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marv99@feddit.deto
Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixes@lemmy.ml•Need help getting this MIDI keyboard openDeutsch
3·2 years agoGenaus so ein “Puzzle” hatte ich damals vor mir liegen, aber dank der Photos und ein bisschen Ausprobieren fanden alle Teile (auch gehüpfte Federn) wieder ihren korrekten Platz.
Bei mir hat die Bohrer-Methode immer gut mit meinen normalen Metallbohrern funktioniert. Es gibt anscheinend aber auch spezielle "Schraubenausdreh"bohrer, die u.a. sich beim Auf-/Linksdrehen nicht aus der Schraube drehen.
Mein Vater würde übrigens einfach eine Schraube auf die Schaube schweißen (wenn die Schraube geeignet ist) und dann mit Zange oder Schraubendreher herausdrehen. Damit habe ich aber nur Erfahrung als Zuschauer 😆
marv99@feddit.deto
Do-It-Yourself, Repairs and Fixes@lemmy.ml•Need help getting this MIDI keyboard openEnglish
5·2 years agoHope I have interpreted the photo correctly and this is just a metal screw, that has become to round to be screwed out with a hex wrench.
In such case, I use a drilling machine to carefully drill a small metal-suited drill a few millimeters into the screw. Then I remove the drilling machine and hold the drill (still in the screw) with combination pliers (or similar pliers) and unscrew the metal screw (again carefully).
I hope my translation of the tool names are close enough to understand what I mean :)
In German it would be: Einen Metallbohrer mit Bohrmaschine einige mm in die Schraube bohren, dann mit Kombizange den Bohrer festhalten und zusammen mir Schraube herausdrehen.
EDIT: also please be careful when opening up the keyboard and document your steps with photos. When I repaired a 80s Korg some years ago, there where many parts that could spring out of place, e.g. when lifting the keys.
marv99@feddit.deto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Most of us hate Microsoft, and yet many of us use VSCodeEnglish
2·3 years agoDefinitely dislike MS, generations of my workstations have small, yellow “Microsoft Free Workstation” stickers on their monitors, but VSCodium (in my case) is not really bad.
Also I really like the Xbox360 console and (as a hacker and maker) still love the first Kinnect. The Kinnect is an excellent piece of sensor-hardware, was rather cheap when purchased in used condition and it works very well with Linux.
… and it even runs Doom: POOM - A Doom port running on the PICO-8
Video: POOM Trailer
marv99@feddit.deto
InternetIsBeautiful@feddit.de•A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!English
9·3 years agoIt is never too* late to learn and correct what we hold for true. I like the idea behind this website. Thanks for sharing.
*EDIT: learned & corrected to to too.
marv99@feddit.deto
InternetIsBeautiful@feddit.de•A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!English
17·3 years agoSeveral of the items hit the nail for me (German), too.
May Organic Maps Offline Hike, Bike, GPS Navigation be something for you? (found in https://feddit.de/post/3646471)
marv99@feddit.deto
Fediverse@lemmy.ml•It seems that we lost 200 Lemmy servers yesterdayEnglish
6·3 years agoThe German Feddit was down for quite a while, but if this counts for 200 servers I do not know.
marv99@feddit.deto
InternetIsBeautiful@feddit.de•A List of Open Source Game ClonesEnglish
5·3 years agoThank you very much for sharing 🙂
marv99@feddit.deto
Technology@lemmy.world•Uber was supposed to help traffic. It didn’t. Robotaxis will be even worseEnglish
11·3 years agoYou can start with The Uber files, which “is a global investigation into a trove of 124,000 confidential documents from the tech company that were leaked to the Guardian.”
Summary
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
Some examples:
- The cache of more than 124,000 internal Uber files lays bare the ethically questionable practices through which the company barged its way into new markets, often where existing laws or regulations made its operations illegal, before lobbying aggressively for those same laws or regulations to be altered to accommodate it. Read here
- Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries. Read here
- Two of Barack Obama’s most senior presidential campaign advisers, David Plouffe and Jim Messina, discussed helping Uber get to access leaders, officials and diplomats. Read here
- At least six UK government ministers, including the then chancellor, George Osborne, and the future health secretary Matt Hancock, did not declare secret meetings at which they were lobbied by Uber. Read here
- The inside story of how Uber used its connections to the Conservative party to lobby Boris Johnson in a rearguard effort to stop Transport for London introducing new regulations. Read here
- One of Uber’s top executives quit amid questions for the company about whether its European operations were structured in a way that avoided tax. Read here
- Uber secretly hired a political operative linked to Russian oligarchs allegedly aligned with Vladimir Putin in an attempt to secure its place in the Russian market, despite internal bribery concerns. Read here
[…]
As Bonus some older articles about their overall ethics and practices:
- Harvard Business Review: Uber Can’t Be Fixed - It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down
- NY Times: How Uber Deceives the Authorities Worldwide paywalled | archived article
- The Verge This is Uber’s playbook for sabotaging Lyft
- BuzzFeed: Uber Executive Suggests Digging Up Dirt On Journalists
- Business Insider: Uber has lost its licence to operate in London … as “Uber was not “fit and proper” to hold a licence”
- Business Insider: France was right to punish Uber, according to a top European legal adviser | archived article
marv99@feddit.deto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Happy Software Freedom Day [16th of September 2023]
1·3 years agoThank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.
As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.
marv99@feddit.deto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Happy Software Freedom Day [16th of September 2023]English
5·3 years agoLooks like a really nice and useful initiative.
Suggestion to the owners of the SFD webpage
I would appreciate the SFD initiative even more, if on the SFD webpage you would “live by your own words”.

Facebook and the blue bird are by no means free software, also not according to your definitions “free to study [how the program works]”, “free to distribute [copies]”, “free to modify [the software]”, “free to access [the source code]”.
So why not at least show the benefits and use FOSS social media alternatives in action?
If you need the momentum of the unfree social media, you still could do this additionally.
Thank you very much for sharing, this page is really great!
Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑🏫
Or … 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓
(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)
I know what you mean, but who are this “double click” and “exe” guys?
- Press
RUN/STOPandSHIFT. -
PRESS PLAY ON TAPE
- Press
PLAYon tape. -
OK
SEARCHING
FOUND Ultimate Game II - Take walk with the dog.
- Play game.
- Press
marv99@feddit.deOPtounix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.works•Before Mac OS X: What Was NeXTSTEP, and Why Did People Love It? (Published Nov 7, 2020)
2·3 years agoDo you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (
find,grep) was fast?Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian?
At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).
marv99@feddit.deOPtounix like operating system lovers@sh.itjust.works•Before Mac OS X: What Was NeXTSTEP, and Why Did People Love It? (Published Nov 7, 2020)
4·3 years agoThanks alot for the details.
Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices.
What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.
















Your question reminded my immediately about one of my favorite 35c3 talks Butterbrotdosen-Smartphone - Mein DIY-Smartphone-Bau from 2018-12-29. It is in German language, but has an English translation, too. Maybe it can give you some good starting ideas?
Video: 1080p
Story, Translated with DeepL.com (free version)