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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

This is my first time manufacturing a circuit board with PCBWay. It's pretty cool how you can see every step of production live. It's a breakout board for flashing the Valetudo firmware onto a vacuum robot. It's supposed to be delivered from China by Friday […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Screenshot of the PCBWay website listing every step of producing a printed circuit board with a corresponding timestamp. The current step is "AOI", the last step was "Etching".

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

I made a little very specific program that you probably only need if you are me. I keep getting sidetracked during work. With nobody to judge me and nothing to interrupt my tangents I do a lot of interesting things throughout the day but none of them are the […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Dialog window.
Title: Honest Timer
Text: Are you doing work right now?
Option: Yes, I am!
Option: No, I will get back to it.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026

Ikea knows the way to my heart. Our new kitchen counter surface looks and feels like untreated wood, but is actually completely fake and waterproof. And yes, I know Ikea probably isn't the most sustainable source for wooden products, but please give me a break […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Close up photo of the counter surface with a teaspoon for scale.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

I just received my shipment of fine #art by @nuwara_gray from Japan👌🖼️✨

Photo of an artbook, an acrylic stand and various CD-sized cards featuring various anime/manga style characters.

Close up of the acrylic stand featuring a character playing an electric guitar.

Close up of the artbook and a bonus black and white print.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

In case you ever wondered what it costs to sell an item on Ebay Australia but with a German Ebay account. Yes, that's entirely possible and the system handles it all beautifully. Kudos to the programmers who had to work this out. As you can probably see, I'm […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Item Price $5.00
Shipping $7.28
Handling $2.00
Revenue $14.28

Variable Fee 12.18% -$1.74
International Fee 1.60% -$0.23
Fixed Fee -$0.27
↓
Total Net Fees -$2.24
Tax On Fees 19.00% -$0.43
Shipping Cost -$7.28
Packaging Cost $35.80 -$1.79
Promotions 10.00% -$1.43
Cost of Revenue -$13.16

Proceeds AUD $1.12
EXR ECB 0.57117 0.64 €
EXR eBay 0.55396 0.62 €
Exchange Fee -0.02 €

Proceeds EUR 0.62 €

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Slightly religious occurence this Christmas morning.

A photo of the ocean during cloudy weather. The sun is breaking through the clouds, illuminating the water surface in a particular spot, creating a divine vibe.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Merry Christmas from the Beach! 🇦🇺🎄

A photo of Cronulla Beach, Sydney, Australia at sunrise.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

I just finished Guild Wars: Prophecies. It took me 19.5 years. I created my first character way back when the game was new, but I never finished the campaign. The upcoming Reforged update got me interested again. Together with a friend and 3 very friendly […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Screenshot of Guild Wars. A character is standing on a beach. In the background is a tent and some rock formations. The name tags of two dozen other players can be seen.
The chat window is showing the following text in green: "You have played this character for 222 hours 1 minute over the past 234 months. Across all characters, you have played for 299 hours 3 minutes over the past 234 months. You have been in this map for 10 minutes."
(The user interface is enlarged for demonstration purposes)

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

I'm in Australia right now. I can boot my home PC via Wake On LAN to access my files if I have to. I placed a webcam in front of it so that I can verify that it actually does so. It's weird seeing my computer 16.500 km away from me. It feels like my own little […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Webcam capture of a completely dark room. The brightest thing is a large monitor displaying a linux console. In front of it, a drinking glass can be made out. Below the monitor, a keyboard is lit up in green.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

[Loud Audio] Here's a very crunchy video of Guano Apes - Big In Japan that was embedded on one of my thrift store CDs! It was originally encoded with the ancient Cinepak codec and it's timestamp is 30 March 2000. I converted it to WebM to post it here, but […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

@sqfmi Update: I fixed it! 🎉 Not too shabby of a job either, if I dare say so myself. #Repair #DIY #Electronics #Watchy

Photo of the same circuit board with two green wires soldered in.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

