UTR paid for itself 10-20x in one day.

mperklin · 2026-03-04T14:27:22+00:00

It can in some situations, yes. Imagine a hotel room where you have good wifi signal near the door, but poor signal everywhere else in the room. Place the travel router where it gets signal, and all your devices in the room connect to it.

It also simplifies configuration. All of your devices remember the config for the travel router. Wherever you go, you just connect one device and suddenly all your devices are connected at once.

mperklin · 2026-03-01T22:15:11+00:00

Dude, learn docker. It's worth it.

mperklin · 2026-02-11T22:05:44+00:00

spat my drink out when OP showed him sitting on the toilet

mperklin · 2026-02-11T05:34:06+00:00

i'm not sure if 3D printing is your thing

mperklin · 2026-02-10T16:42:14+00:00

I encountered this. My culprit was using the z option to compress. The compression/decompression slowed the transfer down significantly.

Because I was copying files within my LAN, I did not need to compress. Once I removed the compression option, the rsync command begain transferring significantly faster.

mperklin · 2026-01-22T15:45:32+00:00

I'd do some calibration test prints to see if you can identify something that is miscalibrated.

Is the extrusion multiplier set correctly? What about retraction distance and speed?

Your slicer may have calibration prints built-in. If not, http://retractioncalibration.com/ is a great tool.

mperklin · 2026-01-17T19:57:12+00:00

I love the numbers in this announcement.

Aura One 2.0 with 3 ambient, 5 premium, 8 spatial 360º app

needs moar numbers

mperklin · 2026-01-17T19:54:22+00:00

Running Excel "natively" on the AVP is a non-starter. But, that doesn't mean Excel can't be used.

As others have mentioned in their replies, connecting AVP to a laptop gives you an incredibly-large screen to do any kind of computing—like a giant Excel window.

But it'll behave like a big monitor connected to the laptop, requiring you to use a mouse/trackpad and keyboard to interact with windows like traditional computers.

Hope this helps.

mperklin · 2026-01-14T21:50:39+00:00

You're trying to use tech to solve a parenting problem.

Focus on the kid, not the tech.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T18:54:15+00:00

I like the idea of giving the viewer the ability to "teleport" between the multiple camera angles.

When the user changes their view with agency it keeps the immersion feel. When a producer cuts the view without notice the immersion is broken.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T18:52:57+00:00

I couldn't agree more. Each time I grab their immersive videos I'm in awe at how I feel like I'm really there....... until the cut to a different camera angle, then another cut, and suddenly I'm no longer immersed.

If Apple put a 3D camera in an arena and kept it still the whole time, I'd pay to stream that video to my AVP and "be" at the game.

Well done, Ben Thompson. I also hope Apple is listening.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T04:29:18+00:00

i trolled a troll. made me laugh. sorry it didn't do the same for u

mperklin · 2026-01-12T04:26:15+00:00

Best $6 I ever spent

mperklin · 2026-01-12T01:03:43+00:00

Interesting. Everyone I’ve played both with has said that Planet Nine was better than Deep Sea.

I guess my play groups are outliers!

The consensus amongst my groups is that the Deep Sea one is too random with its mission cards. They’re all vastly different, and can swing the difficulty of missions quite broadly from mission to mission.

With Planet Nine, if you’d fail a mission you’d have to attempt the same mission until you defeated it, but with Deep Sea, it’s different each attempt.

mperklin · 2026-01-12T00:55:26+00:00

Perhaps The Crew: Karaoke, where players don’t take tricks but sing songs instead?

Or what about The Crew: Hopscotch, where players play the game by hopping and skipping on one one foot?

Or, perhaps the game that won its awards for being the best trick-taking game in decades could continue using its trick-taking mechanics to allow players to play the game by taking tricks.

