foofiepie

joined 1 year ago
[–] foofiepie 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Erk. I got into this. What’s the tipping point that gets you eyeing oscilloscopes? I’m at the fiddly smd stage.

[–] foofiepie 9 points 1 year ago

Amun, am I going nuts or are the words moving around the slab?

[–] foofiepie 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do not speak of the Griffin Interchange Format.

[–] foofiepie 1 points 1 year ago

I hate Windows with an unbridled passion. I’m forced to use it lately for work and it absolutely sucks (Win 10 anyway).

[–] foofiepie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense and stacks up against my experience of it as seeming unfinished.

Is it Gnome / KDE as standard or are there other environments available?

[–] foofiepie 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve heard about Mint and it seems to have a good rep. My tech lead at work recommends it. I’ll look into all of these.

Dummy question but, I assume the commands/syntax across Mac terminal and whatever the bash/shell equivalent are similar/same?

[–] foofiepie 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve had a look through system76’ site and pop looks interesting, def a contender. Their hardware is a tad pricy. I assume like most of this the hardware is something to research carefully if you choose a distro first, compatibility, drivers, support etc.

It’s a bit of an experiment for me so I won’t be dropping a grand on some HW.

[–] foofiepie 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t actually know. It was Unity I think, whatever that is. Felt a bit, um, amateur and not very polished. Best way I can describe from what I remember.

I will be seriously researching every response here. Very grateful for the help.

[–] foofiepie 6 points 1 year ago

I third Memmy, but the amount of times I’ve gone to close a comment thread and it’s brought up the new comment dialog. And I can’t rotate an image to landscape, had no idea how often I did that. Still, old Apollo habits die hard. It’s a great contender.

[–] foofiepie 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of my favourites is newsnow.co.uk.

Browse with an adblocker. It’s brilliant for aggregating news from a huge variety of sources, and the facets/filters allow for some powerful searches.

Please visit it. I don’t want it to die because I love it so much.

[–] foofiepie 2 points 1 year ago

Mine is that photos should ideally be printed, not stored in a cloud somewhere that you have to pay for forever or you lose them.

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