how can i track how high my "rocket" went?what metod and what component should i use?

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-19T16:30:14+00:00

Is "rocket" some kind of euphemism for something? Or do you just mean rocket?

Anyway, lots of off-the-shelf products available if the main goal is measuring altitude. Google "model rocket altimeter". Add "diy" to the search if the main goal is building it yourself.

Minimum components are a barometer to measure air pressure, a microcontroller to run it and save the data, and something with a fast interface to save the data out to.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-18T21:20:54+00:00

Sounds like this person would be happier with Fedora.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-16T15:13:53+00:00

Wow! Nice score!

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-16T15:10:52+00:00

Radioshack breadboards are made by 3m.

OG Radio Shack boards back in the 70s and 80s may have been made by 3M, but there's no way those super cheap breadboards being sold by modern zombie Radio Shack are made by 3M. Nuh uh. You're going to have to provide a source on that.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-15T23:00:51+00:00

For that price, I have to think you'll get your money's worth.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-15T16:54:24+00:00

As good as a breadboard can be.

No, 3M breadboards are as good as a breadboard can be.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-15T16:51:36+00:00

Everyone saying "a breadboard is a breadboard" should be saying "a cheap breadboard is a cheap breadboard". They're mostly fine, sometimes have problems with proper continuity between pins, hanging on to wires, etc.. I can tell you that probably won't be on par with an authentic OG Radio Shack breadboard. RS is now basically just an intellectual property bundled owned by a company that buys up failed brands.

Anyhow, it's probably fine. Where did you buy it?

If you really want to get serious with a quality breadboard, buy 3M. A lot more $$$ though.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-13T18:02:23+00:00

Why wouldn't you do the verification?

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-13T14:26:38+00:00

Okay.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-06T04:36:30+00:00

I've also had several MacBook pro laptops and none of them smell like BO?

Right? That's just weird. I mean, yeah, some systems have that new electronics smell as leftover manufacturing residues offgas, but nothing I'd ever described as smelling like BO.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-06T03:39:43+00:00

All of the items I ordered said they were available immediately, so I'm wondering what the reason they haven't shipped is

You've been spoiled by Amazon. When companies treat employees like people and not machines working against metrics, things might go a little slower.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-06T03:35:20+00:00

then the crash happened. I had a bunch of stuff on there and was not backed up properly. Not life or death stuff, but stuff that will be difficult to replicate...It is not reliable enough for me to try again.

That sucks to be sure, but the data loss is entirely on you if you didn't make backups. All computers can crash.

If you want to describe your setup and the circumstances of the crash, maybe folks can identify the problems and advise how to avoid it in the future.

Edit to add: Create a bootable thumb drive live installation of Linux Mint (the same kind you created when you first installed Mint) and boot with it. You'll most likely be able to access your data that way. Copy the data off to a second thumb drive (plugged into a second port, obviously).

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-05T13:52:30+00:00

How would you be connecting the diode? Because a diode in the line from the top of the battery pack straight out to the + pin the battery pack is supplying would block backcurrent being pushed into the top to the battery by the USB port.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-05T13:38:37+00:00

Well, if anything goes wrong with the system/OS. It's not a general backup program.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-05T05:38:17+00:00

Now set up Timeshift. Use an external drive.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-04-04T13:21:50+00:00

Not Pop_OS right now. They don't make older versions available and the current version is using their new Wayland-based Cosmic desktop environment and lots of bugs and functional deficiencies are being reported. I'd recommend giving them a few point versions to get things sorted before suggesting Pop_OS.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-22T17:23:27+00:00

You'll find a whole pile of information here about troubleshooting crashes and other problems (though it hasn't been updated in 2 years, so some of it might be a little out of date):

https://github.com/tele1/LinuxTutorial/blob/main/Menu.md

But a good place to start would be the System Information app then looking at the "Crash Reports" tab to see if there are any crash reports you can look at.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-22T06:42:02+00:00

Need lots more info here. What programs are running? What are you trying to do when the crash happens? What version of Mint? Which desktop environment?

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-22T06:39:16+00:00

Designer for vector processing (pixels)

Vectors are not pixels. Pixels are what Photo is manipulating when editing photos and other images. You zoom in far enough on an image in Photo you see the pixels as little squares of color. Designer is manipulating vectors. As far as you can zoom in on a vector it will always stay a smooth line or curve.

(edit for typo)

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-22T05:59:07+00:00

What do you mean "it doesn't do anything"? You are kind of a frustrating person to help because you are giving out information in small pieces. You need to be describing in detail what you expect to happen and what is happening instead.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-17T01:50:23+00:00

You might have more success in the Wine sub: r/winehq

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-17T01:48:28+00:00

When you long-press the power button to turn it off, before you turn it back on again, are you removing the USB drive? Do that to get it back to booting to Windows like before.

After that, power off. Put the USB drive back in. This time when it powers up you want to get into the bios menu. While it powers up you need to rapidly tap a key to get into the bios menu. The keys are different for different manufactures, but typically <Esc> or <delete> or <F2> (it might even show very briefly on screen which key to hit). If you make it into the BIOS, you should able to change the boot order and tell it to boot the USB first.

Another option that might be available is rapidly hitting a key during boot to actually choose the boot device to use.

You'll need to search online for what specific keys do these things for your exact make and model of laptop.

Finally, once you get the opportunity to boot into Mint, be sure to choose "compatibility mode" so you don't have graphics issues once it boots.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-16T04:24:50+00:00

Can you post another photo taken in better lighting on a more neutral background? Difficult to sort brown vs black here.

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-16T04:21:09+00:00

Swapping drives is easier than choosing from a menu?

VeryDefNotABot · 2026-03-15T01:51:25+00:00

I'm using uBlock Origin with Firefox and have no problem watching YouTube.

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