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DTA2019.jpg Welcome to the annual Deskthority Awards! This year's awards are completely community driven. You not only decide who is a worthy nominee but you also get to pick the categories! Rules We do not have categories, so you'll post ALL your nominations right here in this thread, you may sugg...

I just wanted to thank all who donated something to keep the shack going. It's actually reinvigorating to see that so many people are so invested in our little website.

Oh well then, we'll be on the scene for at least another 2 years

Its not just the drivers being closed , AMD has better support for vulcan , the drives are integrated into MESA so i dont have to screw around instilling them and you get updates and fixes more often. that is true but performance is still very hit and miss. There has been some improvement lately an...

Subscribed! I don't post often but I like to see these old style web boards stay around. If there's any way I can help with the technical side of things let me know. I've been a Linux and BSD admin for well over a decade for a university and before that for their physics department. I'm also crazy ...

you are a little overenthusiastic @Elrick and you are ignoring thousands of horror stories about paypal (eg: https://blog.prusaprinters.org/warning-businesses-never-use-paypal-primary-payment-method/ ). It's a bit like saying that facebook is great because you can keep in touch with your friends and...

paypal is a cancer

private messages are private. remove the images @heymark also you know that they don't prove anything? I'm sorry for what happened to you but the images can be easily edited.

I concur, but I also put my money where my paranoia is and host my own email and Nextcloud on my own hardware in a data center. So, maybe I'm not wholly normal either. Don't get me ranting on GMail these days either! I do the same, but I don't use nextcloud, too messy/buggy I prefer one-app-per-tas...

sorry guys, busy week at work. The idea would be: - run a nomination phase, people start vomiting stuff, people can suggest a category for their submission if they want - a commission (me?!) takes the nominations and based on what we have we split them in categories - create the threads (1 per categ...

lhutton wrote: ↑

08 Nov 2019, 02:32

II'm also crazy enough to use a Linux desktop.

you are not crazy, it's the others who are

Archie wrote: ↑

02 Nov 2019, 17:15

Probably offtopic, but what's 'pro membership' actually is? If the donation I've paid makes me eligible, I'm interested.

access to a super top secret section of the forum. also you need to feed the ducks.

Tias wrote: ↑

02 Nov 2019, 13:38

Done. I also wanted apply for the 'pro membership', but no option to mention ones username when using paypal. Any way around this issue?

if you put your username in the description I'm sure webwit will take care of that. Otherwise just contact him in PM

there are really a lot of pieces, this thing is going to be expensive. Do you already have a quotation?

At the moment we are below zero, so anything helps. It is unrealistic to think that we would cover what we actually need with donations from DT users but if that will ever happen anything exceeding will be used for next year's expenses.

I'm thinking of starting this next monday, @andrewjoy do you want to work on an introduction?

it's about €1200-1400 per year for the server (and backups). I don't have the numbers for the wingnuts because webwit never really wanted to share that but I'm guessing he is handing like €400-500 for a quantity of wingnuts that lasts a couple of years.

Deskthority doesn't have a steady income anymore. The club helped in the past, but that's ancient history. We still have expenses though and so far they are covered by an absconding webwit just out of his good heart. Hence I'm hereby asking for your support in the form of: A) Put your forgotten or u...

we've been able to get in touch with him. At least we know he's fine.

We need to get in touch with him but he's gone off grid. I hope everything's fine, I'm a bit worried!

Does anyone know him personally and can slap him for us?

andrewjoy wrote: ↑

23 Oct 2019, 10:36

I still think we should have some categories or at least ideas for them to focus people(check the google doc). We should also still have "The Deskthority" as a special award.

we have categories just let the community pick them based on their submissions

Findecanor wrote: ↑

16 Oct 2019, 16:40

I think the layers are quite visible in the pictures.

yeah I didn't zoom the picture. it's standard 3d printing, they are quite thin layers anyway

wondering how the top surface is so smooth being 3d printed... non-planar extrusion or just very very thin layers?

okay so, I believe the best course of action for a low-fi DTA 2019 is as follow: 1) Start with just one nomination thread (as per Muirium suggestion). Let people vomit their nominations, at the end check what we have and based on that create the categories. This is the most community driven DTA I ca...

it doesn't matter if the mac address is randomized, they already know who you are from your google account, because if you want to use the play store (or any google service) you need a google account

even without gps they can track you from wifi hotspots. If you don't have wifi enabled they can even use the accelerometer to estimate your movements. As soon as you connect to the internet the data is sent home. Data is collected even when you are offline. They made quite some tests on that, search...

thanks for the suggestions guys.

The G500 seems hard to find (possibly it's end-of-life) but there are a few on ebay.

I'm not very comfortable with thumb trackballs honestly @Lbibass

Any impressions on the Cconnexion CadMouse Pro?

mr_a500 wrote: ↑

02 Oct 2019, 12:34

Wow. I'm a bit out of touch with "modern society" (...being an insane retired hermit living on an island...) but this mandatory mobile phone crap will probably affect me eventually. I'm going to hold out against this crap as long as I can.

are there any more islands available?

I find myself doing a lot of parametric CAD lately and I find "standard" mice to be tiring in the long run. Basically what most mice do is placing the middle button under the wheel and that switch is generally a little stiffer. Totally fine in day to day usage but a little upsetting after 6 hours of...