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Yeah, their forum seems to be hit or miss. I like the answer in the printer thread: “Try turning it off and on again.” 😛
Honestly, that does fix most printer problems. Sometimes you do need to go into settings though and reset something. For whatever reason, my printer sometimes decides to use the wrong paper size and won’t work unless I switch it back to what it’s supposed to be. Printer firmware is weird. I had one printer that used to print three pages and then, for the rest of the document, would only print blank pages. I never did figure that one out. 😛
No idea yet! Right now, I’m mostly getting the resources together. A lot of tube information will depend on what I need for various circuit projects and repairs. I’ve always liked assembling analog circuits so I’m starting to look at experimenting with them again. Some of the tube sources also sell the sockets and other parts, which will be helpful, and I’m sure I can find cheaper options at some of the parts retailers.
Reading some of the posts, it sounds like tube testers can be hit or miss. Definitely something to keep in mind.
DigiKey does have better filters, though!
AdaFruit also has a more basic selection of parts. Definitely nowhere near the selection as the other suppliers though but the site is friendlier to hobbyists 🙂
Pretty much! I don’t even use vanilla extract, except for when I’m baking for others 😛
Can’t taste it in the baked goods, anyways 🙂
A lot of the issues are due to human error and how the humans interact with the robots. As the humans are removed from the equation, the issues will become fewer. There’s also the fact that the software is still evolving to factor humans into account. Things like road construction are more difficult to factor into the software as some of that comes up at the last minute. A solution? A feed similar to what we use for the NWS that occurs as the data is acquired. As the data is pushed out, that’ll allow the autonomous vehicles to act on it more efficiently.
That said, they can’t fully replace human drivers. I would never be able to take the robo-driver off-road as those areas are poorly mapped and could very well require special handling. There’s also the fact that I just like to explore and don’t always have a destination in mind. The latter could also be an issue for folks who just like wandering around a town.
Waymo is quickly moving into Florida so I may get the opportunity to give it a whirl sooner rather than later. 🙂
Haven’t played the first game but looking at the series, it looks similar to BioShock? Definitely worth checking out at some point 🙂
Yep, it’s all very confusing but gvsbuild looks like it should take care of most things. The key is to tell it to build gtkmm as it’s supposed to take care of the process of building the dependencies. Let me know if I need to clarify anything, much of this is from what I gleaned while reading the source code for gvsbuild. 🙂
This process won’t need WSL as it handles everything using Windows tools. 🙂 Chocolatey will need to be installed as that’s apparently what everything uses for the process. This current bit is figuring out how best to set up the CI. At some point, I would like to visit the pros and cons of using MinGW instead on Linux but setting up the build scripts for that would be a pain and using anything other than VS on Windows is just as painful to set up. Spent many hours trying to get them working right for school back in 2009 before I said to hell with it and did all of my compiling on Fedora. 😛
I’ve never used Mint (or the WSL) but it looks like openSUSE is available, too. openSUSE is nice. Unless you’re referring to using a VM. In which case, it’s been decades since I played with them. 😛 Looks like QEMU and Virtual Box are the go-tos these days. Make sure you turn on the IO virtualization options in the UEFI when you get the new system! They help immensely. Still recommend openSUSE. 😛
Sounds good. And no rush! As we know, I’m moving slow at the moment as I try to sort out some personal stuff but I’m getting there. 🙂
Just setting up gtkmm is a big task. Almost all of the large projects that used it switched to Qt recently. In my package manager, there are only four applications that depend on it.
