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  • I got burned by this too. I feel your pain.

    Dad figured out that if we hosed the concrete driveway, it made a better seal, and handeled bumps and impetfections better.

    It was a glorious 3 minutes before the water started to seep in to the concrete quickly. The Typhoon nosedived and tore its skirt.

    0/10 would not hovercraft again.

  • Why do you have to install Usb-Drivers on Windows, but I never had to do it on Linux?
  • Where as I've got my 3S plugged in to my work laptop running fedora and, and I regularly have to cycle the connection setting away from the bolt dongle and back again, because the input becomes choppy and laggy.

    No issue with the straight bluetooth connection, but the high resolution scrolling doesn't seem to work

  • Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2
  • Have you checked out the bigscreen headset? It's only doing upscaling to overcome the resolution limitations of displayport 1.4, and the form factor might be to your liking.

    Shame about the lens glare effect, but otherwise, pretty cool!

  • State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore
  • S3 is what people actually think of when they think of sleep mode, or modern standby. The running state of the operating system is stored in RAM, in low power mode. All context for the cpu, other hardware like disks and network is lost and those devices are completely shut down - bar the RAM. Basically, you close the lid at the end of the day, and you're nearly at the same charge level the next morning.

    This saves a lot of power. On my older 8th gen intel cpu laptop, it loses maybe 1-2% charge per day in this mode.

    My new 13th gen laptop still has deep sleep, or standby (s3) as a hardware function, but it's technically not supported. It actually doesn't work when enabled, and just falls back to s1 (sleep, everything's still on, just in low power mode). It loses about 2-3% per hour in this mode

    S4 (Hibernate) does roughly the same as S3, but the OS state is stored to the disk instead of ram, so that can be shut off too. Now the device is completely powered off, losing no charge while 'asleep'.

    S5 is off

    S4 sleep takes much longer to wake up from than s3, so was less desirable. In the modern computing world (especially end user devices), commonly there's full disk encryption going on, which adds a layer of complexity to resuming from disk, as you would when waking up from hibernation (s4).

    Making it resume without putting in a decryption password for example (using a TPM), isn't simple, and breaks a lot when you do system upgades

  • Flashy, simple souls like?
  • The only soulslike that's reasonably flashy yet simple enough that comes to mind is Code Vein

    It's slightly more cartoony than black desert, but has a high degree of character customization.

    Story's fine, but not required.

    Combat was cool. I found it fine even on a bluetooth controller. Didn't get massively frustrated with input lag.

    Character builds can vary quite a lot, and are mostly viable. I played a glass cannon and my friend played a tank. They worked just fine alone or together. On that note, the coop is serviceable.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/678960/CODE_VEIN/

    Probably wait for a discount.

  • Is it worth buying the Mac keyboard for a dedicated Linux PC instead of the windows one?
  • I can honestly say my space grey first-gen magic keyboard has served me well. It sits on my desk at work, I use it every day, and it only needs charging once every few months.

    The only thing I’ve ever done to damage it is pulling the z key off to clean between the keys, I tried to jam it back on wrong and ruined part of the scissor mechanism

    My next keyboard may yet be one of the newer models, but it’s to expensive to pull the trigger yet.

    Having tried it in person, I’m also considering the logitech mx keys mac variant. I didn’t even notice the key shaping while actually typing, and it’s the first keyboard I’d say comes close to being a magic keyboard replacement.

    I like the option(alt)/command(super) switched layout.

    I’ve got a keychron k3 ultra v2 too. I finally gave in on the mechanical keyboard train and splurged a bit - but now:

    • I need a wrist rest, even this ultra low profile version is way higher than I’m used to.
    • I hate the layout (my own fault for buying the most cramped version)
    • On linux at least, bluetooth is not the greatest (sometimes needs a keyboard restart to fix key send delay and repeat keys)
    • I picked the optical (cherry mx red equivelant) switches and they’re mushy af.

    I’ve had the white slim first-gen mini magic keyboard for years too. The battery swelled up, so I removed it and use it wired now. That was probably 8/9 years old.

  • SilverBullet: a self-hosted personal knowledge management system for people with a hacker mindset
  • So I’ve implemented Obsidian Git, and it works really well. The only trouble I’ve had is on iOS (I’ve got m it on android, fedora, debian and windows) where it’s bot supporting merge changes.

    I’m considering moving to logseq and implementing the same.

    The other alternative to self hosting is ‘SyncThing’. After I introduced my dad to obsidian, I saw how he did his synchronization with it, and it looks like a lot less overhead - fairly compelling

    Happy to share some notes on my setup and his if you like

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