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18M I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.

SDF Unix shell username: user224

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Do you know what the max current is?

I tried this in probably not the safest way with my Poco X3 pro. It outputs 2.1A at 5V before the voltage starts dropping and short circuit protection finally kicks in at 2.5A.

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Yes, but unfortunately since Lemmy is decentralized you can’t do the site:example.org thing.

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He’s not even looking onto the book.

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He previously had eyes when I commented but was looking in the front, so OP removed his eyes completely.

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My school is running Windows XP on many computers. Only this year they finally got rid of 32-bit machines.

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Nope, but I wish we were getting more junk mail. Every now and then there’s a van driving through the city trading junk paper for stuff like paper towels, napkins, toilet paper, baking paper, aluminum foil, packing tape, soap, etc…

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I guess they recycle it. Checking their website, larger quantities of paper can be traded-in for cash based on color and quality.

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Well, DVDs are cheaper. Especially used DVDs. Dogma on DVD in state “Very Good” goes for around £2-3 on amazon.co.uk.

Honorable mention: You can stream it on himovies.sx for free. You can also use Inspector’s network tab on Firefox to get the .m3u8 stream and pass it to youtube-dl. For true experience, burn it to DVD.

Edit: You can also get it on VHS tape for £3 apparently.

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I checked the US Amazon, Dogma DVD is mostly Region 2 imports… and used Region 1 discs are like $15. Oh, and amazon.co.uk has Region 1 Imported discs for £3 as well. But shipping cost will make the price about the same I guess.

Or how about a region-free South Korea version? https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/94bc831d-85a6-48ea-a3da-2d055d8d0b92.png

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No, CD-ROM is /dev/sr0

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You probably meant /dev/cdrom which as far as I know is just a link to CD-ROM drive. In case of SATA and SCSI drives it links to /dev/sr(number) and in case of IDE drive to /dev/hd(letter).

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4 isn’t bad. 5 is the average, 4 is just slightly below, so still fair.

[Feature Request] Instance Blocking Feature

I do not know whether anybody else has already said this, but Lemmy could really use a feature that would allow individual users to block instances. I think it could have spared some of the defederation word wars that have been going on lately, since that would be an individual choice rather than a collective one....

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I hope there’s going to be a feature to block just posts from specific instance.

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I’d also recommend Kid3: kid3.kde.org

How Mozilla Ruined Firefox (invidious.lunar.icu)

Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla’s terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.

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Some Firefox GIFs I had on my phone:
https://i.imgur.com/q22bbSF.png
https://i.imgur.com/CT4H10k.gif
https://i.imgur.com/YQrifWp.gif
https://i.imgur.com/vRa99fE.gif
https://i.imgur.com/Hss7cB0.gif
https://i.imgur.com/3dZK4xN.png
https://i.imgur.com/DONizTW.gif
https://i.imgur.com/ZaUMfOh.gif https://i.imgur.com/DwUKLzk.gif https://i.imgur.com/U0iw0WR.gif https://i.imgur.com/rbBm6BW.gif https://i.imgur.com/qJJACWa.gif https://i.imgur.com/S49ddMn.gif https://i.imgur.com/9y66GBD.gif https://i.imgur.com/Y8UDxxu.gif https://i.imgur.com/HCTDFyC.gif https://i.imgur.com/I3ddpwt.gif https://i.imgur.com/SIdj3dc.gif https://i.imgur.com/Vk9HCMQ.gif https://i.imgur.com/ellYATA.gif

I didn’t know I downloaded that many to be honest.

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Google Bard says Office 2007, since we’re asking AI.

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Some people are just being followed by downvoting bots. This seems to be their case when you check their profile. Not the first time I see it.

KID YOU NOT Half of parents have no idea how to raise their kids without a smartphone, study finds (www.thesun.co.uk)

KID YOU NOT Half of parents have no idea how to raise their kids without a smartphone, study finds::Almost half of parents (43 per cent) have ‘no idea’ how people raised children before smartphones were invented.A poll of 1,000 mums and dads with

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About the books, search: 18th century reading fever

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I am not sure, but maybe upower could be useful. upower -d will dump all available information.

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Pro tip: Add an alias for it into your .bashrc to nicely view battery level in TTY. In my case I did alias battery='upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT1 | grep -wE “percentage:|time to empty:|state:|energy:|energy-rate:|voltage:” which shows me this:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/118b48b3-7bc0-4ed0-a95d-12d7ef83d65e.png Direct image link

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I think a few years back I’ve seen articles about AI that can mimic your handwriting, including errors.

Edit: Could be this

The text turned out by the algorithm created by Tom Haines and his fellow UCL researchers is authentic enough that human judges are unable to tell the difference.

Also, 2016 was 7 years ago? Damn.

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Or because Windows comes pre-installed on almost all machines. Many people don’t even know what “operating system” is. It’s just a part of the computer for them.

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Dobre. Čo tak sa porozprávať po Slovensky?

