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OK folks of Mastodonland, I finally dug out my "small" induction launcher that I built well over 20 years ago.

It consists of 16 capacitors, 3600uf @ 350vdc each. 8 each are wired in parallel to form two banks, which are then wired in series, giving 700v. Then two of those in series for 1400v (~3.5kJ). An SCR triggers discharge into a pancake coil, and a large diode prevents back-emf from killing the SCR.

In this demo, you see what happens with just 44vdc...now imagine a full 1400vdc... And then imagine my larger 24kJ bank.....

Last month Apple previewed a bunch of new features coming to Spotlight that could make third-party apps like Raycast less useful on Macs. So maybe it's not surprising that Raycast has launched a new beta for Windows. notebookcheck.net/One-of-the-b #Raycast #Launcher #RaycastForWindows #macOS #Spotlight

Notebookcheck · One of the best productivity tools for macOS now comes to Windows 11By Vaidyanathan Subramaniam
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Of course, a #launcher is a launcher is a launcher... and I already have one of those. It's called #Steam.

But vendors want to run their own show, and that's why we have a UI that stutters this badly - and because of the time it takes to download, it'll continue pounding the DRI with crap behaviour, making the entire desktop stutter at the same time.

But yeah, that's the launcher client and not the game itself. Let's see how this goes...

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@tron yes, and in essence all it needs is to be a more convenient version if @tails_live / @tails / #Tails with like @nextcloud / #Nextcloud integration for seamless sync (with like an encrypted /home for caching and convenience...

Maybe add #Dayon as convenient #RemoteDesktop solution and a basic #AutoUpdater (& Terminal) to it.

I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

  • But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

  • I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

  • It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

  • Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...

Hilfe zu #ebookreader mit besserer Startseite:
Ich suche jetzt schon eine Weile, und bevor ich einfach etwas nur auf Verdacht installiere, frage ich hier:
Meine Frau wünscht sich für einen älteren #Tolino eine bessere Startseite: mehr als nur Klick auf alle Bücher, evtl. Sammlungen, vllt. sowas wie beim Kobo. Es gibt #Launcher-Apps, um andere Reader-Apps zu starten. Aber kann ich das "Bücherregal" ändern? Am besten so, dass es direkt nach Start angezeigt wird? Nach welchen Apps suche ich da?

PS. Erledigt: https://lawnchair.app/



Was ist denn ein Launcher, der flüssig läuft, ohne Tracking, nicht minimalistisch ist, aber auch nicht versucht wie EMUI (Huawei) oder Bliss Launcher (e-OS) iOS nachzubauen?

Letzteres ist von der Bedienung her gruselig.

Was auch echt nicht geht: Wirklich alle Apps auf dem Homescreen, die sich auch noch automatisch immer oben links anordnen.

Letzteres ist noch fieser.

Features: Widgets, keine automatischen zweiten Screens, Ordner.
Keine Suchleiste, keine extra Leiste am Boden, es sei denn sie kann Ordner aufnehmen.

#Android #Launcher
lawnchair.appLawnchairThe official website of Lawnchair Launcher, the customizable Pixel Launcher.

An other issue with the #bliss #launcher is that upon resizing a widget, it floods the OS with request to update the widget view.

On older phones (tested on Samsung s5 aka klte), it blocks the phone for several minutes to handle all the flooded update requests.

#TinyWeatherForecastGermany

After some struggling, I managed to make all the four widgets also look acceptable with the #android #bliss #launcher , which is default on /e/OS.

Hope you folks using /e/OS appreciate that.

The point is that the #bliss #launcher is buggy and returns completely implausible widget sizes, on which one cannot rely when calculating the layout.

The #widgets will resize better on other launchers, but now they at least look acceptable with the #bliss #launcher.