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madnificent

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  • I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

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  • That helps to kill the animals if I understand you correctly. Your last point was to find them. It may surprise you, but I did not research the suggestions you made and don't know their alternate uses. You could get rid of a nest after finding it without also killing the bees in your area (at least, public services handle that and I didn't hear otherwise).

    You can find them and get them removed all without shouting :-)

  • I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

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  • Wasps fly a rather straight pattern back to their nest. Find the nest by using some food they like, such as a sugar drink, and see where they fly to when they leave. Move the container closer until you find the nest.

  • What are your success stories in switching to european alternatives?

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  • Bought a Slimbook Laptop because Apple's repair would take too long. Slimbook is a Spanish company. We generally buy laptops from smaller suppliers at our company since.

    We have been running on European providers for our rented servers for over a decade and are happy there too.

  • The Jank programming language

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  • jank is a general-purpose programming language which embraces the interactive, value-oriented nature of Clojure as well as the desire for native compilation and minimal runtimes. jank is strongly compatible with Clojure and considers itself a dialect of Clojure.

    Looks like they wanted Clojure to have a smaller runtime.

  • Asking About Tuxedo Computers

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  • We have a few Tuxedo computers and some other Linux brands at our company and are generally happy about them. Cheaper devices have a less than perfect keyboard (though I liked the one on the slimbook) a worse camera and microphone (though some are very ok).

    I'm very happy with these Linux devices. The few makes for which we needed parts also supplied them but sending the device their way for repair took longer than we'd have wanted.

  • Partially 3D printed CNC machine

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  • Cool! This was interesting to see.

    On the design: It looks like it could be good for laser cutting but I doubt it will do more than CNC engraving wood. Would love to be proven wrong. I think the screws are too close and the leverages too large to be solid enough for cutting. We cpuld simulate it to verify the weak spots. No problem for plotting and laser cutting though. I was surprised by the deflection of the Indymill which has more metal parts.

    On the CAD file: I could easily find my way in the file. I generally constrain more (also importing shapes from other Bodies) which makes it more automatic but also more error prone and harder to calculate. It will be interesting to see an assembly of these parts too.

    Looking forward to updates from this build.

  • Partially 3D printed CNC machine

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  • I'd like to see the FreeCAD file both in the "a bit messy" form as well as in the cleaned up form.

  • This Is Aemotion: A Tilting Microcar That's Half Motorcycle and Half Car

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  • Kerv Automotive looks more fun.

  • Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux on

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  • The post title says "ever" rather than "2025". It's cool for 2025 and we may get some interesting others, but many here will have ran it on something slower at some point.

  • Any way to prevent letters being "crushed" on first layer

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  • You can manually edit the gcode to see if printing white first works out better. Then search for a more repeatable solution if you often re-slice.

    Manipulating gcode looks intimidating the first time but it's really not that crazy. Cura adds comments to the gcode and you can look up the codes otherwise, I expect Pusa Slicer to do the same. You want to move the whole printing sequence of the white nozzle before the printing sequence of the second black one on the first layer. Keep the setup (heating etc) before that.

  • Self Hosted Trello with experience?

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  • We run Taiga and it seems to work fine.

    If you want to link to external sources in a structured way and you don't mind tweaking the looks, SolidOS (ot another SOLID app) has a task list/tracker.

    I keep my personal tasks in org-mode or org-roam.

  • EV owners... What is your opinion?

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  • The theft protection issue is not something to worry about in Europe. The European cars got an upgraded system due to regulations.

  • Why Vim Is More than Just an Editor – Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained

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  • Oh I feel you. Typing too much too fast is terrible on the wrists.

    I remapped some keys for the key combos and have no issues with those now. Regardless of editor, good posture may help. I find good posture easier with split keyboards which often include a thumb cluster.

    Perhaps multi-modal editing is better and you can do that with evil-mode. I've created some prefix key combinations with Alt-Gr and with the super (windows) keys to create something like it whilst keeping most most common commands close to the default. Namely C-x is now s-c which is way more relaxing on Dvorak layout.

    Doom Emacs includes evil-mode by default perhaps that's your cup of tea.

  • Why Vim Is More than Just an Editor – Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained

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  • That would be Emacs.

    Emacs is like an operating system bringing various tools into the same editing interface, including email. Emacs is very adaptive, you can get VIm like bindings through evil-mode.

  • Should we start a Citizens EU Countries Initiative to make the european FOSS alternatives the default in the EU public administrations systems software stack?

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  • Having worked with some local suppliers for government software and actively participating in the domain myself I would expect a lot of pushback but I don't see it as impossible within Europe. So far everyone shifts based on requirements. I expect some things to lag behind.

    License: OSI compliant is enough and easy to express. That even allows for modern AI because it's just open weights iirc. There is EUPL but I expect that to be too specific.

    I don't see why you'd make the suggestion that only foss can be used by any supplying company. It seems obvious that the software itself and the systems it runs on should be open source. The software solution should be open source.

    I would appreciate a timetable. Shifting existing contracts will be very hard and expensive. For things made within Europe, assuming this is a European initiative, I expect almost all open market solutions to switch to a different model.

    But even lacking all this detail, it shows a clear desire of Europeans to use foss, and thus makes it more appealing to add this into law.

  • Stars🌟

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  • Needs minor edits for that

    A good fiend

    is like a star;

    you may not

    always see them,

    but when

    times get dark

    they know

    where you are.

    May the stars

    come get you.

  • Governments Should Start Paying People to Bike to Work

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  • Belgium gave tax incentives for cycling to work. Not sure if it's still the case.

  • If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica

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  • I own this. It is horrible. If the specs were real it would be great, but the specs are not real. It is a 3k black and white monitor with a fixed color filter over it. That means you need 3x3 pixels to resemble a color.

    I consider it a scam from Dasung.

    Boox on the other hand made a sane black and white display. Much better. I own a Max 2 Pro. Sadly they fail to understand that when you report a display as 20px smaller than it really is over an HDMI port and then rescale the image of the computer display on that, that it becomes really uncrisp. Their suggestion is to use the display with 200% scaling (so you don't notice as much I suppose).

    Epaper is really promising and nice. However both of these companies should either get some real competition or lawsuits.

  • The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.

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  • Depends on the use.

    The screen protector serves as a blue light filter too, it's cheaper than a display, and fairly thin. That's a straightforward addition for my use but if you don't have issues with your phone dropping then you could certainly do without.

    I very much dislike cases and loved the PH-1 for stating that a phone should be solid enough without a case (sadly it did not survive a 50cm drop on a floor so it did not hold up in practice). If you don't have much issues with your phone dropping then not having a case makes it so much nicer.

    I take more risk holding my phone than I should which means it falls more than average. The price I have to pay is a screen protector and cover. Replacing the display should be easy, but it'd also be wasteful.