Mine came with carborundum glass and I got a PEI and like it way better.

People aren’t born on Twitter.

Barring that, something like a Google Voice number would work, too.

My grandmother had the “turbo” version of #2 for some reason. It’s the only one I’ve ever played, but I loved it. The actual gameplay wasn’t great, but the graphics, sounds, and story all blew me away at that time. It was so futuristic and cool.

That game was so futuristic. It was nuts.

Back then, the camera didn’t feel as shitty as it does today. It was all so fresh and new.

Buying a 3d printer and learning CAD is unlocking a super power. You can put something from your brain into the real world. It’s great for hyper specific parts.

Mustard is great on its own, but better mixed with ketchup, IMO.

Alright, alright. This is getting out of hand.

We need to make a list and then do like a reverse Kantian calculus to figure out which ones are doing the most harm and start from the top in descending order.

I’m going to up vote and ruin this, but document for posterity.

I have a very similar story, only I went with Bazzite, and now Aurora.

I was using 11 and honestly didn’t hate it, but I could see the writing on the wall. The Steam Deck showed me what I could do with Linux, do I just did it.

I had dabbled with Ubuntu desktop in the past, but it was the Steam Deck with KDE that really sold me on Linux for the desktop.

I do not like GNOME. KDE is great, though.

My dad got and refurbished a vintage receiver and was showing it off to me. I asked if he was listening to a CD or a record because I’d never heard clearer audio. Nope, it was an FM station.

Blew my mind.

A lot of the modern tech is really good, though.

Cars are way more reliable than they were. They get way better gas mileage. They have a shitload more power (this is actually a con due to how everyone else drives these days). They’re way safer in both accidents and just general driving with traction control and lane departure warnings.

So it’s a real mixed bag. But I’d rather have the cars of today.

seems like every update of Proton is nerve wracking.

If a version update to Proton breaks your game, you can always specify the previous version.

Auto detection for MQTT devices is a bit tricky. I struggled with that myself when I was trying to incorporate data from a web scraper I wrote. This config file here shows what I ended up with to create auto detecting sensors in HA https://github.com/chunkystyles/reservationsScraper/blob/main/mqttConfig.json

Each one of the devices gets registered at start up of the app.

If I were doing this all over again, I probably wouldn’t use auto detect sensors. I’d manually configure them. Here’s some examples of that kind of configuration I used for some HVAC remote devices I built:

mqtt:
  sensor:
    - name: "makerfabs_remote_1"
      state_topic: "makerfabs/hvacremote/1/status_out"
      force_update: true
      expire_after: 125
    - name: "makerfabs_remote_2"
      state_topic: "makerfabs/hvacremote/2/status_out"
      force_update: true
      expire_after: 125
    - name: "makerfabs_remote_3"
      state_topic: "makerfabs/hvacremote/3/status_out"
      force_update: true
      expire_after: 125
    - name: "makerfabs_remote_4"
      state_topic: "makerfabs/hvacremote/4/status_out"
      force_update: true
      expire_after: 125

For these to work, you just put them in your “configuration.yaml” file in HA.

With atomic, unstable updates aren’t a problem. You can just run back to previous.

Atomic distros are so cool like that.

I’m contractually obligated to harass you about that key rotation slip up.

That’s what we call “brand synergy”.

Oh man, I loved this game. I didn’t know this about the PS2 version.

No, because it’s a software KVM and it needs to be able to read, mirror, and suppress mouse and keyboard actions.