Thanks to the published CAD files, I figured out how to fix the buttons on my @sqfmi Watchy. Some vias are corroded due to moisture, most likely from rain. In theory, all I have to do is solder two little jumper wires without dislodging any other components […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of the circuit board of a Watchy v1 ePaper smart watch. On top of the photo, an orange and a blue line have been drawn to illustrate connections to be made.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

I always wondered why my 3900X with 64 MB of cache performs so much worse than a 5700X3D with 96 MB of cache. It's only ⅓ more cache, after all. Well, `lstopo` had the answer. The cache is split into 4 chunks (CCXs), so a single thread only really has 16 MB of […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Screenshot of the "lstopo" utility. It displays a block diagram of the CPU topology. There are various rectangles of slightly different colour.

There are 12 cores with 2 threads each, but the cores are organised in 4 chunks of 3. Each chunk shares 16 MB of L3 cache.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

I only took one more picture today as my little vacation with my friends is coming to an end. We had a great time. Using a linux phone was surprisingly boring. I mean that in the most positive way. Using a phone should be boring, because it should just work […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of a small yacht pier at the german north sea coast. There are a few boats with the sea in the background.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

Here are some more pictures I took today on my OnePlus 6T running #postmarketOS :) Yes, these were taken in 2025. #Linux #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

Photo of a building with a nice garden in front

Photo of a cobbled street in a small northern town

Foto of a docked fisher boat near wadden sea

Photo of a row of beer swing top bottles

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2025

Shot on #postmarketOS <3 Let's be honest: They are kinda shitty, but I dig the mood. Thanks to everyone who made the OnePlus 6 camera driver happen. #Linux #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2025

Say about Linux what you will, but getting this much detail about what your graphics card is doing is pretty cool.🐧 `amdgpu_top --gui` #Linux #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #AMD #GPU #amdgpu #amdgpu_top

Screenshot of the graphical interface of the amdgpu_top utility. The entire window is absolutely covered in extremely detailed information and usage statistics as well as graphs.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

I was just browsing for all-AMD gaming laptops (which are surprisingly rare) and this came up. Oh boy, check out my all-AMD laptop with an AMD GeForce RTX 4060 GPU! Is this the beginning of the AI apocalypse? #Gaming #Hardware #AMD #NVIDIA #AI

Screenshot of https://www.notebooksbilliger.de "Gaming with AMD" category. The top entry is a HP laptop with an "AMD GeForce RTX 4060" GPU.

(The GeForce RTX 4060 is made by NVIDIA, not AMD)

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

Oh my goodness! You can enable login and logout sounds in KDE Plasma! 🎶 The Oxygen sound theme has such a nice jingle, too. It reminds me of the good old days. I'm keeping that. You can enable it in Settings → Apps & Windows → Notifications → Login → Play a […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Screenshot of KDE Plasma Settings Menu → Apps & Windows → Notifications → Login → Play a sound

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

New to Linux? Need something familiar? Check out Mission Center. It's literally Windows Task Manager for Linux. Available as `mission-center` on Arch Linux or as Flatpak. #Linux #LinuxGaming #GamingOnLinux #DesktopLinux #MissionCenter #LinuxTips #Flatpak #ArchLinux #TaskManager #Windows

Screenshot of Mission Center, showing a layout very similar to Windows Task Manager. It's displaying CPU, Memory, Disk, Network and GPU usage as well as fan speeds. CPU usage is selected. In the middle, there are CPU usage graphs for each core. At the top, there are tabs: Performance (selected), Apps and Services.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2025

Help, I think my cat is a vampire Luna came to us because her previous owner passed away. She didn't eat at all before a trip to the vet, but she is generally healthy. She hides all day every day until sunset. That's the only time she will eat. She even […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of a silverish grey long haired cat in the lap of a man wearing jeans. The cat is focused on something towards the right. The background is a typical lounge room scene with a coffee table, a TV and a computer.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2025

I hate when the game gives you too many quests at once.