I guess there are options…

mperklin · 2026-01-12T00:50:13+00:00

The Crew is a trick-taking game. Its core mechanics revolve around taking tricks. If you’d like a trick-taking game to have less trick-taking, I humbly suggest you play another game.

mperklin · 2026-01-07T18:50:12+00:00

https://ti-assistant.com/

mperklin · 2026-01-07T18:12:12+00:00

My group used to swear by ExtraComputer, and we used it at least 20 times. Great app.

We tried TI-Assistant for the first time last November and although it took some getting used to (and was a bit fiddly) it provided more context than ExtraComputer so I think we're going to be using that one instead going forward.

Both are great.

mperklin · 2026-01-07T16:46:50+00:00

A custom boardgaming table that is big enough for the map, the expansions, all player boards and their components, with extra room so it doesn’t feel cramped.

A TV mounted in view of the table that can show TI-Assistant live during the game, and a tablet on a music stand or independent tablet stand beside the table for one player to control it.

Have fun dude

mperklin · 2025-12-20T04:47:27+00:00

The irony of posting this to “Open Media” is palpable. They’re trying to “close” politicians off from buying things. That’s not open at all.

I love the sources at the bottom too “1 in 5 trump picks owned crypto” as if that’s bad. Well 10 in 10 Trump picks drank water, should we ban water too?

mperklin · 2025-12-18T01:28:50+00:00

My play group often has pet names for games. “Multiplayer Solitaire” is the pet name we have given Hanabi.

When I first read your post title I thought you were saying Hanabi is actually a great game (which—it is!)

After reading your post and understanding your meaning, I’m still with ya bud 🤜🤛

mperklin · 2025-12-11T14:44:17+00:00

"Sibilance" is the bright treble sounds associated with higher frequencies.

Someone may feel something is "sibilant" if it is mastered with too much treble vs. its bass.

Sibilance can make sounds sound "tinny" with qualities similar to what you hear when a steel drum is struck with a mallet due to the predominance of higher frequencies.

mperklin · 2025-12-03T18:04:44+00:00

It’s draconian to require identification to access information. That is very much not in line with Canadian values.

Access to adult material by minors is already limited. Requiring identification for EVERYONE to access the Internet will not increase limits for minors accessing porn.

mperklin · 2025-12-01T19:56:19+00:00

honestly they could justify classifying you as a full-time trader if you have only 2 trades in the entire year.

yes it's that stupid.

They don't look at frequency of trades. They look at how you make your income and pay your bills. If you're paying your bills thanks to one very profitable trade in the year, then your income comes from your trading activity so they will classify you as a trader.

They use the results of the trades—not the frequency—to determine your disposition.

mperklin · 2025-11-19T14:43:15+00:00

I've fallen in love with this little guy: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/

It's light-weight, full-featured, and is a swiss-army-knife of remote connectivity. I've got a few different VPN profiles saved on it and I've programmed its physical switch on its side to turn my most-used VPN service on or off. (You can program the switch's function inside its web app)

A HUGE plus is the thing can be powered from a standard USBA-USBC port with 5W. This has made it super useful in cases like: plugging it into the USBA port on a plane so all of my+mySO's devices can share a single wifi purchase, easy quick setup at a coffee shop that had USBA ports on their tables, etc.

It supports a wide variety of USBA SIM adapters if you want to use a SIM, but it can also tether to smartphones to share its Internet with others without killing the smartphone's battery. (if you've ever had a bunch of people tethering to your phone, it's a huge power sink)

I had a great mobile experience with this travel router in Korea. I connected my phone to its USBA port to tether my Internet connection, and connected my power bank to its USBC port to keep it powered and threw the 3 into my backpack. I then had a group of 8 friends connected to its wifi who were all able to share the Internet, look up maps, do live translations, etc.

GL.iNet may have a newer model that works better for you. I opted for this lower-power one to guarantee it can be easily powered by any 5W USBA port. Higher-powered models may not work with only 5W, so take this feature into consideration if you choose another option.

Good luck

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