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My dad used to buy disposable vapes. I decided to take them apart just to find rechargeable li-ion batteries. By the way, in many of them there were quite thin wires and some of the insulation was visibly burned, looks quite dangerous.
Similarly there are some single use power banks. DiodeGoneWild made a video about those and also how to recharge them.
Just a stupid waste of batteries.

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Printers. Always a problem. I wanted to use my HP PSC1315 under Windows, but apparently the driver used Flash Player…? so it doesn’t work anymore. On Linux HP has pretty good support with HPLIP, so for normal printing it works (this printer has “partial support”). Unfortunately for high DPI I have to use Windows 7 virtual machine.

Oh, yeah. You can just use Windows as printer driver with VirtualBox.

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What brand of printer do you have, by the way?

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You don’t need to install gparted, it’s just nicer. But Ubuntu already has something for partitioning. Open start menu, search for “Disks”, that’s it.

Just be careful what partitions you remove/format, but I guess that’s obvious.

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Welp, I am the only one in class using Android, so I get some laughs. If I am going to drop Android, it will be for full fledged GNU+Linux phone. Postmarket OS already officially supports Android apps via Waydroid.

I don’t see how I’d use something as restrictive as iOS. Not even being able to sideload apps without jailbreak, so Apple decides what you install.
There’s so much stuff I’d miss, I’d feel like using a modern day feature phone.
How is that cool?

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You guys have friends?

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I am sorry :(

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What you are referring to as droids is in fact Android/Linux, or as I’ve recently started calling it, Android+Linux.
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Sorry for the late reply, but I was asleep.

  1. Custom ROMs: A nice way to extend your phone’s lifespan, or just get a cleaner OS
  2. Mifare Classic tool: I used that to clone my school lunch card for free
  3. Minimum width settings: Maybe iPhones have this too, I am not sure. By increasing it from default 395dp to 705dp I have basically converted my phone to tablet. Apps consider tablet anything starting with 600dp.
  4. LibreTorrent: Nice torrent client for Android, although you can’t really seed much with mobile data since you’re not connectable.
  5. USB storage: I can connect a Flash drive or HDD to my phone. Cool.
  6. Speaking of that, MLUSB mounter: Unfortunately paid and closed source, but mod APKs exist :) (unsafe). Since Linux kernel on Android is so limited, it brings support to extra file systems like NTFS and even UDF allowing you to use DVD or Blu-ray drive for browsing files on discs.
  7. Speaking of USB, NokoPrint: Again, sadly closed-source app, but at least you don’t have to unlock features. It allows me to print on my old HP printer directly from phone via USB with all the settings HPLIP provides.
  8. Robot36: If I happen to hear SSTV transmission, I can use this nice decoder. It is open-source.
  9. noaa-apt: This one isn’t an app, but it can be compiled for ARM in Termux. It decodes APT transmissions from NOAA-15, 18 and 19 weather satellites they transmit in 137MHz band.
  10. Termux: What I just mentioned above. And if I learn to configure it, Apache webserver, because why not.
  11. Simple HTTP server: A slow but simple HTTP server app. Useful from sharing files to a full website on phone.
  12. Matsuri: A really awesome proxy client
  13. Android proxy server: Again, this could probably be done in Termux, but there’s an app for it. Useful for sharing a VPN connection with other computers. Or setup TCP relay to Orbot. Or both. Or maybe using your phone’s internet connection on school network with school computers. It allows for basic username password authentication.
  14. F-Droid: More FOSS apps
  15. USB Camera: Chinese app with ads that made me start using NextDNS. Allows me to comnect USB Composite capture card to phone and play NES games. Or a HDMI capture card from laptop. Or an actual camera. It can also run a server with the video feed. Easily allows changing between all supported resolutions and formats.
  16. Screen stream: How about screencasting over HTTP? Sadly it doesn’t support audio.
  17. Limbo x86 PC emulator: Slow but fun to play with. Why not try Windows 98 on my phone, right? Even Windows 7 somewhat ran on it.
  18. J2ME Loader: Let’s replay those old Java games I played on my Sony Ericsson.
  19. SDR++: Remember noaa-apt? How about recording it on your phone? A full on SDR (software defined radio) desktop experience. Although support for devices is limited on Android. Airspy, HackRF, RTL-SDR. I use it with RTL-SDRv3. The cheapest and most common SDR.
  20. SatDump: A universal satellite decoder to use with your SDR. There’s also Meteor in 137MHz band transmitting digital imagery. And if you get a satellite dish and L-Band helical feed (with correct polarization - remember dish is a mirror, it reverses it) there’s a lot better imagery to get and additional satellites: Metop-B and Metop-C. But RTL-SDR isn’t optimal for these higher bandwidths anymore. Consider something like AirSpy Mini.
  21. SDRAngel: SDR app that tries to do everything. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have scaling settings, so you’ll have a hard time using it on phone.
  22. Welle.io: Does your country have DAB/DAB+ radio broadcast, but you don’t have a receiver? Well say no more! It is time to use your RTL-SDR for that. If you got the generic one (like $10) it saves you money that you would otherwise pay for a standalone receiver. The cost returns!
  23. dump1090: An ADS-B receiver. Have you ever checked FlightAware or ADS-B exchange? How about getting that information yourself, directly from airplanes? Well you can do that with planes that are in sight.

