

There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x8 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.


There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x8 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.


I’ve had it run on wine a few years back, but it’s hard to say if it would still run now as they change it all the time. Freecad is ok for simpler designs, but if you do complex cad work, you hit its limits (clunky and buggy). There’s always onshape though, works perfectly fine on Linux.


Cantarell is indeed nice. Gnome switched to Inter recently, but I could only stomach it for a few minutes before switching back to ol’ Cant.
I recently needed to build newer versions of some packages for Debian. Now, they’re go based so the official packaging is super complicated and eventually I decided to try and make my own from scratch. After a few more hours of messing with the official tooling I start thinking “there must be a better way.”
And sure enough, after a bit of searching I found makedeb which allows you to make debs from (almost) regular PKGFILEs. Made the task a million times simpler.
But they weren’t just “typing it on a computer”, they were typesetting it in latex, and trying to make it look grandiose. But they just showed to everyone in the know that they don’t know what they’re doing.


Oh wow, I loved that. Thank you for sharing.


Looks amazing. What lens is that? Looks like you made your own helicoid focus too, how smooth is it?
I was thinking of making myself a 35mm panoramic view camera using a Mamiya press lens, but I’ve never used a large format camera so many details about the lens are still a bit unclear to me.
Edit: oh, I see your other post has more technical details.


Here’s a better example: the use of GPL software (primarily Linux and busybox) by Linksys when they made their wrt54g router was used to compel them into releasing the source code of the firmware for that router. Subsequent GPL enforcement by the SFC made Cisco release full firmware sources for a whole series of Linksys routers. Thanks to those sources openwrt, ddwrt and several other open source router firmwares developed.
I can now run three openwrt routers in my home purely thanks to the GPL. If those projects had been MIT licensed, Linksys and Cisco could have just politely told everyone to go suck a lemon because they would have had no obligation to release anything.


But my time is finally near…


Don’t be silly, anger isn’t an emotion, duh.
But at double the price that they were a few months ago.