Imperative stoneagers getting an old MacBook from somewhere and going “huh, I guess its UNIX” is probably true though

Yeah let’s get rid of science communication altogether

I am sure everything will be just fine

I am a first year student in electronics engineering.

I loved watching fun youtube videos on math (ex. 3blue1brown) but was not fond of high school math, due to the lack of proofs and deeper understanding.

Nowadays the stuff I used to watch for fun turned into my job and I couldn’t be happier. Finally getting to do real science feels good.

Unlike high school math, I loved high school physics but that one was mostly due to my way of learning. Which is with lots of visualisations in my head and lots of calculus to prove the formulas they made us memorize.

These days, even though my books give me the proof right away, I sometimes don’t look at the proof because I miss the magic of fiddling with calculus for hours to find it myself.

I love computers but I felt like my love would diminish if I picked CS as a major. Mostly due to the monotonous nature of the job environment. But i am pretty sure my love for electronics is undying and unlike computing I have heaps to learn about electronics so I picked it.

it’s basically food for cells living in a petri dish iirc

hydrogen, helium, metal

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No way you haven’t seen that legendary video

https://youtu.be/iYWzMvlj2RQ

NFO files are still very popular. Long live the demoscene

As I said in my other comment, contrib. over github is already not accepted. And yes these are humans not bots. Pull requests were already filled with bizarre stuff for years before this started

It’s just some silly fun.

Linux kernel does not accept contributions from github so this repo was always like that

The only new thing here is this

Like a brick in a washing machine

Device is set to power saver in this picture but I must say power saver doesn’t seem to be doing much. I don’t notice a reduction in performance nor see a improvement in battery life.

I just leave that on power saver if I am not doing anything resource hungry. Possibly out of habit

I am daily driving a Surface Pro 9

Drivers are okay. I had some problems with screen freezing but these were fixed easily with some kernel params.

With a full battery, I get 6 hours coding in C with VSCode and some browser tabs or 5 hours of YouTube playback. You’ll get about 8-9 hours if you are doing something like writing text

Gnome is fantastic for this form factor. Especially libadwaita stuff, as their HIG plays very nice with touchscreens.

A powerbank will give you practically infinite battery for a whole day. I love this machine so much…

So you gotta do a full flush when you donate. Got it.

It also kind of takes its roots from my frustration with garbage in my home or leftover bullshit in my root

It’s not viable to ditch native packages 100% (like immutable distros). But a combination of two is pretty comfortable imo

But as I said, I am not comfortable with the way flatpak does some things

Small SSD + compression is faster than HDD with no compression ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Plus I’ve been planning to upgrade my (8gb) RAM and SSD, for like, the last 5 years? Never gonna upgrade lol

Exactly what I’m talking about. It reminds me of the time microsoft introduced memory compression to compensate for every application bringing it’s own DLLs

But I still think flatpak is superior to windows way of doing things because it actually has dependency management. I kinda like the idea of having multiple versions of the same library but I wish they did not come in big bundles (runtimes), but instead, came in small 1-2MB pieces.

download random binaries from non-trusted distributors that contain a copy of every library that software needs to run

This is overexaggeration. Flatpak, unlike places windows users get software from, is moderated, and flatpak (although chunky) has shared dependencies

Oh sorry I thought it was homebrew as in built from logic gates. Cool machine anyways

Can I see your homebrew computer? I am working on 6502 rn and this sounds interesting