I am going different on this one.

An awl on a utility knife.

Nowadays, 99% of camping, hiking, and “survival” equipment is light weight composites that can be better fixed with glue, tape, small needle and thread, or a patch with one of the above. There are very few alternative uses for it that aren’t better with a different standard tool.

There were many bad translations, and many purposefully bad ones.

Is it easier to exert control over a population with eternal damnation or proportional punishment?

I wish they were readily available and had standard TI charging chip ICs to charge them.

Right now you can only get 18650s and a custom charging CC/CV solution.

I wish that we could get KNX ETS6 in WINE. But it has a USB component though many or most people use IP configuration instead.

Yup, Sharon stone and dicaprio, 1995

It doesn’t charge to 4.2V per cell but instead to 4V or 4.05V.

Using the same charging chips as lithium that terminate so high would damage the cell.

Also the voltage drop is a lot more (4V->1.5V vs 4.2V–>3V), so lithium charging chips would detect it as a deeply discharged lithium cell and only charge at 40mA or so instead of fast charging or even a damaged, shorted out battery (so not charging at all and giving an error). So a problem on both ends.

Disney’s robin hood and robin hood men in tights were big during my childhood so I like them for the nostalgia.

Kingsmen movies are fun

The quick and the dead with decaprio is very bad but I enjoy it.

Oh no! I really hope this doesn’t start happening to all of the CEOs and board members that make a profit off of legally killing people

Yeah it is a many decades long issue of Israel literally pushing over Palestinians houses with bulldozers to expand their territory, beating and sometimes killing the owners of the houses, then calling it “settling”. Then Palestinians being radicalized and carrying out attacks (and terror attacks) against Israel. Then Israel responding with complete ethnic cleansing genocide and teaching their entire country that the Palestinians aren’t human and kidnapping torturing them in Nazi-ways.

It is pretty much exactly the US vs Native Americans of the modern day. Down to the difference in funding, available technology differences, starvation tactics, and genocide. I think the torture tactics have gotten worse though

Not “technically” discontinued, but almost

Buying products and owning them.

Buying products and getting full repair manuals and electrical schematics

Cathode ray tubes

Overbuilt refrigerators and washing machines

Clothes that last and are repairable

Houses built with full bricks and iron with actual straight walls and unbroken woodwork

I am so excited for sodium ion. I already have like 5 projects in my head for useful application of it. Solar powered rain barrel water pump, replacements batteries for power tools, camping battery pack.

Sadly there aren’t any charging chips out there for it yet, but one of my project ideas is to implement my own CC/CV from a greenpak chip.

This is what I need.

If you only need to drop files on the same LAN, then you really don’t need a server. P2P is perfect and cuts out the middle man.

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(Context: Most companies including Nintendo claim that any act of piracy is a lost sale, which is completely a lie)

Here in Belgium we have cryptographically signed tokens on our legally mandated IDs.

You can use that token to do all sorts of things (my company uses them as authorship signatures for our quality system for medical devices), but if we had some standard like that, then we could have some software that would have a OTP based on that that is a huge list of valid OTPs in a website API or so, not linked to the token itself. (So you would have to trust this software that generates the OTP). You will get people using the same OTP, but that wouldn’t matter because it would just be a validity check. Lind of like the old product key generators for games.

Sure this could be abused or gotten around by a programmer or hack, but for 95% of the population it would be effective age verification without giving away any information or statistics. Sure, people could also abuse it and save a code and use it constantly, but then they would already have been verified. Sharing a code around would also happen with teens, but it would be far more effective than not, especially for the low stakes of age verification.

Hibernation doesn’t work at all on my windows HP work laptop. Sleep has gotten way way better on Linux in the past 2 years even. My desktop that would be buggy going in and out of sleep has now been flawless such that I auto sleep it after 30 minutes.

Battery life on Linux still sucks though.

Literally the 2nd post on !tech@programming.dev is about mega corporations financials. Many other posts are about legal cases of megacorporations.

It seems to be less about technology, and more about the market and software drama/politics.

At least no musk spam.

Those trackpads better have damn good palm reject because getting to those thumbsticks without brushing the trackpads will be impossible for many people.

Stacked partisan right wing judges, hand selected to put right wing optics over the actual law is what can happen, and what Mitch McConnell has been busy with for decades.

Not OP, but maybe because it is a survey from a Linux group and discord has treated Linux like 2nd class citizens since 2015 and they don’t give a flying fuck about making the experience as good on Linux as windows. It is an afterthought.

And it is not like they did anything special at all this year to warrant a “of the year” award. Discord has been out for almost a decade. That is like saying windows is OS of the year when they have done almost nothing but bad decisions this year and the OS is already been out for a long time.

Nice try FBI.

In all seriousness, matrix encrypted chat would be better.