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OK, now Win10 hacked me off, really much. And I'm not sure what MS is doing, but it doesn't look good. Let's start from the beginning. My last Windows was XP, and I'm still using XP and 98 in some older machines (chip programmers won't work on newer systems), I have virtual machine with 7 at...

Everything better than Pyra ("Potato" in regional language of Poznan, Poland). :D

I don't do gaming, but sometimes in graphics I need precision i.e. in reproducibility of very small moves in any place on the pad. Few years ago I bought Logitech's M510, and although comparing to e.g. A4Techs it indeed allows to make these moves similar, it is not good on uneven surfaces at all...

First of all, GPD Win, as something as temporary PDA. I'm quite satisfied with Debian on it, I'm not satisfied with its battery time while in suspend (As HP 200LX former user I'm not satisfied with battery life of any modern handheld device). Fortunately its start-up time with my Debian+MATE is...

I would not recommend Fritzing for a project. The biggest problem is that it gives too much ambiguity in design. The board is shown in a top view. Half of components in library are shown in top view. The second half is shown in something like front view, but not entirely. It's then impossible to...

For a very simple projects, even only with THT (through-hole technology) components, KiCAD is usually OK. The advantage of it is that it's free. Generally there are many tutorials for KiCAD, but the workflow is: 1. You design a schematic. 2. After verifying the schematic you end by adding power...

I was thinking about this affair with net neutrality and the biggest question here is not how to save the Internet, but do we have anything to save? The content in the Net drastically changed in the last 15 years and today is not much different than in cable TV or newspapers. We have a group of...

Sound... Found a solution. The problem is with PA of course. I'll write it, maybe someone will find it helpful. Generally: - Blacklist modules for USB sound cards (may work without it) - Then using speaker-test, configure ALSA the following way: When "Headphone channel" is muted and "Speaker...

It looks like avoiding tantalum caps is not only the matter of conflict materials. Recently I picked up another dead 8-bit micro (this time something I have no idea what it is, it's Z80 powered and has MS BASIC). Cleaned, because it was stored in high humidity conditions (read: probably a week...

1. The cross-pad is visible as W/S/A/D keys. The buttons on the right are visible as arrow keys. The only difference is not a key's code, but a device which triggers the event - like a second keyboard. 2. It may happen that key doesn't give a code, but gives an event, then it's dead in xev, but...

Yesterday I finally got GPD Win, so I'll share my experiences. First of all, the keyboard and key spacing. This is very important. I found it slow and hard to type on Win because keys have a very small distance to each other and there is no space for stopping the finger (usually above/on a side...

Result of a recent tour on flea market: A "black Datassette", Commodore 1531 - tape recorder for Commodore 16! Unfortunately, without cable and with op-amp input stage failed. Works well after adding cable and replacing the op-amp. It starts to be hard to get mini DIN connectors nowadays...

It would be interesting to compare solid block vs the block used here, with cuts. These cuts are for better removing heat when there is an air flow, and without them, inside the casing, the "heat buffer" would be larger and dissipation may be a bit better (contact area with casing will be larger).

I found quite similar way, but used SMPlayer, so on my 2x2GHz Turion the CPU usage is much smaller (in FF it's 100% all time). The playing is implemented using "Youtube 2 player" add-on. It gives a menu item for playing video in external program and SMPlayer is configured there. However, I use...

I bought a laptop! Well, quite old laptop, 1985. 16kB of RAM, BASIC, 0.614MHz (But dual-CPU - one takes care of keyboard, memory and display, second controls I/O), 4x20 LCD, built-in printer and micro-tape recorder. Additionally, it came with a base containing parallel digital input. Required...

Personally, I don't use both. There is still a good software for encryption any data transmission, however it requires control over the computer which is not accessible for an average user trained at "IT lessons" how to click on websites (read: requires actions in command line, in any OS). The...

I would be a bit afraid using a security-oriented application which has such exaggerated runtime with so many places to hide backdoors, intentionally or not. Being multi-platform is not an excuse, After some modifications even Qt application may be multi-platform. I know about a large FE...

Tolerances of components are things which need to be considered. A few months ago I was repairing another old 8-bit computer. After extensive testing and finding bits just falling off nowhere into the bus, I decided to check every TTL possible (around 70 sockets in). In external tester...

Isn't it made with this famous method "pack Chrome and webapp"? IMHO these applications for me are like saying "f.. you" to users and this will end locking them again in Prodigys, AOLs and CompuServes, this time with another names and more pixels. Not saying about wasting energy from running two...

The problem of conflicts is that they are profitable. In the Internet, people will click more ads. In the cities, people will fight making a reason to add more surveillance. In the countries, people will destroy infrastructure which will allow to take more debts by foreign government. And in...