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>Work on any pony and/or tech related projects (You) are working on or learnt about recently.
>Post (You)r pony themed technology (desktops/rices, papes, new devices, software ponies)
>What software and technology do (You) use? (Email, Git, OSes, Messaging, Monero, etc...)

I'm currently trying to get pic rel to work as a webcam on my GNU/Linux machine
firmware isn't a problem (there are functional dumps of it online) but the device outputs video in a proprietary format that looks like shit when it's not modified in any way (image is doubled multiple times)
from what I read online there is a community-made driver that's only available for Windows. Currently thinking about porting that junk to GNU/Linux

>>42762387
>>42762395
Well, got a newfangled wildcard SSL cert for the domain.
Not much to do about the SSH port. It's a shared webhost, and at least they're are (relatively) cheap.

>>42774989 (OP)
>pts dead in less than 24 hours
Wtf happened

>>42775579
>Wtf happened
shartyslider and his shitty threads
>>42775010
from what I managed to find
>windows driver was a red herring (same shit as on GNU/Linux)
>there's a github project that adds support for openCV, it has a small script to output normal (and fixed!) RGB webcam video
>said script doesn't work on my machine
>also would be better if I could use fixed camera in various applications
I'm gonna look for a way to make virtual /dev/video that's just another /dev/video with modifications kek

>>42775630
pipe it through OBS lol
why did you buy this shitass webcam anyway

>>42776803
>pipe it through OBS lol
OBS is bloat
>why did you buy this shitass webcam anyway
because I have a PS4 and wanted to see how shitty Tearaway Unfolded is

>>42776815
>bloat
>The Linux user shrieks when confronted with a productive system.

>>42776831
why the fuck would I need to use a streaming+video recording software just to modify my webcam's video output?

>>42776875
>obs is bloat, let me get this python library that will rearrange pixels one by one instead

>>42775326
Nice. But I can still see your funky crusty forum in the certificate extension entry, kek

>https://www.fsf.org/news/2025-photo-contest-winners
>only 21 images submitted
>One guy submitted almost half.
>Only three people are on the voting page
That's pretty sad on one hand but on the other... we would totally be able to sneak some ponies in there
these are (some of) the entries btw: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf40-photo-contest-voting

Some of you fags can make beautiful fucking rices, I don't know how many people voted but I bet we could have won this without any rigging.
I need to start reading the fucking newsletter more often

>>42777314
Those pictures are fucking depressing.

anyone have any ongoing pony hardware/software projects going on? i wanna figure out something like that in the future but dont have the time or money to yet.
(pretend the cats in the pic are fillies or something)

>>42777314
wtf is fsf

>>42777971
I'm not even sure if you're ironic or not

>>42777971
oh never mind it’s wonderfully boring shit, those photos are indeed depressing

>random /pol/ tier image of someone going “we can’t trust without the sauce code!!” because it’s used by a EU voting machine system.
>random photo of someone’s shitty HP laptop running server processes in a command line
>random photo of someone running another OS in a VM.

>>42777975
I’m not ironic I’ve never heard of it.
The most /g/ faggotry I’ve done is basic command line stuff (fuck there being no guides on how to run command line scripts, you’d think it’d be the first thing that comes to your mind when “basics” but rust/krakatau doesn’t document it in their get started guide and not do many other programs)
and running x32 Bodhi Linux on a 2003 IBM R40, until my OS corrupted itself with a permissions escalation command then the 20 year old HDD crashed and shit the bed on trying to reinstall a new OS

>>42777985
>I’m not ironic I’ve never heard of it.
GNU in GNU/Linux stands for the GNU Project
they develop GCC, glibc, GNU coreutils and other essential Unix stuff
they also wrote the GPL license that many free software projects use
Free Software Foundation is their 501(c)3 to manage funds, copyright and support other projects (most of them are shit in comparison to GNU)

>>42777532
Yeah, I just hope they'll run it again next year. I really want to join, but I wouldn't be surprised if they gave up
>>42777971
>>42777975
I mean, they should work on their marketing
>>42777981
I agree with the "we can't trust the source" but I have no idea why would you submit screencap like that into a PHOTO contest. The other screencaps at least tried

bmp

>>42777971
An organization that used to be okay until they got infiltrated by woketards and feminists who accuse one of the founding fathers of open sauce, Richard Stallman, of being a sexual predator. No word that they say holds any more meaning since.

>>42778665
Stallman tried to to defend Jeffrey Epstein.
Also he did come back to FSF anyway

>>42778717
>Defend Epstein
Didn't hear of that, although it's probably just as much of a nothingburger as his thoughts on sex education in schools, which he clearly wrote in a way to troll, back in a time when people could still joke about that stuff.

If anyone has dead babies in their basement Bill Gates is a far more likely candidate.

>>42778717
>Stallman tried to to defend Jeffrey Epstein.
No he didn't. What he said was something like
>I can't believe my good friend Marvin Minsky would have sex with a girl if he knew she was being coerced
>so the girls on Epstein's island must have been instructed to pretend that they were there willingly
Which is 100% obvious, but the normies went berserk anyway when the saw it

>>42778617
xpm

>>42778812
So a nothingburger, as I expected. They wouldn't have accepted any statement from him besides complete and utter condemnation without any reserved judgment, because they are looking for anything they can use to tar and feather him with. His viewpoints are too "problematic" for the dystopian society we have in current year.

