i.e. Helping others modify their own devices

You’re splitting hairs

Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m

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Murphy’s law is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong eventually

It did potentially originate from an aerospace engineer talking about safe plane design, but the law as everyone knows it is the one above.

Finagle’s law is an extension of Murphy’s law by replacing “eventually” with “at the worst possible moment”

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Cards up the sleeve

The pixel 9 doesn’t do the blinding thing anymore, and it works pretty well. This is apparently an even better version of that.

Don’t disagree that on the back should be a thing too, the sensor on the back of the pixel 5 (IIRC?) was perfectly quick and had a few useful gestures you could use it for. I doubt it would increase the BOM much to just have both considering we’re talking at phones that cost a grand

The modern condition

Mid thirties—still want to go out sometimes, also enjoy the above other times.

Most people have manual cars in the UK. Automatics are the weirder, more esoteric ones to us.

I think it’s more or less a cultural thing at this point

FWIW I believe competitive drivers prefer manual control (even if the gearbox itself is automatic) because controlling when the gear change happens can make a difference in a race

Do you live somewhere without winter?

There’s no rhyme or reason to it, but some mornings a black coffee is all I seem to want/need which is kinda negative calories

Other mornings I’ll polish the plate of a large full English and will perish if I don’t

The problem you have is you care which disk gets wiped, russian roulette is the best design pattern!

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=$(ls /dev/sd* | shuf | head -n1)

…I shouldn’t need to say, but don’t run that unless you want to make your day a bit worse

Insurance is usually the reason—taxis have different insurance to private cars

It’s genuinely replaced Civ in my “hmmm, I’ve got a day ahead of me that I could do without” category

Probably at thousands of hours and I’ve only escaped once

RimWorld in space

Well… Shit… There goes the next few weeks

I mean TBF, they don’t trust the average person in New Jersey to handle a petrol pump—so much so that it’s legally prohibited.

I’m not at all surprised that they shouldn’t be trusted with the vehicle itself, given that

Oh no, don’t worry I cross compiled it on my desktop! I imagine the pi would crash before it completed the job

My desktop with 64gb sat idling with a web browser open:

You got 32gb to play with chump

Usually whatever comes stock with the distro—though one device is currently running a custom built kernel with some Linux TV patches because the patches are only available on x86 builds currently, and I’ve got the tuner that needs them attached to a pi zero 2