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The most striking incongruity with our modern era to me is that the family was all outside when the blast occurred. With pervasive screens, we just don't get outside like we used to.

And why on earth was that dad mowing when the house was able to take care of it?

This sounds so interesting.

Are there other all-in-one platforms?

It reminds me a little of Citadel/UX (https://citadel.org) or software for the Reticulum Network (https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#nom...).

I'm building a greenhouse. The frame is done, and I've got plastic and a door on it. Next, I'd like to build boxes to hold soil and allow for easy watering.

Thank you.

I do think it has uses beyond sewing; enlarging art, for example, or perhaps painting stage backgrounds, or maybe laying out patterns for building something out of wood.

I build a computer app to make it easier to do projector sewing. This allows you to take a PDF sewing pattern and use a projector (often mounted on a ceiling, shining down on a cutting mat) to see that pattern at life size. You can then easily cut it out and sew it together.

My app is called Project&Cut and can be found at https://projectandcut.com.

This is interesting as I've been working on localisation for an app I've made. It's in Electron. I find it super frustrating that when I ask for `navigator.languages` I get 'en-US' first, even though I have my language set to 'en-CA' (which showed up second, I think). I can only assume they were working around some dumb web software that didn't realise that if it didn't see your specific language code it should fall back to a more generic language. Anyone got tips for getting the most specific language code in the general case?

I've only tried Valentina/Seamly2D but yes, most of these programs let you export your design as a pattern that can be constructed, typically as a PDF.

Once you have a PDF, you can: 1 - print it in poster format across many pages of paper 2 - use a projector aimed down onto your cutting surface and then cut the pieces out or 3 - a few people are fortunate enough to use laser cutters to cut out their fabric.

Speaking more on point 2, projector sewing got way easier this year with the release of automatic calibration software, namely https://projectandcut.com and https://www.patternprojector.com. (The first one is my project). If you want to learn more about it, you might also look at Projectors for Sewing facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/481078582801085) or https://projectorsewing.com or search google or YouTube.

You really can be set up for $100. I also think this could work with some forms of woodworking, or, say, crafting foam armour or decorating cakes.

Take a look at Snap. It was originally a scratch mod, but does allows for all sorts of advanced things. https://snap.berkeley.edu

I've got an Electron app in the works which I'm planning to sell to Windows and Mac users (probably through the platform's app stores, using in-app purchases).

Is such a thing possible with the Linux market? Can I sell my software through stores? Is IAP a thing?

I liked "Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise" by Stephen Few.

Do take a look at the results from the citizen scientists doing a potato diet study, and now a "half-tato" diet: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/03/13/half-tato-diet-comm...

You need to look at the documentation page to get a sense of what this thing actually is.

Looks like the price has finally come down a bit, but it did seem to be $2000+ for something with a saw stop, but only $200+ for a regular table saw, making it out of reach of many home handypeople.

Interestingly, as I recall, nearly as many people are injured each year from power tools as are injured in vehicular collisions (in the US) and way more people drive than use power tools.

There is a solution, yes, but the problem is not solved.

This is surreal to read. I've always had a printer.

The last one we got is a Brother MFC-J5945DW. What's really nice is that it has refillable ink tanks (I'm using 3rd party refills to save a ton of money) and it'll print on ledger/tabloid/A3 paper (as well as regular sizes). This is particular nice for printing booklets.

Take a look at AREDN, the Amateur Radio Emergency Digital Network -- https://www.arednmesh.org. They use commercial WiFi gear (see https://www.arednmesh.org/content/supported-platform-matrix) with custom firmware, running on the adjacent ham radio bands (which have less noise on them, allowing for greater distance, although I wouldn't be surprised if the WiFi bands and radio bands have different allocations in Europe.) Surprisingly (to me, anyway) they say that 'N' speed WiFi works better at long ranges than newer protocols.

Honestly, as you are in Europe, you should look into the European Hamnet. See https://hamnet.eu/site/community.html and https://www.tapr.org/pdf/DCC2014-TheEuropeanHAMNET-DG8NGN.pd.... They aren't using WiFi, but the goal is the same.

Both of these require licensed amateur radio operators to use normally. (Maybe wartime is a different matter). I do believe I heard that Russia took radio transceivers away from operators in the Ukraine, but don't know much about it.

This is so exciting.

I've got an old netbook and decided to put back on the OS it originally came with, Windows 7 Starter. I was so surprised when I couldn't run updates; I finally attributed it to having old security certificates, but couldn't figure out how to update them, and some important updates that I installed on other computers (a number of HTTPS sites are impossible to see without the right certs) and copied over would not install. Such a pain.

