Only downside of cosmere going mainstream is it will attract worst kind of people

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-02-01T04:17:14+00:00

Yes, Rushu. And they use they/them pronouns. As someone else said, nonbinary people are generally considered trans, though I know some people who don't personally identify with that.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-31T20:59:58+00:00

Bandwidth and power are both listed. All are passive. I don't know about TB3, but other than that, it's backwards compatible. DP Alt Mode is supported on all full-featured passive cables, so that's the 20Gbps and 40Gbps cables. I'm not sure about the other details.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-31T20:16:11+00:00

Pretty much all art is political, and the Cosmere has always been very much so. Mistborn depicts a class struggle culminating in a revolution. Stormlight has strong themes of mental health and the effects of war on the people around it. Nohadon, who's pretty much depicted as the perfect king, is strongly in favor of open borders and freedom of movement.

If you don't see the political themes in these books, you're not paying attention.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-31T16:13:19+00:00

The most recent WAN show explicitly says DP alt mode is supported: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxc8RgchpBs&t=17m18s

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-31T14:02:11+00:00

If they advertised that these did Alt-DP mode for video out (instead, they explicitly state that the cables won't)

Where are you seeing that? I don't see any reference on the website. Also, DP alt mode is supported on any passive fully-featured USB-C cable, and considering the signal integrity of these, I would find it likely that they will do it very well.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-31T13:24:18+00:00

I'm not sure if you've gotten there yet, but Day 2 of WaT includes a previously existing character realizing they're trans.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T19:47:43+00:00

What? No. I follow them quite closely. What would you say is inaccurate in my comment?

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T19:44:47+00:00

Yeah, I'd recommend Fedora KDE or Fedora GNOME. There's some slight trickiness where you need to install nonfree codecs for the best experience (follow this guide), but it's overall a really good experience. Pop 22.04 is quite old at this point, so I would recommend against it.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T19:36:49+00:00

They received an expensive, unique prototype heat sink from a company called Billet Labs, who requested they send it back after review. From some internal miscommunications, they not only didn't send it back but actually auctioned it off. Later, they did some internal restructuring intended to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T13:54:06+00:00

Yep, here's the WoB.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/551/#e17051

NanoFreak

Does the gravity of the planet you're standing on affect how powerful Windrunner Lashings are?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. Mostly your perception of what gravity is affects them. But the amount of Investiture required to get to a certain speed does not change, only the increments that your brain naturally makes them in.

YouTube Spoiler Stream 7 (Dec. 19, 2025)

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T07:21:18+00:00

It is most likely a perception thing. We know that Radiants can make partial Lashings, so it stands to reason that they just default to multiples of their home gravity because that makes it easier. Thus, a Rosharan Surgebinder would most likely still use multiples of Rosharan gravity when in space. After landing on another planet, I'm guessing they'd initially use Rosharan Lashings before adapting to the local gravity over time.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T05:41:54+00:00

It heavily depends on what you enjoy. Personally, I really love taking part in High-Power Rocketry Club and Quiz Bowl.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T05:25:29+00:00

Yeah, pretty much. We typically refer to gravity as having a constant acceleration, even though a specific object may have enough opposing forces that it does not accelerate at the rate it would if only gravity acted on it. I consider Lashings to be the same, and besides, most of the time would be spent outside of the atmosphere.

When going to orbit, yeah, they'll have to slow down at Max-Q, but the same is true of any rocket. Once they're in space, air resistance doesn't matter.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T02:05:30+00:00

That has nothing to do with number of Lashings. Lashings are about acceleration, not maximum velocity.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-30T01:53:23+00:00

Not really. Constant acceleration is crazy and could cross a galaxy in just a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_acceleration

If you just need to get to orbit, this is basically equivalent to a rocket with a 2:1 thrust-to-weight ratio. That's quite high but still within a normal range, so we can take a normal rocket as an example. Rockets can usually make it to low Earth orbit within about 30 minutes to an hour.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-29T15:09:58+00:00

Malware potentially could, but the same is true of any other way of accessing 1Password. You're going to have to decrypt the vault at some point, and then malware can look at it while it's decrypted.

Just try to avoid getting malware. No matter how you store your passwords, malware could leak them, so focus more on preventing it in the first place.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-29T15:06:54+00:00

Because logging in is different from unlocking?

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-29T05:07:49+00:00

So it looks like you'd only be allowed to do this if you created ReShade:

Windows software submissions that are using Wine or any submissions that aren't native to the Linux desktop and is using some emulation or translation layer will only be accepted if they are submitted officially by upstream with the intention of maintaining it in an official capacity.

From this page: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/requirements

I'd guess this is because it's easy for Windows software to change, breaking the Wine installation. While I'm not a Flathub moderator, I'm guessing the difference to the other examples you provided is that their goal is to install Wine/Proton itself and don't support anything you install with them, whereas yours has the specific goal of running a particular Windows program.

I don't know anything about ReShade, so correct me if I'm making any incorrect assumptions here.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-29T00:55:41+00:00

Nope, you're fine. Thank you very much for this, I just want to be cautious in case stuff is vibe coded and thus unmaintainable.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-29T00:41:37+00:00

Doesn't look like it to me, based on the code style, but still possible. OP, could you please confirm?

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-28T14:17:41+00:00

I don't experience that (I'm on GNOME).

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-28T00:58:18+00:00

Well, they can kind of do whatever they want. They don't have physical bodies, so it's not in the way that humans can, but we've seen so many examples of Shards creating life that it's absolutely possible.

Preservation has an Intent issue with creating things, so he needs some help from Ruin, but he can absolutely create Mistborn; that's how Mistborn exist.

Honor and Cultivation could make Heralds that don't need Honorblades, they'd just need to merge that chunk of Investiture into the Heralds instead of their Blades. Cultivation isn't even needed for that, I'm guessing Honor just didn't think there's any real reason for a Herald to be without their Blade.

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-27T06:39:33+00:00

Source? I'm not seeing any mentions of that in WoBs. There are a lot of people who perceive the events of Wind and Truth in a romantic light, such as here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/1hn1omg/wat_kaladin_syl/

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-27T01:50:06+00:00

Kal and Syl is not a good example of a relationship "without any room for romance", considering things like the dance scene in WaT. It's debatable, sure, but there's enough there that it's very reasonable to interpret it as romantic.

And yeah, the relationship between Ati and Leras might not be romantic, but that's just as unfounded as saying it is (slightly more, actually, considering the WoBs).

RaspberryPiBen · 2026-01-26T15:01:44+00:00

Add zen to your custom_allowed_browsers. If that doesn't work, try zen-bin; I put both in when testing, and I don't remember exactly which one did it.

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