking their last breathe). A lot of people have forgot that YouTube were using FLV (video streaming usi
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by jmrm 5y ago
> every TV has banner ad pop-ups from the manufacturer now. AFAIK, Samsung and cheap Chinese brands (Vizio, TCL, and similar) do this. Months ago I was between buying a LG or a Sony because they don't have bad reputation around this
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by jmrm 5y ago
It also blocks the paywall in some webs that aren't too well designed (the content is loaded under a frame that hide it). It's great to have such a good tool.
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by jmrm 5y ago
Ah, yes. I used that to prank some friends when Windows/MSN Messenger started to be a thing. Good memories :-)

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