Leftovers: Videos, Open Hardware, Apache News, KDE, and Games
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Coming in Hot with the Code! | Office Hours 10
We've built up some incredible backend infrastructure for our new website. We run through the big improvements, and where we still need some help.
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Vs Linux Mint 21 | The TITANS CLASH! (For 2022) - Invidious
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Linux Mint 21 are the TOP 2 Linux Distributions that You Could Be Using in 2022. But which one gives you better performance, which among them is the best? Which among them is more suitable FOR You? Ubuntu 22.04 or Linux Mint 21.
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Using an I2C SSD1306 OLED on Fedora with a Raspberry Pi | Blog | Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux 5.18 version landed in Fedora 36 and it includes a new ssd130x DRM driver for the Solomon OLED display controllers.
One of the supported devices is SSD1306, which seems to be a quite popular display controller for small and cheap (I bought a pack of 3 on Amazon for less than 15€) monochrome OLED panels.
I do a lot of development and testing on RPi boards and found that these small OLED panels are useful to get console output without the need to either connect a HDMI monitor or a serial console.
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Transforming a 3D printer into a four-axis camera slider | Arduino Blog
When creating videos, making smooth, level movements at a constant speed is often a very important requirement, as sudden changes can leave viewers uncomfortable. But rather than purchasing an expensive gimbal-stabilized rig or a commercial motorized camera platform, Instructables user dslrdiy decided to devise their own four-axis system using a repurposed 3D printer with the goal of being able to easily control it through a phone.
The old 3D printer already contained most of the parts for this build, such as several stepper motors, a controller board, and plenty of miscellaneous hardware. The main axis at the base allows for the primary assembly to move side-to-side with just a single stepper motor, while the other three axes sit on top. These include tilting up and down, rotating around the Z-axis, and rolling.
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The Apache News Round-up: week ending 19 August 2022 : The Apache Software Foundation Blog
Happy Friday, everyone --let’s review the Apache community’s activities from over the past week...
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KDE neon: Jammy Porting Update
Jammy porting is happening at full pace. Almost all the packages are now compiled and that leaves ISOs to be built and upgrade to be tested.
As with any software or engineering project there’s not much point in putting a deadline on it, it’ll be ready when it’s ready. As a moving target the builds are often two steps forward and one step back cos suddenly there’s a new KDE Gear that needs built.
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Clangd config
Since Kate got LSP support some time ago (thanks to all the developers who made/make this possible, it is a great addition), I've been using it a lot; as you'd expect with any tool, it has some default behaviours that you'd want to disable, and some non-default ones that you want to make use of. Below are some of the config tweaks I've collected over time.
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Blast your way destroying terrorists!
Soldier Boyz is the newest supported game of the Hypno engine, and it’s ready for public testing!
Released in 1997 by Hypnotix and published by DreamCatcher Interactive and MCPA Interactive, this full-motion rail shooter is based on the 1995 film of the same name. The game starts when the daughter of an American billionaire is kidnapped by a group of Vietnamese terrorists. Then, it’s up to Major Howard Toliver, ex-Marine and highly decorated Vietnam veteran, to gather a deadly team for the dangerous mission of rescuing her. He recruits six prison inmates serving life sentences for a chance at a full presidential pardon.