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Omar Rizwan @omar

yeah we probably will make like a 'wizard' type physical booklet at some point for full computer setup including wifi etc..
i think the deeper reasoning is like, it's fairly doable to make UI for the easy path, but it's actually very hard to anticipate and cover all ways in which things can go wrong or need to be debugged, so you probably need to escape hatch to a Unix terminal most of the time so people can Google it and type in commands if they're technical

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Omar Rizwan @omar

anyway, i think you're only allowed to run your own code on your computer if every keystroke of the source code has been signed by your keyboard

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Omar Rizwan @omar

(https://old.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/a5e6a7/til_that_in_victorian_london_mail_was_delivered/#ebm4qdk)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Rounding
Since many partitioning systems have complicated constraints, Parted will usually do something slightly different to what you asked. (For example, create a partition starting at 10.352Mb, not 10.4Mb) If the calculated values differ too much, Parted will ask you for confirmation. If you know exactly what you want, or to see exactly what Parted is doing, it helps to specify partition endpoints in sectors (with the "s" suffix) and give the "unit s" command so that the partition endpoints are displayed in sectors.

As of parted-2.4, when you specify start and/or end values using IEC binary units like “MiB”, “GiB”, “TiB”, etc., parted treats those values as exact, and equivalent to the same number specified in bytes (i.e., with the “B” suffix), in that it provides no “helpful” range of sloppiness. Contrast that with a partition start request of “4GB”, which may actually resolve to some sector up to 500MB before or after that point. Thus, when creating a partition, you should prefer to specify units of bytes (“B”), sectors (“s”), or IEC binary units like “MiB”, but not “MB”, “GB”, etc.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Provenance.. https://sunny.garden/@kayserifserif/111937025214677480

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Omar Rizwan @omar

okay I think my 3D printer is actually fixed -- had to tighten a nozzle…

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Omar Rizwan @omar

"In the original Star software, application windows are tiled in such a way that do **not** overlap. Property windows and other dialogs, however may overlap."

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Omar Rizwan @omar

I'm starting to feel like the most promising units for these types of computing experiments are extremely cheap commodity stuff -- $40 used Chromebooks, old Android phones https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HTZFTDK6P0NC2QY7Z6ATR4M1

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Omar Rizwan @omar

there's some 'pick any two' with 1. allocating objects is easy 2. freeing objects is easy 3. you can have objects of different sizes

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Omar Rizwan @omar

feel like there would be much less of a role for Raspberry Pis/SBCs if smartphones were actually programmable and reusable, but they just... aren't, somehow

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