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user224

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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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user224 ,

Wrong community.

user224 ,

The only one I watched was Apollo 13, so Apollo 13.

user224 , (edited )

Getting onto HRPT. I’d need to get to a field with unobstructed view of sky. Now imagine walking through the city with an 80cm satellite dish.
People stare weirdly even if I am just standing in middle of soccer field for 15 minutes with a V-Dipole to receive APT/LRPT.
Speaking of APT, theoretically I have beautiful pass of NOAA-18 in a little over an hour. (Edit: Got that one: lemmy.sdf.org/post/2767357)
Hmmm…

user224 ,

Thanks for explaining that for me, I didn’t get it.

user224 ,

You can also install DE like XFCE into termux to run graphical programs. I use that for noaa-apt decoder.

user224 ,

Just 1 dream stuck with me. One I had ahen I was in primary school.

I was at school, but slowly I realized it doesn’t seem real. Then I realized it is indeed a dream. Teacher told me to sit down, because I was looking out of window. “I won’t.”, I said. She got mad, “Who do you think you are?”. My reply: “You aren’t even real.” The teacher: “Are you already completely dumb?” And my final reply: “Fuck you! I am waking up.” and I woke up.

I was so happy to say “Fuck you” to teacher without consequences xD.

user224 ,

I use Arch^(-based^ ^distro)^, btw

user224 ,

Additionally there’s downvote bots. They can even stick around with you. You comment, and a few seconds later you’ve got 25 downvotes.

user224 ,

The program go is not installed. Install it by executing:
pkg install golang

user224 ,

Yakuake. F12 in, F12 out. Or in my case Fn+F12 because laptop.

But I’d like a plain old physical teletype.

user224 ,

Not always. I am a person too, and I am dumb.

user224 ,

This one?
https://i.imgur.com/2mlQ1H8.jpg Direct image link

user224 , (edited )

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif free-mp3-download.net for stealing FLACs from Deezer.

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif frogfind.com - search engine (or rather proxy) for vintage computers

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/world is a cool directory of gopher links. There’s also Veronica-2 search engine. You’ll need a browser that supports gopher protocol, from the top of my head I can name bombadillo, lynx and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or lower.

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif 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/

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif Meteor M-N2-3 satellite LRPT operational status

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif rtl-sdr.com - RTL-SDR blog. I just found they released RTL-SDRv4 😲 and it’s even cheaper than previous model!

:::spoiler Direct audio stream list of my favorite internet radios Radio rock:
stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-hi.mp3
stream.bauermedia.sk/rock-lo.mp3

Radio1:
play.global.audio/radio1.aac 48kbps
play.global.audio/radio1.ogg
play.global.audio/radio1.opus
play.global.audio/radio1128 128kbps
play.global.audio/radio164 48kbps
play.global.audio/radio1_low.ogg
play.global.audio/radio1hi.aac 128kbps
…streamtheworld.com/…/RADIO_1AAC_L.aac
…streamtheworld.com/…/RADIO_1AAC_H.aac

aNONradio:
anonradio.net:8000/anonradio

KGRG:
www.ophanim.net:8444/s/7090
:::

https://i.imgur.com/lfKMWNy.gif telnet telehack.com - There’s eliza, an early AI chatbot made in 1966. AI chatbots aren’t such a new thing.

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

You’re not alone in that.

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

He’s not even looking onto the book.

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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…

user224 ,

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

user224 , (edited )

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.

user224 , (edited )

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

user224 ,

No, CD-ROM is /dev/sr0

user224 ,

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).

user224 ,

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....

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

About the books, search: 18th century reading fever

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

Dobre. Čo tak sa porozprávať po Slovensky?

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

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?

user224 ,

You guys have friends?

user224 ,

I am sorry :(

user224 ,

What you are referring to as droids is in fact Android/Linux, or as I’ve recently started calling it, Android+Linux.
…

user224 ,

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.

user224 ,

Best I can do is GIF from 2003

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

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