For restoring broken parts on vintage computers
According to https://twitter.com/MuseumJoe/status/1472583684599558147 and https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/platinum-pla-for-macs-and-apple-s.561/ RAL 7044 (SILK GREY) is a close match (but a tiny bit too warm).
According to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTn_SRbYuLA
Vielleicht entsteht hieraus einmal ein Blog. Oder ein Buch. Gern kommentieren!
HP seems to make it intentionally hard to find this driver. It is not listed on https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/hp-color-laserjet-cm2320-multifunction-printer-series/3597338/model/3597358 - even though it works perfectly fine even on "newer" versions of macOS such as 10.11.
HP CLJ CM2320 MFP series v1.5.0.mpkgfunction pm_install_check() in Contents/distribution.dist so that it always returns true, this allows it to be installed e.g., on macOS 10.11 which is the latest version that runs e.g., on the Mid-2007 iMac). Like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<installer-script minSpecVersion="1.000000" authoringTool="com.apple.PackageMaker" authoringToolVersion="3.0.1" authoringToolBuild="172">
| #!/bin/sh | |
| set +x | |
| # This script is intended to be invoked by a desktop file | |
| # from /usr/local/share/xsessions | |
| # where the display manager (login window) picks it up | |
| # Disable core dumps for applications | |
| ulimit -c 0 |
One killer application for 3D printing is building enclosures for electronics prototypes. Many hobbyists use tools like TinkerCAD to build simple project boxes that are held together using screws.
A more elegant solution is to use snapfit enclosures that consist of two parts that can be snapped together with a satisfying click and without the need for additional parts or tools. Depending on how these snap-fits are designed, pulling the parts apart can be very easy to next to impossible.
Apparently one can deeplink to (and highlight) random text on a HTML page like this:
https://www.freebsd.org/#:~:text=A%20large%20community
Works e.g., in Chrome. How is this called, when was it introduced, where does it work?
Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.
Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.
| $ sudo pkg remove dejavu | |
| Password: | |
| Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) | |
| Deinstallation has been requested for the following 162 packages (of 0 packages in the universe): | |
| Installed packages to be REMOVED: | |
| accounts-qml-module: 0.7 | |
| adwaita-icon-theme: 3.28.0 | |
| akonadi: 20.04.2 | |
| baloo-widgets: 20.04.2 |
tl;dr: Many versions of the URW fonts coming with Linux distributions and, in my case, FreeBSD, seem to be broken. Uninstall them and use those from https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/urw-base35-fonts/ instead. It does wonders!
I can't stand "metric compatible" surrogate fonts like DejaVu, Liberation, Bitstream Vera. I would much rather have fonts that at least optically largely match "original" fonts, such as URW Nimbus Sans L (which is a rebranded Helvetica). Yet most open source desktops come with "metric compatible" surrogate fonts deeply pre-wired: When you try to uninstall them using the package manager, then due to the way the package dependencies work the whole graphical desktop gets uninstalled. When you let the packages installed but delete the font files, other breakage occurs. So Fontconfig to the rescue... not.
I am trying to replace certain sans serif fonts with _Nimbus Sans L