JustARegularNerd

joined 2 years ago

Broken BIOS on a PC. You can basically throw out your motherboard

Can confirm, bricked a Latitude E6420 trying to put coreboot on it and completely missing an instruction in bright red bold text. Had a parts machine thankfully, and had to swap the boards.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tab A7 Lite

Huh, that makes two of us. Hated every second of dealing with OneUI, back when I got it, GSIs were around but there was no straight forward guide. Now one does exist and oh boy, it feels like a completely different device with LOS and no gapps.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that's compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid's official repository.

Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it's still not showing up.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 16 points 5 days ago

Both are accepted spellings, tire in the US and tyre in the UK

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tyre

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The fuck? First person I've met that objects to this. Even the sushi places usually throw in soy sauce for your spring rolls

I've done this mistake before on a 40 character LCD, but that was over 10 years ago at this point.

If memory serves me right, you submit characters to the display sequentially, ideally in 40 character lengths that go top left to top right, wrap to bottom left to bottom right.

Looks like the software or controller running the screen gives a bad character, or having a second look (noticing the EUR gets changed to EUP occasionally) there's a bad connection to the display causing corruption.

Damn, I over thought it. I got "Imaginary cube sum of apple pi" before seeing the answers here.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well now I'll be thinking all day on the thought experiment of how one could actually prevent it, assuming they're only a US citizen.

I guess you could send in an anonymous bomb threat on the morning for both towers, but that still wouldn't prevent the tragedy of all those onboard.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Michelle-ax46b • 14 minutes ago Your content keeps me inspired, please keep going!

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope that as of 05/14/2025 that you live a happy life 😍

If you're reading this comment in 2023, I hope you have a lovely day ❤😍😘❤

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

I love taking a casual drive to nearby small towns, especially on less busy freeways at non peak hours. And I also love using my 30 year old nugget that's getting rarer to see around. I do also love a good road trip across states.

However, I really don't like driving in cities or basically when I have to. The city I'm in at the moment leaves a lot to be desired for bike lanes (unprotected bike lanes on the shoulder of a major highway is the only route into town for me) so its a toss up between do I ride there exhausted and trusting idiots in high speed boxes, or do I join said idiots.

[–] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.

I've got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven't had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.

I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it... ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion

 

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A portion of a prime number checker written in the Rust programming language, where the first few lines are written correctly including the first if statement in the program. However, the following if statements are written using Python syntax instead of Rust, as the author slipped back into his native tongue.

 

Hi guys

I have a Retina MacBook Pro 2015 13 inch with 2.9GHz i5, with Ventura on it using OCLP.

I have a StarTech DisplayPort to DVI Dual Link Active Adapter (DP2DVID2) which I use with my 2560x1600 Dell monitor that only has a DVI Dual Link input. This adapter works flawlessly with my work laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad L14 via a HP USB-C dock, but connecting it to my MBP (using another adapter going from Thunderbolt 2 to DisplayPort), the built in display goes blank for a second, and then comes back but there's no image or activity on my Dell monitor.

If I boot my MBP into Windows 10 via Bootcamp, it works totally fine at full resolution, and the same can be said for a live installer of Linux Mint. Booting into El Capitan, Monterey or Ventura does not seem to detect my monitor.

I've got a couple images of System Information in case it helps: one and two.

I actually originally posted this issue to MacRumors but no one replied to me at all, so I'm now trying this Apple community, but if this isn't the right fit then I apologise in advance and would like to know where I should post this instead.

 

I actually intended to post this to Reddit but I thought I would contribute content to here instead to get the ball rolling here and do my part.

Anyway, this is a Windows XP-era machine I have at work for testing, and I had just this monitor plugged into it and saw the CPU fan trying to spin. I spun it a bit myself and it just kept going. I disconnected the HDMI cable and it stopped.

The monitor is actually DisplayPort, with a passive adapter to HDMI which then goes to the HDMI cable connected to this PC. The GPU is just PCI-E. The computer has some old ~2007 AMD CPU in it. The GPU actually doesn't seem to work anyway, the PC posts normally but there's no image from either the GPU or onboard, but when putting either another GPU or no GPU, there's an image from the appropriate output.

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