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Whats up, my name is Bug (trans, she/they) I do IT for a non-profit healthcare organization and spend a lot of time fucking around on Linux. This is my blog where I gripe about my job and talk about computers lol.
I post gay shit and memes on my main, @bleghablah
I must not die on the hill of trying to get people to understand the difference between a network scan and a fax.
how in the hell are people confusing them? what the hell?
i suppose I can understand, from their perspective they feed paper into a printer and it magically shows up elsewhere, but faxing and scanning are owned by two different people and causes some phone tag when someone reports a fax problem but it's actually a scanning problem
So I've recently been finally getting around to something I've wanted to do for a few years: switching to Linux.
To safely test out this process before applying it to my main tower machine, I decided to first do the switch over on an old Mac Mini which had a lot to gain from this as it was stuck on an outdated and unsupported version of MacOS.
But of course this all involved shuffling around a lot of old data and making sure everything was backed up. And here's where the story begins.
I backed up the Mini's MacOS install to its own partition on an external backup drive shared by my Windows tower machine. Once done, I shrank it to only the used size( which was complicated in its own right for reasons I'll explain shortly,) and then wanted to move it to the end of the drive so I could expand the Windows partition back out to fill the unused space.
Problem #1: MacOS's Disk Utility is so stripped down and lacking in functionality in the name of gloss, it literally cannot work with unallocated space on a drive in any way. You cannot see unallocated space, and you cannot create it. Want to shrink or delete a partition? It automatically creates a new one to fill the space whether you wanted it or not. Want to make a new partition in unallocated space without wiping the whole drive? Gotta use a different OS to make a dummy partition first and then replace it in Disk Utility. And the real problemโฆ Want to move a partition? Can't.
Problem #2: Windows's Disk Management doesn't know what HFS+ is and refuses to work with it. Windows can't even read the Mac backup partition, let alone move it. But wait! I can use EaseUS Partition Manager! โฆAaand most of its essential functionality is locked behind one of its multiple paywall tiers, including the ability to work with non-Windows filesystems at all.
But what about that new Linux install on the Mini?
I run 'sudo apt-get install gparted', a FOSS program, and in less than a minute I've already got it moving the partition. No hassle. No BS.
And if this whole thing doesn't just sum up the operating system trio, I don't know what does.
Lineage is an open source android version which has the appeal of broad compatibility. While projects like graphene focus on specific devices, lineage tries to support as many as possible. Can this accessibility appeal to the community?
BeenBeenusing lineage on my unihertz jellystar for ~6mo and haven't used any other phone in that time and it's great. Even with a rooted android phone I feel limited in what I can do, but with lineage my phone feels like it's actually mine.
HI I love ur black vi design!! would u ever make black cait as well.. maybe with like long dreads... buhuhuhu
i would yes, i'm dying to draw blasian cait when i get the time...not quite with dreads/locs, i've mused on twitter that i think cait gives "has been obsessed with straightening her hair since childhood" mixed kid vibes
someone replied w/ this and it's lived in my brain ever since
i don't know what this has to do with text editors
*at the bdsm party* it's actually pronounced latech
if you don't mind explaining, what was the process like for building an ebike? i wouldn't even know where to start with that.
It's really not hard, these days it's a lot like building a computer. You can find the individual components you need pretty easily. There are four things that are essential to an ebike and a whole bunch of quality of life things you can get. All you really need is the motor, the drive computer, the battery and the frame.
If you're getting into ebikes as a total beginner with no idea where to start I'd say the first decision you'll want to make is whether you want to go with a mid-drive motor or a hub motor (9/10 times you'll want mid drive). Do a shit ton of research on the pros and cons of each and then decide which one fits your use case best.
Then, I'd get a conversion kit in whichever drive type you'd prefer. If you go mid-drive I can solidly recommend the Bafang conversion kits. There's a ton of components that will come with them, so don't worry about the budget really, just expect to spend approximately $1,000 and then do research on the size of battery you want, and what features you want out of the drive computer, then select them when you purchase the kit.
It's hard to select some baseline components that I can generally recommend because honestly it's hard to fuck up the part selection, it will probably work no matter what you pick, but I'd recommend really researching each component to make sure it's what you specifically want.
Finally you'll need the frame, and it helps to have experience fucking with bicycles, but it's not required. You'll also need to either buy some tools or enlist the help of your local bike shop techs. There are a billion great videos on youtube on how to assemble the Bafang kits, they're great, you should really stick with Bafang ngl.
Also, and this is coming from someone who's built two ebikes and is trying to resist the temptation of building a third; don't build an ebike.
don't do it.
It won't save you money, they're not more reliable, it's going to take you a couple weeks to assemble and the guy at the bike shop is going to tell you it's a death trap to convert a 1990s steel frame mountain bike into an ebike and they're right.
but fuck it's fun.
