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by sandreas 4y ago
I was trying to create PDF files from photos taken with a phone camera (aka docscanner) and tried to compress as good as possible, when I realized that PNG supports 1 bit mode, with a palette of only 2 entries... Combined with adaptive thre
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by sandreas 4y ago
Would Inkscape tracing work for you? https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tracing-an...
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by sandreas 4y ago
While also affiliate, I prefer https://usb.userbenchmark.com , where you can also see ratings for performance and durability and a VALUE (price/quality) I hate having a cheap, big usb drive that is slow as hell and breaks af
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by sandreas 4y ago
Like I describe in https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/the-ultimate-boot-stick/ , I tend no longer buying USB drives but mini USB single card readers for micro SD. Although not as fast and a bit more expensi
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by sandreas 4y ago
Try libinput-config[1] - it's the missing config option for libinput. It works via hook and is far from perfect, but now the kinetic scrolling is really acceptable... What can be improved: Having a hook daemon is kind of crazy to o
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by sandreas 4y ago
Most of the things that go wrong, don't happen in the kernel. Kernel development is pretty awesome and although there is always room for improvement I can't see something revolutionizing the work done there. You might say: Let&#x2
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by sandreas 4y ago
Hey, I'm the author of m4b-tool[1] and tone[2]. The most important thing I learned about software development, is that the best software has a meaning to yourself and that you should use it yourself on a regular basis. m4b-tool is a to
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by sandreas 4y ago
Agreed :-)
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by sandreas 4y ago
It's not about perfection, it's about beauty: Beauty is the sum of the parts in arrangement, which eliminates the need to add, remove or change anything. Johann Carl Loth (translated from german, maybe some sense is lost)
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by sandreas 4y ago
Try https://coolors.co or http://colormind.io/
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by sandreas 4y ago
I love to see that the effort of preparing a microcourse is publicly available. And also the fact, that you don't "promote" a single static site generator, but also wrap this into a HTML course. I once did a kind of "tut
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by sandreas 4y ago
Only advantage I know of is availability... The Pinecil is not available everywhere...
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by sandreas 4y ago
The TS100 was just the only one of these I could buy for an acceptable price in an acceptable time period. Mine was 35 bucks. I ordered mine as used device here in Germany. Aliexpress would have taken weeks and Amazon was just to expensive
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by sandreas 4y ago
Do you know where I can get a Pinecil V2 for 25$ in Germany? The TS100 was about 40$, when I bought it...
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by sandreas 4y ago
Not really, I bought a used one with a simple replaceable active carbon filter and place it near the open window. The most important thing is, that it is powerful enough to really EXTRACT and filter the fumes, not spread them in the room. I
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by sandreas 4y ago
Thanks, I keep that in mind for the next soldering project.
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by sandreas 4y ago
I modified the "advice" a bit... What would you recommend to clean up?
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by sandreas 4y ago
Everthing is better with open firmware :-) Glad you like it.
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by sandreas 4y ago
> Why is it that the TS100 gets recommended so often? Higher temp lighter faster heat up easier temp adjustment See https://oscarliang.com/ts80-soldering-iron-ts100/ > How big of a deal is solder fu
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by sandreas 4y ago
No, I did never own a Pinecil, but the TS100 is just awesome, but the KU tip is even more important. It looks too big for fine work, but it isnt. I soldered a broken backlight fuse for my T480s with this (that's proably the tiniest thi
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by sandreas 4y ago
Oh boy, nice idea, but this looks complicated and time consuming. I recommend to get some good equipment first: - solder fume extractor (see below) - extra thin high quality tin - a desoldering pump AND desoldering wire - high qua
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by sandreas 4y ago
If you want to run github actions locally before any pitfalls, you can try out https://github.com/nektos/act
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by sandreas 4y ago
There once were discussions on HN, e.g. [1] about listennotes blog posts[2][3] - which, while maybe outdated, in my opinion are still pure gold. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875 [2]: https://www
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by sandreas 4y ago
Ok, well, at least the beast mode scrolling is now off :-) Thank you for pointing this out - lets wait some years until this works like expected ;-) But for now the ONLY thing that bugged me on fedora is (partially) fixed, I'm so happy
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by sandreas 4y ago
You sir, deserve a cookie! I can't thank you enough for pointing this out. Now (finally) my scrolling is acceptable on Fedora 36. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qn0o9w/adjust_touch...
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by sandreas 4y ago
I think you already gave the answer to your self, but didn't realize. You have two options: 1.) Leave this mess behind you and quit - and miss an opportunity to learn a lot about code, yourself, teamwork and solving real world problems
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by sandreas 4y ago
> Do file watchers registered in the main thread get called and then enqueue a message to a worker thread for processing? Yes, Producer Consumer pattern. Currently a single thread each, but that would be scalable later. For now I try to
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by sandreas 4y ago
Sure, why not... so my pet project is basically for managing my audio files. There already is navidrome[1] and audiobookshelf[2]. They work great so far, but some minor details are kind of annoying... The first milestone will be providing a
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by sandreas 4y ago
Wow this is awesome stuff, thank you very much. My current solution / plan is: - Get byte offsets of the audio stream only (e.g. 384, 834882948) - Ignore metadata and build xxhash only over this part - To be faster, build the hash over
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by sandreas 4y ago
Thank you. This is indeed interesting... Currently, I use the `CancellationTokenSource` / `Task` concept of C# and I'm pretty happy with it, but this is definitely worth reading.

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