You totally should power your Raspberry Pi through GPIO pins, once you grow up from blinking LEDs on your table to assembling some automation equipment that you expect to work at other people’s premises.

MicroUSB connection is the one biggest point of failure in any kind of Raspberry Pi automation project. Type-C socket is better, but it still depends on your cable to have appropriate quality, and if your project involves vibration, the cable may and will slip out.

If you don’t want your Pi to randomly stop working in two years, choose a good-quality power supply and solder it to 40-pin DuPont socket header. Do not use individual socket wires, they need very little effort to get loose. If you’re paranoid, you can solder it directly to Raspberry Pi pins, but obviously you won’t be using that particular Pi for any other project, also you should use heat shrink tubes.

but the only thing that’s broken is the fuse which can easily be replaced.

Lolno. You’re not replacing any SMD fuses without a heat gun and a workbench with a magnifying glass. Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 do not have fuses at all, overvoltage directly fries your PMIC and the replacement is impossible to find.

Source: I own a fried RPi 4, and several RPi Zero, one of which failed to boot because MicroUSB cable wiggled in a socket.

Oooh. Gnome gets a dedicated software developer. Just imagine what he could add in two years.

DESKTOP

WITH

ICONS

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g3lb4JoThho

I’ve recently used Codeberg. It’s online about two hours per day.

Magic circles are all started in 13th century with Kabbalah, and then every kind of text on demon summoning featured esoteric letters arranged into a circle. What’s interesting is that the historical alchemy did not use magic circles, but invented a crap-ton of new symbols, subsequentlly adopted in texts on demon summoning.

Surprisingly, DnD does not mention magic circles at all, and in the old fantasy literature (Tolkien, Zelazny, Le Guin etc) the magic is more like voice commands to your Google Assistant, or instinctive abilities like breathing fire - no circles are necessary.

And I guess anime draws magic circles because they look good on screen. Overlord even stacks several circles for an impactful magical sphere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabbalah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_of_Solomon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lesser_Key_of_Solomon

You can append

2>&1 | logger -t my-cronjob

to any command, and it will write logs to system journal which you can view withjournalctl

They exist. But it’s mostly viruses. Every competent script monkey runs their bots on Linux servers, unless it’s someone’s else PC.

Just poweroff is fine. Why lose extra 2.5 seconds typing two words when one word will suffice?

You can write true instead of : and it will look better, true is an actual command.

In a sane and healthy software company, they would contribute their changes back to BSD just because it makes easier to apply latest BSD changes amd security fixes.

Most companies wont. They fork, modify the BSD code for their specific hardware, sell it, and never ever update thier software.

256 GB SD card already costs like a new phone.

TreeView is designed as an afterthought. Some manager at MICROS~1 was like ‘ah yes we need an expanding nested list widget by tomorrow’ and they mutilated text edit box to draw text lines that expand when you click them. It does not have keyboad focus. It can only be operated with a mouse. It does not have shadow or raised widget borders. It has black text on white background, while every other widget has Windows Gray background.

The proper UI would be a separate button for each label, like multiple hierarchical combo boxes.

How’d you suppose Europe would open-source one very very commercial software? It’s practically like asking McDonalds to pay you for eating their burgers.

Jinshi has seen better days. Maomao bleached her hair, and Maomao the cat has turned into a goat.

When you open a serverless website in your browser, it becomes a regular app.

AI companies gonna crash, and then memory manufacturers will be left with 50% oversupply no one wants to buy. So they don’t build new factories yet.

No, no, long answer is fine, it’s linuxmemes community.

I didn’t think it was possible to invent a worse format than .gif for moving pictures.

Congratulations!

Are you using that huge-ass TV next to the laptop as your second display?

Huh, I actually forgot cat is used to join several files together. Last time I needed to concatenate two files, I did

{ cat file1 ; cat file2 ; } > output

But the most valid case is when I want to unpack .gz or .xz archive but do not want to delete the original file, as xz -d will do by default. So I naturally do

cat input.img.xz | xz -d > output.img

I’ve heard rumours that xz has a special option to not delete the original file, but I know no one brave enough to search through the xz manpage.