Admiral Patrick @ ptz @dubvee.org

I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

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Yeah, I don't think I can recall anything else like the 32X. Like you said, it was basically a standalone system that used the Genesis for all of its I/O (didn't it also need its own power cable, too, rather than drawing from the cartridge slot on the Genesis?)

I think the closest we got, aside from the memory expansions, were things like the SuperFX chip in some SNES games. StarFox and a few other games used those, and it did some co-processing inside the cartridge. It didn't turn the SNES into an N64, but it did allow it do more things than it was originally designed to do.

To be fair, the N64 did get the memory expansion pack which some games required. It used the extra RAM for higher resolution, better draw distance, and more detailed textures.

The N64 also had a hard drive add-on in Japan, and the NES had a floppy drive (also in Japan).

I'm content with the path history has taken. The Sega Tower of Power seemed awkward to me. Granted, you didn't have to have every add-on installed at the same time, but a lot of people did.

"A dozen of the 238 migrants were accused of murder, rape, assault, and kidnapping."

Emphases mine. They were accused of those crimes, but not tried or convicted. Anyone can accuse anyone of anything at any time.

Checks out, at least in my case.

I self-host my email and pretty much every other cloud service I'd otherwise be using. My Gmail account is literally a spam catcher address, so everything there and elsewhere I haven't already deleted is 100% crap.

uncharged criminals

Yeah, that term sends a chill down my spine. Expect to hear it more and more in a "guilty until proven innocent" kind of way.

At least during the Great Depression, you could make clothes from feed sacks. We don't even have that this time.

Yeah, then I guess I'll need to keep looking. The hardware can be great, but not when I can't do what I want with it. Thanks for the insight.

XDA does show some people are able to bootloader unlock and root (which is basically all I need), so I may keep tabs on it and go from there.

I'd considered the Razr but was uncertain on the durability of it. Reviews were about 50/50 last I read.

That's awesome you mentioned using it closed most of the time. I'm tired of the "tall, skinny rectangle" form factor (and not being able to use it one-handed despite having not-small hands lol). Since smaller phones seem to be extinct, it's cool there's a middle ground in being able to use it that way.

I do need to make sure I can find one that's bootloader unlockable. Kind of a hard requirement for me and necessary to de-google it to my satisfaction. It's not listed as supported by Lineage, but I'll browse XDA and see what they've been able to do with it.

Thanks!

I have a single Nginx setup which is the frontend for all my web services. So I only need to deploy it there (and to its HA partner). My renewal script just scp's it to the secondary and does an nginx -s reload on both.

I do generate separate certs/keys for my non-web servers, but there's only two of those.

You could also, if you wanted, just generate one cert and distribute it and its key to everything with a script or other automation tool (Ansible is what I used to use).

Is there a way I can get Let's Encrypt to dole out a wildcard certificate

Yep. Just specify the domains yourdomain.com and *.yourdomain.com in the certbot request. Wildcard domains require the DNS-based challenge, but you've said you're already good there. You don't technically need the apex domain (yourdomain.com) but I always add it since I do have services running there.

Any subdomains under the wildcard can use internal DNS or internal IPs on the public DNS (I do the former, but the latter works too).

I used to run an internal CA, and it wasn't too hard to setup a CA and distribute my root cert. Except on mobile devices. On Android it was easy, but there was a persistent warning that my network traffic could be intercepted (which is true when there's a custom root cert installed), but it since it was my cert, it got annoying seeing that all the time. Not sure if Apple devices can even do that, but regardless, it wasn't practical for friends who wanted to use my self-hosted services to install a custom cert when they were over.

Oooh!

I've been rocking a de-googled but aging CAT S22 Flip since last August (low-end android smartphone in a flip phone form factor). Absolutely love it but sad there is no clear successor when I have to eventually replace it. It's basically the same concept as this phone.

Sadly, this is not a "new" model. He bought it used on eBay, it's got similar specs to my S22, and only runs Android 12. However, that screen is quite nice and would be a huge upgrade from the S22. The unfortunate conclusion is that there is still no clear successor for my S22 unless I want a slightly/barely less out of date phone and go with this one.

"Don't Look Up"

Just gouging us. Even on the 3DS before they shut the shop down, digital download games were the same price as buying them on a cart.

hackaday.com mostly.

Everything else is "big tech adds [anti-feature], shoves AI more places no one asked for".

Not just France. Saying that in the US, too.

Usually, yeah. People will hide them for kids to find or they'll sit out as decorations for a few days. By the time they're done being "Easter eggs" they're all kinds of nasty / spoiled. (American eggs require refrigeration)

There's a lot to unpack here:

1. This is going to be one of things future generations look back on like we look back at the Great Depression (I'm trying not to think about Great Depression 2)
2. The whole trend (potato or egg) is just a waste of food. Always has been.
3. Why can't people just use the reusable plastic eggs? Bonus is you can put candy inside.

Edit: Okay, thank you. Apparently we just did "Easter Eggs" wrong growing up.

I misread the headline as "Punitive or a grift?" and was like "yes".

Technically true, but there's other factors:

1. Even if you're crouched, you may still be the tallest structure (e.g. you're in a big, open field).
2. As the NLSC states, crouching prolongs the amount of time you're in danger with little benefit over running to safety (I suppose if there is no safety, it's better than nothing, and the CDC guidance does list this basically as a "last resort").
3. Even if there's a taller structure near you (crouched or not), lightning causes electric currents along the top of the ground that can be deadly more than 100 feet away from the strike point.

Interesting. Didn't realize it went back that far - again, I had always (mis-) attributed the quote to Carlin. Thanks for sharing.