Somebvody posted a link from Australian ABC about this story, but it was American ABC.

If I had to rank them, 2-1-4-3. I have also kinda started to feel like we’re coasting on performances and vibes at this point, with plots sort of repetitive and some serious existential questions best left ignored.

I suppose? But it’s also just dicking around at the edges to make a few more big companies move to the US (when every other policy is making that seem like a terrible idea) and to save financial departments a few bucks. Semi-annual reports will not significantly alter corporate incentives.

Yup. I also liked this, but I’m trying hard not to just quote the whole thing back, because it’s all good.

Their wealth insulates them from friction so effectively there’s no incentive or pressure for them to develop an imagination, or diversify their knowledge to the point where an imagination might emerge on its own. I can’t think of a better argument for a humanities requirement than a billionaire being asked “how do we know what is real?” and responding with “cryptographic signatures.”

Agreed. I think this is more specifically it rather than the 50s.

• Unfettered domestic commerce devoid of worker protections.
• International trade viewed as zero-sum and managed using blunt instruments like tariffs.
• America as a rising manufacturing power.
• Nominally speaking there is no slavery, but Reconstruction is “done” and Southern elites have been rehabilitated and reintegrated without having to give up their power.
• Foreign policy built on late-stage colonialism where areas within a great power’s sphere of influence are silently allowed to be dominated so as not to antagonize other great powers. Relations handled by a stupid nest of ad-hoc limited-party treaties.
• No effort is given to contextualizing what the American experiment has meant, and who it has harmed, just literally a “manifest destiny” from god to fill the land.

Ignore that the era was laissez-faire with immigrants actually arriving (though of course the robber barons who were working their laborers to death were okay with this… until they began to unionize), and it’s a remarkably apt analogy. I’m pretty sure you can see Trump openly pining for The Gilded Age from time to time, though that may literally just be because he thinks gilding things is awesome.

Thanks, Richard.

Season 2: Nuke the entirety of the “new crew adventures” from season 1, including most of the cast, and turn the show into Galactica '84 with an awkward shoehorned romance. Only highlight was Q’s send off. AKA “We needed a series ending, but we fucked it”.

Season 2, and really any Sci-Fi or fantasy that abandons its own setting to travel to “our world” in time or dimension, is doing it either for budget reasons or because somebody wanted or needed to mail it in. With COVID, it could have been “all of the above.”

I learned to shoot at Boy Scout camp when I was about 13. We shot .22 long rifle and 20 gauge shotguns. Many of my friends hunted (never appealed to me) and learned even earlier.

I grew up just across the river and my sister and her family are still in the general area. Not surprised at all he thinks this is a winning platform. I hope he’s wrong.

The actual website is, umm, quite the trip, and makes me think every single thing the school district is saying is true.

Gee, I wonder which political party they belong to…

More than a dozen mayors from the main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, and hundreds of municipal officials have been arrested in recent months for alleged corruption…

Yup, there we go.

For the layout, KLE is the old standby and is used by several other tools. You can then import THAT into a plate generator, the one HERE by ai03 (fairly well known designer in the small world of keyboard people) is probably the best and most reliable. That will let you generate DXF files for your cutter. At it’s simplest, a switch plate, a bottom plate, and some standard brass standoffs are enough to make the physical structure. Once you have the dimensions, though, it’s not TOO hard to design a 3D printed case or a more sophisticated set of slices to go on your laser (LibreCAD, Inkscape, or even direct in Lightburn IIRC), and acrylic stack cases are very much a thing, though not so much in vogue as commercial products anymore. The board in this post started as a completely Masonite build, because my little 5W diode could cut it reasonably well. It was only in the last week or so that I took it apart and replaced the laser-cut standoff spacers with a 3D printed version with a sidewall to make it look slightly more like a finished keyboard.

For wiring, I sort of play in the kiddie pool. Most of my boards are hand-wires, and there as many tweaks to the formula as there are makers, but THIS older set of posts from Matt3o (another well known designer) is as good as any for the basics. I find Raspberry Pi Picos and other RP2040 clones easier to work with, but YMMV and the concepts are the same. I have done two PCBs. Both of them are just traces and through-holes. The first one just has a spot to run wire to a Pi Pico or other dev board. The other adds a few spots for indicator LEDs and actually crams in a spot for Pi Pico compatible board, which means it’s easier to keep my firmware on hand. For firmware, KMK is in interpreted python and is very easy to set up, but QMK and its tweaked versions for the VIA and VIAL graphical remapping software are more sophisticated and extensible.

I had to learn KiCAD well enough to muddle through (and the second PCB does have a few errors, but not enough that I had to scrap them, thank goodness). More clever people than I, actually design proper PCBs with the microcontroller and necessary components included during fabrication, and there are custom keyboards all over github with KiCAD files to look through (the “GH60” is the classic example). There are even plugins to take a schematic view in KiCAD (the line diagrams of circuits) and populate the actual physically-representative footprints based on KLE data. There are also customized libraries of keyboard-switch footprints that are a little nicer than the ones built into KiCAD (though there ARE usable ones built in).

The keyboard is one I designed myself. It doesn’t use any stabilizers, the extra parts needed to make long keys press evenly. I did this by, well, not using any long keys. Otherwise, I did as much as I could to keep it pretty mainstream, unless you touch type lots of numerical digits or need your arrow keys in the traditional shape.

It has a bigger brother with a numpad, but I had to order 5 PCBs, so for this one I simply snapped off the numpad and used a wire to bridge the one broken connection. It’s fairly low profile, using the narrowest height I could cram everything into and using switches that are reduced height above the “plate” but are otherwise normal mechanical keyboard switches. I got blank low-profile keycaps and designed my own legends and used a laser engraver (instead of an iron or press) on Cricut’s infusible ink markers. They photograph better than IRL, but they did come out pretty well. There is a Raspberry Pi Pico wired to the circuit board and running custom firmware (KMK). The rest is made of painted Masonite hardboard and 3D prints.

If you wanna know you can type in about:support into the firefox address bar and check if HARDWARE_VIDEO_DECODING says available. Cool stuff either way tho, thanks for sharing :)

Ahh, well in that case, it appears not, at least for this distro. “Runtime | unavailable | Force disabled by gfxinfo”

That’s the beauty here. I don’t HAVE to write anything, so it’s not technically a failure if I don’t, and either way I got to do something amusing and pointless with a piece of technology!

I’m not sure, but there’s also the Postmarket Arch-based distro that has a more polished website, and its page for this class of devices says 3D acceleration is generally working. Whether that extends to video decoding in the browser, I am not sure. I guess I could pull up some videos and see if they play well, LOL. “Jailbreaking” tablets and getting an OS someone else worked out how to install onto them is towards the edge of my technical skillset, TBH.

If you would like my thoughts on the Shakespeare authorship question or why The Last Jedi is unfairly maligned, I can help you out all day, however.

My thinking is that I tend to do better reading on an e-reader, maybe I’ll do better writing on an e-writer? If not, it’s Linux on a tablet, LOL.

I use a keyboard with an inbuilt trackpoint.

What are you using? “Tex” mechanical board, old Model M with trackpoint, one of those standalone Thinkpad keyboards?

And a specific dudebro lifestyle look (Jeep, Oakleys, Salt Life, “Hit the gym”, GIJoe haircut) that generally corresponds with “I’m not really MAGA, but Joe Rogan says….”

This is how you sell absolutely massive and unaccountable government spending to “small gummint” types. You couch it in terms of a righteous struggle against an external threat that ended with American dominance, and if you can hint at a bunch of non-white people getting disintegrated as a side effect, then so much the better.