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The “designed for reparability” Nokia G22 is just a normal cheap phone

https://arstechnica.com/?p=1920191

#repairability #phonerepairs #smartphone #Nokia #Tech

The Pixel 8 parts store goes live, should be up for 7 years - Enlarge / iFixit's Pixel 8 Pro display fix kit. (credit: iFixit)

... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1993185 #googlepixel8 #phonerepairs #googlepixel #pixel8 #tech

About to attempt a battery replacement on an old Nexus 5x with a battery bulge. Wish me luck!

#ifixit #righttorepair #repair #PhoneRepair

The Internet Archive is hiring a Director of Platform Engineering. In my opinion, this is the most crucial and important position we have had open at the company in some time. The right person in this position is not just helpful, but a make or break key between success and merely acceptable levels of technological advance for the archive. It's a non-profit level of pay but the work is world changing.

https://app.trinethire.com/companies/32967-internet-archive/jobs/91807-director-of-platform-engineering

We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Jul 04, at 15:00 UTC. It solves multiple security issues, including a major one. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.

I can't believe how useful #interactive messing with SDFs is.

Several transformations chained? No problem, color the data according to whichever transform you want.
Need to see uniformity? Draw a grid.

I did like a hundred iterations within the hour!

Last time I used test-driven #development . Good for conformance, bad for spotting glaring bugs. Visual #debugging is powerful.

#graphics #sdf #tdd

Universities are using a range of surveillance tools to track and potentially retaliate against student protesters. Activists need to take precautions and think through the changing risks on college campuses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/surveillance-defense-campus-protests

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1809655301043331493#m

[2024/07/06 18:27]

This only took 2 hours, but I derived and debugged it.

My Equal Area Hemi-goofball #Projection .

I promise I'm going to make bad use of it.

// c = [r; φ]: [0;1], [0; τ]
// return [φ, η]: [0; τ/4], [0;τ]
// hemisphere only!
vec2 myEqualAreaCircleToSphere(vec2 c) {
if (c.x > 1.0) {1.0 / 0.0;}
float r = c.x * sqrt(2.);
float q = 1.0 - r * r * 0.5;
return vec2(asin(sqrt(1.0 - q*q)), c.y);
}

PS. Take breaks for thinking.

#math #mathematics #spatial #sdf

Got thoughts to come back to? Note them down using this Android app.

https://news.itsfoss.com/easy-diary/

KDE Plasma is great. GNOME is awesome. Window managers are wonderful. Everything has quirks but I love all these options we have. I can't wait to see where we take them.

#Linux

#caturday

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Here is this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News podcast:

https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/fedora-telemetry-deepin-ai-chromeos-flex-is-dead

As always, follow it @tlenewspodcast, or from any good podcast client!

@flexion Latest #linux kernel on #Sgi #Octane and #Origin with #T2sde Linux https://www.twitch.tv/rxrbln/v/2178555303?sr=a&t=20873s #mips64 #opensource

Sun printed the names of the design team on top of this TurboGX (cgsix) sbus graphics card. I'm so curious why some of the names are crossed out! Curtis, Chris M, or Bruce - are you on the fediverse?

#sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing

Trying to map a surface onto a whole (hemi)sphere, covering it as uniformly as feasible.

(This is another crazy secret #SDF project.)

Lambert Equal Area projection only has 2 sources: #Wikipedia and #PROJ . The equation doesn't nearly cover the hemisphere :/

Just look at this junk!

I'll have to derive the correction factor myself...

#graphics #maps

Fedora Telemetry, Deepin AI, ChromeOS Flex is dead?
Here is this week's episode!

Harvester pulls 1.5 gallons of drinking water from arid air per day https://newatlas.com/technology/water-harvester-arid-air-mit/

StreamController Application on Linux for the Elgato Stream Deck

StreamController is an elegant Linux application designed for the Elgato Stream Deck, offering advanced features like plug-ins and automatic page switching to enhance your streaming and productivity setup. It can support multiple Stream Decks togeth ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/streamcontroller-application-on-linux-for-the-elgato-stream-deck/

#linux #opensource #streamcontroller #StreamDeck #technology

Interoperability makes good things great! We deserve the right to repair our devices and move from one platform to another. Jacques the Jackalope tells more here: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/m-jackalope

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1809410689397899665#m

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