I write code and play games and stuff. My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn’t think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:

>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'

My avatar is a quick doodle made in KolourPaint. I might replace it later. Maybe.

日本語が少し分かるけど、下手です。

Alt: e0qdk@reddthat.com

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: September 22nd, 2023
  • e0qdk@kbin.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for a self hosted Dementia Clock
    4·
    8 months ago

    What I’d do is set up a simple website that uses a little JavaScript to rewrite the date and time into the page and periodically refresh an image under/next to it. Size the image to fit the remaining free space of however you set up the iPad, and then you can stick anything you want there (pictures/reminder text/whatever) with your favorite image editor. Upload a new image to the server when you want to change the note. The idea with an image is that it’s just really easy to do and keeps the amount of effort to redo layout to a minimum – just drag stuff around in your image editor and you’ll know it’ll all fit as expected as long as you don’t change the resolution (instead of needing to muck around with CSS and maybe breaking something if you can’t see the device to check that it displays correctly).

    There’s a couple issues to watch out for – e.g. what happens if the internet connection/server goes down, screen burn-in, keeping the browser from being closed/switched to another page, keeping it powered, etc. that might or might not matter depending on your particular circumstances. If you need to fix all that for your circumstances, it might be more trouble than just buying something purpose built… but getting a first pass DIY version working is trivial if you’re comfortable hosting a website.

    Edit: If some sample code that you can use as a starting point would be helpful, let me know.

  • e0qdk@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•downloading gmails
    11·
    9 months ago

    Any ways to get around the download failing

    I did this incredibly stupid procedure with Firefox yesterday as a workaround for a failing Google Takeout download:

    • backup the .part file from the failed download
    • restart the download (careful – if you didn’t move/back it up, it will be deleted and you will have to download the whole thing again; found this out the hard way on a 50GB+ file… that failed again)
    • immediately pause the new download after it starts writing to disk
    • replace the new .part file with the old .part file from earlier (or – see [1] below)
    • Firefox might not show progress for a long time, but will eventually continue the download (I saw it reading the file back from disk with iotop so I just let it run)
    • sanity check that you actually got the whole thing and that it is usable (in my case, I knew a hash for the file)

    [1] You can actually replace the new .part file with anything that has the same size in bytes as the old file – I replaced it with a file full of zeros and manually merged the end onto the original .part file with a tiny custom python script since I had already moved the incomplete file to other media before realizing I could try this. (In my case, the incomplete file would still have been useful even with the last ~1MB cut off.)

    There are probably better options in most cases – like Thunderbird for mailbox as other people suggested, or rclone for getting stuff from Drive – but if you need to get Takeout to work and the download keeps failing this may be another option to try.

  • e0qdk@kbin.socialtoLemmy Support@lemmy.ml•Can lemmy users see when they're mentioned in a microblog post from kbin?
    2·
    10 months ago

    I think they’re specifically wondering if using @<username>@<instance> mention syntax will result in a notification popping up for the user on Lemmy.

    I’ve been wondering that too (in the context of threads though) – and if it does work, are there limitations regarding visibility between instances that people should be aware of. e.g. what happens if I @ someone in a post to a community on a lemmy server that is defederated from their home instance? Or, in a community that no one on their home server has subscribed to? Will they still get a notice?

    I guess I don’t really have a good mental model for how @ works on the Fediverse.

  • e0qdk@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•OpenGL version problem
    2·
    1 year ago
    • GLFW is intended to be built with cmake.
    • After unzipping the source, make a build directory, and configure glfw3
    • ^^ I like using ccmake to do this interactively, but you can also just pass flags to cmake if you know what they are
    • You should build with GLFW_USE_WAYLAND and GLFW_USE_OSMESA turned off to get it to try to build against X11.
    • You will probably also want to turn off GLFW_BUILD_DOCS, GLFW_BUILD_EXAMPLES, GLFW_BUILD_TESTS
    • You can adjust CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX if you don't want to use the /usr/local default install path.
    • After generating a Makefile, run make and make install
    • glfw3 generates a pkg-config compatible .pc file as part of its build process that lists flags needed for compilation and linking against the library. Normally, you'd just call pkg-config --cflags --libs --static glfw3 to get this info as part of your own build process (in a Makefile, for example) or else require glfw3 as part of a cmake-based build, but you can read what's generated in there if that program is not available to you for some reason. In case it's helpful for comparison, what I get with a custom build of the static library version of glfw3 installed into /usr/local on a slightly old version of Ubuntu is output like -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -lglfw -lrt -lm -ldl -lX11 -lpthread -lxcb -lXau -lXdmcp but you may need something different for your particular configuration.

    Basically, something like this, probably, to do the compilation and get the flags to pass to g++:

    wget &#x27;https://github.com/glfw/glfw/releases/download/3.3.8/glfw-3.3.8.zip&#x27;
unzip glfw-3.3.8.zip
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D GLFW_BUILD_DOCS=OFF -D GLFW_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -D GLFW_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -D GLFW_USE_OSMESA=OFF -D GLFW_USE_WAYLAND=OFF -D GLFW_VULKAN_STATIC=OFF ../glfw-3.3.8
make
make install

pkg-config --cflags --libs --static glfw3

    If you want to just compile a single cpp file after building and install, you can do something like

    g++ main.cpp `pkg-config --cflags --libs --static glfw3` -lGL
  • e0qdk@kbin.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•OpenGL version problem
    4·
    1 year ago
    • You are running Wayland
    • Your GLFW programs are using EGL, not GLX, to talk to your graphics drivers/hardware
    • glxinfo is talking to a software implementation, not your hardware
    • glxinfo's output is irrelevant if you want to talk to your hardware with your current configuration; if you want to use the software implementation recompile GLFW targeting GLX and it should match that (but will be VERY slow).
    • One of your old posts describes your GPU as: Intel GMA3100 (G31) – is this the same system you're running on now? If so, that is ancient. It looks like that came out in 2007 – which predates the existence of OpenGL 3.0; so, getting 2.1 as the newest context available when talking to actual hardware is not surprising…