Cenzorrll

joined 2 years ago
[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

I actually have had an ice scraper blade wear out on me.

I ground it against the sidewalk until I got a straight edge again. Still use it 10 years later.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Mini-b would break the port instead of the cable

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Go for it. You don't need to install Linux in order to start getting your feet wet. Get a USB 3.0+ flash drive and put a "live" (CD/USB, whatever the distro wants to call it) distro on there. There are plenty of directions out there on how to make one from Windows. Most live distros nowadays are persistent, so any programs you install will be there next time you load it up. It will definitely be slower than a normal install, but it'll let you get a feel for how things work.

Go ham wild on there, break stuff, see if you can fix it, don't, then remake it again. Try different desktop environments (DEs) and see what you like. Your distro of choice is less important if you're just starting, but any of the big ones will be fine. I'd recommend trying a few different DEs from the same distro, see what you like the feel of, then try a different distro with what you liked best. They'll usually all have gnome, kde, and a third lightweight option, but in my experience if Wayland (the other choice is X11) works well, kde and gnome will feel pretty light. I use kde Wayland on this guy and trust me, this review is giving it a lot of grace. Windows 10 was completely unacceptable on it, so if your specs are any better then this, you'll be fine with whatever you choose. Beware that Nvidia cards have driver issues, they're fixable but if you do have an Nvidia card, I'd just use the built in graphics chip for trying out Linux at first.

Don't start with arch, btw.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Looks like store and forward doesn't work with these. Shame, I could actually put that to good use right away. Unless of course I didn't get it set up correctly.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is about on par with what I was thinking. If not a BBS, it could end up being a dongle for a computer. I was thinking they might make pretty good rnode endpoints, if they ever got firmware for it.

 

Alright meshers, I've been playing around with meshtastic for some time now and I've ended up with a good number of devices. I'm mostly in the rakwireless boat, with a pair of heltecs.

I have two RP2040 (rak11310) units that I just can't come up with a good use for. They use less power than a heltec on full blast, but don't have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. If you disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on the heltec and turn on power saving, the heltec ends up using less power for what I can see as the same capabilities as the RP2040.

So, what can I put these units to use for? The processor is definitely more powerful than the NRF52 boards, but meshtastic doesn't seem to need any more than the NRF52 has to offer. With power saving, the heltecs can perform equally well with less power, while also having a more powerful processor in case it's needed.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sure you could. But I'll offer a different perspective

All honey tastes different from different producers and areas, you'll be missing out on some wonderful honey flavors if you buy that much in bulk. If it's purely for sweetening, sure fine, do it. But if you want the flavor of honey, check out a farmers market and see what you'd be missing out on with bulk.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the signature of a male American that learned cursive in 4th grade before their body was ready for this sort fine muscle control and was never practiced again after learning to sign their name.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I want to know how much I have to work.

To neurotypicals this sounds like you don't want to put in the work. A better way to phrase it would be "I'm just trying to see how busy today will be" you can follow it with bullshit like "trying to decide if I'll be cooking dinner or picking something up on my way home"

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Bezos having a say in what news you read or don't read benefits him quite a bit.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I've found that if it's set up right, it works well for announcements and short discussions around that. But as far as support, it's absolute trash. It's nice for slightly quicker communication on updates than than updating a website, and I'll see all the backlash from users saying "this update broke everything you idiots", so I know to wait.

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Every single Republican is complicit with the Nazi regime.

That's the problem. Half of our representatives are Nazis. How is an impeachment going to go anywhere?

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This isn't the same thing, but it certainly looks like it might gave the same function

https://www.wescor.com/translations/Translations/M2551-7A-EN.pdf

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