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[–] m4m4m4m4 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Given he's mentioned Colombia in this video I'm commenting here. And because it makes me remember the very first bicycle I ever had, which was a steel one with Monark decals though I'm not really sure if it was actually made by Monark. It kinda look like this one but was dark green and had a non-chopper plastic black saddle.

Growing up and living in the suburbs of Bogotá and the countryside I can't be completely sure if I have ever seen a Buffalo here, but most probably at some time I've seen one.

And it can be because you can find even cheaper new bikes here - though not even half as good or reliable as this one - but because its weight and single-speed-ness, which for we people in the andean range is really a big deal. Though for people in other areas of the country this can be absolutely fantastic and Seth explains those reasons very well in this video.

But even then people like my father would really like a bike like this - he was a farmer and used to go around to work on an old steel single-speed road bike. On the way uphill it was useful even not being able to ride it but because he could tie some bag or stuff or something and aid him carry the load, on the way down home he just rode it and saved time getting there.

And noting that it's not just him who used to use bikes that way but many people who work in farming and rural living you can understand why a bike like that is really appreciated - not to travel really long distances with it but to aid them with their travel which in other way would be a tough hike, and being absolutely reliable with minimal maintenance.

He told me sometimes people in bike shops tried to talk to him into putting gears to it (it had a rear derailleur hanger but no front derailleur hanger nor mounts for friction shifters) but he liked the simplicity of maintenance of the thing.

Another detail he doesn't mention in the video (or not that I could understand if he did) is if the pump can be carried mounted somewhere with the bike and carry it - my father had one of those long pumps mounted below the down tube of his bike and it was pretty neat to be honest, I even did that for some time with my bike too.

Hell, I'd like a bike like that too but I just happen to hate squared bottom brackets.

[–] m4m4m4m4 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not sure but it seems to me most major distributions offer you to do a separate /home partition by default? I may be wrong but this happens with the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu? Or at least they do recommend to make it that way

[–] m4m4m4m4 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean, it can be faster than your average distro on some scenarios. Mostly if you know your way in kernel config.

Though most of its real advantages are in the form of a lean system completely tailored to your needs.

It seems to me most of that Gentoo FUD comes from people that never even tried to install it or gave up because apparently reading a wiki is too hard for them.

[–] m4m4m4m4 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Of course not, they also need to pay tribute to our Lords and Saviors Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds and make reverences to our supreme god Tux.

It's just that they make all of that with extra steps.

[–] m4m4m4m4 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ChromeOS and TempleOS swapped places. You don't use TempleOS because you want a computer, you use TempleOS because you want Jesus in your computer.

Now the question is why Terry did all that job instead of making a Clippy version of Jesus for Office and call it quits.

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[–] m4m4m4m4 14 points 2 weeks ago

I wish in countries like mine things like electric toothbruses weren't like luxury items but things everyone could have. Got mine too late for my teeh but ever since I got it I no longer worry about dental plaque. Cavities and such things are hell on earth. Or, well, in your mouth.

[–] m4m4m4m4 6 points 2 weeks ago

Actually there's some support for Wayland. Tried it last year, but had to do serious rummage trying to make it work. For starters I can recall it spitted a video but the command throwed an error at the end and could not understand why. Also i seem to recall the video stopped way after finishing the command.

Even had to recompile all of ffmeg to add support for wayland recording (though Gentoo makes this really easy). One thing for certain is that Gentoo's ffmpeg stable version is fairly behind from upstream's so that could have had a hand on it too.

 
[–] m4m4m4m4 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's true, here it's more like "Andean " (" andino")

[–] m4m4m4m4 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep, no dice, that's why I came here to complain lol. Both Fdroid w/ Izzy on Droid and the Play Store say its "incompatible" with my phone

[–] m4m4m4m4 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uhhh pretty sure we haven't defeated brutality. At all. If you don't believe me just ask Palestinians, the Uyghurs, inmigrants.

Most of what you call "civilization" has been build thanks to wars.

[–] m4m4m4m4 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Alas can't install it on my phone (xperia 1ii) because "unsupported device". Bummer, it seems actually great.

[–] m4m4m4m4 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

But most of its "brutal-ness" of contemporary life is not about natural disasters, diseases or circumstances that go way beyond our reach.

It's because us humanity. We (stilñ) are brutal and cruel and unforgiving and relentless.

And we have the courage of calling ourselves "civilization".

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Knowing one can change the typeface and font size for Qt apps in their settings file, i.e. I set Krunner so it shows with a bigger font than default with the following in ~/.config/krunnerrc:

[General]
...stuff...
font=An Awesome Typeface,16,-1,5,25,0,0,0,0,0,Regular

But this happens to change the typeface for all texts used within Krunner, so it ends looking like in the first example of the image.

Which is fine, but I'd want the text input in the font to be bold. So trying

font=An Awesome Typeface,16,-1,5,25,0,0,0,0,0,Bold

Gives the result shown in the second example.

Is there any way to make it so only the text input has a bold font, like in the third example?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by m4m4m4m4 to c/electricians
 

Hello, and with the disclaimer that I'm no electrician whatsoever,

I had this three-way light switch in my room, which only controlled one light - and its pilot lit when the light was set off. Unfortunately I had to break the wall it was onto because the neighbor had water issues. Left the switch connected to the wires as I thought it wasn't necessary to unplug it, but the person that fixed the wall unplugged it nevertheless.

The thing is I can't remember how it was plugged. I can plug hot and ground (at 0 and 1, or 0 and 3) so I can turn on/off the light, but the pilot won't work in any case.

Here's a picture of the back of the switch, the numbers at each connector and the little diagram (tried to recreate it at the right side) that is engraved there. Not even sure why it's 0, 1 and 3 but no 0, 1 and 2 - nor what the little "m" means:

So how can I connect this so the pilot works as before (it's lit when the light is turned off?) I'd really appreciate any help about this from any electron wizard around here.

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Don't quote me on this, @[email protected] made me think about it - and it's not even an original idea, regardless

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