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> a complete orrery in a classic F91W “Terrorist” watch

It took me a bit of searching, but sure enough:

https://www.sensorwatch.net/docs/watchfaces/complication/#or...

Seems very tedious to actually use, but very cool to have it in the unassuming wristwatch.

What's wrong with that? That seems like more than one release per year, and all roughly compatible with each other.

I've lived in a fair few places, but I've never lived in a place where an unlocked bicycle wouldn't be stolen. I'll keep using locks, thank you very much.

If you're interested in buying secondhand laptops, I strongly recommend you look at any "business-class" model from any manufacturer. Laptops that cost $1,000+ and are aimed at business fleets, rather than individual consumers. These laptops tend to be very well-made, are designed for commonly-broken parts to be easily replaceable, and are widely available secondhand as companies update their laptop fleets. Here's an incomplete list of manufacturers and series:

* Dell Latitude (except the budget 3xxx models) and Precision * HP EliteBook and ProBook * Lenovo ThinkPad X, T, and P series (in order from small & light to big & powerful) * Panasonic ToughBook (rugged!) and Let’s Note * Fujitsu Lifebook * Acer TravelMate and Extensa * Asus ExpertBook * Toshibe Portege and Tecra * Epson Endeavor

If you're really concerned, you can buy two $100 secondhand laptops. If one fails, you can use the other. Good secondhand laptops in that price range will be more like 8 or 10 years old, but still usable as basic daily computers.

I've had an excellent experience using secondhand business-class laptops. Several nonprofits I'm involved have nothing but these sorts of laptops, and I've only used secondhand laptops since 2019.

If that's the only thing keeping you from buying and using a raspberry pi, you can get secondhand monitors or TVs for $20 or so.

I'm not sure how you're getting that from this.

> In early 1903, Samuel Langley attempted to launch his tandem monoplane from a catapult, but it crashed after its frail wooden structure failed catastrophically.

> By the end of 1907, the Wright brothers had successfully flown several other versions of their original Flyer, a biplane type more strongly built

After the introductory history, the rest of the article is a relatively straightforward overview/introduction to the engineering involved in making airplanes strong enough to fly.

Passwords in this style (passphrases) are also much easier to transcribe to devices that don't have or support password managers, or when sharing a password verbally or in writing.

80x25 is by far the most common standard for console size

Given that the article's author used Blender to create their model, I'm surprised they didn't use it's built-in paper model exporter.

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.1//addons/import_export...

Seems like you can

https://origamiusa.org/thefold/article/diagrams-one-cut-hept...

The one cut is to remove the perimeter of the square that lies outside the heptagon. Without the cut, you could make a crease, and fold the excess behind the heptagon.

IIRC, Red is not yet fully self-hosted, so it makes sense that the download would embed a copy of the original 32-bit x86 Rebol to bootstrap / compile.

With what GUI library? The unmaintained GTK1?

Not written in, but AutoCAD supports scripting in TCL (and in its own AutoLisp, which is much less popular among users than TCL).

The linked paper "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog" is a good read!

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

FWIW, showing recent changes is a very common wiki feature.

Here's the page for my local makerspace's wiki, which runs on mediawiki:

https://bloominglabs.org/Special:RecentChanges?hidebots=1&li...

Every frontend offers only a small subset of ffmpeg's total features, making them usable only for specific tasks.

But now I have to wait several seconds before I can even start to process the webpage! It's like the internet suddenly became slow again overnight.

But how does playing pac-man make especial sense in text?

Any decent battery system measures the current that goes into the battery, and the current that goes out. Off-the-shelf ICs "learn" the battery's initial capacity and its state-of-charge to voltage curve, and thereon can observe degredation below those initial measurements, as well as fairly accurately reporting how much energy is in the battery at any given moment.

The wikipedia article has links to the official websites, and not to the scams: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

Debian (and many other distributors of compiled binaries) uses "i386" to refer to all 32-bit x86 processors, including the Pentium 3.

I have AMD Geode hardware circa 2007 (18 years old) that only has partial support for i686. Requires a true 3/4/586 kernel.

I fear magnets inside the connector would draw ferrous debris into the connector. I'd really rather that not happen!

It's not that weather is difficult for markets to provide. It's that it's worthwhile for the government to make it freely available to everyone.

People pay to have a tempest weather station

https://tempest.earth/tempest-home-weather-system/

KDE is running a campaign. https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

The 2025 Moto G Stylus has one!

I read standard .epub files with KOReader on my Kobo Aura H2O. It's faster, nicer-looking, and more customizable than the stock reader, and the installation instructions were complete, correct, and easy to follow.

You can easily look this stuff up:

Liftoff was published January 3, 2023

Reentry was published September 2024

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/liftoff-eric-berger?v...

https://benbellabooks.com/shop/reentry/