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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Cake day: 2023年6月17日

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  • Is this not laser? It looks shiny.

    Anyway, as someone who has too much ink and sometimes prints dark mode documents just because, it depends on how much ink the printer tries to deposit and also on the paper.
    The paper seems to be the biggest problem. Standard 80gsm office paper just gets so drenched it wrinkles up and rolls up as it dries. 120gsm seems to be fine.

    But I don’t know what “artifacts” you’re looking for. With my printer, draft mode may produce better results just because it uses a bit less ink which won’t then seep into smaller white areas like text. But if you mean missed areas, like lines, that’s not a problem.
    There may also be a difference between dye and pigment ink. I use dye ink. Pigment shouldn’t seep through because it’s suspended particles, so it may also look better for white text on black. And the other side of the paper should remain white.




  • I use a laptop, so I iust put it to sleep. I only restart it when I do updates or when the system crashes. I also turn it off (when I remember to do so…) if I leave it unattended in untrustworthy environment due to encryption.

    I also have a mini PC, but I only turn it on when needed, which isn’t often since I haven’t really figured out what to use it for. It’s running Linux Mint headless, because Mint fits my laziness. I can use it via Tailscale, but I don’t really know what to do with it. So far it’s been mostly useful with OpenWebRX, SDR++ server which also offers compression unlike RTL_TCP as well as being able to use any SDR++ supported SDR, and I also intended to use Navidrome on it as well. My intention was to just download full albums on there, rather than picking out individual songs, but I still have the urge to put all of it on my phone.



  • Well, I did. And I am in one. Most teachers don’t care about it. Technically the current principal banned them, but only one teacher told us, and it was a pretty sarcastic “I am supposed to tell you that you aren’t allowed to use phones during classes anymore.”

    Anyway, they got partially integrated. There’s an online school system we are supposed to use, and teachers often send us study materials there, including during classes. At one point we even took online exams (physically at school) and most used phones for that too (I prefer a desktop if I can use that).
    Basically it became an expectation. “Look this up, take a picture of this, open what I sent you, send me this, confirm that,…”

    But yeah, anyway, most exams are probably AI-written nowadays. This is known, and not particularly discouraged. Well, one teacher even told us we’ll be given computers with internet access on (part of the) graduation exams, and shown us how we can just copy-paste it to and from ChatGPT. And that was true.
    But hey, we also often have classes of absolutely nothing that you just have to wait out.
    The level of Slovakian education is setting the bar so low it clipped through the ground.





  • I transferred some files that would have taken windows about 5min, it only took 20sec.

    If we’re talking about storage devices, this may just be lots of caching, which in my opinion sucks for slow removable devices, because the transfer stays in background and you still can’t unplug the damn USB.
    Though there can also be some difference with filesystems. I can get pretty fast and stable RW with F2FS compared to exFAT on these devices.





  • I just did so for the first time today. Oddly, I didn’t feel any effects (aside from the needle puncture). I was really worried I’d feel terrible, or that I might even vomit (I asked what to do in such case beforehand), but thankfully nothing. (I mean, I am underweight, just OK enough for the limits)
    I only got a bit freaked out when I removed the bandage and it took my dumb ass a while to realize that the extra drop of fresh blood is too light (I probably peeled off the scab). Anyway, so I just put a band-aid over it. At least I didn’t have a white shirt.

    I am just disappointed that I got A+. I mean, this isn’t school, I hoped for 0-. 😕 Well, searching the internet, it seems it may be good for plasma or platelets, but I kinda fear the machine xD

    Anyway, the personnel was really nice, so that was quite helpful too.