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Back in my day, we had a fat guy with a huge bell who would shout out the news from the streets.

Kids today are so softened with their paper news and crossword puzzles. We had to make do with hangman and guessing a word. No pencils and erasers to rub out a guess, that hangman was coming for you and there was no turning back. You had to stare death right in the face. Just like that bubonic plague. You’d wheel your own grandma’s cadaver into the streets to be collected. And you’d listen to the news being shouted out and you’d count your socks lucky.

_Kiss Kids today. So soft. With their paper news. Crosswords. And medicine. Soft, I say. Get ‘em down the mines for a few shifts. Sort them right out.

We’ve got stripes!?!?

Because Acrobat is designed for the ancient ritual of “printing” which used rectangular pieces of pressed plant fibre that didn’t even have any pixels and needed to be measured with sticks with lines on them.

Or use an alternative like OsmAnd Maps or Magic Earth that have great CarPlay support, use open and detailed maps, and allow you to offline the entire planet should you need to.

A kernel, in computing terms, is the computer program that sits between applications and the hardware, facilitating their interactions.

This is the GNU/Linux operating system’s kernel (the part that is technically Linux) showing its architecture.

The columns represent the areas of functionality the kernel offers, the rows (from top to bottom) representing the level of abstraction from the hardware.

From the top; user space, where users barely have to think about the hardware enabling their applications. To the bottom; the hardware itself and the interfaces that enable the kernel to talk to them.

The lines represent the relationships between the various Linux kernel functions and structures - the text - that interact with one another directly.

The diagram is interactive in the sense that you can click the functions/structures and be taken to relevant resources to help a Linux kernel developer navigate the humongous amount of code that comprises the kernel, to accelerate debugging etc.

This diagram has been continuously developed for well over 15 years at this point and is somewhat iconic in the Linux world as it makes tangible the kernel and its thousands upon thousands of lines of code which I doubt any one developer has or could read and comprehend as a whole without the use of tools like this map.

Pay. Them. What. They. Deserve.

Seriously. My buddy doing echo tests of drainpipes a few hours a day for a water company (which took only a few hours of training to start doing) earns double that of a teacher with several years of crippling university debt.

If we want an intelligent, productive workforce in the future, it starts with good teachers being rewarded for taking on the huge amount of stress and time that is teaching. We shouldn’t be relying on the altruism of good teachers putting up with hell for the benefit of our children and leaving only those who don’t aspire to paying their bills or affording a holiday to enter the profession.

How on earth we ended up with teaching being so disgustingly undervalued is beyond me and must change.

Something like a Sony WH-CH720N? Bluetooth 5.2 (encryption has been default since 4 but I’m sure there are vulns in older versions).

As a Steam Deck user, even the thought of a 50% dead zone makes me nauseous.

Bluetooth or can you handle a USB dongle? Logitech G733 headphones are often on sale where I live for €99.99.

You’ll be playing it on low settings for everything and there are major frame drops in the big cities. But I’ve sunk around 8h in on the Deck and so has my partner. So far, so good. Only crash to desktop happened after resuming the Deck from sleep mid play.

I’ve been playing it on the Steam Deck (haven’t had a chance to play on the desktop yet as it’s currently extremely hot where I live so I’m huddled next to the aircon). And yes, it actually plays. Low frames in big cities but otherwise seemingly playable!

I love it. It’s more Skyrim than No Man’s Sky but I’ I’ve been playing Bethesda games since Redguard so I’m biased and a fan of their jank.

Only one crash to desktop so far…

Aaah. Fedora recommends GDM anyhow I think, even for Plasma. I imagine they might be packaging things differently given how GNOME is the default (and the distro has a default) DM.

I don’t have this issue on Arch Linux with SDDM, Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce.

That’s not an accurate comparison, The game breaking bugs in NMS on release were patched a day or two after release (I stupidly preorderd and experienced the hyperdrive blueprint issue). But the issue with NMS wasn’t really bugs, just over promises by the developers that didn’t match the final product. At least there was a few hundred hours of gameplay and complete gameplay loops.

Star Citizen, another game I stupidly preordered / Kickstarted (I’ma sucker for space games; kickstarted Elite Dangerous too) is a totally different kettle of fish. A decade later, there still isn’t a single, non-buggy / non-broken game loop in the entire game.

I so desperately want to like Star Citizen but for $600mil, having a few hours of “mucking about” with no real purpose nor way to achieve anything meaningful without experiencing migraine-inducing bugs, it’s pretty much unforgivable.

For the same money, I’ve been able to play Elite Dangerous for almost a decade and sink 1000s of hours, build a massive fleet of ships, and hang out with my buddies without screaming at the game. Sure, it’s shallower, but at least the loops are complete and the management were able to regularly make meaningful feature additions to the game over the years (although Odyssey was an utter shitshow at launch and took a year to patch into something stable and fun).

Oops! I forgot to check the schedule.

Formal Verification doesn't guarantee that the code is free of vulnerability, it just increases confidence in its security. It’s never perfect.

CVE-2023-35674 No real details published yet but Google discussed it in their September security bulletin.

PSA: Android just published a patch for a very similar vulnerability in their September Security release. You should update your Android devices ASAP.