antrosapien

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[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you. I will try these. Have you tried PostmarketOS or have any idea how it works on surface?

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Quote of the day:

"Naturally, were I to buy one, I would have to install Linux onto it."

That really explains my first day.

I installed Arch on Surface Pro 6. And have GNOME and KDE installed. Pen and touch works perfectly (when it works), like it recognizes pressure, but sometimes need to restart the surface after putting it in standby because it fails to detect pen(and touch as well).

Camera is kinda wonky, it kinds works with cheese but not with other applications, and I couldn't manage to make the back camera work.

WiFi and Bluetooth works fine (there are some issues with bluetooth when standby but haven't looked much into that)

Downsides

Neither KDE nor Gnome is optimized to operate as a touch DE. Pen on KDE is detected as mouse(well its detected as pen but proxy as mouse input if a program doesn't support pen; like if I try to scroll firefox using pen, it works like I have right clicked mouse and am dragging up, so selecting text instead of scrolling), but touch works as expected.

And UX for on-screen keyboard(OSK) is not on par with Windows. It kinda works with GNOME, like a program window slides up if it were to be overlayed by OSK but its still wonky. And I didn't had good xp with OSK.

But overall, I like it. Its not really powerful enough to do any development, but I use it for multimedia and eBook reader

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't that the premise of Westworld S3

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What desktop environment is that? Or is it built in by default or doesn't work quite similar to linux?

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Kagi is also experimenting with small web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

why don't we just standardise displays?

Because it makes easier for Apple to be an asshole

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I call it Gödel's curse

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

And what if its a pseudorandom generator all the way down

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Fucking amazing😮😮 Write a blog if you document things.. Might come handy to beginners

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That's really interesting you're storing power. Was it diy??

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Currently, they are specifically advertising that they can provide really large amount of power for very short time. I don't know where I read this but CERN is storing discharging some big capacitors to jump start LHC, and gravitricity can provide same power by parallely lowering heavier weights. source required

 

I have been following them for a few years and they are making some slow and steady progress

From their page: As the world generates more electricity from intermittent renewable energy sources, there is a growing need for technologies which can capture and store energy during periods of low demand and release it rapidly when required.

At Gravitricity we are developing innovative, long-life, underground technologies which store energy safely and deliver it on demand at a lower lifetime cost than current alternatives.

[–] antrosapien@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

What about storing energy as potential energy using some high density objects. This may work.. Right?? gravitricity Check out their work.

 

First, they restricted code search without logging in so I'm using sourcegraph But now, I cant even view discussions or wiki without logging in.

It was a nice run

 

Stumbled at this while exploring small web. Not sure if it belongs here but however they are living is pretty solarpunk

From about us:

Hundred Rabbits is a small artist collective. Together, we explore the planned failability of modern technology at the bounds of the hyper-connected world. We research and test low-tech solutions and document our findings with the hope of building a more resilient future.

We live and work on a 10 meter vessel called Pino, we have sailed around the Pacific Ocean and realized how fragile the modern-day computing stack was. Living in remote uninhabited parts of the world has offered us a playground to learn how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world.

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