Apr 4, 2022 · Gallium does not directly affect the aluminium oxide layer, for it to get to the aluminium underneath it needs to be damaged mechanically. The liquid gallium/aluminium alloy that forms after does not adhere to the aluminium oxide layer, and is what's responsible for disrupting the oxide layer. Also, an amalgam is an alloy with mercury, not gallium.

Like going from dvorak/vanilla colemak to gallium will be a huge jump in comfort, but going from canary to gallium or sturdy isn't going to do much, if anything. Layout comfort is all subjective (like some people are fine with high pinky usage whereas others aren't. it's all preference)

I have been running GalliumOS on an Acer 720 chromebook (set to boot seabios). Recently the 2242 memory device failed, so I restored to a new media a (few-year-old) image backup (created by booting to a rescue CD, then "dd if=/dev/sda of=/usb/somefile.dd", then restored onto the new media yesterday using the reverse dd command.

Nov 28, 2021 · The only 'impurities' gallium is capable of dissolving in significant quantities, are of those that act like non ionized metals. This is why Gallinstan remains liquid below gallium's normal freezing point, yet adding gallium to salt water does nothing. Gallium = metallic bonding Water = Hydrogen bonding

Jun 24, 2024 · Forget about that. Within 1 week after starting on Gallium you will learn about a new feature that Gallium does not have, and it will throw you straight back into the rabbit hole. For example, you could discover that having a letter on a thumb key would improve the layout further (it would). Or that E on the ring finger is not perfect (it's not ...

Jan 30, 2022 · The whole gallium thing really bugs me. How could Eric, the geologist, not know that it was gallium right away? I'm pretty sure that every grade school science teacher in the country who watched that said, "Oh, it's gallium" the second it liquified. Is Eric not really a geologist, but actually a F-ing rube?

Aug 25, 2020 · Gallium is kind of a toolkit for building drivers that Mesa uses internally. Zink isn't actually a full OpenGL implementation, it's a "driver" built using Gallium inside of Mesa. The reason it doesn't work on Nvidia doesn't have anything to do with Gallium though - Nvidia just doesn't support the extensions Zink requires, and it probably never ...

Oct 26, 2022 · So far, Gallium OS is the only Linux-based system that has worked on my old Chromebook out of the box, but I've heard it was discontinued and will no longer receive updates. What should I do? Right now, Gallium OS does seem like the best of both worlds, with the versatility of any other PC but software designed specifically for Chromebooks.

Jun 11, 2023 · Any arch based distr can utilize the arch documentation on chromebooks, to get various things fixed. I used lubuntu and patched it using gallium os patches from galliums git. Everything came working out of the box minus chrome shortcuts and that's what I patched using galliums patches.

My textbook explains that it is because gallium has 10 3d-electrons and since d orbital has poor shielding effect -> effective nuclear charge increases and hence the size of the atom decreases. My question is, since Aluminum doesn’t have any electrons in the penultimate shell that means there is no shielding effect at all as opposed to ...