A photo of eight pidgeons sitting on the edge of a roof. The roof is decorated with a string of lights. Each pidgeon is sitting precisely on top of a light, giving them an ominous glow.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/02/2025

Currently, only 63 maintainers are maintaining the nearly 90 thousand packages of the Arch Linux User Repository. I would've guessed there would be way more! Time to do my part, huh? #Linux #ArchLinux #AUR #OpenSource #Maintainers #Packaging

Website Screenshot from the Arch Linux User Repository:
Statistics:
Packages: 89972
Orphan Packages: 11633
Packages added in the past 7 days: 207
Packages updated in the past 7 days: 2152
Packages updated in the past year: 32636
Packages never updated: 19361
Registered Users: 121591
Package Maintainers: 63

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2025

In case you're wondering how my week was.

The Simpsons "Old man yells at cloud" meme, but it's edited so it says "Old man yells at engine" and the cloud has been replaced with the Unity Engine icon.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

Sigh, I couldn't help it. I bought one of these little LED name tags. Im amber, because all displays should be amber. #FOSDEM

A little LED name tag in amber on a table displaying "Fell"

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

Genuine belgian waffle experience: 9/10 #FOSDEM

The photographer's hand holding a waffle covered with chocolate sauce on a paper tray.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2025

Guys, I can't believe it, open source VRChat is here. It's called @overte and it's actually fast. It supports hundreds of people in a single instance and the editor is actually built into the game. You can hang out with your friends and make worlds together […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of the game running on a desktop computer and a hand holding a leaflet.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

And since I already brought my tools, I ended the day in true techie-fashion by dismantling my Watchy e-paper watch by @sqfmi to figure out why some of the buttons don't work. To my surprise, it's not worn out buttons, it's CORROSION. AAAH! I also love how the […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of a circuit board with a display atrached on a wooden table. A metal tool is holding up the display, revealing the circuitry underneath. Greenish deposits of corrosion can be seen near the corners, as well as on the back of the display. The display is showing light silverish digits and letters on a darker background. An inverted version of the black-on-white image, which can normally be seen on the front.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

I may have had a questionable first day of #FOSDEM, but now there is #pizza!

Photo of a pizza alongside an orange soda on a table at Pizza Hut.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

I'm watching a talk about something very important for single user instances like mine. It's live right now! #FOSDEM #Mastodon #Fediverse #Fediversary

Title slide of the talk "Search and Discovery on the Fediverse"

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

Finding your way here is challenging. I just went from the H building, into U, into the D wing, realised I was wrong, go through B wing into A wing, realised the talk is actually in D and walked all the way back there and through a zig-zagging hallway to the […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

A direction sign at FOSDEM with a note that a room has been changed.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

Gosh. It's FULL here. Can't even see the booths behind all the people. Maybe I'll try and get a seat in the Mobile Linux room. #FOSDEM #Linux #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

Photo of a sticker reading "Fuck off Google"

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

Do any of the Linux heads around here know anything more about this error, except that -110 appears to be a timeout error? I'm getting this regularily. It seems to be related to my two Oculus Rift Sensors (essentially USB cameras) connected via a 4 meter USB 3 […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of error messages printed on a computer screen. The last message is: usb 1-1.3: device descriptor read/64, error -110

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

I went out of my way to get this copy of GPU Gems from the Internet Archive onto my e-reader and have it look good. It took me three days of messing around. 😅 archive.org/details/gpugemsprogramm… This device would be landfill if it weren't […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Photo of a Tolino Vision 5 e-reader displaying a scanned page from the book GPU Gems. It reads:
Chapter 2
Rendering Water Caustics
Juan Guardado
Daniel Sánchez-Crespo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra/Novarama Technology
2.1 Introduction
There is something hypnotic about the way water interacts with light: the subtle reflec-

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025

Rein in die Kartoffeln, raus aus den Kartoffeln. #TikTok

(Screenshot)
Hacker News
Stories from January 19, 2025 (UTC)
Go back a day, month, or year. Go forward a day.
1. TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users (nbcnews.com)
708 points by Leary 23 hours ago | 2254 comments
2. TikTok goes dark in the US (techcrunch.com)
1166 points by mfiguiere 1 day ago | 2400 comments

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2025

Hey Fedi, how would you go about cleaning up the battery acid and reattaching the springs on these battery terminals? #AskFedi #Electronics #Repair #DIY #Soldering #Battery #Leak

Close-up photo of two small circuit boards held by metal clamps. The boards have springs and metal pads designed to hold six batteries in place. At least two of the pads are heavily corroded and two of the springs have come off as well.

