Still sucks that it could be mandatory. I work in a government job in Australia and we have "Flexible Hours" which means that any time worked under or over the standard 7:30hrs per day counts towards a flex balance. Then we can use the excess flex balance to then taking shorter days or even take a couple days off if we have the balance for it. It works wonders for staff morale and retention.
I think they mean more about reworking core mechanics of the game such as the planet generation and the fact that space flight is basically pointless outside of ship combat. I don't foresee them being able to allow ships to fly down to planet surfaces in Creation Engine.
Was the first character I finished a campaign with. The DM and I played the chest light beam on rolling an 8 as instead being nipple lasers because who doesn't like a 7 ft tall Minotaur barbarian shooting nipple lasers...
Mass killings are always going to happen. The difference is that it's a lot harder to kill a lot of people with a knife than it is with a automatic handgun or rifle. Effective range of a knife is maybe 1-2 metres. Effective range of a gun is hundreds of metres.
"If only someone had a gun then they could have shot him"
Forgetting that he would have then likely had a gun himself and we end up at the exact same situation in the US with Mass Shootings happening so regularly it doesn't even make national news.
We are going through a batch every week approximately. Batch 6 just got charged so about 12 weeks for batch 18?
Framework: let's put a high resolution display in our laptop GNOME: oh shit I can't handle more than 1080p correctly! Jg1i: Why would Framework do this?
Espresso (like water) is ~1ml per gram. So if your shot is not weighing 29-31 grams then it's not 30ml of espresso. There will always be some loss as water stays in the puck, so if it's weighing more like 25-28 grams then likely that other couple grams is still in the puck.
Honestly can be completed in a week or two with after work evening sessions. Total story is only about 20 ish hours. So definitely not one to pickup at full price but on sale.
Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart on PC. Brought back a lot of nostalgia but also stood on its own very well. I can count on one hand the games I've bothered to 100% and this is one of them.
Connectors are surprisingly among the most complex and critical parts of building a product that is slim, durable, high performance, and easy to repair. With Framework Laptop 16, we customized our own to enable our new module ecosystems.
This is likely our last Framework Laptop 16 Deep Dive before we start shipping, and those of you who ordered one can dive deep on your own. We began mass production of Mainboards last week, which we’ll hold onto as we resolve the last few remaining open items to begin full system manufacturing.
You may be thinking, do we really need a deep dive on connectors? The answer is a resounding “Yes!”, as connectors are surprisingly among the most complex and critical parts of building a product that is slim, durable, high performance, and easy to repair. Connectors are the electrical and mechanical interfaces between modules in the system. They are what actually makes the product modular! Each connector needs to be easy to engage, hard to accidentally disengage during vibration or drop, robust across repeated reconnections, thin enough to fit within a tiny space, electrically sound from a signal integrity and power perspective, readily manufacturable, and cheap. Our most complicated connectors are made up of dozens of tiny formed metal parts in plastic or metal shells. Given the complexity, our preference is always to find well-proven off-the-shelf connectors. However, occasionally we run into unique interconnect scenarios that don’t match anything out there. In these instances, we’re forced to customize our own solutions. With Framework Laptop 16, we developed two of these to enable our new module ecosystems. Input Module Connector
The first is the connector that interfaces to Input Modules and the Touchpad Module. This is what enables the hot-swappable modules that allow full input deck customization on Framework Laptop 16. From a signal perspective, this one is relatively straightforward. There are only eight pins, supporting up to one amp at 5V and with no signals faster than USB 2.0. However, from a mechanical standpoint, this was exceptionally challenging. The pins are exposed when Input Modules are removed, meaning they have to be extremely robust to handling. In addition, because of how our Touchpad Module engages, the connectors have to be able to handle not just compression force but also many cycles of shear force. All of this has to work within very limited thickness too. We initially started with a spring-based connector (on the left) during our EVT build but found it to be easy to accidentally bend and break the pins. We then quickly pivoted to a pogo pin solution (on the right), working with CFE, one of the world's largest pogo manufacturers to build a custom solution. Despite being just 0.8mm in diameter, the brass pins are incredibly durable. They are rated to 10,000 cycles and are difficult to damage even if you try to.
