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Also the structure behind it is the Starlink pez dispenser

https://ringwatchers.com/article/ship-pez-dispenser


Huh nice, missed that detail!

ArchWiki: your source for Arch Linux documentation on the web. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page


Not just Arch documentation. It often has general use information, too, applicable to other distros and Unixes.


Arch has some of the best documentation for Linux in general. I ended up there a lot for a Manjaro install but it has solved issues on Ubuntu machines for me. Always pretty obscure stuff.


Agreed! I've never used Arch, but the Arch wiki often comes up in search results when I'm looking to solve a problem, and it's usually very helpful.


The duality of linux distributions

The worse the installer the better the documentation.

It's a joke, but perhaps there may be a core of truth in there. An underlying psychological process at play.


I'm getting some mixed messages in this thread alone. Who do I believe?

https://imgur.com/a/ylkWLfQ


I recommend reading the wiki and judging for yourself.

When I contributed a binary QR code decoding feature to zbar and the new version landed in the arch repositories, the first thing I did was edit the arch wiki with usage information.

I also documented a process for encoding and decoding PGP keys to and from QR codes using that feature by editing the paperkey article on the arch wiki.

When I installed arch on my laptop, I wasn't able to configure my screen's brightness. Searching the arch wiki revealed that by default the kernel's Intel iGPU drivers would set brightness by PWMing the screen which doesn't work over eDP connections which is what my laptop used, and also documented the exact kernel command line option I needed to make it work.


The Arch wiki is the 1st party official place for developers, maintainers, and users to maintain updated reference material. Whether one considers it up to date "enough" will be a personal judgement call but there is no better place to go in the long run.


ArchWiki: your source for Linux documentation :)

Outside of the pacman part (relevant to Arch only) the "how to configure your app" is wonderful.

This is really a fantastic documentation


Here is one from Australia

"Bolt-On Kit Wants To Turn Your ICE Car Into A Hybrid From $3,200" October 21, 2023

> The young Australian engineer behind the kit hopes to sell it for just $3,200 and enable buyers to have it installed in a single day

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/10/bolt-on-kit-to-convert-com...

Looks like a backyard operation so far "REVR (Rapid Electric Vehicle Retrofits)"

https://www.revr.tech/

https://www.jamesdysonaward.org/en-AU/2023/project/revr/

REVR-lutionising the car industry: RMIT student crowned national James Dyson Award winner with electric vehicle retrofit solution 13 September 2023 https://www.dyson.com.au/newsroom/updates/james-dyson-award-...

(Sorry for all the links! but looks like an interesting way to do the conversions!)


https://www.revr.tech/news

Poor guys workshop burt down.


Yikes! Looks hopeful as of 3rd of September they say the following on facebook:

> Just a small mid-late month update. Thanks again to everyone who has donated. Small and big all donations make a big difference for our prototyping effort. We are now just waiting on coils and cnc to come through which should be a week or so. We finished clearing away all the rubble from the fire and the new shed is now built and sealed ready to start housing REVR! We have had some very productive discussions and vid calls with people looking to help make REVR happen which we may be able to elaborate on in future. We have also entered the Samsung Solve For Tomorrow comp to promote REVR. There is some more good competition news we can't wait to share. Will have some more substantial updates very soon. - Alex

https://www.facebook.com/revretrofits/


Ahh no please! If I wanted to visit reddit I would have!


Depends on what are you interested in eg if you enjoy genealogy I'd suggest going for Gramps https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps .

Maybe share more info on what you like so we can suggest something you might enjoy?


I am interested though. Thanks for sharing.


Interactive Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart https://www.nrel.gov/pv/interactive-cell-efficiency.html


Depends on what are you interested in and if you prefer a particular programming language eg if you are good in say PHP I'd suggest helping the MantisBT project a bugtracker used by a lot projects. https://github.com/mantisbt. or say Python and enjoy genealogy I'd suggest going for Gramps https://github.com/gramps-project/gramps .

Maybe share more info on what you like so we suggest something you might enjoy?


Foveated rendering is a rendering technique which uses an eye tracker integrated with a virtual reality headset to reduce the rendering workload by greatly reducing the image quality in the peripheral vision (outside of the zone gazed by the fovea(The fovea centralis is a small, central pit composed of closely packed cones in the eye. It is located in the center of the macula lutea of the retina.))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated_rendering


Issue report: "widgets not reacting to mouse hover/click on macOS Ventura" https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/5305


Reminds me of another Scifi book called "Light of Other Days" by Bob Shaw in which the story uses the idea of "slow glass": glass through which light takes years to pass.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_of_Other_Days


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