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The thing I found limiting when I tried to run Steam remotely from my lounge room was the need to actually interact with the host PC at certain points, not just during the initial setup. I found this is the same on a lot of similar platforms, and it’s made worse when RDP clobbers the graphics settings.

A truly headless solution with a web ui would get me really interested.

Any photos of the build?

Logitech have been doing this for years

That cookies notice is awful

The liver toxicity is well known, and overdose is not uncommon.

The eee-pc was amazingly attractive in a time when laptops were heavy.

I used to carry one in my toolbox when I worked as a network field tech.

I don’t want a textbook on this topic, because they’re tiresome.

lcamtuf’s tendency to pick apart odd aspects of tech is drawn from the same type of curiosity that inspired me to learn most of what I know about tech.

I set it up out of curiosity a few months ago and realised I had no requirement for it whatsoever.

I’m actually very time-poor, so figured it could help be clawed back time doing… what exactly?

I should qualify that the vast majority of braided stuff I have accumulated over the years is junk.

thats over ten years products freebies, packs of 3 bought on the cheap, a few ‘fancier’ ones here and there, and at least a couple of emergency airport and gas station purchases.

I went down the rabbit hole of cable testers, and concluded that that thicker and stiffer almost always meant ‘better’ support for higher speed and charge rates.

Anything braided is almost always junk.

I don’t have a requirement for anything over 90w though, so I can generally get away with using whatever I have lying around.

As much as I would like pricing APIs as well, the economics don’t add up for retail, and it would effectively lead to a scalper’s market.

A regular Joe consumer shouldn’t have to learn python to get thier foot in the door because some arbitrage purchaser has automated a ‘best deal’ purchasing bot based on real time pricing APIs.

Up until the 90’s airline in flight entertainment use stethoscope style earphones. My dad used to steal them for his workshop as a way to hear for leaks in various parts.

Our ears and eyes are very high bandwidth sensors.

+1 to thermal imager. I use mine to locate hot wires, heating and cooling gaps in the roof and around windows, car maintenance, the pizza oven, and its even sensitive enough to ‘see’ studs in the wall.

Priceless on one occasion for finding leaks in the ceiling, which are notoriously hard to pinpoint.

I stopped reading halfway through in frustration and then saw your apology.

You only need to apologise to yourself really.

Seems like a contender for the tricorder prize that was announced ten or so years ago might not be too far off.

I think they’re saying it’s irrelevant now, possibly because it’s less likely to trail off on meandering thought bubbles.

There are still support benefits in commercial offerings, and not everyone can vibe code.

The trash I ask Claude to whip up for my weird edge cases is certainly increasing in reliability lately though.

Anecdotally, Claude Code has prompted an explosion of open source projects and prototypes from self-starters. A lot of these are just hobby projects, but some of them genuinely fill a niche that was previously too complicated or unviable to develop otherwise.

Some of them have half baked financial models, but nobody will invest dollars backing a SaaS offering that could easily be replicated, or that could be made redundant tomorrow.

Why would we need a study? It’s just escapism.

Should do. Private relay really would be a sweet alternative to residential scraping proxies, but I’d expect sites to put in additionally checks and captchas before too long.

Not really sure why your project needs to be so… edgy?

I’m not sure you understand the comment

The clothes folding is almost certainly a person.

This sort of menial task would likely be given to someone in a poorer part of the world, who ironically will be some of the first to master the first generation of remotely operated high tech robots.

The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.

I scrolled through a few pages and still don’t really know what it is.

Also, ‘AVO’ is short for ‘apprehended violence order’ in Australia, also known a restraining order in other parts of the globe.

Pretty hard to get past a term that’s frequently used when discussing domestic violence.

HN maybe?

That would be illegal in Australia, even if the policy was prominently displayed up front.

Claiming otherwise is to treat each book as a packet of Pokémon trading cards, where you know you’re getting some cards, but you don’t get to choose which ones.

I mean, the calculator is my go to analogy I keep bringing up in this debate.

It lets someone with mediocre long division skills to just do the thing they need to do with fewer steps and less friction.

IDA itself is a tool that helps you decompile code without having to do a lot of things.

I see this is a packaging service with greater traceability and velocity than the rando images on docker hub.

I believe that they will always supply the bleeding edge stable release, but it will always be your responsibility to monitor and manage issues like CVEs, rather than expecting them to do it for you.

It’s effectively closed off to new accounts too, which significantly reduces the effectiveness of bot campaigns

Price aside, the more important factor is that we don’t have the repair infrastructure to make something like this worthwhile yet. For something as critical as a car, we have workshops, spare parts supply chains, and the skilled technicians to do the repairs. Conventional robots require a similar skill set, but you still won’t be able to rely on a local repair for something people would expect to be dependable, like aged care or home assistance.