Someone’s working on an open source implementation of the low level wifi firmware for the ESP32, info here. Would be cool if they do actually manage to reverse engineer something usable.

Step 1: get a cat

Step 2: ???

Profit!

Why u do dis

Isn’t it fucking insane that even two years ago the idea that a bot could have generated something like this on their own would have been incomprehensible?

I’d assume it’s got something to do with the system you’re using them on, some issue with power or something that better quality drives are able to handle, but not these.

These are cheap, yes, but if everyone ordering these was failing just outside the return period, they’d have far more 1 star ratings.

It’s gambled and won before, that’s why it keeps gambling.

Linux isn’t for mainstream users yet. It wasn’t when I tried switching to it several years back, it isn’t now.

I tried Zorin recently, UI looked absolutely beautiful so I wanted to try and get into it on my laptop.

Only issue is, the trackpad scroll speed was too fast. I went into settings to try and slow this down. No dice, this option just want available. I tried googling, which led me to some stackexchange posts, which I tried to use to solve the issue by changing xinput or something device parameters.

I tried for maybe 15 mins to do this without success. This kinda stuff is why Linux is not ready for the masses yet. I shouldn’t have to touch the command line for something like this. On windows I could have changed this without googling anything or touching the cli.

I know this is just one thing, but it’s representative of my other experiences with Linux in general. Things seem to have improved since several years ago (needed terminal to even get touchscreen working in Firefox), bit it’s just not there yet.

I really do want to switch to Linux, but I don’t want my computer os to be a hobby project that I have to sink time into to keep functional, I need it to be a tool that lets me get work done with minimal roadblocks.

Just wanted to chime in that I’m not an apple user, I primarily use android and windows. iPad is the only iOS device I use. I flat out disagree with clunky, Apple’s UI design (on iOS at least) is beautiful. UX wise, I can’t comment on functional differences between Android and iOS, at this stage in time, both are comparably usable for most people.

You can say many things about apple but clunky and unintuitive would not be it.

No don’t do that

Honestly mad respect to these Devs man. Gotta realise they’re doing this stuff for free and they’re not getting paid. If anyone hasn’t checked out the Asahi Linux blog, do give it a read, it has done fascinating deep dives into Apple’s hardware engineering.

Block ports associated with popular protocols is one method.

In terms of blocking VPNs reliably? Not much you can do afaik, you can even do VPN over websockets.

If you have regular backups, not an issue. I use bitwarden self hosted through home assistant, which makes daily backups trivial.

The level of insight you have into T-swag’s life is truly inspiring. Kudos.

There’s a forum I think, discord seems to be, as it clearly says, for real-time support and discussion.

I despise Discord as an alternative to a proper support forum, but having both options like this is great.

Most people can’t tell the difference between low bitrate vs high bitrate. Usually just confirmation bias.

Have you truly tested whether you can? I don’t mean playing each side by side and seeing whether you can tell the difference, but actually testing yourself in a way that you don’t know which is being played (like having someone else play it for you).

No. Nearsighted and farsightedness are usually to do with your eyeball shape.

Can’t believe no one had said this but your vision won’t ‘degrade’ by looking at screens. That’s a myth, you can look this up, you can’t permanently damage your vision looking at a screen like this.

Worst that will happen is eye strain, because focusing up close requires the muscles that pull on your lens to exert themselves for extended periods of time. Worst thing this will do is just give you a headache. Your eyes might also be dryer since you will blink less often. Best thing to do is just take breaks every once in a while.

Someone has mentioned that bright light also stimulates a hormone the prevents nearsightedness, from what I remember this is only valid during your growing years. Idk, look this up if you’re interested, you should be able to find some studies.

You can block ads on the NVIDIA shield launcher using Pihole of adguard DNS. Just need to go into settings for your wifi network on your shield, change dns1 and dns2, then reset the home app. It won’t be able to download new ads, so the banner on the home page will stay the default ad for several of Google’s own apps like play store and YouTube or whatever.

I too was not able to find a third party launcher that looked as nice as the original.

In what world is this is a resource monster??