And here, just like that, Windows 7 SP1 is installing.

To those who made this: Thank you so much!

I stumbled across a project called DietPi -- https://dietpi.com. Scroll halfway down the main page and you'll see many SBCs that it works on and might be good alternatives. Khadas are not on the list, though; I've never heard of them before now.

FYI, the internet archive hosts a ZIM archive that has dumps of wikipedia and many other works. https://archive.org/details/zimarchive

I wish it was a little more obvious how to search it, or what all the variations mean, but it looks like a valuable resource.

It is worth noting that Kiwix works on multiple OSes and on phones and has a wifi hostspot version (that you might run on an raspberry pi, for example). Internet-in-a-box similarly works as a wifi hostspot for ZOM archives.

Lastly, it is worth mentioning that there are tools for creating your own ZIM files; it looks like the most straightforward way is to take a static website and use a utility to convert it into one self-contained file.

I applaud Mr. Haidt for standing up for what he believes in.

When I was trying to use it keyboard only, I never could remember the magic shortcuts to access the menu bars, even after tweaking system preferences. Using the keyboard with Windows or Linux was way easier, IMO.

This sounds interesting. Unfortunately, the blog author didn't link to Blackbird, and there are many things with that name. Is it an open-source project somewhere?

This is pretty nifty.

1) Indoor exposure (ie. lack of time outdoors. For example, we need sun exposure to create vitamin D; the supplements are nowhere near as good.)

2) Inactivity. Our bodies need to move to be healthy.

Just slogging through the day. I have trouble putting in 8 hours a day these days, but don't know what to do about it; I did tell HR I was burned out (and I don't see that I can financially afford a stress leave). I'm applying for other jobs -- maybe I can luck out and get a 4/day/week job? -- but that takes energy that I can hardly bring to bear. (Yay, coding tests!)

I did just go on a nice vacation with my wife and kids, but nearly cried when I had to get back to things, and I honestly do like working in tech. I'm looking into becoming a contractor or freelancer, but the initial plunge is scary. I did try running a small business in the past to no avail.

Is there a nice way (ie. not screenshots) to print piano roll notation?

I think Clairnote is pretty neat. There are more alternate musical notation systems at http://musicnotation.org.

The current system we use because it is the one experts know and music is written in. I'm sure it could be worse, but I feel like it has a ton of backwards-compatible features as add-ons that would be so much cleaner with a rewrite. The very simplest change that could be made would be to have a grand staff that uses the same clef, so people don't need to learn two of them.

I don't think we'll actually see a change until such time as you could put on a pair of AR glasses, which could recognize/OCR your music, and then, on-the-fly 'transnotate' the song into a sane notation. (Perhaps the same could be said for making English more phonetic; and, perhaps it will never happen; in the meantime, I can't help but feeling that hundreds of hours are needlessly spent learning this system that wouldn't be needed with a simpler one, many people who'd like to learn it never do, and, oddly, plenty of singers sing better because they can't read the written notation!).

Wow, I don't often get answers in rhyme!

Thank you.

Sounds amazing. Can you offer some insights in how other people might apply your approach? Are you a contractor? How can you tell if someone is offering a job of the sort you want, and how do you convince the gatekeepers you can do the work well?

It may be a place of simply changing your thinking and building a product that people want.

I saw an article recently that claimed that there will be more repairable phones on the market soon, as France put in a law requiring a fixability score for products, and consumers responded by preferring fixable products.

The Cricut smart cutters were changed to require a subscription to a cloud service, and consumers dumped 'em. The company finally walked the idea back.

I'm interested in smart home products, but I don't like the devices randomly talking to a server somewhere. It's insane that your lightbulb talks to the internet. It's also a gamble wondering if I can reflash a specific device to use a known-safe firmware that only talks on my LAN. Similarly, if I were in the market for a smart cutter, I'm absolutely going to weight in the possibility of control of my device being taken from me and look at Cricut's competitors more favourably.

I recently learned that domestic sewing machines were built before planned obsolescence was a thing; I can still buy a 1902 sewing machines in decent condition (for example), as they were designed to be repaired. Bad for a company's monthly income, I suppose, but good for me as a consumer.

Honest question: where are these cheap, available houses? I thought I did live in the hinterlands, and there's nothing in that category here that doesn't need to be torn down. Since I work online, I might be able to move if the prices are right.