This hourglass I stole in kindergarten. It was used to measure time for brushing teeth. It also used to have a suction cup, but over the years it partially decomposed.
Gotta love the footies. They're harmless and locked in. At the rabbit hole that is sexual fetishes, they just hang around the entrance... looking down.
Oh, they upgraded the standard to 5 devices. I think it was just 2 in the past, which made it far more expensive than Mullvad.
Edit: One large thing missing compared to Mullvad is the proxy-based browser extension for Firefox. It let's you select different exit server either for everything in browser, per domain, or randomize server selection per domain.
I like KDE Arianna.
Unfortunately, while in the past (I think version 24) it would show 2 columns in portrait mode, now it only shows 1 page in the middle, which I personally consider a regression.
Aside from that there've been some improvements. While in the past I had to flip pages by pressing arrow buttons at the bottom, it now supports swiping the pages, which is much nicer on a touchscreen.
Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do
With HTML, I only meant something like basic 90s/early 2000s websites. That doesn't really need much. For example, toastytech.com. Using tables for layout is probably not done anymore.
When it comes to LaTeX, we just had to use it for an assignment in school, so that's where I came in contact with it.
And even that's something I struggled with. The entire page was supposed to be a colored table. I've used tabularx, but it kept being slightly off the page. For some reason, wrapping it between center fixed it, but I don't know what I did wrong there.
It would have probably been easier if I did it in Overleaf (online LaTeX editing platform).
Instead, me being me, I was doing it last-minute. On a train. Full train, so I couldn't even sit down to use a laptop, as such I had to use my phone. There are apparently some issues with texlive on Termux, so I didn't run it locally.
Instead I had to SSH to my mini PC over Tailscale, edit the document using Vim, compile with pdflatex, copy the PDF to my phone using scp, view it, delete, browse around StackExchange (where I found someone mention the center workaround), and repeat.
On a phone, while standing in a moving train. Quite the user experience.
Hey.
How did you get to this? I mean, how did you learn to do this?
What knowledge and skills are necessary and how could one obtain them?
Mobile Linux development (low level) interests me (mostly because I just want a pocket-sized Linux computer), but I don't have any idea where one can even start with that.
Yes, I know it will take time, but no skills and knowledge just spawn in the brain (yet*).
*^perhaps^ ^brain^ ^impalnts^ ^will^ ^fix^ ^this^ ^in^ ^the^ ^future^
I've found couple of people having similar questions on Reddit, but they often get hit with something along the lines of "If you have to ask, don't bother."
I just need pointers.
This is especially funny with cents, at least in Slovakia. We ditched 1 and 2 cent coins, so prices get rounded to nearest 5 cents (if paid in cash).
Therefore if an item costs EUR 1.99, you end up paying 2.00 anyway,
Environment is basically any. I used to read on my touchscreen 2-in-1 ThinkPad using Arianna from KDE.
But I stopped because of software annoyances.
At some point, native Arianna package broke on Arch. It's fixed now, but the UI has changed. In the past, while in portrait mode it also shown 2 columns, just slimmer ones (I think that's version 24, I am not currently on that laptop). Now it only shows 1 page in the middle of the screen.
I also have an old Flatpak version installed which still has the older UI (I believe the older native package didn't work with current dependencies), but simply the knowledge of that thing taking up in total 4GiB (as it's the only Flatpak I have) while the native version is 1.6MiB bothers me enough not to use it.
I was just playing around with it, not worth it.
Also, the domain would most likely cost more than the VPS, as the VPS was $10.29/year (not available anymore).
It's just that if I re-apply, they'll treat me as a new student all over again (and as such they only allow admission into the first year). Their own courses don't get any special treatment, aside from not requiring me to also send them syllabi for those.
This means failing in the 3rd year would be a disaster as I'd have to do the entire 3 years all over again. Or go to a different college. There's basically one for people who failed the college I went to (many such cases).
Anyway, to sum it up:
For students during the current study, anything above F is accepted, whether you were previously kicked out or not.
From any previous studies, only A and B are accepted.
Your prior 1st school credits (below As and Bs) will still be at 1st school so you won’t have to worry about them being accepted as transfer credits because you’d not be transferring them in from outside as the those low grade credits are already inside.
That is what my post was about. The people at study department at 1st school told me they won't accept grades below B, including what I already earned at 1st school. They just won't count when I go there again, it's treated the same as transfer.
In case of 2nd school, basically any other college would most likely accept any lower passing grades.
Any chance you have enough IT experience to get a junior role so you can at least be growing in your field while you’re out of school?
The point is, they won't even accept the courses I already passed (which are all below B except for English), because this rule is just applied universally. So it would be easier to re-take what I had until now since I already know something.
In this case, idea 2 would probably make more sense since I also know the instructors tend to give out the same assignments between different years.
Unless you meant to attend an easier college with the required courses.
But also it is too late. The only colleges taking students at this time of year are ones that have to do 2nd rounds due to low numbers, which very much is nothing IT-related.
Anyway, bigger issue is I'd have to pay for 2 extra years (they also don't allow admission into a higher year).
every other school your original school accepts transfer credits from
That one is also funny. There's no official list. The only requirement is A/B grade. If that is met, I can send a request to have those results accepted along with the courses' syllabi, and then I'll see based on their response.
Could that perhaps be an issue of stupid licensing? With, smart licensing, or whatever, if the license is non-transferable, then the hardware is basically an expensive paper weight.
I've heard Cisco used to give out Meraki devices for free on some events, because without a license they were totally useless. Until someone figured out how to run OpenWRT on them.
