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mamonoleechi commented on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen   shellshore.com/review-rot... · Posted by u/Alupis
mamonoleechi · a month ago
If you're looking for a super cheap pen, check french BIC pens: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=bic+pen&ia=images&iax=image... ; it's less than €0.30 ($0.35)

and don't stop on the price ; this pen is amazing,

it's actually one of the recommended tool, used by the super talented and proefficient korean drawing artist Kim Jung Gi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmqFbgKWoao (not sure he uses it in this video) ; Kim is known to be able to draw anything from memory

you can see him drawing with the BIC pen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30_IDH1TzFs&t=1231s (video: Kim Jung Gi - What Kind of Pen Do You Use?)

mamonoleechi commented on Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen   shellshore.com/review-rot... · Posted by u/Alupis
orlp · a month ago
My favorite pens are the Frixxion pens. You can erase them, and it actually works well.
mamonoleechi · a month ago
the erasing part is what frightens me ; putting your document near a heating device erases your writings (the heat produced by the friction of the eraser is what remove the ink when you do it manually)
mamonoleechi commented on Why English doesn't use accents   deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/sandbach
r00f · 2 months ago
I strongly disagree that "it's a shame" that English does not use diacritics. English is my second language (third maybe, considering that the country of my birth is bilingual), and is my favorite language to read and to write. I tried to learn French for two years and stopped, and all those excessive writing marks were among the reasons.

God bless all those monks who decided to keep English writing clean.

mamonoleechi · 2 months ago
Accents in french are pretty irrelevant, you can totally ignore them and master the language. Most french people ignore them while chatting/mailing/texting online.

If you ignore accents, some words can be mistaken for other words (with different accents), but if you check the context, the problem quickly go away.

Accents are just useful to help you pronounce correctly words ; they are also a hint about the word's origin (ex: ^ means the words is greek) ; I don't get why it stopped you from learning the language.

mamonoleechi commented on Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor   breezepdf.com... · Posted by u/philjohnson
Labo333 · 4 months ago
Nice! Recently I had the need for pdf censoring, aka not adding black rectangles but actually removing the content underneath and I still haven't found a suitable tool. Any recommendation? Or even python library to do it?
mamonoleechi · 4 months ago
you can do it easily with Inkscape which supports the pdf format
mamonoleechi commented on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash   petapixel.com/2025/04/10/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
sureIy · 5 months ago
> proprietary file formats

Gimp can't handle them?

mamonoleechi · 5 months ago
If not, Affinity Photo or Photopea will probably do the job.
mamonoleechi commented on Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash   petapixel.com/2025/04/10/... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
BeetleB · 5 months ago
People don't want to use Gimp, which is the next most powerful photo editing software :-)
mamonoleechi · 5 months ago
Scaling Text in Gimp still rasterize the layer in 2025 :) besides that, Gimp 3 is pretty nice.
mamonoleechi commented on Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/docmechanic
silisili · 5 months ago
I'm inclined to agree, but I grew up during the transitional years where both were available, and remember just so much broken glass everywhere...on the streets, sidewalks, etc. Maybe it was my poor neighborhood, but it was normal to see at least a broken bottle or two on the road each day. I don't see that now.

As I understand it, aluminum cans require a plastic lining. How is that one solved?

mamonoleechi · 5 months ago
It depends where you live, but a lot of countries make you pay glass bottles now ; a fee that you get back once you take the empty bottle back to the supermarket.

It does not prevent people from throwing them, but since you get money from them, homeless people usually gather them to make some money.

mamonoleechi commented on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs   computerworld.com/article... · Posted by u/cable2600
Duanemclemore · 5 months ago
The biggest issue I had migrating as a Photoshop user since 1996 was the key bindings. But using the config files people shared online sorted that.

I'm not going to link to a specific one implying I'm recommending it, but a web search will show multiple.

One important gimp note is if you don't have 3.0+ already, get it. It finally has non-destructive editing, which is the main reason I had to keep using ps for for a long time.

mamonoleechi · 5 months ago
It's easy to change keybindings on Gimp, most of mines are ones i used in photoshop 4-CS2.

>It finally has non-destructive editing

not for the fonts unfortunately, if you resize a text with the scale tool, it gets rasterized

mamonoleechi commented on Show HN: I built a website for sharing drum patterns   drumpatterns.onether.com... · Posted by u/wesz
metalman · 5 months ago
Heres a stand alone android drum machine with some good sounds, dont know if its the patterns are portable. Drum On, tiny apk.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.tube42.drum.android/

mamonoleechi · 5 months ago
thanks to share this ; i had no idea of the existence of this gem! the interface is a bit rough, but it does the job
mamonoleechi commented on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges   tomshardware.com/peripher... · Posted by u/m463
kbmn · 6 months ago
Personal recommendation:

A while ago I bought a bw laser printer from a brand I've never heard of: "Pantum". Specifically the Pantum P2500W, for 49,95€ (~ 53$). I have never seen them in a store in (western/central) Europe either.

It does not have a display, in general it's the simplest, minimalist printer I've ever owned I'd argue.

CUPS configuration exist in the Arch AUR (for usage with USB), and driverless printing with AirPrint (which also works with CUPS) is supported. This new driverless stuff works really nice in general, glad to use this instead of unreliable driver printers (which sometimes are not even available in low quality for Linux).

It does not require an internet connection and appears to not have any DRM on the cartridges: I use a 20€ (~ 21$) no-name toner cartridge from Amazon, and it works perfectly fine. In fact it doesn't have a display to complain about this (like my 10+ year old HP, which even back then showed me ads for their own cartridges, and HP paper).

mamonoleechi · 6 months ago
Thanks to share! any estimate on how many regular text page can you print with your 20€ cartridge?

I have some questions: - what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand? (i only see 150+€ pantum laser printers) - any links to buy the printer/cartridge ; i'm super interested!

u/mamonoleechi

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