u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)

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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  • Make sure she knows about the effects of Monosodium Glutamate. Make sure she looks up e621 (the E number of MSG), as the name was already censored, to get information on dangers of this commonly used substance.
    Google is trying to censor information about this substance to help fellow corporations and tries to make these search attempts look scary by filtering it out with something called “SafeSearch”, but the truth must be exposed, so disable it.
    P.S.: Text in images takes longer to censor, so it is recommended to look into the image tab


  • would be way cooler if they used snapdragon cpus

    I specifically looked for MediaTek since that band mode selector is part of their software, MediaTek Engineer Mode. Most manufacturers remove it because there’s things you probably shouldn’t play around with, but smaller manufacturers just leave it there. Some of these MTK phones in the past even let you change IMEI with AT commands in it (without root), I don’t know if that’s still available at least on some phones.



  • Just WebUI. I prefer landscape mode, so this fits me well.

    I hate typing in portrait mode, and landscape also fits eye vision better. Plus tabs work far better than switching apps. I wish it could be more desktop like. Really, KDE Plasma + Wayland + maliit-keyboard would be nice combo to have on a phone. That’s what I use on my 2-in-1.

    But anyway, Android could at least have proper taskbar. I mean, I have this in 3-button navigation, surely it could fit more icons for background apps (assuming it wouldn’t kill optimize them):

    Yes, the text, it’s a Ulefone. There’s far worse bugs.









  • I myself prefer inkjet. Mainly because I don’t really understand the laser printer operation, I can’t even name all the rollers, but the simplicity of pouring more ink into old cartridges and easy head replacement (built into cartridges in my case) is nice, as well as compactness when requiring color. Maybe when I’ll once decide to study it I’ll try a laser.

    HP PSC 1315, somewhere around 20 years old. It has an absolutely botched USB replacement that’s not even fully inserted, but it’s somehow worked for years now.
    It was my first soldering attempt. You’ll squirm now, I didn’t know what flux was. I thought there wasn’t enough heat and went to MAXIMUM. 520°C (968°F) cooked contacts. But somehow it works…

    Hear me out, printers are relatively high-maintenance technology. I want some decent understanding to be able to deal with various faults first, but I am too lazy to study laser printers, so I use inkjet.

    But actually, I kinda want a… dot matrix. 24-pin for sure, but hear me out, I want a slow one. I want to watch it and listen to it printing, so I want it to take enough time. I am not joking. Many times I used high DPI printing which takes 20 minutes per page (A4) and I was watching the heads the entire time.




  • children must not learn the english language

    Reminds me of…

    The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought—that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as “This dog is free from lice” or “This field is free from weeds.” It could not be used in its old sense of “politically free” or “intellectually free” since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.





  • I used wget to download static sites, or at least ones with simpler JavaScript, but it won’t download any required files that are only linked in JS code, so it probably won’t work for many sites.

    You also need to be careful when spanning hosts so that you don’t accidentally (attempt to) download the entire internet. And rate-limiting, useragent, robots file, filename limitations (so that it doesn’t save files with filename characters that have other uses in URLs like # and ?), filename extensions (to serve them back with correct mimetype), getting filenames from server rather than URL when appropriate, converting links (works in HTML files only), and I am probably forgetting something else.

    Oh, and it’s a single process doing one request at a time, so even just a page with too many images will take ages. E.g.: http://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/ (currently offline).

    You can then easily serve them using NGINX, or just browse as files, though the latter may not work well on something like a phone. Oh, one more thing, image.jpg and Image.jpg would conflict on Android, and some websites have differences like that. It can only be stored within Termux (and served using NGINX in Termux).