@werdahias I see. I never got that deep into electronics to do that stuff. The furthest I went into was writing Assembly for Intel 8086 and writing Verilog to simulate combinational circuits.
@werdahias I found this site called SnapEDA which lets you download symbols and schematics. KiCad doesn't come with a lot of boards built into it and this site helped me draw schematics for most of my projects in KiCad.
I gave up on Gears Of War 2 4 years ago at the Skorge boss fight because it was too hard and I eventually sold my Xbox too. I was 80% through the game. I don't have a Xbox now to play and with Microsoft pretty much killing the console brand, I don't think I will be able to continue my progress and finish the game. It's a shame because I was a Xbox fan before M$ dragged it to shit with their "Everything is a Xbox" marketing.
Just launched a new video series called GNUisance to make more people aware of GNU tools and software.
The first video in the series can be found here: https://exquisite.tube/w/2TUaAPBvFhdQVPS7mAYuNA
The first video in the series can be found here: https://exquisite.tube/w/2TUaAPBvFhdQVPS7mAYuNA
30 minutes of writing C in GNU Nano... No LLM bullshit or Electron bloat... Just pure focused work with only my thoughts and approach to writing software... No external libraries... Fixing the errors on my own....
What's more fun than this?
What's more fun than this?
I thought C was a pointless language during my first days at college but it quickly changed my mind. I’ve never felt this free while writing a piece of software. C is very simple yet powerful enough to do almost anything i want. Python code from 6 years ago may not even run at all but C code absolutely will. Despite it lacking any memory safety, I still feel nothing can replace C in terms of its simplicity. Gonna use C for more of my future projects.
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (3/3)
From my experience, the only places where I've actually seen the free software philosophy being taken seriously is the Free Software Community of India, Debian and Prav.
Debian has been such a pleasure to work with as they've got me addicted to free software.
I feel Prav is a really good free software initiative. It's a messaging service which lets you use XMPP and other protocols.
Check it: https://prav.app/
Debian has been such a pleasure to work with as they've got me addicted to free software.
I feel Prav is a really good free software initiative. It's a messaging service which lets you use XMPP and other protocols.
Check it: https://prav.app/
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (2/3)
I don't see a lot of them actually caring about the philosophy anymore. There's a free software org in my region who hasn't done any actual free software work in the past 10 years and now turned into an AI startup that gives fake internships to college students. They've abandoned all of the localisation work and have a website that's like some consultancy that makes web apps rather than supporting free software.
Are FOSS conferences and organisations really about free software anymore? (1/3)
I've been working with free software communities for about a year now. I'm a more work focused person so I'll talk about real work and not events.
I noticed that most FOSS conferences and organisations just use "open source" as a buzzword and use it as a front end to keep their organisations going. I've rarely seen most of these FOSS organisations actually maintain any of the free software projects out there.
I noticed that most FOSS conferences and organisations just use "open source" as a buzzword and use it as a front end to keep their organisations going. I've rarely seen most of these FOSS organisations actually maintain any of the free software projects out there.
Almost 2 months with Debian and it almost replaced Windows for most of my tasks. I’ve distrohopped between dozens of distros in the past, felt a bit comfortable with Linux Mint but then I was ricing and breaking it too often.
Moved from Ubuntu to Debian for packaging work and I’ve never used a Linux Distro this stable and comfortable to use.
Moved from Ubuntu to Debian for packaging work and I’ve never used a Linux Distro this stable and comfortable to use.
@disaster2life As long as the noise isn’t too loud, playing a video game or opening my terminal on Linux usually does the job for me than blasting music
@werdahias I know of a black hole that traps LLMs when they attempt to scrape a site. Crafted with hate for LLMs by one of our DDs :)
@ravi the fact that nothing happened after this was revealed shows the current state of the country. I think it’s over for us
Today we celebrate Debian's 32nd birthday! #DebianDay #DebianDay2025 https://bits.debian.org/2025/08/debian-turns-32.html
Book incoming!
I'm currently authoring a book which will be published in a few months if everything goes well! Big thanks to the Debian and Free Software Communities for getting me off the writer's block.
@disaster2life ill never get over why people have a problem with what we eat. Kind of infuriates me how some schools/colleges force vegetarianism onto people. I heard that one of the IIITs in MH fines people for eating meat and the folk over there are malnourished due to barely any protein intake. Prisoners get better food than college students.
Happy 100000th Birthday, Debian!
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html
@bagder I was banned from attending their events because I didn’t use a credit card for the payment towards it. We don’t get credit cards like candies in this part of the world as a student.