I'd be surprised if an inline dryer could sufficiently dry nylon, let alone make a noticeable difference, it takes like at least 48 hours at the hottest my dryer goes (55c) to start see improvements and I have fans blowing air around the spool.
Same, the big box should still be at my parents so have some hope, they gave me a lot of the stuff they still had in my room when they moved, but not everything, maybe it'll turn up when I finally unpack all my stuff.
The Universim from the brief looks I've given it seems to fit the bill to me, my partner's been playing it and it's made me want to replay bw2, I've got all my disks but can't find my cd key so... Prey 2006 same thing.
I think I did it back in xp, I was trying to figure out when support was added.
I don't think it's super advertised that it's a capability which definitely doesn't help its usage, heck I kinda forgot about it even though I used it until your comment triggered a memory.
As an interesting fact, windows totally supports mounting positions to folders and as far as I recall it's been able to for a very long time, remember doing it as a teenager and thinking it was cool AF.
The only annoyances I had were general keyed connector issues, but usually you're able to look at the port, it's usb a that tended to be plugged in blind, usb c can be annoying to plug in blind because if its size, just less overall annoying that og usb
For real, VLC is great, I've totally had issues playing some of them with it. If I recall there's supposed to be a way to let vlc use MakeMKV to break them for playback, but yeah, way more work than just ripping it.
I've had this and similar conversations far too many times, I keep professional but holy shit, and then when they do get a call going with a screen share they zoom past the error every. Single. Time.
Mine stare at them, maybe do a light paw and meow like a maniac at them, they're not good pest control.
Luckily, the gratuitous amount of spiders seem to do their job, there's a lot of lake flies!midges/gnats but I've never seen them or ants in the house, just spiders.
So I'll counter an anecdote with an anecdote, my dad is a draftsman by trade and was an engineering technologist for decades, he's looked at Freecad back and forth and is now seriously looking at it over solidworks for his personal projects now that he's retired, I also flipped from solidworks which I used professionally for about 5 years before changing roles. Does it have quirks, yeah it does, but so do other cad packages, and lets not pretend that solidworks is a beacon of stability, there's a reason it was drilled into us in uni to save frequently and why it has autosaving. The UI is relatively simple, there's plugins to customise it and it has substantially improved over the last decade when I first gave it a try, way better than my memories of using solid edge (and I personally disliked fusion, just didn't click with me, at least freecad has a near identical workflow to SW). Am I more accepting of jankiness with Foss solutions, straightup yes, it's provided for free without restrictions on its usage vs solidworks where if you have a maker license for example, only other maker licenses can open the sldprt file.
Another example, I'd wager it's why you see a lot more r and python usage in statistical spaces where SPSS and SAS were used because those tools are extremely expensive for licenses (I recall a colleague talking about it costing 10s of thousanda at leaat, maybe more, company was always looking into ways they can get off of it) cost alone makes the Foss solutions more accessible.
I'll be also fair that both of my anecdotal examples we're using for personal projects but the point is that professional users aren't a monolith.
Linux for sure, they weren't the beefiest devices even for the time, wow someone finally got the rt2 unlocked fully? Appreciate the link, going to have to dig mine out.
I've always struggled to succinctly describe my job to people outside of it, it's muddy because I often fill gaps and there's often a lack of clear r&r, I'm on paper a Data Engineer & Architect, I just say I design and build backend stuff and handle infrastructure.
Had the same issue when I did Equipment Reliability Engineering, technical roles are often really hard to explain to people I've found.
I meant it to be implied with my comment tying back to the original surface rc devices, I've always really liked the look of the surface line, it's why I bought one and used it heavily (I was also and windows phone and zune early adopter, other things that were actually really nice but got dropped), I personally disliked that I couldn't really do much with it after they dropped support as afaik the rc2 no one has cracked and made that crack public.
And totally willing to admit being wrong, going back and editing my comments to reflect my mistake
I don't pay attention to american individual politicians as much but maybe he'd be a red Tory? Morneau was a grit cabinet minister and he's solidly centre right, LPC tends to be neolib
Wasn't even thinking about that, I have an old surface rc2 that's totally useless because MS abandoned it years ago and it's locked down so you can't install an alternate os on it. To be fair, I'm not sure how useful it could be but it's really about the fact I can't do what I want with hardware I own.
Edit: apparently this (locked down) hasn't been an issue for a while so that's actually great
Pretending it's not locked down like the og surface arm devices, I'd consider getting one and totally drop some flavour of linux on it, 3:2 is a great aspect ratio for laptops.
Otherwise yeah, I wouldn't go anywhere near it
Edit: apparently I don't need to pretend, this hasn't been an issue for a while so that's actually great
I'd be surprised if an inline dryer could sufficiently dry nylon, let alone make a noticeable difference, it takes like at least 48 hours at the hottest my dryer goes (55c) to start see improvements and I have fans blowing air around the spool.