ByroTriz

joined 1 year ago

Help needed choosing a good pair of noise cancelling earphones in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Both the Bose and Sony are considered top but Sony is more expensive.I have the Bose and like them but a known defect is the earpad that will break very quickly (buy Chinese replacement for those)

Is it possible to use zero knowledge proofs to verify journalism sources? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That's impossible in a generalized way. That would be the same as having an algorithm for truth

Orange Pi NEO First Gaming Handheld Console in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Open hardware?

There is someone who's the first and oldest member of gen Z, and they have absolutely no clue that's the case. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

It's likely someone born in Kiribati on Jan 1st in the year 2000. Given the small population of the island, it probably isn't even too hard to find out.

JSTOR downloads in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you have trouble finding a functioning mirror for the crow, you can get scihub links also from Library Genesis and Anna's Archive

Discord alternatives in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Spacebar is supposed to be a 1 to 1 discord alternative

YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm no expert but 1 in 50 donors doesn't even seem too bad

I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone". in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yep, there's a ton of great Foss projects that have a shitty logo. Look at Octave, looks like something 10yo me made in MS paint in 5 min

I'm amazed at FreeCAD's abilities. It needs a better name. Thinking of it as simply "cad software" like calling a 2-GHz computer in your pocket a "phone". in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Needs a better logo as well

Any othet alternative to telegram that is more open sourced , privacy ,security focused is available in fdroid etc. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As far as I know Telegram is the only one with piracy-oriented channels. Maybe we could start one on Signal

best foss cad software? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

One that hasn't been named yet is SolveSpace. There is also CAD sketcher, a free CAD add-on for Blender

How is academia for autistic people? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I worked in academia for 10 years. I do not recommend it.