
Re: firmware needed to effect repairs on a Hakko soldering iron
Temperature control?
Back in the 80s all soldering irons only have two presets: room temperature (off) or hot-af (on).
I feel old.
I'll see myself out.
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Or as it's known in English-speaking countries, the APC-III. I somehow ended up in possession of a box of APC-III software including a MS-DOS 3.3 boot disk. Now, my PC clone (a Sharp PC-7000A) only had MS-DOS 2.11 which certain newer MS-DOS games would refuse to run on, so having a DOS 3.3 disk would be a total upgrade (mind, this was back in the days where having a hard drive meant you were stinking rich in this region, so us plebs made do with floppies, with the added advantage that they could be copied and swapped with your cousins).
Except that the disk wouldn't boot proper, it would just bootloop, showing the Sharp BIOS screen, the Starting MS-DOS message, and then reboot a second later. All the programs in the box also rebooted the system when run. I wrote it off as the box of disks being faulty and threw them aside.
I later found out that NEC had injected extra code into their version of MS-DOS for APC-III/PC-98, as well as their pack-in software, to look for a "Copyright NEC" string in the BIOS, and not finding it, reboot continuously until the machine is shut off.
Cheeky.
I later found a copy of MS-DOS 4.02 from an Epson machine and that one isn't sabotaged in that way. Sure it was widely considered the worst version of MS-DOS ever created, but it offer me reprieve in that games that previously refused to run with a "Requires MS-DOS 3.3 or Later" error could at least now make it to the title screen before locking up.
> So, what does Wayland give you that's actually BETTER...?
Closer to hardware.
X11 is built for a networked environment. You can SSH into another machine, run an X program, and if you have a local X Server, that program will then appear on your system as if it's running locally.
However, the networked environments adaptation also means inherently higher latency. Your program must still talk to the X server through a port. This also potentially means data has to at least go to the network stack and then back to the CPU, inherently introducing more delays.
Nah, I don't buy Nvidia cards on the grounds that they cost 5 digits cash at where I used to live.
I use AMD almost exclusively now. The only Nvidia things I have is my Nintendo Switch which is only ever explicitly used for Animal Crossing, and an old Shield Pro which I use to put on live youtube and twitch streams as background noise when I sleep.
I have one: Magix Vegas 19. I have tried to wrap my head around Cinelerra but it's difficult (you complain about GIMP's UI being illogical? How quaint. Becase Cinelerra is windowing hell and needs at least two monitors to be even remotely usable) and has many missing features. KDenLive doesn't cut it either (it's not as powerful, and the latest version has broken hardware encoding and acceleration), and the Linux version of DaVinci Resolve is hopeless in all caps (can't support H.264 and derivatives like AVC, or AAC audio. Meaning videos made by 95% of devices in the market can't be opened). And Magix doesn't seem to want to do anything to make it compatible with Wine.
PS: The article says Steam is a subscription service. This is blatantly wrong. You don't pay a monthly fee to use Steam. It's a storefront.
> I thought most VM solutions had native GPU pass through
Not all. The usual suspects like Virtualbox and VMWare doesn't. The ones that do - Qemu via KVM - requires you to sacrifice the GPU to the VM in entirety even if the VM isn't running if I understand the Looking Glass project documentation right. This isn't an acceptable solution to folks who want to dynamically repurpose the GPU as needed, say maybe use the GPU in Linux if no VM is running. Maybe in the future Linux (and BSD and illumos) would gain the ability to "lease" hardware out to VMs and reclaim them as needed. But that functionality doesn't exist at the moment.
Must be a Brother.
I had a Brother fax machine that used Thermal Transfer. You need to load it with a roll of thermal transfer carbon. After which you could load normal A4 paper into a tray on the top and it would print onto that. The advantage is that those don't fade like regular thermal paper. Yes, it's more expensive to use in the long run, but indispensable if you archive the faxes you receive for paper trail purposes!
Having developed in both Java and Python, I was about to agree with you.
Then you brought up Javascript and claimed it superior, and lost all credibility.
I went through college being taught Java is the future. And then came out and not only had Oracle bought over Sun, the hot programming language on the block is now C# and ASP.NET. I was just lucky it was easy enough to learn that I could pick it up in 6 months and secure a job with that even if all I've been taught at college is Java.
Apparently my CoolerMaster Q500L case can be operated in a desktop form factor. But honestly, I can't use that feature due to water cooling. Was told that the radiator has to be hanging off the top or the pump will prematurely fail. If I use the desktop form factor mode the radiator would be on it's side and I was told that isn't good for the pump.
I'm honestly surprised to see Malaysia, Singapore and Australia on the list. Being from Malaysia and currently living in Singapore, it's rare to hear about baseball here let alone witness a live game on TV (closest we've gotten are live games from Japan relayed via NHK World Premium on Pay TV). I thought we're cricket people.
I'm inclined to try Badwolf just because it sounds like a Doctor Who reference tho.
Edit: Took a look at their projects site and I'm right on the money. Defo trying it tonight on my Arch laptop.
As for Brave... Shame on Zorin for supporting a Homophobe who's deep into crypto. This is definitely one distro I will not be recommending.
TBH I was also looking at Pantum to replace my Oki (not that it's as bad as HP, but the formula they used for their magenta cartridge is arse and turns the toner powder into clumps of rocks in the hot and humid climate of Malaysia. Also their Linux support is kind of atrocious with a barely working community made driver that seems to have been abandoned). Pantum apparently uses PostScript 3 which should be compatible with a lot of ancient, exotic and modern systems across the board.
Funny thing is tho, it doesn't happen to toners of other laser printers sold in the country, only Oki ones, and only specifically Oki Magenta toners- the printer always only reports Magenta Toner error, never Cyan, Yellow or Black. And indeed, the magenta cartridge was the only one with colored rocks formed from toner powder in it.
And getting to get their printer to work in Linux... Let's just say I actually made a donation to the Foo2ZJS project and hooked Oki up with the developer, just so I can get the printer working. The driver is slow because compression is not supported, and color management still isn't a thing.
Oki has other problems tho.
I own a C3300N. Printer clogged so frequently in the two years I owned it I gave up. Apparently the Magenta toner turns into rocks in the hot and humid Malaysian weather for mysterious reasons and clog the thing.
I feel you. I once wrote a Certificate dispensing system for the previous company I work for. I also set up an SFTP server for a project. Boss was proud of it, I was proud of it,
But the head IT manager. Wanted everything moved to Sharepoint. Project was shut down two or three years before I was laid off, and they kept me kicked upstairs all that time before finally letting me go.
Should've just went with CAMM modules.
Then again, I'm in Asia. Framework hates Asians and won't ship to the region and even goes as far as cancelling your order and then blacklisting you if you use a forwarding service, even mentioning forwarding services in the forum gets you permabanned. My opinion doesn't matter.
Nah, bottles is run buy a bunch of weenies who refuse to let you use the software your way. Ie native installation instead of through flatpak, even going as far as to DRM copy-protect the software so it won't run if it detects that it's not in a flatpak. Very stupid. If people don't want flatpak, they don't want flatpak. Forcing flatpak on them makes you no different from Microsoft.
That bar has moved to 2007 tho- which is the bare minimum to support the new common DOCX format. I have no problems getting that one running in Wine since Wine version 6.
There's also reports that the 32-bit versions of Office 365 will install and run flawlessly. Although I have not have such luck myself. As for adobe... it's the DRM. Copies with the DRM "defanged" will run just fine on Wine.
Icon because of the irony of the things you need to do to run Adobe stuff in Wine.