Mika on rails 

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Everything on rails: trains, trams, model trains, train simulations.

Silly guy. Wears cat ears, kisses guys sometimes.

Natursüß und Sonnengereift

Proudly posting from East Germany and avoiding NRW

🗣️🇩🇪 native / 🇬🇧 fluent
BundeslandBerlin/Sachsen
PronounsHe/Him
Discord Serverhttps://discord.gg/fHRU97V
Model ScaleH0
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Show threadMika on rails 11h ago

Why didn't I do this earlier?
Okay I know why I didn't do this earlier. Because I would've needed to back up all the data of the existing Win 10 to somewhere else. I just circumvented this now by swapping in an unused 256 GB SSD where the original purpose for it disappeared.

Now as to why I didn't just buy a new SSD for the laptop a year ago to perform this exact swap back then already... I don't know. Perhaps because at the end of the day I was doing all my productive work at a Desktop PC anyway and was always able to cheese myself around having to bring my own machine to presentations because there was always some machine at the destination capable of playing back PDFs

Show threadMika on rails 11h ago
WOW DAMN I just sent the machine to standby or "suspend". Hit the power button again, login screen appears in under a second. Holy, I don't remember it being this fast.
Show threadMika on rails 11h ago
Also I completely forgot how "good" the speakers on this laptop are. They are not what you would expect from the looks. Okay and similarly the keyboard is pretty decent to type on. This was not an expensive laptop, the screen is probably where this is most evident.
Show threadMika on rails 11h ago
Continued the setup today. Was quick to get to what I need, playing back my presentation to an external display. "Just throw Linux on an old Laptop" still works if you just need stuff that plays in the browser. I'm sure more progress was made in GUI Linux otherwise too, but do I really want to use it on a big honking desktop machine? I think the answer remains "no" for me personally. I guess 80% of my computer time is browser based but the remaining 20% are things that afaik still rely on workarounds for Linux. And I just never got going with GIMP or Inkscape. They just don't click for me. So I'd instantly be at a loss with graphics editing.
Show threadMika on rails 13h ago
The answer was of course: only 2. And it didn't matter anyway, because the resolution of the print stack they use was even lower.
Show threadMika on rails 15h ago

Which of these do ya think the print shop can actually make?

I think 2 is a sure bet, I'll be disappointed if they can't handle that one. 1 may work depending on what PDF viewer they use. 3 no way, I think the windows machines they got to control the print machines are 10 years old with 8 GB of RAM at this point

Show threadMika on rails 15h ago

I've now made my poster in 3 obscene PDF files:

1. all the vector objects remain as vectors in respective layers, all text is actual text object with included font, all raster images uncompressed: 88 MB total, takes a while to render the vector map

2. everything cast into one big raster image at 300 DPI: 23 MB, loads fairly quickly on my machine

3. everything cast into one big raster image at twice the resolution: 58 MB, Firefox cannot display it, Apple Preview takes half a minute to load the visible canvas but if you move around the PDF at all it takes another half a minute to fully load

OMG what have I created 

Mika on rails 15h ago
CPU go brr
Mika on rails 1d ago
That's all folks! Feierabend forever 💛
Mika on rails 1d ago
Last shift on the rails in Dresden for me. Loved the job the last 2.5 years. Lovely weather and tram to enjoy today 😎 😁