I’ve made plenty by printing the design onto Hydroprint ‘paper’ and cutting by hand. Just doing text is extra easy, just take your pick from the Stencil section at dafont.com.

This is a good one! I have a piece of virgin wheel tread used to re-tread heavy duty truck tires. Afraid of losing it, it’s quite the treasure :D

Becoming a father at 28, after realising that is what I want from life; going deeper into the realm of love, wanting to live out the unconditional, unfaltering love for my own offspring. Finding the perfect person to go down that rabbit hole with, getting married, and less than a year later we have our first child.

It was all so easy and natural, made manifest by two people sharing this simple dream. A solid foundation was cast, I got to see firsthand that I can do this just as good as I hoped.

Something also happened before in my mid-20s. I was on a bit of a blue streak. Ended up taking an introductory course to zen sitting meditation. Two sessions was enough. Realised there’s a photocopier in my head that spews out thoughts, some of them ugly. I couldn’t turn it off, but I could refrain from reading the papers. Found inner peace right there and it has stuck.

IPA without AI is just P …?

I had Arch ARM, but that is no longer an option on the first Pi Zero since they dropped support for anything less than ARM7. It’s still applicable for Zero 2 though.

The config was such that I had my phone and a fold-up Bluetooth keyboard for a terminal and connected to the Pi over Bluetooth PAN. The Zero had a PiVoyager board and a 26650 Li-ion cell for power - the whole thing fit in a case the size of a pack of cigarettes :D I could just have that in my bag, slap the phone and keeb on any surface and type away.

I agree that setting the structure of the document as you go is the most effective way of doing things. Doing a separate pass for formatting is a chore best avoided!

Here’s one who wrote a thesis on a Raspi Zero (well, in part) and Wordgrinder (all the way). Dropped in to say that Wordgrinder paired with Pandoc is a great and capable package. The writing experience that Wordgrinder offers is par none that I’ve seen. Good enough that I settled and never looked further. Watching this thread to see if there are options…

The Linux way:

• write a script: you can use the find command to find for example rars in a folder. find ~/thatfolder -iname ‘*.rar’ -exec uncompresscommand. Read ‘man find’ for specifics. Script’s first line is #!/bin/bash. Say ‘chmod u+x script’ to make it executable.

• set up a systemd timer unit that calls a service unit that runs your script at intervals.

• you can use something like for file in ~/thatfolder/* ; do sed trick that extracts the file extension and puts it in a variable ; case $variable in ; bunch of cases for different extensions. Variable $file will hold the source file name. Read up on bash scripting to figure it out.

Welcome to penguinland :D

I just tried. Old app exports a directory, new one wants a zip. Zipped the dir and offered to new one. New one complained that some expected file was missing. Gave up and set it up again with it’s new keys (phone only syncs one dir off my home server, not a big deal) and now it’s going great.

Tim Follin’s music for the first level of Bionic Commando on C64. It sounds like coming up on acid.

Swimming on your back is the thing to know. So face up, body as straight as you can get it, and when you have lungs full of air (possibly also without lungs full, depends on your physique) you will effortlessly float. Then just propel yourself by treading with the legs, waving with the hands, or both. Zero stress swimming. You can flip around and go fast in the usual modes of swimming and then gather strength by flipping back.

resize2fs or a bootable gparted stick will help. And yes, it’s all on the Arch Wiki.

Long time musician here!

Back in Reddit days I did prawl through music-making related communities, but found that discussion tended to stick to pretty trivial spheres. Figured that general music maker communities don’t work. You want jazz drumming / pure data / microtonal techniques level specialised communities to keep it interesting. Otherwise it’s just ‘recommend a beginner-friendly daw’ over and over.

I’ve subbed Pitchfork’s album reviews RSS. They tend to namedrop influences and contemporaries and that’s what’s keeping this 46 year old picking up 2025 albums (bit proud of the fact) :D

There are big expensive mosquito magnets that take a propane tank and electricity to run (these are environmentally ok) and the Thermacell device (somewhat dubious but very effective). Source: Finland, the land of mosquitos

I have actually found valid reasons to own a motorcycle:

• any trip on the bike is 60 % less gas than by car

• my occasional commute from rural to city: car needs to be put in a garage for 25 € / 8 hrs. Bike rides up the elevator to the office, free.

• riding saves up the car for the winter, when it’s most needed.

• bike maintenance is cheap and diy-able.

• the pleasure of riding: priceless.

Frankly - my kids in front of the tv is pure Beavis and Butt-head :D

Take a look at the Finnish folk instrument, the Kantele. They tend to have a hollow body but otherwise pretty angelic stuff :D

Looking for ‘zither’ will probably yield more like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele

The free version of Maxmind’s db should be available on your distro. The name is going to be ‘geoip’ with something extra hanging on :)

I do audio and quite enjoy Arch with its ‘pro-audio’ meta package that installs basically everything. Desktop and laptop both have that, so they have the same plugins and applications -> projects open on both machines just the same.

Sure, but then I’d be downloading every single source ‘package’ and compiling for both x86 and ARM - not exactly feasible. Keeping just the sources might be an option though. The point is to have the whole repo, not just the packages I use, so that in the SHTF scenario I can help others install Arch and any software they may need on their machines. Muhahaha, Arch will prevail 👻