Scrath

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[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly that's just about being used to one versus the other. For me it's basically the other way around

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

My first thought was "yes", my second thought was "actually, maybe not?" and my third thought was reading the word clockwise in another comment which would need to be replaced with another word to indicate direction around an axis and its opposite

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Not sure if that's the kind of device you are asking about but kobo e-readers run Linux. It's allowed me to sideload my books over SFTP instead of always having to plug in a USB cable

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

As long as its not a propietary connector I don't see any problem with it. Bonus points if there are spare connectors for fans, LED lightning or even just spare GPIO pins available to allow for user modification

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm not sure about how this works in kodi but in jellyfin the client might request a different resolution which causes the server to try and reencode the provided file on the fly. In my case my server isn't fast enough for this which leads to constant buffering

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing I hate is how sometimes a document compiles perfectly fine on one machine only to utterly fail on another. On the two machines were I had this happen I have Texlive installed so that I wouldn't have to look up missing packages. Maybe this is a version mismatch error? I have no clue.

Also I had an old document I wanted to compile which used a '\begin{justifying}' tag. I can't get that tag to work anymore and had to replace it with just '\justifying'

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I believe my thinkpad E590 which I bought in 2019 already had captive screws. Still a 10 year difference at least

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

There's little physical movement or location variety

That's the main reason I switched from computer science to electrical engineering with a focus on embedded software. Programming microcontrollers to achieve something tangible is a lot more satisfying for me than writing some application that only runs on my pc to shuffle some bits around

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

My mother got an HP 255 G8 laptop on which the webcam just will not work no matter what I do.

It's enabled in the bios and the correct driver is installed but the built-in webcam is not detected. Also the keyboard got damaged with the space button only responsing to center presses after roughly a year of usage.

I know it's a relatively cheap machine but the driver issue pissed me off

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

I believe it sometimes works based on when the book was published for some reason and that newer books may have a better DRM protection against this method

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I managed to do it somehow without a kindle but it was an absolute pain in the ass. For my first few books I had to download then using a specific old version of the kindle desktop app so that calibre was able to remove the encryption. Apparently the encryption used by the newer kindle desktop app is different.

For my next books that suddenly wasn't enough and I had to use an old android app version in an emulator and get the books out of the hidden app storage using adb.

I'm never buying an ebook of amazon again if I can avoid it

[–] Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Not the person you replied to but that's it

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