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the16bitgamer

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  • should I completely jumpship to linux when windows 10 ends support/am ready or dualboot ltsc and linux

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  • While it’s a pain to setup, Affinity does work in Bottles and a specific build of Wine. Not easy to do, but it’s possible.

  • Amazon announces first Kindle ever with color screen, retailing for $279

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  • Only if you live in the US or UK. Lol I didn't realize Amazon's international kneecapping of their products moved to include hardware along with software.

    For context if you are Canadian you don't get access to overdrive or audiobooks on Kindle. Fun fact this also includes their fire tablets.

  • Added LED's to a clear bag

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  • I made a update to the main post, but I will update here too.

    They were good, but the quality of the bags themselves were obviously cheap, and one of the two bag I tailored up, broke down on the lower strap loop. I probably could return it, but it might just be easier to sew back down.

    The LEDs though were a godsend. The event I went was a night and at night finding people was so, so easy. We split up and try to find each other again, just look for the person with the glowing bag. It also was bright enough that I was able to see the specific color of candy I wanted in my bag, and illuminate friends for photos.

    Making more bags if we go again so everyone has one.

  • Added LED's to a clear bag

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  • The remote is IR, so it’s facing up so the receiver can see it. That said I don’t think it’ll work when the bag is full. It’s in the front pocket for easy access.

  • Added LED's to a clear bag

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  • Though dim, it can fill a room with light

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    I am 40 and a nurse. Would it be more beneficial to get a cyber security degree? Instead of bouncing around the countries as a traveling nurse?

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  • Honestly if you are looking to move to Canada, they are desperately looking for Nurses especially out in Eastern Canada like Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

    Immigration is being tightened right now, but if you already have a degree and looking to get recertified here its a good starting point.

    Source: lived in Halifax for 5 years and know a connection or two in that industry

  • Printing on Linux

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  • Because printing in Linux both works and is supported and not supported and hope that there are drivers and they work.

    For example, I have a brother printer and in both arch and Ubuntu/mint the printer worked out of the box. But I was missing features like double sided printing. So I had to download drivers for it.

    In arch the drivers were on the AUR, so I was printing is seconds.

    In Ubuntu/mint they weren’t in my package manager, so I had to go to brother’s website and hope they had drivers. Brother did and while it took a bit it did work too. No worse than windows.

  • What's an obsolete or incredibly obscure word you think people should know?

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  • Twaddle: something insignificant or worthless or another word Nonsense.

    Discovered this word while reading the dictionary during silent reading in English and they wouldn’t let me play games.

  • Recommendations other than Bambu and Prusa?

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  • For me I was looking for reliability, so I ended up with Prusa. But I ended up with them thanks to a few simple rules I followed.

    1. Can the machine and it's parts be replaced with off shelf components?
    2. Does it use, or is the platform compatible with open source slicers (Prusaslicer/Cura)?
    3. Does the community support the device with mods on 3D model repositories (Thingiverse/Printables)?
    4. Does the manufacturer have a track record for support (or the lack thereof)?

    Before I got my Prusa, the Creality Ender 3 was the goto, and it was a really reliable machine. For my printing needs I need a direct drive print head, and a better auto bed leveling routine. But the Ender 3 s1 looks pretty good as an alternative.

  • Crispy Connector Rule

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  • I've use metal watch bands for years instead of silicone. Current one was for my Pebble time I got from Fossil and it's still going strong.

  • Crispy Connector Rule

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  • I personally use a metal watch band for myself. I react poorly to p/leather and silicone and I've used a watch band I first got as a substitute for my Pebble Time. Might be from Fossil, but any old stainless steel metal band works for me.

  • Crispy Connector Rule

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  • Ditto, but I don't exercise as much as they do so I assume its longevity is based off of how much you sweat.

  • Free wallpaper rule

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  • It’s fun to zoom in on the GameCube icon on the controller spool. At 4K it doesn’t look like there will be detail, but there is.

  • Free wallpaper rule

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  • I happy to hear there shape are unique enough to recognize their wireframe. I was a bit worried that they were a bit too generic.

  • Free wallpaper rule

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  • Fun part, since I've made each stylus for each system, the icons are all unique. There shouldn't be (I hope) duplicates.

  • How to install Minecraft on Linux Mint?

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    1. Minecraft is officially supported on Linux through deb or snap here: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/alternative
    2. Unofficial some one packaged it up as a flatpak which can be found here: https://flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft
    3. As for ease of mods and other things, Prismlauncher is my go to, though I primarily use it to avoid the endless login requests from MS on the base launcher.

    It can also be installed officially via flat hub here: https://flathub.org/apps/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher

  • Navy officer lost job for secretly installing internet on warship to check social media

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  • What Linux distro surprised you the most?

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  • Can't remember any more, either it was installed along side another package, or it was installed because of intel openCL support. Either way it's been over a year since my last Manjaro install borked, and I've been running (and upgraded) Linux Mint.

  • What Linux distro surprised you the most?

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  • For me it was installing apps from the AUR, like Intel Compute. Had dependency issues and errors every time other packages updated and when I tried to fix it, other modules would uninstall, and break my DE, or put my machine in an unrecoverable state.

    It’s not as bad as that time my btfs file system broke randomly in Fedora, since I was able to recover my data. But it always felt like an endless battle with the distro to keep it going. Which is why I moved to mint.

    I know it was a Manjaro issue since when I attempted to move to EndevorOS the issues were gone… though I dont like it as a distro (I.e. why isn’t a package manager gui installed by default)