That's in line with my experience of Linux: whatever I try I always endup editind strange configuration files or adding command line parameters,... I wonder how people who do not have 40 years of experience with computers can succeed in configuring touchscreen, midi, or a EPROM programmer on LINUX.

With a switch like this one you are sure the PC will not spontaneously switch on to install unwanted upgrades

Here is a Python version

Repairing a portable computer external power supply module on Monday. It had been unplugged the whole week-end so sure the capacitors must be discharged.....

well,... Ouch they were still charged

I always hated that the 74LS247 did not support Hexadecimal display. Why does this chip display garbage for numbers above 9 instead of displaying AbCdEF (note the b and d in lowercase to avoid confusion with 8 and 0 ).

There was at that time a chip displaying correct hex but it very expensive

Now I want to write a car game on my 16x16 LED display 🤦

I had this discussion at work today:

Me : "Why did you write 22°C instead of 25°C for room temperature?"

My colleague : "25°C is regulated room temperature. I use 22°C because this test is at unregulated room temperature"

I have my own solution to make a standard protoboard fit on the #arduino header spacing

Beautiful, when I was a kid I wanted one.
Today, I built devices in the same spirit.

On ne dit pas "Le scenario est un peu plic ploc" on dit la "trame narrative est désordonnée" (entendu à la sortie de l'animé "Anzu Chat fantôme" )

now I want to build a 6502 computer to test it 🤦‍♀️

I remember the time when You bought a portable computer with no software installed at all and you had to write your own programs in assembler or BASIC.

Now we are not allowed anymore to write our own software. that's not acceptable!

I wanted an #acorn Archimedes A440 (but it was nearly impossible to find one outside the U.K.), I wanted and Apple 2GS (but, as usual for Apple, it was too expensive). In the end I got a 80286 clone because I thought it would be useful to know MS-DOS3.0 to get a job.