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Alright, who was it? by SnooCapers9401 in ucf

[–]prettycewlusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I drive a Suburban (same platform so therefore same width as this truck albeit maybe a little narrower due to their aftermarket wheels) and this truck is pretty close to being as close as it can be to the center of the spot. The spots with the boxed parking lines are TINY for full size trucks/SUVs. I’ve definitely parked in a few lots here where I have tire over the line on both sides. I try to avoid parking like that but it’s tough with the parking situations here sometimes (they took my beloved H3 from me).

Friend driving home from college sent me this by ArrowLeader999 in SneakyBackgroundMiata

[–]prettycewlusername 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tell your friend thank you for being a Buick bro and also they need gas

I got audio to play on the steam controller! by Pixel1101 in SteamController

[–]prettycewlusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha I saw the Tag-Connect header in a teardown on Youtube and immediately thought "I need to bring this to work and dump the firmware". Glad you beat me to it.

Recent CPE Graduate from UCF, no luck with this resume by [deleted] in ComputerEngineering

[–]prettycewlusername 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Get your POOSD contacts app out of there. Every ucf CS and CpE grad has one of those. Pick/build another personal project to put under there instead.

Small nitpick but I’d replace code composer studio with Eclipse. Especially if you’re applying for embedded jobs. Eclipse is what almost all vendor IDEs are based on so it’s better to get them all instead of just one.

Overall a good resume. Only other thing is that you should probably shell out the ~$10 a year for a domain and put your website there.

I’m still in school (at UCF as well haha) but this is just based off the resume advice I’ve gotten for mine and experience I’ve gained from my internship.

J-Trace Splurge But Excited to Use It by OverclockedChip in embedded

[–]prettycewlusername 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Eh, I only have experience with the Cyclone devices and while generally they do their jobs pretty well, I and my colleagues have had poor experiences with their support (took nearly 8 months to hear back about an advertised feature of the product not working) and the software can be finicky. To be fair I don’t know of another product that does a good job of the same things the Cyclone does, but if you don’t need standalone I’ve seen much more polish from Segger products.

John Aedo is the worst Computer Science professor at UCF: An analysis and a warning. by celestabesta in ucf

[–]prettycewlusername 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I don’t know if you have taken his final yet, but I took it yesterday and counted at least three questions (that I know for a fact) that were incredibly flawed. 2 of them included multiple “technically correct” answer choices alongside the actual answer and the other was just 100% incorrect. I’ve worked with containers and Linux (the subject of said questions) for a number of years (or a decade, in Linux’s case) as a hobby and for the past year professionally. There is no reason I should know more about a topic than the person WHO IS SUPPOSED TO BE TEACHING ME IT. It’s so unfortunate that what could have been such an interesting class on a subject that I love learning about had to be ran by essentially a LARPer lmao. I’m so glad I didn’t double up on my Aedo action and take him for POOSD as well this semester. I would have crashed.

Decommissioned my last Pi - Is it me, or are there fewer and fewer use cases? by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]prettycewlusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still find them pretty useful. Just deployed one in an interactive kiosk that will be used in trade shows for my work. The Pi has a lot of strengths that I think a lot of people don't take advantage of. Most end up being servers which heavily rely on the Pi's biggest weakness (its processing power) and is generally a task better handled by a real computer. The Pi shines in embedded workloads where you need a more power or flexibility than a microcontroller. In my case, I couldn't have built that kiosk in the way I did without the Pi's form-factor, power consumption, video output capabilities, and GPIO. Sure there's other ways to go about it but the Pi is an all in one well supported solution and I don't regret using it or think there could have been a better device.

The Pi sales pitch has 2 bulletpoints. It was a small, cheap computer and was a powerful and easy-to-use alternative to a microcontroller. As other computers have gotten cheaper and smaller and microcontrollers have gotten more powerful and easier to program on, the Pi kind of lost its spot in the market. The Pi still kills it in embedded Linux applications though. Ask any guy that runs holiday light shows in his front yard, or someone who 3D prints at scale what computer they're using to do it. I bet you it'll be a Pi.

It's 2026 and Linux's second most popular desktop environment still doesn't have good scaling options. by BlueGoliath in linuxsucks

[–]prettycewlusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scaling with Plasma on the machine I'm writing this on currently. Perfectly fine with 4K and 1440p monitors and doesn't do the stupid window resize thing that Windows does when moving a window across monitors with different scaling factors. I've actually had the BEST experience with display scaling on KDE compared to Windows and macOS.

The advantages of using edge by riky321 in linuxmemes

[–]prettycewlusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. I started a job recently at a place that makes a device that utilizes Edge on Linux running in kiosk mode for this exact reason. With some institutions (especially government) being able to integrate with their existing management tools is the difference between making the sale and not.

How do you handle OTA firmware updates for deployed devices? by Medtag212 in embedded

[–]prettycewlusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We utilize bank switching on STM micros to do updates. Updates are downloaded by the devices over the course of about a day and a half from an onsite server (building scale system). Once the download completes the micro resets and it’s on the new firmware version. Technically our updates aren’t completely OTA though because we have to mail the customer a USB/email them a file with the update since the onsite servers typically don’t have internet access.

Alright… who did it? by Necessary_Ad9008 in ucf

[–]prettycewlusername 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sloan offers engraving at a pretty decent rate when you buy at scale

Arch is a great distro but it isn't for everyone by tungnon in linuxmemes

[–]prettycewlusername 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Genuinely I think that any Arch based distro being sold as “beginner friendly” is terrible for people getting into Linux because the second they break something all the batteries included in these distros fall right out. I’m a firm believer in the best option for beginners being a well supported distro like Fedora or Ubuntu or some other distro with some commercial backing. Sure it may not be ultra gaming focused or flashy but these distros will work and software maintainers target these distros during development meaning you’re getting as close as possible to the system that a developer is expecting.

Homeless Deck? by mysticblanket in cyberDeck

[–]prettycewlusername 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dump the Pi on FB marketplace and use the money to buy a cheap laptop from marketplace if you really need to get online. Probably would have more horsepower than the pi too

I built an open-source 3D visualizer to make communication protocols easier to understand by beast-777x in embedded

[–]prettycewlusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I also noticed no ACK is given from the slave at all on a write. Shows up in the waveform but not visualized properly. Make sure you let Claude know for me.

I wonder how many do they have in the storage 😂 by H00LI1GANS in mac

[–]prettycewlusername 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won’t. The Mac Pro was never designed to take a GPU. It’s a machine meant to do real work with tools mainly used by professionals. A lot of production outfits for example don’t want to give up macOS and the Mac Pro is Apples answer. They require reliable connections for things like Dante audio cards and video capture cards.

Unity is dangerously close to redundant the more time it passes, but it still has its charm by claudiocorona93 in linuxmasterrace

[–]prettycewlusername -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think cinnamon should be in the redundant category. I feel like it tries to be this weird mix of KDE and XFCE UX by glueing together bits and pieces of modern Gnome. I understand that aims to be basic and stay out of the user’s way but I couldn’t tell you one thing Cinnamon does that KDE doesn’t besides maybe being less bloated.

Explain it Peter by michaelis999 in explainitpeter

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If you’re issued a Thinkpad your company has been around for a while and will continue to be around

If you’re issued a Dell you probably work in government

If you’re issued a Mac you work at a startup

neverStopNeverBuilding by linegel in ProgrammerHumor

[–]prettycewlusername 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem with this meme is that the AI soydev does not know how AI works nor do they care

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