IrritableOcelot

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[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The molecular mechanical modeller NAMD and its viewer use TCL as the CLI interface, and it's...fine. I would prefer BASH or python, but it works just fine.

Also Tk is how most LaTeX drawing is dealt with, so trying to modify, say circuit diagrams or chemical structures drawn directly in LaTeX (I.e. chemfig) requires using some Tcl. Again, it's...fine. No huge complaints.

Edit: bad memory, the drawing program in LaTeX is TikZ not TkZ, its unrelated to Tk.

I kinda suspect it won't show up as a normal HID keyboard, I had some issues with that with a Razer mouse/keyboard, I think they did some proprietary BS to make sure the shortcuts worked for actions that couldn't be done via keypresses. But I hope it does! It would be cool to see.

Yeahhhhh thats a pretty niche product and is basically a HID driver interface, so any functionality would have to be rebuilt from the ground up on Linux. It'll certainly take some time, if theres enough interest to make it worthwhile to someone.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean both Red Hat and Ubuntu did ship updates to change the config of cups-browsed, so I don't think that's correct.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah definitely the latter, but phrasing it as generation is very very wierd. Literally physically impossible.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh my god if you are a new user please do not go straight to Arch or Manjaro. By far the two distros most likely to breaky irreparably.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 2 points 3 days ago

Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article's from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

Can't speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it's in there.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 points 3 days ago

Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.

Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them -- for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I'm pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

Sure thats true as long as the basic support on compatibility is there, but as I understand it Pine is so hardware-only that they make it hard for other projects to even support their hardware, i.e. with lacking drivers as the other comment addressed.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Deeply confused by what the hell this is

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have my steam games running from a NTFS storage partition separate from my Windows and Linux home partitions...

I had some initial issues when I started doing that, and it required a different read method for the drive (which never worked), but for about 6mo I've had no issues running steam off a vanilla NTFS drive.

 

To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I've been having to manually check MSI's website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren't delivered through your OS's update manager of choice is such a pain, and it's common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don't get applied to systems because folks don't check for updates unless there's a problem.

Thinking about that, I realized that it would make life a lot easier if you could just have section in your RSS reader for firmware updates, and each mobo manufacturer published BIOS update announcements as an RSS feed. All your updates are in one place, and you're notified promptly! Of course, this would also apply to NVIDIA drivers, so you can get automatic updates on Windows without having to download Geforce NOW bloatware, but of course that's very intentional on NVIDIA's part.

Does anyone know of other easy ways to passively keep track of BIOS updates?

 

OK, y'all. I'm trying to find a book I read many moons ago. I feel like it was by Diana Wynne Jones, but it's not in her bibliography. Massive spoilers incoming, obviously, but I can't remember what the spoilers are for.


The book starts on an island nation in the south of the world, with a rigid code of conduct which one of the main characters is being disciplined for breaking. The main characters leave on a quest to the oppressive and powerful kingdom in the north, and its revealed that one of the other main characters is the crown prince of the evil kingdom in the north, and can use their magic. If I recall correctly, his use of that magic makes dark veins stand out under his skin, and he has to fight against it controlling him. There's some kind of time limit, I think if he uses the magic too much, it'll take him over and he'll become the new ruler.

To gain some advantage over the evil kingdom, they visit an abandoned city, break into some kind of temple, and have an encounter with some kind of deity, which might then take over one of the characters?

Later in the story they make it to the evil palace, and there's a plotline about multiple children of the evil king trying to kill this guy, so they can inherit the throne. I think the evil palace is embedded in a mountain somehow.

Anyone who can set me on the right track, it'd be much appreciated!

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