Silly idea: computer vision for classtoom rollcall. Take a photo and it generates a list of absences.
Silly idea: computer vision for classtoom rollcall. Take a photo and it generates a list of absences.
I think there would be more sympathy if Cloudflare pointed to a specific limit breached and proposed ways to get into compliance at their current price plan.
“Service XYZ is now consuming 500% of expected quota. Shut it down or we need to get you on a bigger plan.” is actionable and meaningful, and feels a little less like a shakedown.
I’m sick of “unlimited” services that really mean “there’s a limit but we aren’t going to say what it is.” By that standard, freaking mobile telecoms are far more transparent and good-faith players!
Perhaps this also represents a failing in Cloudflare’s product matrix. Everyone loves the “contact sales for a bespoke enterprise plan” model, but you should be creating a clear road to it, and faux-unlimited isn’t it. Not everyone needs $random_enterprise_feature, so there’s value in a disclosed quota and pay-as-you-scale approach: the customer should be eager to reach out to your sales team because the enterprise plan should offer better value than off-the-rack options at high scale.
I wonder if it might be an unreproducible moment in history.
I suspect the Cambrian explosion of X11 window managers came from two things:
Propriatery and former-propriatery systems with unique look and feel (see, for example, Open Look/olvwm) There was also a tendency to copy any style you could (WindowMaker copied NeXTStep, IceWM mocked OS/2, and when those cute QNX demo discs came out, within days there were lookalike themes). It feels like the last major outside inspirations, MacOS and Win1,1 are converging on almost intrrchangeable insipidness.
The 1990s/2000s customization era. Machines were finally powerful enough to do mildly nifty things, but still attainable by hobbyists gluing together pixmaps and this bred stuff like Enlightnment E16 or Afterstep
Do these forces still exist in 2024? It seems like Unix Porn today is a bunch of neokvetch windows without even a titlebar to provide a personal statement.
I think I’d be a lot more excited about Wayland if I felt like I can get a compositor that matches my tastes.
I want to iconify things to the desktop, not relying on a taskbar-alike. Nothing seems to offer that. Hell, the taskbar is often a third party program.
I want to double-click to shade. Labwc just added this, a feature that X11 window managers have been offering since the 90s.
I want an aesthetic that’s got real depth and skeumorphism, rather that flat and featureless. Maybe something offers that, but there are plenty of X11 choices that have beveled buttons out of the box.
The charm of Unix systems used to be flexibility, buy Wayland seems to be an extinction-level event for traditional window management. Nothing fills the gap of FVWM or WindowMaker. But gosh, I can get 92 flavours of tiling compositor and windows that ripple when dragged.
I had a similar positive experience with Gamescope, which tamed a game that freaked out every time I moved the moude onto the other monitor.
Maybe Wayland’s healthy place is as a secondary window system you launch inside your normal X11 session.
There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.
I have a similar one, different seller and possibly submodel, but also a refurb HGST 12T enterprise drive. It sounds like I left a soda on my desk most of the time, subtly popping and ticking.
This is the firmware I’ve been working on. Basically I wrote it because at the time (early 2023) there wasn’t a “good” keyboard firmware like QMK or ZMK for the CH32V305. Now it supports keyboards, joysticks, and a rudimentary pointing device made out of a PS2-style analogue stick.
https://gitlab.com/hakfoo1/ch32v-keyboard/-/tree/fightstick?ref_type=heads
That branch has the mapping I used. Note this firmware has a keyboard-centric assumption that switches are wired as a matrix (between two sense lines), even if that matrix is 1x24, rather than just grounding a sense line individually.
The stick portion was one of those “Pandora Box” devices that was built into a cabinet and pre-wired to a crappy Android TV box.
I bought it because I figured it was probably cheaper than cutting a decent looking cabinet and buying the buttons off AliExpress. That also meant it came with a predefined cable harness to fit the Android box. In the hopes of making it tidy, and reversible, I ordered a little throwaway PCB that accepted the existing 40-pin plug and bridged it to a nanoCH32V305 breakout board. Of course, I made a design mistake, so the PCB had bodge wires, so not much was saved.
If you’re starting from scratch, you could direct-wire to the MCU breakout board.
I’m thinking it might be my 2.5G router when it drops. Or worst case, maybe retire the Atom I’m using for a NAS.
I’ve been using some much smaller CH32V305 based keyboard controllers for a while, recently built a fightstick aroubd the platform. Now if only I fidn’t suck at joystick games, having grown up on gamepads.
When they port FVWM.
Sometimes the appeal of socketed RAM is to just buy the bottom model and upgrade.
When I bought my Thinkpad E585 (wouldn’t reccomend), it was like $50 cheaper to buy a second 4GB DIMM from Crucial, and like $100 less to take the 500GB spinning rust option and add your own NVMe.
My porn works differently. All the male characters turned into catboys.
I don’t get why OEMs aren’t all over Libreboot.
Paying American Megatrends even a couple cents per board, is a cost that doesn’t result in a valuable product differentiator. Has anyone ever said “I’d buy that PC but the UEFI sucks?”
Tweakers would love an open UEFI to build tools for ever more insane chipset register tweaks. Conversely, manufacturers would love the ability to theme everything with uniform branding and consistent experiences for large fleet deployment. I could even see kiosk designs that booted into a captive app right from ROM, no discs or network required. (You could get a PC that booted to DOS from ROM in the late '80s, surely we can top that today.
Following up, the white caps are lasered.
The black was by far the most reliable. Blue, red, and green were much weaker, blue probably the strongest colour.
The laser only has a “time of pulse” setting-- 6-10ms seemed enough for black, but 20+ ms did better for colours.
I’ve had fairly decent luck with ordinary dry-erase markers and the cheap Neje engraver (possibly 1W, maybe 1.5W, I don’t remember) that’s basically made out of old DVD-ROM stepper motors.
I actually wore out the laser after doing a few hundred caps, so I’m waiting for a new one in the post.
One of the bigger problems is predictable mounting so if you do 10 keys in a row, they’re aligned. A jig helps, like gluing a spare switch to the engraver bed.
I built a 130% design. It cost about $75 delivered for five PCBs from JLCPCB. But I do it through-hole, so add:
Three resistors
Three LEDS
130 diodes
Encoder(all together, like $5 per board if you bought the diodes by the thousand)
MCU (I’ve been using the $6 nanoCH32V305, but your design may vary)
Caps and switches (not going there, way too personal taste)
You can also abuse their “aluminium PCB” service to generate a plate. It’s not as stiff as a real laser-cut/waterjet-cut plate, but the price is right (like $80 for five; they add a penalty fee for asking for 130 big holes punched into the plate :D :P Then use a second plate as backing for a “sandwich style” mount.
Another alternative is some of the cheap hotswap kits on Aliexpress-- there’s a 100% for about USD55 under the name “Monsgeek MG108W”; I can’t speak of it for experience. I tried another similar but pricier one (SK108) a while back when I wanted a testing experience, and it worked well enough but the software for customization was awful
Modern DOS 8x16. I like the nostalgic look and boxiness.
Because the chip comes with a fat suit for comedy purposes
Chromebooks maybe?
I always figured the browser part mostly falls out of doing the Electron-for-cross-platform thing.