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So I have this like cheap Chinese or something wired mouse whose mouse wheel click suddenly stopped working as a middle click. I have tried both windows and linux and the mouse wheel click is registered in neither of these operating system but it physically actually still clicks, there is even that click sound when I press down on the mouse. Can someone please tell me if there is a way to fix this ? like this mouse has only 2 buttons (left click and right click) besides the mouse wheel so its quite frustrating that I can't like switch my firing mode in shooters, pick a block or thing in minecraft and most frustrating is that I use blender ! so yeah, life is kinda hell now.

17 (almost 18 this year) M PS : I transformed into a hecking chonker due to 2 years of pandemic, so I feel like I am 30 because everything hurts if I try to do anything physically slightly intensive ! (But I have started going on walks and jogging to try and reduce weight)

so Memelord Muskatart is gonna make an analog to the electrocuting torture chair ? he bought twotter, so I guess that's checked off the list now ?

Nope, but still in a decent government engineering college. The colleges here in India don't matter a lot, because even in IITs professors can be not good or complete a-holes (I know people from IIT Bombay and Delhi). They might give you an initial boost in your career IF your career is in IT or Software dev but besides that if you wanna do actual engineering work, sadly in this country it makes no difference.

wdym ? could you please elaborate ? like say If I ever work up there in Kanawah, I will have to get some sort of verification ? like afaik, for post grad studies in North America, I need to appear for GRE and TOEFL. Does the same not apply for jobs ?

Not quite there yet, the two years of JEE upset me really bad. But yeah, it'll be pretty much like schools once you get used to it. Like JEE is gonna be so stressful, you'd wish to jump from your balcony (I did try to do that but here I am) but college is less stressful in a way that it is manageable. Like you get weekends off, if you are lucky, professors are pretty chill about assignments and you can submit like even 3-4 days after due date.

Yeah, I primarily study from books and OCW courses from MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley + GOI (Government of India) also has a big ass library. But like there is a mandatory attendance policy which leads to a hectic schedule like from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM I have classes every day (except weekends and rn because nowadays I have my end semester examinations). And something about the books in the library : It is my opinion is that books are not one size fits all viz. you might not prefer the writing style or way of explaining things of a particular author. So you might look for books written in other styles. But the problem is, a lot of Indian authors write books such that their target audience is the competitive exam aspirants (there are a shit tonne of un-necessary competitive exams here) and so its kinda difficult but manageable to find a good book. Besides, everyone in the class is a jerk i.e. they don't share a good book with you but if they see you with a good book, they will quite literally steal it from you (Explanation : A guy saw me reading a book on my tablet before class and when I turned away for a second, he quickly buzzed by and airdropped a copy of it to his own pc) PS : It seems I need to manage this hectic schedule because, I always seem to be out of time to go to the library.

