They don’t mess around with their requirements either and strictly enforce them. If you don’t follow their rules and your domain is deleted, there is no refund or recourse.

That’s usually determined at the registrar level, not the registry level, though of course there are always exceptions.

Some ccTLDs have strict requirements (looking at you .de), but most are fairly standard TLDs. The last time I checked, .tv (for Tuvalu) was responsible for something like 40% of the country’s GDP, so it’s not surprising that most ccTLDs are welcoming to outsiders.

Edit: I was curious so I double checked, and apparently as of 2019 .tv was closer to 9% of Tuvalu’s Government spending according to Wikipedia. In my defense, the last time I researched the matter was several years prior to 2019, and additionally I have no doubt that I’m misremembering and/or unintentionally exaggerating that figure.

Regarding .de domains, I’ve seen multiple examples of a registered domain being completely deleted with absolutely no refund or recourse because the Registrant/Admin contact(s) didn’t respond to a physical letter sent by DENIC via post in Germany.

I would like to think that I’m capable of writing maintainable code like seemingly everyone else in this thread, and I have multiple code bases that have existed for decades that have included necessary updates over time to reinforce that opinion.

I’ve also seen some truly unfathomable, Lovecraftian horror code in the wild that has persisted for decades.

Seeing Will Smith’s character as a representative of humanity, and Sonny as a representative of LLM/GenAI in that context makes this joke absolutely hilarious.

Thanks for the clarification. Given the context of how this comment thread has developed, I didn’t know what to expect.

I’m not sure how to interpret this since I don’t wear glasses. I can’t tell if your response was intended as a compliment, insult, joke, or something else entirely.

Full disclosure, I’m on the spectrum so there is likely something that is going over my head. I can only hope that your comment was given with positive intentions and was intended to evoke positive feelings in the reader.

My understanding is that the Dr. was referring to her glasses prescription, but the numbers he provided were misinterpreted as some sort of rating on her appearance (or perhaps basketball performance).

He didn’t intend to cause that confusion, which is why he acknowledged that his choice of wording was not ideal. I hope that clears things up.

Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind.

Oof I forgot about that. Well written entertainment (not at all) surprisingly depends on talented and sufficiently compensated writers.

Theres also the fact that it didn’t really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show.

I wish they would have found some way to tie up the whole conspiracy and end the show with the conclusion of the first season. We didn’t need to see what happened afterwards, leave that to our imaginations. Unfortunately what followed was a clumsy attempt to reconcile the more fantastical elements with reality. We could have had another brilliant prison story like Shawshank, but instead we got a conspiracy theory soap opera.

I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.

I don’t think that kind of entertainment is entirely gone today, but it’s certainly the exception rather than the rule. Outside of a few niches, I agree that you don’t really see the same level of the week by week theory crafting and speculation that used to be so fun at the time. I hope someday that experience will be the norm again.

I’ve used this handle before that sounds like it would suit your needs. Of course it also requires Zigbee or Z-wave connected to your HA setup if you want to log locking/unlocking in HA.

Absolutely agree with The Owl House, such an amazing show. On the other hand, it’s definitely not for everyone, especially the character Hooty.

• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Gravity Falls
• Psych
• Steven Universe (Rough beginning but so worth it)
• Ted Lasso

I loved season 1 of Prison Break, season 2 was mostly ok but had a lot of wasted potential, and everything after that was completely off of the rails.

I felt very similarly to Heroes. It started very strong, but fizzled out quickly and eventually became a caricature of itself.

Check smoke detectors, clocks, plants near desks, anything that’s always been there and nobody questions.

To add to this as someone who has seen behind the curtain of how much of this tech is set up, lights are a common hiding place for cameras. Exit signs, parking lot lights, motion sensor lights, and the like. These are unfortunately also very difficult to detect by design, since they are expected to consume electricity, are almost always closed circuit with data wires parallel to the power wires, are practically impossible to observe in low light, and generate some heat even without any included surveillance equipment.

That’s a lot of adapters to get from USB to USB. There’s probably a metaphor in there somewhere.

What’s the adapter between the 9 to 25 pin and 25 to 9 pin serial adapters? Looks more substantial than a typical gender changer, maybe one of those dip switch adapters upside down?

I hope the launch goes well, I’ll certainly give it a try.

I didn’t find anything wrong with it on Mac, it was a perfectly cromulent browser. And anything that can help dethrone the chrome monopoly is a win in my book.

I’ve used it on both macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon) and iOS.

On macOS it’s been fine, but nothing about it was unique or beneficial enough to make me switch to it as my default browser. I imagine the experience on Linux will be similar.

On iOS, I’ve been daily driving it for almost exactly a year. At first it was very buggy, and I once lost all of my opened tabs. But for the past 6-8 months it has been very solid, and is the only browser on iOS that allows me to use both ad and sponsor block plug-ins to my knowledge. Tab groups are also fantastic and easy to manage.

Already done!

LoRa is a low power radio communication protocol that is very useful for warehouse and farming equipment, among many other things. I currently use ESP32s for GPIO, LoRa, and Wifi, and occasionally FPGAs for various tasks. But ad-hoc testing and diagnosis can be a pain for these devices, requiring multiple different dongles, power adapters, and converters.

If I can consolidate 75% of that gear into a single, handheld device, it will easily pay for itself in productivity gains.

I already have a work laptop running Linux, but it doesn’t support GPIO or LoRa without additional dongles/accessories. Working on industrial equipment while occasionally in remote locations, makes this device appealing to me specifically.

I’m also fortunate to have my employer willing to foot the bill, especially when they can also see the utility of this device in our line of work.

If you don’t work in this specific niche, your mileage will obviously vary.

I personally can’t say that I agree, especially in current economic conditions.

Many people do buy the shiny new things regularly, but I would argue that most people can’t afford that luxury and try to get the most life out of what they own.

On a separate note: I can’t speak to Linux phones, digital music gadgets, or AI hardware, but raspberry pis and flipper zeros on the second hand market are absolutely not cheap, and regularly sell for MSRP of new devices.

I’m sorry to hear that you’ve struggled to find regular use of those 20 random things, but that doesn’t mean your experience is representative of most people.

Having a dedicated handheld device with the features of a smartphone, running Linux natively (not just android), and also GPIO and LoRa are what make this especially appealing to me. Everything being open source brings this from “I’ll probably buy this” to “shut up and take my money” for me personally.

Sure, I could probably get accessories to achieve the same thing with my work phone. But if something catastrophic happens and the phone is damaged, I’m having a very bad day. Damaging a $300-400 device sucks, but I can still call my boss and ask him to order a replacement and receive calls from customers at the end of the day.

Of course these specific benefits are unique to me and my line of work. I also thankfully have a boss who trusts my judgment when purchasing new tools and tech, and a budget that can easily accommodate this kind of investment and risk.

I don’t need it… I don’t need it… I don’t need it… I don’t need it…

(M.2/NVMe, LTE and 5G, GPIO)

I don’t…

(Planned support for LoRa, Meshtastic, and FPGAs)

I…

(Everything open source, useful for me at work, employer will pay for)

Sold!

It doesn’t seem to be especially performant for games based on the videos they’ve put out, but a solid handheld with these specific features, and separate from my mission critical work android phone will hopefully be very useful.