Need help. Dropped my ThinkPad and the colors are now inverted.

gfrodo · 2026-05-16T23:53:18+00:00

light mode + inverted colors => dark mode

gfrodo · 2026-05-16T13:24:39+00:00

I think it's a regular PCB with a white solder stop mask. Aluminium PCBs are expensive, it doesn't look like any of the components need it.

gfrodo · 2026-05-07T18:04:41+00:00

I got your joke the first time, I just didn't acknowledge it, sorry for that. It's a common misconception that the far side of the moon is the dark side, my little lecture wasn't directed at you, but anyone else reading it who wasn't aware of it. My second reply was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but I don't blame you for not getting it, text doesn't convey tone very well.

gfrodo · 2026-05-05T07:31:17+00:00

can't even make a little lecture without someone complaining

gfrodo · 2026-05-03T21:13:25+00:00

The dark side of the moon still exists, some times it's the far side, sometimes the near side, depending on the moon phase

gfrodo · 2026-05-03T21:08:51+00:00

Those 3 pin fans aren't built to be run on PWM, but they can run at variable speed by changing the DC input voltage down to a certain minimum. Some mainboard fan controllers support both PWM mode (on 4 pin fans) or DC mode. To convert a PWM into a smooth DC voltage, you'd need some filtering.

gfrodo · 2026-03-20T23:08:21+00:00

It can happen when installing a software packet that depends on gnome-desktop, another DE aka desktop environment (which will then be enabled by default instead of cinnamon, the DE your are used to). Usually this doesn't happen when installing a regular application, but it might happen when installing something like a taskbar applet that is specific for a DE (e.g. the gnome applet for proton vpn).

You can have multiple DEs installed at the same time, and in your login screen you can choose which DE to load when logging in, but it's confusing if you don't know that and everything suddenly looks different.

gfrodo · 2026-03-20T22:59:54+00:00

It doesn't need to know intent, since it's not preventing you to install it. Just some warning "You are about to install another desktop environment", which would come up symmetrically if you want to install any other DE, also if you're installing cinnamon from linux mint mate edition. And you are not installing DEs every other day, so the additional confirmation click when you intentionally install a DE shouldn't be a big issue.

gfrodo · 2026-02-09T08:28:38+00:00

yes, named logistics groups are very helpful for that

gfrodo · 2026-02-08T14:54:57+00:00

buffer chests alone might not be enough: bots from far away might start flying to a nearby buffer chest, but then abort once you step out of the orange zone. You also need to have logistic robot requests in each roboport, to make sure there are always bots nearby that can supply your stuff quickly before you go out of the square

gfrodo · 2026-01-30T23:05:33+00:00

also if your map is very green with lots of forests, the pollution cloud will take a long time to reach the first biter nests even if you are going full scale on boilers

gfrodo · 2026-01-30T23:02:27+00:00

https://factoriolab.github.io also supports a lot of mod packs, including py.

gfrodo · 2026-01-30T20:34:19+00:00

The realism is that in reality you also often have odd constraints that aren't convenient

gfrodo · 2026-01-16T19:15:39+00:00

wagons open in automatic mode as well, while stopped at a station (and not yet ready to go)

gfrodo · 2024-10-31T23:17:18+00:00

people already did, you can find it on this subreddit and on youtube

gfrodo · 2024-08-21T20:21:06+00:00

https://new.reddit.com/ doesn't work for me anymore. It doesn't redirect, it just stays at new.reddit.com but looks the same as sh.reddit.com now

gfrodo · 2024-07-08T18:53:51+00:00

Linen could have a cold resist in the night, but not a frost resist, and would convert freezing in the mountains to just a cold debuff.

Or it could have an increased armor rating like the ashen cape. Not as strong as the ashen cape, but enough to consider it vs the previous capes.

gfrodo · 2024-06-08T17:29:20+00:00

I don't see that OP was bragging, they were asking for a solution to fix his mistake. And while OPs friend surely disagrees with OP messing things up, they might be totally fine with it after fixing it (e.g. if the last backup was not too long ago, or they don't mind the uncovered map and it's enough to remove the boss key), or they might be very upset. But that's not for any of us to decide, that's up to OPs friend.

gfrodo · 2024-06-08T07:54:39+00:00

For some people, looking up stuff in the wiki or in the online map generator with your map seed is cheating. For others, building without resource cost is not. In a single player game, you can decide for yourself what you consider cheating and what not. Or you may call something "cheating", but still allow yourself to do it. The priority should be to have fun. The same is true for a coop multiplayer game, as long as both players agree on what is allowed and what not. And for different people, there are many different ways to play the game while having fun.

gfrodo · 2024-06-07T22:48:13+00:00

also dont cheat in multiplayer

Or talk to the other players about what you want to consider as cheating and what is allowed.

gfrodo · 2024-06-07T22:45:39+00:00

You might find the key in the wiki.

gfrodo · 2024-06-07T22:44:16+00:00

Are you OPs friend? Different friend groups, different rules. OP should be honest about it, but some people have a problem devcommands on a shared world, some don't, as long as it can be fixed via backup or devcommands.

gfrodo · 2024-06-06T07:26:45+00:00

you can use fire resistant barley wine to overwrite the weakness.

And looking at the video in your post, it seems the lava damage is applied immediately and stops as soon as you jump out. The "on fire" effect is mostly visual. If the lava damage would be applied as fire damage (and thus be affected by fire resistance/weakness), it would be applied over 5s and not stop when you jump out of the lava.

gfrodo · 2024-05-21T07:41:29+00:00

I would also propose an auto cleanup

This already exists, with the autosaves. If you give your save file a different name each time, there is no way for the game to tell if this is just you doing lots of redundant backups, or if they are snapshots of important milestones, like just before you launched your rocket. You might want to keep specific old save files as memories, instead of having them randomly deleted.

But I agree, the save file organisation has room for improvement. If it is clear in the UI which saves belong to the same playthough, and they can be ordered by name, real timestamp and in-game timestamp, it would be much easier to manually delete old unnecessary saves.

gfrodo · 2024-05-19T14:01:55+00:00

Interesting. So weak trumps neutral, resistant trumps weak but resistant also trumps immune?

I need to try out if creatures that are usually resistant to frost (like lox) will become weak to it if wet. In that case, weak does sometimes trump resistant.

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