Disclosure : I am from India not from NA or Europe, so how colleges and institutions work here are different but still I would like to know if I am worrying too much. The 2nd semester of the engineering college I am in, is about to begin in a few weeks. Over the course of the first semester, I have learned about the demographics of my class, which kinda worries me a little bit. Even though the students don't explicitly decide which instructor they get for a course, they can you know, kinda write an application to the appropriate authorities (I'm guessing it would be the Dean of Student Affairs or something or some other person ?) to change the instructor if they find their teaching methods very confusing and problematic. And in the first semester, I came to the realization that a very big majority doesn't gib a fuck about whether they get a good instructor or bad (most of them study from Youtube lectures because they don't actually wanna do Electronics Engg (the major I am in and the rest of the class has also apparently taken)). How did I come to this realization ? Well, in the first sem, for two courses : 1) Introductory Programming course in C and another one 2) Basic Electrical Engineering ; we got really bad instructors, so bad that like 80-85% of the students didn't even attend most of the classes. But when asked, if I could please write to the appropriate authorities on behalf of the entire class, to give us a better instructor for the course. None of them supported me in that. You see, (and I am not bragging or being arrogant here), most of the kids (not including me) in the class don't actually wanna do Electronics Engineering jobs, they wanna do IT and software jobs (due to the ongoing IT boom in my country) , so they study just to get marks, but I study the subjects because I am really passionate about these subjects. And I kid you not, the elected class representative even told me "If we get a bad instructor i.e. one who is bad at teaching than there is no problem, but if we get one who doesn't give us marks than that's a problem". Ever since, I had that conversation, it sorta keeps me up at night. Because, what if in future we get a really bad instructor for a quite important course and the rest of the class won't gib a fuck then either (because there is a huge coaching / tutoring industry in India for even colleges and most of the kids study from lectures of those services). So, say if something like that happens, should I as just one student write to the appropriate authorities to change the instructor ? Because if I don't get a good instructor in the course, whom shall I ask my doubts and queries to ? (Once, again not bragging, just an anecdote) In the first sem, the instructor for the Mathematics course was also not that good, in fact, on quite a few occasions, they failed to answer my queries. Even when I approached them with the same queries after class hours, they just didn't, they ignored those queries. So Am I worrying too much ? Edit #1 : Also, if most of the kids studying from the lectures of those coaching/ tutoring services then they shouldn't come to college. (Yes this feels kinda like a rant but I needed to get it off my chest) In fact, most of the kids won't come to classes if there wasn't a mandatory attendance policy.

so just use it like a digital publicly accessible resume ?

What do you mean ? could you elaborate ?

I am in my first semester of engineering college (soon to end i.e. 2nd sem will begin in May) and my major is Electronics Engineering. A lot of my friends and people I know in college have told me, that I should make a linkedin profile. But I dunno what's the use for it ? like how is it useful ? do people even use it in the industry ? Like I will be most likely pursuing a master's degree in Electronics Engg (job after that) or a job in Electronics Engg after graduation. But the people who have told me to make a linkedin profile are all into IT, Software Dev industry or Entrepreneurship (full disclosure here : I am biased and have a certain dislike for those fields of work). Like does a company actually hire you/ contact you on linkedin ? (asking to the engineering folks out there). And if it matters, I am not from North America. I am from India. But I would like a honest answer and help on what to do on linkedin ? if I should make a profile ? Edit #1 : Like one of the person whom I met was bragging about having 300+ connections. Now WTF are these ?

*...Dark Age of Technology and STC vibes intensifies..*

struggling as in it stutters when I try and change my view point in octave (by the rotate tool thingy and like the graph/surface takes a few seconds to appear)

Note for mods : I would like to apologize for posting in General Discussion, because I don't know in which category this post would be the most appropriate. I got into engineering college at the beginning of this year (and no I didn't get my gaming laptop with a 1660ti after that, I got this beast over a year ago) and now I have come to the part where in my studies I need to use stuff like octave and soon CAD software as well (like Autodesk EAGLE). And so far I have used only octave and MATLAB. And my computer seems to be struggling with plotting a few surfaces/curves with lots of points. I guess it'd be because of the program using my internal gpu and not the discrete gpu ? but I am dumb, so feel free to correct me. I have a good enough CPU a Ryzen 5 4600H with 16GB of DDR4 RAM (@3200 MHz). I am running Pop OS btw (I am actually dual booting with windows 11). Also, since I am just in my first semester in college, I don't really know what other things (scientific computations and programs) I can use my GPU for. I know I'll learn about it, as I come to use the programs in upcoming semesters. But if anyone knows and could tell me it'd be much appreciated since I'd like to get familiar with the industry standard programs ASAP (My major is Electronics Engg btw). PS : Is there any built in tool in Pop OS that'd allow me to monitor my GPU usage ? because the system monitor doesn't show my GPU usage.

title says it all folks, is there any app, software that I can use to draw non AA drawings on my ipad ? afaik, you can't disable AA on sketchbook on ipad