Close-up photo of the worst corroded pad. It's entirely encrusted in battery acid crystals and the spring that used to be there has come off. The rivet holding the spring in place has broken off and the remaining half is black from corrosion.

Close-up photo of the second worst corroded pad. It's covered in a fine dust of battery acid crystals and it's spring has also come off. Just like the other one, the rivet holding in the spring has broken.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

PNY's own "SSD Toolbox" reports 100% SSD Life (whatever that means) and no available firmware updates. I can also "optimizate" my SSD here, which is funny. (Lemmy users: Click the Fediverse icon to see screenshots)

(Screenshot)
PNY Solid State Drive Toolbox
Summary page
Model Name: PNY CS3140 1TB SSD
FW: CS314801
Power-On Time: 210 Hours
Bytes Written: 1129 GB
Feature Summary: S.M.A.R.T., PM, NVMe Mode, TRIM
SSDLife: 100%

(Screenshot)
PNY Solid State Drive Toolbox
Update Firmware page

(Dialog box)
No FW update available
OK

(Screenshot)
PNY Solid State Drive Toolbox
Optimizate page

(There is a button labeled "Optimizate" in the bottom right corner)

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

Has anyone ever had this issue with NVMe SSDs? "A device which does not exist was specified." Is this a hardware defect? The drive (PNY CS3140 1TB) is only about 5 weeks old. It seems to fix itself after a couple of reboots, but it's very annoying. Linux […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

$Location is not available D:\ is not accessible. A device which does not exist was specified.$

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2025

Oh #Windows, it's been a while since this happened...

Photo of a Windows 10 blue screen crash (BSOD)

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2024

Danke für nichts, Bank. Warum ist das so?! In Briefen dürfen die jegliche Geheimnisse verschicken, aber in unserem tollen digitalen Zeitalter muss ich mich wegen jedem Furz händisch einloggen, drei mal bestätigen dass es auch wirklich ich bin, nur um dann zu […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Sehr geehrter Herr,

in Ihrer Post-Box gibt es Neuigkeiten für Sie:

eine Information

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2024

I got the little donation reminder in Plasma, so it was finally time to donate to @kde as well. I make video games, so I donated roughly one video game's worth and adopted the #KDRC remote desktop client. Seriously, 5 bucks a month for never having to deal […] [Original post on ma.fellr.net]

Paypal Donation Summary Page:
Vielen Dank für Ihre Spende über 59,00 € EUR an
K Desktop Environment e.V.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024

I just discovered a way to get more desk space for free. And it only took me 32 years.

Two adjacent diagrams depicting a desk and a computer monitor from the side. A wall and floor are indicated as well. There is an arrow pointing from the right diagram towards the left diagram, suggesting a change.
On the left side, the desk is placed right against the wall with the monitor on top of it, the usual way.
On right right side, the desk has been moved away from the wall, forming a gap, and the monitor has been placed on top of the gap, slightly overhanging the desk and touching the wall.

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2024

"permission to purchase" "Request upgrade" I hate how this thing just assumes that I must want their AI crap really badly. #Slack #AI

Heading: Get Slack AI
See how Slack AI can save time for your team. Available as an add-on to any paid subscription.
Bullet: Find answers faster in search
Bullet: Summarise busy conversations
Bullet: Get daily channel recaps
Bullet: Take notes for your huddles
Bullet: Built to be secure and private
We’ll send your request to people on your team with permission to purchase.
Button: Request upgrade

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Felix Urbasik @fell.ma.fellr.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2024

I'm about to eat the most German dinner ever.

Photo of a dinner plate with sausage, carrots and peas, potato dumplings and gravy.

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