I've been collecting videos all over the internet for the past 5 years, be it movies or TV series and compressing them to HEVC to save up space. I've got over 3TB of movies like that. I watch all movies locally from the MP4 or MKV files and they look and play just fine, and the space save is significant.
Yet for whatever reason, for the past few months I've been having very intrusive thoughts of running through the collection, and redownloading everything, and encoding it in MPEG-2 so it can be fit on a DVD.
Why?
I don't even have a DVD player or recorder. My laptops are capable of decoding and encoding HEVC. So really, what the hell is wrong with me?
It was easier for me with the music, since I just looked for good source that wasn't remastered shit, downloaded it in FLAC and compressed to OPUS.

>>42779943
Use case for DVDs?

>>42780065
Damned if I know.
They suck as medium for constant use, I've been there 15-20 years ago and I know it stinks. They scratch and you also have to rely on mechanical drives that may go out of production one day, just like it happened to VHS.
I'm stupid.

>>42778665
>the founding fathers of open sauce, Richard Stallman,
open source is for niggers
he defended FREE SOFTWARE

up you go

>>42779943
>So really, what the hell is wrong with me?
There is some satisfaction in minimalism. Some take it to the level of reducing functionality/quality to one's own "good enough" levels. Same thing with pretending to live with old tech's constraints. Not entirely sure but you could say that about demoscene and their filesize limits too.
But on the other hoof, I'd say you're probably bored. I saw this is my friends too, some of them jump between projects, e.g. buying one of each game console, then restoring + jailbreaking them just to sit on a shelf. I'm falling out of a short obsession with Meshtastic/MeshCore back to neverending todo list that homelab brings - I needed a break from that for a while to enjoy it again. Similarly, I'm feeling an urge to buy a LibreDrive compatible BD drive and setup a disc ripping station despite having no media on discs at all. Or a DVB-T setup to plug into Jellyfin, despite not watching TV ever. Just for that thrill of having some aspect of tech "fully completed" and ready for use, if it's ever going to be needed.
I wanted to list fixing up my Ender printer here too, but so far I do have some useful things to print and improving the printer would bring me actual value. Such as a Marble Pie statue in a pretty marble filament, or, well, cases for those LoRa nodes.

>>42781348
Thanks for the response.
>buying "ewaste", restoring it only for it to sit on the shelf
Been there, done that with a lot of computers. At my peak a few years ago I had all sort of laptops from 2003-2013, about 50 of them. Sold them with little to no profit, and now I daily drive two not so new ThinkPads.

>>42780217
Closed source software is by its very definition unfree.

>>42781706
open source is about "convenience", not freedom

>>42781824
Not the issue. Open source is part of the solution, just not the complete package. However, closed source software is never a solution in any way whatsoever.

>>42782419
wake me up when it ends..

>>42782540
It never ends, anon.

It never ends.

How do you choose a DE? I'm looking at Debian right now and they literally have a selection of dozens of DEs. I've only tried GNOME (utter shit), KDE (good but seems a bit bloated) and Xfce (pretty sleek but somewhat minimal), how do I know which one is right for me? I'm not going to bother to check them all out.

>>42782858
>they literally have a selection of dozens of DEs
[X] Doubt
Dozens of WMs, sure, but I don't think there even exist more than a dozen full DEs for Linux. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, that one that starts with an E, the one from Pop OS, the shitty one that Ubuntu used to ship (might have been discontinued). Those are all I know of and it's only seven. I'm probably missing one or two, since I want to say there are 5-6 DE options in tasksel in the debian installer, and I only covered 3 or 4 of those

>>42782880
Oh right, some are not really full fledged DEs. I was just going by what was listed besides Desktop on Distrowatch for Debian. I've used several of those "minimal" window managers when I was trying out AntiX for an old system, but I don't really like them, or at least not as a daily driver.

So MATE is not a full DE? What about LXDE/LXQt? I've used that one a couple times and it seems kind of the same in features as something like Xfce. When is something considered a complete DE? What does it need to ship with?

>>42782858
I like KDE. Lots of features, enough niceties, progressively better UX. Gnome could be neat but its pursuit of feature minimalism even at the expense of UX is just incompatible with me. Xfce, LxQT are nice but currently I don't need their kind of minimalism. Cinnamon is cool in its own way, seems featureful and also gets more usable with each month, but it has few devs and arguably is meant to be used with only one OS, which... isn't my favorite distromare at this moment. I don't really care about other DEs currently.
>how do I know which one is right for me? I'm not going to bother to check them all out.
Well... download *ubuntu live ISOs with each DE and check them all out, with or without installing, but keep in mind Ubuntu ships with Gnome patched to restore silly bloat such as min/max window buttons and desktop icons. I think other DEs are mostly intact.
Suffice to say, I'm so displeased with Gnome that I still run KDE on my tablet. I'd much prefer something with bigger elements and more paddings, and yet for all the good things they've borrowed from macOS, there's so much of Gnome's own invention that baffles me.