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timkenhan

@ timkenhan @sopuli.xyz

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  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • It surely would if it fits you. Otherwise, there are other fields with stable prospect as well.

    Of course, you can choose an engineering field and then pivot to something else that you'd find to be better fit. I've known a lot of people who do well that way.

    But yeah, if it turns out to be a good fit for you, that's great.

  • What questions do teens (14-18yo) have about choosing a career path, or navigating school and education options?

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  • Not exactly in engineering, but studied computer science and currently am working in IT industry.

    I can at least speak for my study: It can be difficult, but it won't feel as much if you're actually into it. People's brain are built different from one another, so in the end it's case by case and won't apply to all.

    What makes you consider engineering? I don't mean to sound too discouraging, but if it's easy money you're looking for, you won't find it here.

  • Does anyone actually use Gentoo? Why?

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  • I'm using it right now, at least for personal project development. It's surprisingly reliable. Aside from the well-known USE flags that let you nitpick stuff at compile time letting me mix newer stuff while keeping the rest stable.

    I do have my complaints:

    • it's rolling release, making it less fitting for production use, tho not as bleeding edge as Arch
    • the package management logic could perhaps be more robust; one of my pet peeves is that it keeps pulling the latest version of Python despite not being used
    • some slight, relatively meaningless changes in package metadata might trigger recompilation
    • the default configurations might not be the most sane

    I have found sweet spot and preserved my configuration here for anyone to use.

  • If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?

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  • I feel like Indonesian is what Esperanto could've been.

  • What are things you know because of your personal interests that most people have no idea about ?

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  • As someone who's into composting:

    Some maggots (specifically of black soldier flies) can literally climb out of their buckets.

  • What is the oldest electronic you own?

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  • So many old computers & calculators here.

    I have an Apple IIe, but at the moment it's at my friend's place. What I have with me are a bunch of Thinkpads: a barely working X60, a fine X200 with busted battery, and a combination of 20 and 30 series ones I am currently using.

    May I insert some additions of analog here?

    I got a Rotel RA-04 audio amp from 2006 from my dad that I am currently using, and I'm sure there are older stuff where it's from.

    Aside from that, a Yaesu FT-60 FM transceiver made in 2004 still running strong.

  • Cold Brew, anyone?

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  • What do you mean by volume and not weight? Isn't water density 1 g/ml anyway?

  • Cold Brew, anyone?

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  • How much would you put in a single serving, and how much would you dilute it?

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
    timkenhan @sopuli.xyz

    Cold Brew, anyone?

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    I made several mistakes trying to flash my Thinkpad T440p with Skulls. Any way to tell if the chip is dead?

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  • Did the magic smoke come out?

    If so, you can try replacing the chip. Some basic SMD (de)soldering is required.

    If not, you can try reseating your clip. Hopefully the chip is still good. It may have more tolerance than specified.

  • Is gaming with Coreboot (or any other open source bios) viable?

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  • While many comments here are correct that it would affect less than you'd expect, there are things that may not be covered.

    For example:

    • there's no setting for hyperthreading
    • no way to disable SATA drives, in case you'd like to be selective
    • you'll need to reflash the BIOS if you want to change boot order permanently

    Also, make sure you have the correct video BIOS.

  • Is gaming with Coreboot (or any other open source bios) viable?

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  • How would the lack of passive CPU powersaving affect things on your end?

  • I'm at a loss on what server to buy

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  • Good bot.

  • Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧

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  • Serious question: you'd use that for your daily driver?

  • open-source nvidia driver with flatpak

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  • How would Flatpak know which driver to install?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    timkenhan @sopuli.xyz

    open-source nvidia driver with flatpak

  • Which Feddit instance is the oldest?

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  • I have to ask: why so many European country specific feddit instances?

  • Reproducing a Microsoft corporate environment on Linux.

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  • Could be things to execute. They may run a shell script (source it if they don't have exec permission), but they won't have all the previleged commands (definitely no dd)

  • How are nvidia gpus with wayland nowadays? I read a while ago it was terrible, has it improved?

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  • I currently have a Thinkpad W530 with a Quadro K2000M. Because I have coreboot as its firmware, I am able to run completely on the discrete GPU. So far I've been doing great.

    I've looked on the feature matrix of the nouveau support and my GPU (Kepler) happens to have all the features checked-off, with the exception of dynamic power management (mostly WIP).

    Right now, I'm running KDE wayland with the nouveau driver with no issue.

    On the other hand, I've tried having the hybrid GPU and it sucks.

  • Do you have advice for hosting public or maybe even federated blogging?

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  • Not sure if this fits your exact need, but I've been running my blog on Grav CMS. It's really easy to setup as it uses flat file to store your content instead of database. You could just download a tarball, extract it, point your HTTP server (and php-fpm) to it, and see it on your web browser. If you know your PHP, you could even customize a theme.

    Anyways, feel free to check out my blog: timkenhan.co

  • What’s caught your interest lately?

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  • Hope it turns out some good one!

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
    timkenhan @sopuli.xyz

    Secondary Monitor Glitching on KDE Wayland (open source Nvidia driver)

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
    timkenhan @sopuli.xyz

    Opening Link