I got myself a remarkable after seeing a colleague use one and thinking they were cool. An astonishing price for what is essentially a kindle that you can write on, but that is essentially the entirety of its functionality right there. No web browser, no ebook integration, no keyboard, just a thing for scribbling notes with a big battery life. No distractions.

As such, it’s completely ideal for my work diary, meeting notes, D’n’D notes, maps for games that I’ve been playing, random scribbles, all sorts. Quite a lot lighter than the thousands of sheets of paper that would be required otherwise. Also not as rude as popping open a laptop when you’re meeting someone - they can see you’re just making notes and writing to-dos.

Yeah. Got a raspberry pi sat by our router, being the home dns server and fileshare. Installing forgejo was a one-liner, configuring nginx to serve it over https took about half a dozen. Very easy, perfectly reliable.

Oh, those fine lads. Last playthrough, I’d got to them without dying. Died about nine times in a row to them. Died once more to Seath like you’re meant to. Finished with about 90% of my run deaths just to those two. Grr.

You can run one of these in the UK on a 13A fuse, since our domestic supply is 230V. That’s the most allowed on a single plug, though.

The more common household items that use 13A fuses are kettles and “three bar electric fires”, which should let you know how much heat these fuckers are going to be pumping into your room. Going to be able to heat a large room in winter when this thing is flat out.

Can we get COD and Battlefield added on there? If they’re boycotting, then it would be good to get the fash off of as much internet as possible.

My company has an ill-advised “try to do it with AI first” rule in place.

For senior devs, that means rejecting the first twenty AI-generated code suggestions as they’re bollocks, and then having to fix it up by hand anyway. Takes 10x as long as it should do.

For junior devs, who don’t know enough to reject the ‘bollocks first suggestion’, it means raising pull requests that take 10x as long for the seniors to review, since they have to untangle the original intention and then explain why all the code is terrible and why they need to go and fix it.

We have truly embraced 10x programming.

Fuel economy is normally expressed as “distance per volume” (mpg) or “volume per distance” (l/100km). Normalise that, it has units of area. I like to visualise that as the cross-section of a string of fuel dragging a car along, being thicker when accelerating and thinner when running down hill.

Acre-feet is a weird unit for volume, but if you know how big your reservoir is in acres then at least it’s an easy conversion to depth. And at least it’s just a conversion factor away from a sane unit that can be used for pump sizing and such.

I prefer to pretend that Dune and Dune Messiah are the only books in the series, and in particular that his son never wrote anything. Makes for a much more satisfying tale.

Also works for ‘underground worm film’ Tremors. Done perfectly after the first one, no sequels.

Mine splits his time between sleeping, cuddles, and scrapping with every other cat for miles around. He will fight on your side.

From the couple of games where I’ve been able to compare; frames per second are exactly the same, but the CPU runs a great deal less hot. No concern on desktop, but that would make a difference on the Steam deck.

(Mark Of The Ninja has a deadlocking issue on native that it doesn’t have on proton, got quite a few of Frictional’s games - Penumbra, Amnesia - that just won’t open on my main monitor when native, and most recently Silksong has been really funny about my 8bitdo controller when native. Works great with my fightstick, though.)

Strange. All modern dice have opposite sides adding up to seven, but that has six opposite four and five opposite three, presumably one opposite two on the side we can’t see. I couldn’t imagine making one that wasn’t ‘fair’ and then trying to play a game with it, would be too suspicious of the results.

No need to hold your breath for Bloodborne on PC, get yourself over to https://shadps4.net/ and get ready to slay a few beasts. It’s for your own good.

Even better with 0.10.0:

The big new feature this release brings with it is readbacks, which emulates shared memory on the PS4 by reading back memory that was modified on the GPU back to the CPU side, …, fixing vertex explosions in Bloodborne and similar games

Or ‘love hotels’. You want to rent a room by the hour, Mario gets his cut.

The harpoon works just fine too, one-hits the stick insects and does her some damage as well if you can line it up. She’s not very dangerous if you know her moveset, but that’s an education learned by many runbacks.

Doesn’t say they’ve fixed the comedy bug where if you look at the map while on one of the collapsing platforms, then when you fall through then the game stops accepting input, Hornet just stares at it forever. Only glitch I’ve found, quite impressive for a day one purchase.

That’s the great part. Got to beat a fairly hellish boss to get the needle upgrade, and then it still takes six hits to defeat all the enemies in the new area, rather than eight if you’d skipped it. Got an unusually easy runback to her, though, so don’t claim the designers don’t give you anything.

Just got into act 2. Thought they might have gone easy for a bit after the hellish end of act 1, but no, straight into much harder.

The time for “collaborate and listen” has passed. Now, the time for Nintendo to bring down hammer go hammer mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play has arrived.

Fifty million? The “StarGate” talk was more like five hundred billion bro, just trust me, one more nuclear reactor man, that’s all we need, just one more hand and we’re going to win it big, bro.

While it’s awesome that I’ll finally be able to get all my porn onto one disk, I do hope that they manage to improve the data rates on these disks. If they’re the typical 100 MB/s, then that’ll be 12 days to fully read or write one of these. We’d be looking at basically an entire month to resilver one of these in a RAID, which probably justifies a special risk assessment for their usage.

Agree with you completely, but the explanation is probably in order.

CoMaps is a fairly recent fork of Organic Maps. There were questions being raised about Organic’s governance - dodgy partnerships, misuse of funds, not being truly open-source due to keeping core libraries private - and so CoMaps was created to ‘do it properly’. The app functionality is basically exactly the same, so moving over is completely painless.

https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

I’m going to nominate the fat godskins from Elden Ring as being the least fun boss to fight in their entire oeuvre. Instant belly slam attack with no wind-up that’s impossible to shield or dodge, followed by a fifteen- to twenty-minute rolling attack. Seems to be designed to either force you to engage with crafting to make sleep items, or just to grind like hell to be ridiculously over-levelled. And then one rocks up with his skinny mate, to make the worst dual-boss ever. Makes twin dragonriders look like a masterpiece.