Printers are always horrible to administer. Brother are typically the best on Linux. I wrote a massive instructional blog a few weeks ago because it took so much work to get my HL-3150CDN working over USB. I had to repackage a Frankenstein’s monster of a driver because my printer never got 64-bit CUPS filters.

This group’s activism is so tone-deaf that I’m starting to think this is actually the oil companies pretending to be terrible activists.

Yep. It’s your car to do with it what you want. The ADRs (Australian Design Rules) only apply at point of sale. Once it’s yours, it merely needs meet roadworthy requirements. As long as you keep a functioning speedo, wipers and lights, you can rip out every bit of electronics in the car.

The train ride home just kills it. I eat. I clean. I sleep.

Don’t search for reviews. Search for forum posts where users are having issues. “[Product] + [not working/failed/broken]” gets you an idea of what the product is like to live with, and now quickly issues get resolved.

My kitchen has a solid ban on any product with the word “maker” in the name. They’re all junk that take up space and do a worse job than conventional methods.

An air fryer though. That was money well spent.

I wrote a blog about it last year with my method of deduplicating. I really need to update that bit because steam keeps writing files that don’t uphold the group permissions, and others get permission errors that need to be fixed by admin. Steam also failed to determine free space on a drive when symlinks were involved.

I even found recently that steam would write files in /tmp/ as one user, and fail when you logged in as another user and tried to write the same file. Multi-user breaks even without messing around.

My current solution doesn’t use symlinks. I just add two libraries for each user. One in their respective home directory, and another shared in /mnt/steam. It means that any user can update a game in /mnt/steam, and it cleanly updates for all users at once.

OK I just measured mine. I have 459GiB of games on the drive, consuming 368GiB of space. That’s about 25% compression. I’m using compress=zstd:9.

I should try deduplication. I have 4 steam users and I’ve created an ACL hell to prevent the same game being downloaded and installed twice.

Btrfs is amazing for a steam library. The single best feature is the compression. Games tend to have lot of unoptimized assets which compress really well. Because decompression is typically faster than your disk, it can potentially make games load faster too.

I put a second dedicated nvme drive in my PC just for steam. It’s only 512GB but it holds a surprisingly large library.

And I can’t immediately do the thing, I snooze the alarm.

do not choose something copyrighted.

Is that with a “nudge, nudge, wink, wink”? It would be such a shame if the whole project were jeopardised by such things.

I used to eat a biscuit every time I was waiting for my PC to reboot. It was hard to stay thin while running Windows 98.

I have a second laptop next to me so I can do something completely unrelated while waiting for my code to compile. If I watch my code compile, I’ll start reading the logs and I WILL start investigating one of the 243 linting errors I inherited from the other devs.

By the end of the week, I’m sometimes switching between 3 different branches and raising a 5-line pull request for the one thing I was asked to do. I then have a 100+ line PR because I refactored some trash module to shave 200ms off the program startup time.

Back to your question of how I manage waiting. I don’t manage. I have a dream that one day my codebase won’t be trash and I can make a change without invoking an 8 minute wait.

At least now that I have stims, I don’t feel the urge to snack every time my mind idles.

Most of the reason I liked reddit (and use Lemmy) is because I use it almost exclusively while people are talking. Sound must always be off.

Interesting. I have a Pixel and it’s not in my settings as described. I’m running GrapheneOS, but I find it odd to omit such a useful privacy feature.

Edit: The feature is part of Google Play Services, not Android.

Just out of curiosity, I installed AirGuard on my phone so I’ll get notified if a tag is following me.

At this point, I suspect a colleague catches the same train to the office from time to time.

Hot warheads.

Sour warheads are great and all, but I really loved the hot ones.

I would love it if Valve secretly checked if Windows was genuine and put it in their stats.

It’s interesting that Asia is boosting Linux numbers when the Valve hardware survey showed the opposite. The numbers were recently updated to include China and it caused every OS to lose ground to Win10.

People chewed gum to fix their breath after smoking tobacco, and I don’t see people doing that anymore either.

The ads never said that gum was for smokers, but it’s for smokers.

“That’s the neat part!”

Well, I wait until they’re in bed at about 10:30PM, then I have until about midnight to get the kitchen clean and get 6 hours of sleep before they wake up again to go to school.

Alternatively, I clean the kitchen before cooking and serve dinner at 8PM when I started at 5:30. Then it’s only 30 mins of cleaning before bed.

On Saturdays, you can clean up the kitchen after breakfast, and by the time it’s done you have to cook lunch. After that, there’s still an hour before the shops shut so you can grab some groceries and get back in time to cook dinner.