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Yes, this. I've found good prices on used electronics on Facebook marketplace, as well as eBay, Swappa ("Craigslist for used electronics", cheaper than Backmarket but no QA, is jus…

I love doing this, it feels nice to think that I am playing a small part in helping to reduce the propagating wave for people behind me :) Until the inevitable jerk takes the 1-car…

I switched to Linux for everything but AAA FPS PVP games last year and have had a great experience so far. Steam+Proton makes everything I play just work: Helldivers 2, Slay the Sp…

If it wasn’t a spicy take in some way nobody would be commenting on, quoting, or mocking it

Idk, I'd like to see AI design a schematic and lay out a board. Even the occasional "Show HN" that combines AI+PCB stuff is about analysis and checks. It doesn't seem like anybody …

I didn’t know about hosted-MCU! I just started using the ESP-AT firmware for an ESP acting as a radio co-processor on a project at work - do you know how hosted-MCU differs? I did …

I keep saying this under a bunch of Linux-adjacent posts, but I switched to EndeavourOS late last year and have been enjoying it ever since. I do 99% of my computing needs on it, w…

NYC playgrounds closed until July 2020 (a time concurrent with ongoing protests): https://data.cityofnewyork.us/dataset/Parks-Closure-Status-D... Washington state continues to clos…

LA County Parks is implementing following changes effective November 30, 2020 : All playgrounds will be closed. Fitness zones and exercise equipment will be closed. Parks and trail…

So why were public outdoor areas like skate parks filled with sand to “promote social distancing”?[1] Or parking lots at beaches and state parks closed “to curb the spread of coron…

I did consider Fedora, just was intrigued by EndeavourOS, being Arch-based but with default settings that work totally fine for a casual like me, not having to fuss about setting u…

Yep, my casual Steam games run well out of the box. I don’t even use a gaming-focused distro like Bazzite, just EndeavourOS. Helldivers 2, No Rest For The Wicked, Slay The Spire 2,…

Tangentially, this post has stuck with me for years: "How Real Life is Different from Fiction part 2" https://mengwong.livejournal.com/7227.html As a kid who was a voracious reader…

I'd recommend Katherine Dee's Substack, Default Friend, for a more in-depth look at this type of thing. The NYT op-ed dips into the usual tropes of the attention economy, true crim…

Is there an example of the generic programming that you've found useful? The extent of my experience has been being able to replace functions like convert_uint32_to_float and conve…

I took a brief skim through so apologies if I missed that it was mentioned, but wanted to bring up the Embedded Template Library[0]. The (over)simplified concept is: it provides a …

+1 to this and your above points (the embedded team I'm on has started using C++ over the last year or so). I've definitely learned a lot, and I like the portability of CMake for c…

AO3 also allows downloads of different formats including epub. I often download the epub (or use fichub for other sites) and read on the Epub Reader app. If I want to read on my Ki…