They got down voted there too

The lights have use, I cover them with black electrical tape to dim them sufficiently

Remember the phrase “it’s not in-pattern”. Another one is “it’s possible, but expensive”

My bg3 character is female. She was in slacks until act 3 where she could finally have a dress

We looted everything. I feel like there are two dresses in the game: the robe Gale wears and a white dress you find in a Balders Gate house near the end of the game

I wonder if Nintendo will ever embrace repairability like some phone companies have

I guess there’s more competition in phones than in devices that can run Mario Cart

Yeah, it is harder to do. Specifically

• you need to remove stickers in a way that you can replace them, if you want to keep them looking good
• You need to undo glue, iFixit used isopropyl alcohol and force
• Once you’re in its fairly easy to replace parts, but Nintendo don’t supply parts
• Batteries are glued down, you need to destroy the foam beneath them to get the batteries out, Nintendo don’t sell replacement foam, or even a specification for the foam

By being harder it will be more costly to repair

For most people: the more difficult, the more expensive to get fixed

Thanks to 3d printing I have litres of isopropyl. What sucks is you probably want to replace the glue since it’s there to protect against liquids, and Nintendo don’t care to provide a seal kit

You also need to remove stickers to get at the screws

Also you need a security screwdriver (three blade) for those screws

There are no replacement stickers, we wait for iFixit to provide guidance on adhesives

The guy doing the teardown recommended you wait until a third party company makes a drift proof module to replace the same as last version joystick decoders

I ride an odd bike, a recumbent. I have seen a few cars watching me rather than the road, which is good for me — they give me loads of space — but bad for anyone ahead of me as the drivers show no lane control for a good 50m after they pass me. Where that happened most recently is also where a driver killed a cyclist by wandering into the bike lane despite having a six metre wide lane to themselves (even the cycle lane there is three metres wide)

And that keyboard shortcut is exactly the same as the keystroke to insert a line in other applications

I have a rule set up to delay outgoing email 2 minutes almost entirely because of how often I hit ctrl+enter

(Add format to a line, it formats that line and the paragraph above it; “no outlook, I want a paragraph break between those, not two linefeeds” <ctrl+enter>)

I especially like this in MS Teams

It looks like it’s working fine, then you try to join a meeting and randomly get one of:

• It works
• “We’re setting things up for you” for up to 10 minutes
• “Your organisation does not allow remote connections”
• Automatically logs in like you authorised it last time

It always works fine if you close your browser and re-open it between uses of teams.microsoft.com

It works on open source stuff I use, at least. Also there’s no hope if you connect over multiple devices, as only one browser on one machine has the authentication cookie

That makes sense. The Italian word for find doesn’t start with f

Regarding “Elon is stupid” I don’t agree. He has shown exceptionally good technical skills, he has no people skills, he’s worse than useless at presenting himself to the public in general

I don’t think he engineered much at either Tesla or SpaceX, but he had an excellent understanding of what they were doing - he could answer all the (non-ITAR, non trade secret) questions Tim Dodd asked in his tour of Starbase. When model 3 was new Randall Monroe did and assessment of the vehicle, Musk took the criticism and the next version fixed all the identified problems.

I would say Trump is the opposite. Actually low IQ, poorly educated, but good at talking to the population at large

I believe you’re (if you’re American) now allowed to rip DVD but not anything newer. DMCA protection was removed from CSS

You clearly were not a perl programmer 20 years ago

Yep. It has no logo of its own, so it sometimes gets identified by the animal on the O’Reilly book