Bilbo Bagshot : I used to know this guy, Minty. He had a dog who he'd train to attack rich people. He was into the whole class-war thing. He called the dog Gramsci after an Italian Marxist. Rumor has it, it could smell wealth from up to 20 feet. The thing is, it all backfired. Minty won 100 grand on a scratchcard and Gramsci bit his knees off.
Tim : That's terrible.
Bilbo Bagshot : Not really. He used the money to buy new knees.
I’d like to build a carport. It will basically just be a shed roof extending off the front of my garage. I’ll need a beam, as thin as possible, to span 22 feet from side to side....
22 ft unsupported seems like a very long span to me, what's that nearly 7 metres?
Sounds like it's getting into the realm of structural enginneering not diy for me.
If you want to save costs you might think aout a "flitch beam", that's 2 wood beams with a steel plate sandwiched in between - the three components are bolted together every few feet. Easier to join to the timbers then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWUNd559UQY
I still think you might be more like 10"x2 or even 12"x2 timbers to cover that span if totally unsupported. But might still come in a little cheaper than the i-beam.
Maybe the roof will be very lightweight and no snow weight is expected - but I'm no structural engineer so don't take my word for it.
Other features like corner bracing or canti-leverage, or some other support structure or other feature (like is it the bottom side of a framed gable triangle) might also help.
Hey :) I want to play one audio source on the right ear of my headphones und one audio source on the left ear. Does somebody knows an application that can do that....
Generally studio/mixer/DJ audio tools like audacity or mixxx will probably do most stuff like this.
But they might be a bit overkill, I think you could just use two instances of VLC.
Change "stereo output mode" setting, to left on on instance and right on the a second instance.
I'm not sure if this will blend left and right signals before output though I'd guess it probably would.
In a world where nothing seems to work anymore, especially anything related to tech and/or customer service, getting on my laptop running Linux Mint just feels like a breath of fresh air. And that goes for just about any distro. It's nice to have something that works as it should and doesn't seem to go out of its way to cause...
Bazzite isn't an exact clone of SteamOS 3, but its functionality is virtually identical to Valve's operating system. On the surface, Bazzite features an identical desktop experience to SteamOS 3. Thanks to the integration of KDE Plasma — a customizable Linux desktop environment, and Valve's KDE themes from SteamOS, Bazzite...
Hello there. I'm a beginner so keep that in mind. I have an old laptop (something like 10 yo). It has an HDD, 4 gigs of DDR3, an i3 4th gen 1.7 GHz and an NVidia Geforce 710M (Windows Game Ready Driver 391.35 WHQL which I think doesn't support Wayland). It also has CSM BIOS so yeah. It has the option of UEFI but the GeForce (I...
i don't think my preferences line up with what you're after, so maybe ignore this. . . .
i'd recommend explaining computers youtube and website for beginners - he'll give you much better advice than me https://yewtu.be/channel/UCbiGcwDWZjz05njNPrJU7jA
but FWIW i reckon mint+xfce. will give you "easy" and "decent performance on old hardware"
you can try out the more flashy d.e s on a usb boot drive see if you think the features are worth it on your setup.
always remember it's easy and cheap to experiment.
get yourself a system for backing up your "home" directory, - a couple usb drives is easy enough.
and i'd also recommend starting a text file list of all programs/packages you like to install.
you can make it into a bash "sudo apt get " script (for debian based) if you're feeling super lazy.
, or just run through it manually whenever you switch.
also do the SSD upgrade as soon as you can afford it, it'll make everything a lot better
Karl Barx gets it. ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14787769
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