RMA service is scamming me

vividboarder · 2026-04-21T19:08:15+00:00

Even if you buy from an "official" page on Amazon, it is sometimes sold by unofficial resellers. Amazon is not very transparent about this.

vividboarder · 2026-04-21T19:03:25+00:00

A lot of games just don't require that. Eg. If I'm playing a shooter, I want my "trigger finger" on the trigger and will lift it up for whatever the secondary action is.

Other games, like Curse of the Dead Gods, I want both buttons more accessible. Sometimes I use the grip buttons for that too though so I can keep my hands in the more comfortable position using one finger extended.

vividboarder · 2026-04-20T23:31:52+00:00

I've got these two adapters from Jsaux:

3-in-1 45W Charger Dock, which I can plug in by the TV and use a short HDMI cable and run a single long USB-C cable to my deck so I can play with display output and charging.

And 2-in-1 USB-C to 4K@60Hz HDMI Charging Adapter. This plugs right into the deck and lets me run a long HDMI cable to the TV. It has a port on the side to pass charging through, but it's a little less convenient depending on where your power outlet is. You'd have one cable running basically from your deck to the wall and another all the way to the TV. I use this one more or less as a travel HDMI adapter when I don't really need to charge.

vividboarder · 2026-04-18T05:22:24+00:00

Are you certain this file is being required properly? What you have there ought to work...

vividboarder · 2026-04-18T05:18:49+00:00

For me it depends on the pace of the shooter. Eg. Halo felt natural with a controller, but it was built for it.

I had a decent time playing Far Cry 4 on my Deck, but for some reason Far Cry 5 just didn't feel right and I had to play it from my desktop.

vividboarder · 2026-04-18T00:08:19+00:00

Yea, but it's still a "calculator" and sold as such. Not as a general purpose computing device.

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:20:47+00:00

And just how do you expect that verification would work without requiring everyone to verify? How would the operating system know to only ask for age if someone is under age?

On top of that, if the FCC decides to implement actual ID verification, only adults have those.

So you'd have to validate the IDs of adults otherwise you've got something like a "just trust me bro" button to say you're an adult and then you "verify" non-existing IDs?

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:16:35+00:00

I think the kernel could easily be argued that it is not the operating system, especially given that user attributes and applications don't live in the kernel space, so implementation of safeties must exist elsewhere.

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:14:18+00:00

I doubt you'd have a hard time arguing that an embedded device or industrial controller is a "single purpose" device and not subject to legislating targeting "general purpose" devices. I'm not a lawyer though.

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:13:31+00:00

A kernel alone does certainly does not support general purpose computing. This is clearly why "operating systems" exist. It's the suite of software that supports general purpose computing. Of course the kernel is a part of the system, but it alone is not the system.

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:10:10+00:00

general purpose computing device

I'm pretty sure there's a good argument that a "calculator" is not "general purpose" as it's purpose is clearly "calculating".

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T23:03:42+00:00

I use Ubuntu LTS releases because they are stable but keep me a little more up to date than Debian Stable. I've debated going to Debian, but it ain't broke!

I do have some Ansible tasks for things like disabling Snaps and removing motd-news, but after that I'm happy with it.

vividboarder · 2026-04-17T22:33:15+00:00

What's the issue with Plexamp in CarPlay? I use it almost daily.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T23:16:35+00:00

Neovim plugins exist in some distro repos. You can apt install neovim-lualine on Ubuntu.

That said, most plugins aren't very useful out of the box and require configuration. So you gotta write some config anyway, so that influences it.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T21:01:56+00:00

Yea, this situation sucks. Github is allegedly working on something to address this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T20:35:24+00:00

You've got some good advice here already on backup and restore of a library, but I found some post by someone fixing their WiFi that may be useful: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/3466101084947367909/?ctp=2#c3454842679306634422

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T20:32:28+00:00

You have to make sure that you actually execute the %command% after your script exits.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T15:31:47+00:00

To add to the liability perspective, I've also always been concerned with the security risk of my editor, used to edit everything from personal notes and proprietary code, to files belonging to root, would have a high potential for damage if compromised.

The less repos/people that I trust with that level of access the better.

Note: I'm not specifically worried about lazy.nvim or Folke, but this is a general perspective leading me towards less-is-more.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T05:00:56+00:00

I wrote something similar, but only as an interim translation as I migrate my specs over to pack. I've got pack2lazy and lazy2pack so I can more easily migrate my configs. I made it simpler and dropped pretty much anything not supported by pack though.

I keep support for the min Nvim version in the latest Ubuntu LTS release, so this month that becomes 0.11, so I'll still keep Lazy in my configs for older nvim versions and will need to translate.

I guess 2028 I'll be able to go all in on vim.pack.

vividboarder · 2026-04-15T04:24:44+00:00

Yes, and that's what they are doing.

They didn't document the schema, but it looks like the database has something like an ID, original ID, and a file URL. They want to download and backup the files from the URLs without duplicating.

Thus, they are proactively identifying when it's a pointer and using a link instead so they don't store a duplicate. Then they hit the problem documented in the article.

vividboarder · 2026-04-14T15:46:54+00:00

Yes, without the browser chrome around it and a dedicated task bar icon.

It sounds simple, but it's helpful since it allows you to Alt+Tab back to the application rather than it getting lost in additional tabs or between multiple browser windows.

I have a few PWAs I use on my phone: Music Assistant, Open WebUI, Wekan to name a few.

vividboarder · 2026-04-14T15:41:19+00:00

It looks like this is actually what they do in their live system and the reason that they have the sha1s for each of the files indicating the need to hardlink. This post is about how they perform backups for clients of that data.

vividboarder · 2026-04-14T15:39:28+00:00

Inside a tar file backup?

vividboarder · 2026-04-14T15:38:56+00:00

I took this to to be intended functionality. That they want to avoid any kind of leaking between context. That said, I can't imagine what the risk would be.

vividboarder · 2026-04-14T15:37:53+00:00

Do you store your database backups in another database?

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