This was just a random slow down for around 5 minutes. Can't reproduce :(
This hourglass I stole in kindergarten. It was used to measure time for brushing teeth. It also used to have a suction cup, but over the years it partially decomposed.
Wasn't that a convention mostly for those who were banned from other conventions?
That sounds like description of a cave diver.
Oh, they upgraded the standard to 5 devices. I think it was just 2 in the past, which made it far more expensive than Mullvad.
Edit: One large thing missing compared to Mullvad is the proxy-based browser extension for Firefox. It let's you select different exit server either for everything in browser, per domain, or randomize server selection per domain.
I like KDE Arianna.
Unfortunately, while in the past (I think version 24) it would show 2 columns in portrait mode, now it only shows 1 page in the middle, which I personally consider a regression.
Aside from that there've been some improvements. While in the past I had to flip pages by pressing arrow buttons at the bottom, it now supports swiping the pages, which is much nicer on a touchscreen.
With HTML, I only meant something like basic 90s/early 2000s websites. That doesn't really need much. For example, toastytech.com. Using tables for layout is probably not done anymore.
When it comes to LaTeX, we just had to use it for an assignment in school, so that's where I came in contact with it.
And even that's something I struggled with. The entire page was supposed to be a colored table. I've used tabularx, but it kept being slightly off the page. For some reason, wrapping it between
centerfixed it, but I don't know what I did wrong there.It would have probably been easier if I did it in Overleaf (online LaTeX editing platform).
Instead, me being me, I was doing it last-minute. On a train. Full train, so I couldn't even sit down to use a laptop, as such I had to use my phone. There are apparently some issues with texlive on Termux, so I didn't run it locally.
Instead I had to SSH to my mini PC over Tailscale, edit the document using Vim, compile with
pdflatex, copy the PDF to my phone usingscp, view it, delete, browse around StackExchange (where I found someone mention thecenterworkaround), and repeat.On a phone, while standing in a moving train. Quite the user experience.
Not really, since one of them is me.
Hey. How did you get to this? I mean, how did you learn to do this?
What knowledge and skills are necessary and how could one obtain them?
Mobile Linux development (low level) interests me (mostly because I just want a pocket-sized Linux computer), but I don't have any idea where one can even start with that.
Yes, I know it will take time, but no skills and knowledge just spawn in the brain (yet*).
*^perhaps^ ^brain^ ^impalnts^ ^will^ ^fix^ ^this^ ^in^ ^the^ ^future^
I've found couple of people having similar questions on Reddit, but they often get hit with something along the lines of "If you have to ask, don't bother."
I just need pointers.
Thanks (even if you don't reply).
By the way, PostmarketOS works on N900 as well: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nokia_N900_(nokia-n900)
This is especially funny with cents, at least in Slovakia. We ditched 1 and 2 cent coins, so prices get rounded to nearest 5 cents (if paid in cash).
Therefore if an item costs EUR 1.99, you end up paying 2.00 anyway,
Environment is basically any. I used to read on my touchscreen 2-in-1 ThinkPad using Arianna from KDE.
But I stopped because of software annoyances.
At some point, native Arianna package broke on Arch. It's fixed now, but the UI has changed. In the past, while in portrait mode it also shown 2 columns, just slimmer ones (I think that's version 24, I am not currently on that laptop). Now it only shows 1 page in the middle of the screen.
I also have an old Flatpak version installed which still has the older UI (I believe the older native package didn't work with current dependencies), but simply the knowledge of that thing taking up in total 4GiB (as it's the only Flatpak I have) while the native version is 1.6MiB bothers me enough not to use it.
If it at least were a Linux kernel.
I was just playing around with it, not worth it.
Also, the domain would most likely cost more than the VPS, as the VPS was $10.29/year (not available anymore).
I don't know what I did wrong, but now it works with
losetup.So that would be solved.
It's just that if I re-apply, they'll treat me as a new student all over again (and as such they only allow admission into the first year). Their own courses don't get any special treatment, aside from not requiring me to also send them syllabi for those.
This means failing in the 3rd year would be a disaster as I'd have to do the entire 3 years all over again. Or go to a different college. There's basically one for people who failed the college I went to (many such cases).
Anyway, to sum it up:
That is what my post was about. The people at study department at 1st school told me they won't accept grades below B, including what I already earned at 1st school. They just won't count when I go there again, it's treated the same as transfer.
In case of 2nd school, basically any other college would most likely accept any lower passing grades.
That would be no, unfortunately.
The point is, they won't even accept the courses I already passed (which are all below B except for English), because this rule is just applied universally. So it would be easier to re-take what I had until now since I already know something.
In this case, idea 2 would probably make more sense since I also know the instructors tend to give out the same assignments between different years.
Unless you meant to attend an easier college with the required courses.
But also it is too late. The only colleges taking students at this time of year are ones that have to do 2nd rounds due to low numbers, which very much is nothing IT-related.
Anyway, bigger issue is I'd have to pay for 2 extra years (they also don't allow admission into a higher year).
That one is also funny. There's no official list. The only requirement is A/B grade. If that is met, I can send a request to have those results accepted along with the courses' syllabi, and then I'll see based on their response.
Somehow, this scares me.
Could that perhaps be an issue of stupid licensing? With, smart licensing, or whatever, if the license is non-transferable, then the hardware is basically an expensive paper weight.
I've heard Cisco used to give out Meraki devices for free on some events, because without a license they were totally useless. Until someone figured out how to run OpenWRT on them.