Consequence:

Software can only be good, when enough people WANT to work on it and with it along the complete life-cycle. There’s a critical amount of developers/contributors/testers and (feedback providing) users.

Hence a lot of critical consumer stuff is based on popular opensource.

Also, we’re entering an aera where the difference between hardware/firmware/software gets increasingly blurred. So all of this applies to more and more hardware, too.

Time to join the dark side.

You don’t need Windows. You don’t need this job. No one will ever force the Windows upon you *handwave*

great catch! Thanks for posting this.

• do one thing and do it well

byebye unix principles

and typically should sound much better than direct analog connection.

What would that improve? Builtin DACs already do a great job unless you are going to sample/process the output again in a studio environment.

input the PC audio into a home audio receiver/amp and use the headphone output from that to drive the headphones?

You not only can but depending on your amp it probably outperforms the average headphone amp in every aspect.

Also decent loudspeakers + cheap amp (+ cheap subwoofer) will likely outperform your average PC-Speakers.

Zorin

Not sure if I’d trust an OS named like a Bond villain.

I find too verbose comments less annoying than no comments.

Try to describe the bigger picture. Good comments allow understanding the current portion of the code without reading other code.

Also add comments later if you find yourself having to read other code to understand the code you’re currently looking at.

Comments are also a good place to write out abrevations/acronyms.

Never optimize for sourcecode size.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_programming might be an interesting read.

check carefully what you signed. If you didn’t sign anything saying otherwise, there’s nothing to prevent you from doing it.

If there’s something, you could still work around it (e.g. remove company secrets).

If the resulting product is provable better, then it’s objectively not the same thing you did for your boss.

After checking all of this, your local FSF might give you free legal advice to get going (keep all notes/correspondence secure for later if anything comes up. It proves you tried to act responsibly).

Sure it’s cancellation fees? This doesn’t seem legal.

your own fault. get a nuclear reactor next time d’uh…

yep. IF sleep/idle/s2r/wakeup would work decently, it would already be a step in the right direction.

I want a PI zero that can run off small batteries for a long time. Form factor, prize, ecosystem is all perfect. But power consumption (even with WIFI etc. turned off)… is-too-damn-high.jpg

munin is the veteran of monitoring. It offers an easy plugin API, graphs and alerts. I use it for everything (temperarure, stock prices, API of the local water park etc.) since with curl, jq + bash you can create a plugin in minutes (or any other language you like).

There are much more modern solutions, just putting it here in case you want some low maintenance, tried & proven, rock solid solution that “just works”. It’s written in perl and maintained by a nice community.