The second connector is vastly more electrically complex. This is the interposer that connects the Mainboard to Expansion Bay Modules. This is what enables upgradeability of high-performance modules like discrete GPUs with Graphics Modules in Framework Laptop 16. This has two 74-pin interfaces supporting 8-lane PCIe 4.0 (and potentially higher), DisplayPort, and >10 amps at 20V. These are extremely difficult specifications to meet, and are made even more complex through our requirement to make it an easy connector to handle and cycle repeatedly. We started with the off-the-shelf FXBeam connector from Neoconix that was used in attempts from other brands at making a modular graphics system in a notebook. We quickly found that these connectors (on the left in the image) could only reliably be installed once. On removing, handling, and reinstalling, it was easy to bend or break off the small pins. We then worked closely with Neoconix to build our own customized version of FXBeam (on the right in the image) that is compatible with the same Mainboard interface, but is substantially more robust. The structure hooks the pins into place and prevents them from being malformed by force from any direction. With that, the interposer is safe for handling and repeated cycling, letting you swap between Expansion Bay Modules with ease.
The main issue I was seeing on Lemmy with Shinobu is due to the low popularity shows. We already have a much lower active user count than Reddit does, so a lot of automated discussion threads here get completely ignored. So this just creates a lot of clutter in the feed with posts on 0 votes and 0 comments.
The main thing I've been seeing is that since it just picks up every airing series, it can create spam of the same series which is releasing multiple episodes at once. As well as posting discussion threads which routinely get 0 votes and 0 comments on them even after days from being posted due to being an extremely niche show.
I believe Framework said they are looking into fixes for this issue, either with firmware patches or if neccesary a hardware revision of the USB A module. Current workaround is just to not put USB A into those two back slots.
They were talking about the usb modules. The back two on either side (the ones closest to the screen) have an issues where the USB 4 Type C to USB A adapter is not fully going to sleep when nothing is plugged in. So ArsTechnica's reviewer most likely had one of the USB A modules plugged into those two USB 4 ports which causes their apparent poor battery life.
Stock android on the Pixel's have just an "Internet" button which controls both wifi and mobile data. You can press it, then it will show toggles for wifi, mobile data.
Yes, Book 12 "Waybound" is the last in the Cradle series. So go and enjoy the books!
Re-reading the entire Cradle series by Will Wight. Up to book 11 out of 12 so almost there!
So, scrolling past marks the posts as "read" but that won't hide them. The way I do it is to use the "hide read" button in the more options menu where the settings button lives. Alternatively you can use that other setting to automatically hide all read posts, but I can't find that setting either...
Just in case you haven't heard, there is some height limitations when selecting an SSD if you plan to use both the primary 2280 slot and the secondary 2230 slot. This should only affect you if you plan to have more than 2tb in the primary slot, as most of those are single sided ssds (flash chips only on one side).
If you plan to use both slots, Framework recommends you only use a single sided 2280 ssd in the primary slot and the secondary m.2 2230 slot must be single sided no matter what as there isn't enough clearance below to allow for it.
You can technically use a dual sided 2280 ssd in the primary slot, however for this circumstance there is a maximum height clearance which will still fit.
Primary Storage M.2 2280 SSD with a bottom side height of 0.7mm combined with Secondary Storage M.2 2230 SSD with a top height of 1.5mm.
Or
Primary Storage M.2 2280 SSD with a bottom side height of 1.35mm, combined with Secondary Storage M.2 2230 SSD with a top height of 1.35mm or 1.2mm.
They mention that you shouldn't have an issue if you use the Western Digital 2280 ssd's they sell. It seems the 4TB WD SN850X, while dual sided, has the flash chips on the underside all the way at the end. Which should be past where the secondary ssd sits, but I can't guarantee that.
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I believe the price difference came from you being part of the Lenovo business store, I didn't use that the last time and just used the standard consumer store.
I just re-entered the specs on the consumer store for the X1 Extreme Gen 5 16" and got 5,214 Australian Dollars. Otherwise it might be if you aren't in Australia, did you get the local dollar amount and convert to AUD or did you use the Australian store directly?
Anyway, doesn't change the main point as you say that if you are bargain hunting, the Framework 16 isn't the way to go but it's still a good laptop from what we can see. I don't mind spending more for the framework since I believe in what it stands for. Plus who knows what might come with upgrades down the line.
