Dear fediverse , what kind of a connector is this?

40 pin, 0.5mm pitch, motherboard side, going to an eDP display panel.

I'd like to buy the socket, but nothing I've seen quite matches the shape.

Uhhh, I have a strange request. If you own a bread knife with a flat-sided handle in your kitchen, and calipers or something else that will measure to the nearest millimetre or so, and want something to do for 30 seconds, could you tell me how thick the handle is?

Yes, I'd like to collect some random samples of bread knife handle widths. Doesn't matter what brand, what it looks like, how long the blade is or where in the world you are.

I will explain later. Boosts appreciated.

#askfedi I have a small web site with a couple decades of rants and technical notes. It is entirely [and intentionally] written in HTML and CSS with no ads, cookies, or scripts... with typical page sizes of <100kb. I do not care about generating revenue or SEO.

These days I am pretty disappointed with the ever-increasing garbage scrapers, AI scrapers, Wordpress attacks, and general screwery I see in my logs. I'd like to hear some suggestions of alternative ways to present my content that avoids the constant pounding from annoying traffic. I am perfectly happy to #selfhost a solution and would want to run it on a small Linux VPS.

I have looked at Gemini and while I like it in concept, the lack of inline links and images is just too scaled back for me. I could maybe put up with it if the clients had MUCH better styling options, but they just don't.

Sometimes I come across an article online that I want to print to read offline or for future reference.

However, printing a website to A4 usually creates one single column of text that stretches the entire page from left to right, which is terrible to read.

I'd like to have the option to print a two or three column layout like it is in a magazine, but I can't find an extension or service that creates something like this.

Does anyone know if this even exists?

Dear Japanese speakers of Fedi,

I'm making a square stamp to sign my sumi-e drawings (it won't be signing anything official).

What I'd like to know is what order the katakana should be, to look like a normal modern signature:

ラア
スム

アラ
ムス

アム
ラス

Hey all, got some questions.

I see in F-Droid that there are "launchers" for android, and they seem to change the appearance of the dashboard.

1. Does a device have to be rooted to use these?
2. Do these replace the original, or can I swap back and forth?
3. Does vanilla Android foul up after one uses these? As in, did it move something around/change something and
4. Would it void my warranty?
5. Can one switch back and forth?

I feel like I have others...

#AskFedi #FediAdmin: What’s the system hostname of the server running your Fediverse instance?

Are there any streamers here who could advise on creating a stream that doesn’t drop out?

Being new to this I’m aware it could be a multitude of things but I don’t know where to start.

I’m using OBS and Owncast. I’m wondering if the issue is an under spec’ed computer? Whilst I’m making the stream on an M1 Mac, Owncast is actually running from an i5 ThinkCentre on Debian (Yunohost).

So there’s a LAN in the mix too.

Happy for boosts!

I wonder what is going on with my #nix setup (as a package manager within Linux). Regular nix-env installs do not resolve the right package, but flakes seem to work.

Should we all start using flakes? If I start using flakes, I cannot use the nix-env command without rolling back.