Made a few more back in the day, part and parcel of gaming fandom, along with map textures and skins..you know. Now I've seen some lads doing similar raster art with their Fortnites and their Apex Legends heroes, so I suppose as idea is not really out of the loop....vector art on the other hand would be a tougher breed and requires a deeper set of skills, of course.

One key to keeping software projects and the surrounding communities healthy is keeping friction for all audiences to a minimum.

3d printing thread

If several people here in the forum like Spooky and I use a 3D printer, a thread or category would be interesting.
Printer settings (fan speed, pad and needle temperature) Pad glue or primer which brand e.g
Print templates, with support structure and if any .. triangle .etc

"The paradox of the war in Ukraine is that the West is both more united and less influential in the world than ever before," commented Mark Leonard, co-author and ECFR Director, on the findings of the report, titled "The West United, by Separated from the Rest of the World: International Opinion after a Year of War in Ukraine”.

Together with Ivan Krastev from the Center for Liberal Strategies and Timothy Garton Ash, who teaches at the University of Oxford and Stanford University, he analyzed data from China, India, Turkey, Russia, the USA and ten European countries. Specifically, these are Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and the non-EU country Great Britain. The data was collected by the institutes Datapraxis, YouGov, Gallup and Norstat.

Do people fall in love with good looks or a great personality?

What about you?

Which is more important? Why?

What is your main weakness?

How do you try to overcome it?

Have you taken part in a structured debate? What issue was debated? If not, do you think you would be good at debating in a formal way?

I have a few older Macs lying around that I've been looking for good uses for. My college laptop was a 2012 and it was pretty decent for its time (doesn't receive software updates anymore, stuck on Catalina. Opencore works for more recent versions, but I prefer having older OS versions on older hardware anyway).

I also have a 2017 that was a work laptop at one point, and it's a dual core model much like the 2012 (although with a much higher clock speed and a newer architecture, so it performs noticeably better). I don't have any PCs laying around anymore and missed having an Ubuntu computer, so rather than going up to a pawn shop to buy a cheap laptop, I figured I'd throw Ubuntu on this thing instead.

Despite this thing being a Mac, Ubuntu has actually worked quite well on it. I had to install a few custom kernel modules to fix bluetooth and speaker drivers, and had to fix a couple of issues with it crashing on suspend and using too much power for the CPU (tlp fixed this, Mac has a bad battery so unexpected shutdowns can occur if the processor tries to draw too much).

Aside for a few things that required manual fixes, it's been working more smoothly than I expected. I like Ubuntu/Gnome 3 better than Mac OS (it's very Mac-like but much less cluttered), and it's been snappier than Mac OS has been on a dual core processor.

Anyone else ever installed Linux onto Mac hardware? How well did it run?