Maybe I could find some more stuff, this is what I’d miss the most.

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I just learned about HDCP. What if you have display without HDCP support? This just sounds like a stupid idea.

Edit: Apparently laptops and computers should have that too. Is there any way I can test it on demand?

Edit 2: Intel just discontinued HDCP on Linux at start of this year.

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Best I can do is GIF from 2003

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/e2936949-3c54-4be1-ae08-e4d6f744c453.gif

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If you don’t need to download it, there’s himovies.sx. There used to be option to download, but maybe they had some issues with that.

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OK, I checked it for you. In Firefox you can open inspector and then head to Network tab and there get the .m3u8 playlist URL. I’d recommend to check in VLC if it works. If playing it in VLC is all you need, good.

Another option is to download it using youtube-dl. I tried it and it started the download, so that will probably work too.

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It seems they just use file hosts, although they still do recommend using a VPN.

Do you still write notes with pen and paper?

With so much note taking apps nowadays, I can’t understand why does anyone still write notes with pen and paper. You need to bring the notepad, book or that paper to retrieve that information, and most of the time you don’t have it in hand. While my phone almost always reachable and you carry when you go out. For those still...

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Just on phone. They’re not important notes though. Just random stuff. I don’t even remember the context for 80% of that.
:::spoiler Some examples:

Slimport is its name you donut

Yeah, what’s Slimport?

1280×800×8/32

install tar1090 and dump1090-fa

Never did. Too much lazy, and dump1090 works.

Samsung ue32eh4000 1366x768

belkin f8t030

Games: lastrangers.com (telnet)
Also cool: telehack.com (telnet) - Includes ASCII starwars and eliza

cool link with list of servers: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world

Channel 1 Visible (0.5 0.7 µm; APID64),
Channel 2 Visible (0.7 1.1 µm; APID65),
Channel 3 Visible (1.6 1.8 µm; APID66),
Channel 4 Infrared 3.50 ± 0.50 - 4.10 ± 0.50 µm; APID67,
Channel 5 Infrared 10.5 ± 0.50 - 11.5 ± 0.50 µm; APID68,
Channel 6 Infrared 11.5 ± 0.50 - 12.5 ± 0.50 µm; APID69.

www.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html](https://www.tau.ac.il/images/Images.html)
www.ict.griffith.edu.au/images/Images.html
www.it.uu.se/pics/

3768kHz - Thu 16:00 :::

You get the idea.

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For me it’s other way around. If I have to write I only focus on writing itself, and not the content. This also often causes me to accidentally repeat words, mix up letters, erase it, repeatedly end up writing the wrong letter because I need to speed up, then I have to leave out a section because I already forgot what I wanted to write.
And in the end I still can’t decipher quarter of my handwriting.

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Break the

Beautiful words. I shed a tear.

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Makes sense. Have you ever tried the impossible Yandex Captcha? Don’t even try. You can’t do it. It is simply not possible for a human to do.

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Wait, what now?

That sounds awesome!

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Same here. I’ve only stopped using their stuff when it was already too small for me. Their CruzerBlade flash drives are my favorite flash drives thanks to their fast random access. I installed Linux Mint on 1 of them and it runs fairly well. Much faster than HDD unless you’re doing large file transfers. Obviously this greatly limits their lifespan, flash drives can’t handle so many writes.
I just replaced a SanDisk MicroSD card in my phone for Samsung one, and I regret it. Moving many small files is noticeably slower.

On the other hand there’s Philips. Sequential I/O gave me better results than the SanDisk drive, but that thing isn’t even useful as installation disk. That thing is just awfully slow. How they managed to make a flash drive slower than DVD, I don’t understand. But hopefully it’s just faulty unit that I have.

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To be honest, I wouldn’t even open the post otherwise.

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By the way, Ubuntu and probably most Ubuntu-based distros (like Linux Mint) also have driver manager (ubuntu-drivers) that handles drivers similarly to the “search for driver” feature. Except that ubuntu-drivers also let’s you select between multiple drivers and let’s you easily uninstall them.

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I just checked Lenovo from Google Search. I only checked the British site, but if you select “No OS” instead of Windows 11 Home, it’s -90£ (115USD)!

Holy hell! I didn’t realize Windows license makes up such a big part of the price.
Now I wonder how much of the price it could be with the cheap Umax laptops sold in Czech republic and Slovakia. They start at €130 with Windows Pro license.

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Fun fact, if you use the PixelExperience custom ROM, you get free unlimited photo storage in original quality because Google thinks you’re actually using a Pixel phone.

No guarantees they won’t delete your account if they figure out. But it worked for me until I finally got another phone.

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