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Took me far too long to work how to get a plane to land, was drawing lines along the runway rather than dropping them on the coloured spot at the end and they were overflying. Was thinking the paths weren't straight enough, once I figured it out was quite funny to find the planes can do 180° turns mid air to land.

Question is, as long as he's not using their assets, what leg have they to stand on and enforce this? He's selling his software, not infringing on theirs.

On the money, had not spotted how much he was making from this. Given he's been at this for several years and the quality of the product I'm quite happy he's been able to devote the time to this.

Context: It's a paid mod but doesn't appear the guy was in it for profit, rather to support the time spent which covers multiple games.

The precedent here I find a little weak, a mod isn't facilitating piracy nor is it a replacement for the original product. You need to own the game, the mod is a layer that adds additional features.

When mapping the context to the real world it's more worrying, you don't get car makers suing accessory makers for selling phone mounts advertised to fit their vehicles.

Ah just assumed it was broken, found the dev tools 'hack' Game is very much missing an intro

I switched to Zen a while ago and while for the 'main browser window' it's fantastic I often open multiple smaller windows (in a tiling VM) and hated having to manage collapsing the sidebar. It's done via a keyboard shortcut that seems to break half the time. Tried the new Firefox and I'm already switching back.

Caveat is very much expected, you should expect ZFS features to not rewrite blocks. Changes to settings only apply to new data for example.

I believe so but would like better details. We used to use another provider that depended on exact kernel versions whereas the falcon-sensor seems quite happy with kernel updates.

I see these tools as complimentary. Sometimes Sentry &al don't capture a user session (blocking, didn't consent &c) and this tool acts as a nice fallback you can instruct the user to use rather than having to explain how to open dev tools and screenshot the console.

For duplicate files I've used the following: - https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes - https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

The latter works well for larger datasets, outputs a TXT which you can analyse and decide what to do with.

A NAS built from generic x86 hardware and some disks. Use ZFS, it's a bit of a rabbit hole but an excellent choice for both reliability/redundancy and as a tool to backup. I'm not gonna explain how this works, just describe what you can do, it's an option.

ZFS:

- ensures you don't get bit rot

- manages both disks (raid/mirrors &c) and the filesystem, it's an all-in-one solution

- supports block level replication to local and remote systems, after the first backup it's fast

- can create dynamic partitions to group files together and build replication strategies around

Choose either RAID or mirrored drives (https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs...) I've gone mirrored but more for flexibility and performance. Use a calculator to see what options of disks you have https://jro.io/capacity/ (and google 'ZFS calculator' for others)

For backup get a second machine somewhere else in your house with a smaller setup and use ZFS replication to keep it up to date with everything on the main box you need backed up. Currently I use a raspberry pi with a USB disk but this is perhaps cutting it fine. You wanna keep this online so ZFS can periodically check the health of the data on the disks. Fully offline backups can be a risk.

Finally for a 3rd backup use some of those external drives, format to ZFS and use replication. Plug them in on a schedule and take a backup.

If you want to backup to remote systems (cloud/a box in your parents house) it also supports filesystem encryption. With the right options you can stream incremental backups over SSH only passing encrypted blocks. The system at the other end never needs to see the raw data.

I find it depends on the number of subcommands and if those subcommands are clear. It's rather useful to have the options whittled down to just the ones you need if you know which subcommand you need but otherwise can be painful.

Grepping through a large list of options is also painful, seems ther needs to be a balance here.

Googled that, found the GitHub with a <h1> of

DO NOT DOWNLOAD TRON FROM GITHUB, IT WILL NOT WORK!! YOU NEED THE ENTIRE PACKAGE FROM r/TronScript

I see later it mentions you can check some signed checksums but that doesn't inspire confidence. Very much epitomises the state of Windows tweaky utilities vs stuff you see on other platforms.

Spot on, Apple has done some fantastic work with these arm chips but we need the rest of the market to catch up so we have access to similar chips for other devices.

These are Raspberry Pi Picos, they are embedded type devices and not the usual Pis you're used to. The keyboard I'm using right now uses the same chip (RP2040) as the Pico, runs QMK and seems to be more performant (flashes faster anyway) than the normal microcontrollers you tend to get in plancks and the like.

I don't have other controllers to compare against but found the Bluetooth latency on Linux similarly poor. Unsure if Linux problem or if this is limitation of Bluetooth.

Given I play at my desk I'm just using a lightweight USB cable which has zero issues plus avoids any other bluetooth weirdness.

I'm aware it's not the same as Chrome profiles but multi-account containers, where individual tabs can have their own sessions, is a killer feature of Firefox.

The ability to have multiple AWS accounts logged into at the same time in tabs side by side is a real time saver.

We've had a problem with the cables provided with ThinkVision USB-C monitors. They're so horribly stiff either end gets quite a lot of force exerted on it. We use them for hot-desk setups at work and I've seen multiple with the metal part of the plug broken off from the plastic shroud.

I've asked for some "Cable Matters" ones to be bought as that's a brand I recognise and _think_ is good, we'll see!

I really like this idea. Is this supported anywhere yet or just something for future?

I'm very much in the same boat as you here I think. I loved the idea of version controlled config and accepted the edit/reboot loop as that was the only way of doing it back then. It does seem though most of what was in config does live more naturally in UI, a great example is editing a scene with realtime feedback on the actual devices.

I do still periodically go into the config folder and do a bulk 'bump' commit, though given the config is likely useless without the state of the database I don't know if this is ever going to be useful. Perhaps having some history is good in case a complex automation is lost but still quite limited.

I've set up my own DIY version of this. It pulls a new image via a cron job and repaints the screen with it. I've not invested time looking into it but by default if the device sleeps, which it does very quickly after loosing wall power, the cron job will no longer run and the display gets stuck. You need to poke the power button to get it to wake again.

This is very much something I've not thought much about. There's doesn't seem to be publicised cases where this is abused and having a system where any stolen vehicle can be pinged on major roads is a rather useful thing to have.

No trouble and thanks for the prompt to go have a look at it again, really cool site!

Getting {"error":"Missing generation data"} now

I adopted it as etc or e.t.c. just seemed so clunky

Oh this is exciting news! Is there a link for any more details on this? Would love to see the mockup.

Modular keyboard and QMK! It's a niche within a niche but would absolutely love an ortholinear option to the keyboard e.g. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Planck

Though would like this on a smaller laptop, 14-ish inches seem to be the sweet spot.

Someone found my passport, was able to google me, match photo to the one on the site, and find an email address. I had it back the same day.

Keep meaning to start a blog but haven't gotten around to.

At my university there were postcodes per large building

Was sitting between two Intel macbooks the other day, like sitting between two hoovers, they haven't all gone away yet!

An interesting thought experiment on that: if you convinced (non-violently, non-coercively) a shop keeper to give you something for free that wouldn't be stealing. At what point does doing the same with an AI till become the same thing?

The shop is giving the AI authority to run the transaction, if it permits something is that the shop also agreeing?