There are many many kinds of laws that are fucked in Japan. Court in general is a whole other cultural world from what I hear and however unfair courts are in the west, in Japan they are even less so.

As someone who is not a great coder. I can help in cases of double checking in addition to learning.

I made a USB HID report & device descriptor, it works fine everywhere except it causes KDE settings Game Controller menu to segfault when identifying USB devices.

I know there is a 99% chance that it is due to my descriptor being wrong. AI found my mistake of carrying over the logical min/max number of bits to the report size and my logical minimum was 1 too small. Haven’t had a chance to test yet, but maybe I saved the KDE maintainers annoyance of a false alarm bug report.

Except not on most phones, just a small subset of old phones.

First they tried accusing her of running a child trafficking ring in Romania.

But I guess then they figured out that probably made the Guardians Of Pedophiles party like her more.

Bazzite uses BTRFS, but not snapshots I think.

Opensuse microOS flavors go all-in on full system snapshots but that means they also have a bad grub encryption unlock interface (instead of Plymouth). I have had some funky things with it like it missing keystrokes and if you get it wrong once, you have to reboot your entire system instead of just retrying.

Other OS’s use home folder snapshots only or something like that?

The different variants are not quite clear to me.

Time to DIY!

Waveshare touchscreen for pi, 1200x800 is a good price and for home assistant that is fine. $70/75 for 8inch/10.1inch version. (10.1DP-CAPLCD)

Raspberry pi 3/4/5 can mount directly on the back of it. For whatever outrageous price Pis are now. (Around here, a 4B/4GB is 60€.

Wave share PoE hat for $20

Assemble it like Lego, put it in a wooden frame or 3D print, done. Around 160 USD plus shipping for a full build of a POE battery-less touchscreen display that runs full Linux of whatever flavor. (And is quite overkill as far as power).

You could probably do it even cheaper with an orange pi zero 3 with a PoE to USB-C converter or a Banana Pi BPI-P2 Pro IoT which has PoE built in.

It is cheaper than a tablet and strips out the useless things like a battery, camera, really high DPI display, LTE radios, etc… For a simple home assistant kiosk.

But yeah, epaper displays are 3x the display cost without touchscreen. Though in my opinion, epaper is better for static non-interactive sensor display which can run on battery with an MCU for almost no power because it only has to update once an hour or so.

Placebo is a hell of a phenomenon though lol

What other people haven’t quite touched on is that the in-built system certainly won’t be powerful enough to run demanding VR games with good frame rates and resolution.

I also have my doubts about the 6GHz WiFi connection being enough for it, I hope there is also a wired option.

But it will be awesome to be able to do normal tasks like coding, writing, etc… outside in the garden, as an example. I think for people that don’t have a dedicated VR space, this could be awesome with 6GHz WiFi outside without needing base stations.

I wished posteo allowed custom domains… They would be perfect then!

That is completely false about the states, but might be true about the specific citizens

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/immigration-enforcement-ice-deportations-states-trump

Houston literally had the highest amount of ice raids lol.

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-ice-arrest-immigration-2107629

Texas is one of the places where ice makes the most arrests lol.

But there has rarely been instances in recent history where gun nuts have used their guns against agents of the government instead of unarmed civilians. They don’t like it when they shoot back.

It’s also false

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/immigration-enforcement-ice-deportations-states-trump

I think they more mean that the testing is flawed in that they didn’t test nearly enough cycles.

The type of person to get a new phone every 2 years probably doesn’t care much about the ewaste either, sadly.

Hey, something I can maybe help with.

Flatpak IDEs on the main system are not very useful for development. I got rid of mine entirely. I am developing firmware so it might be a bit different from your case, but what I did in have a single arch distrobox where I could install everything embedded-dev-related that had to work together (JLink, nordic tools, code-oss, etc…) on that. Then a few standalone debugging tools like STLink and Saelae logic2 could be installed to the home folder by default and Code could still find them from the distrobox (but they could be installed in the distrobox also). It doesn’t even need to have an init system, but I ran into a few problems like having to manually chmod usb devices to give STLink access. Udev rules are also hit or miss in /etc/udev/rules.d, e.g. the STM udev rules just don’t work, but nordic does.

High storage consumption is likely negligible (or at least nitpicky) since storage is so cheap nowadays. Your SSD doesn’t care if it has 15GB or 20GB of system programs, especially when development codebases and SDKs, games, and media will likely make up 90% of space and almost never share libraries even on traditional systems.

But actual results and bugs have very little to do with corporate firings or open positions, as 30 years of history show us.

If corporations “think” they can fire people, with AI as an excuse, and put that cost in their pockets, they will do it. We are already seeing it in the US tech-bro sphere.

Companies will tank themselves in the medium-long term to make short term profits. Which I think is the “dev market” that OP is talking about. It shouldn’t affect the market, but it will because you have MBAs making technical decisions. I could be wrong, but the tech market is very predictable as far as behavior. They will hire a skeleton crew and work them to burnout to fix the AI slop. (Tech industry needs unions now)

What about the performance info is wrong, may I ask?

Sodium ion has far higher lab-tested cycle count than standard lithium ion/LiPo (3000-6000 cycles vs 300-500, max 1000 cycles) though in reality since sodium iron batteries are a chemistry that has been around for a few years instead of decades, real world is only 1000-3000 for the first generation while lithium iron phosphate still beats it with 3000-5000 cycles real-world, though that lithium chemistry is significantly more expensive, but indeed relevant to grid storage.

Sodium ion batteries also have a much broader temperature range (-40 to 80C vs -20 to 60C where lithium cells are often capped at 45C to prevent damage).

Charging times: sodium ion can charge between 2C and 3C while lithium ion is recommended to charge <1C. There are a ton of methods to get around that, but those would likely also apply to sodium ion

It falls apart a bit more on density, voltage range, and discharge speed.

Sodium ion can also handle 8C discharge rates, but not up to 10C like lithium, due to their higher internal resistance.

The voltage swing is way larger (4V->1.5V) which isn’t a huge “problem” per-se, but not convenient as all of the current BMS chips and inverters were made for the very low voltage swing of lithium, so you will need seperate ICs or only use 50% of the capacity.

And of course the 30% less density or so.

I don’t think any of those are deal breakers for grid storage or a lot of “general use” when it will be much cheaper as it gets adopted and scaled.

Very true that it is not optimal for EVs, but there are already Chinese Sodium-Ion EVs that perform quite well outside of the reduced capacity

Pretty bad. The whole summer I was pretty depressed from job searching and at the same time trying to get as far as possible on a big renovation that I only ran like 1x per week max.

Now I started a new job, but the weather was bad so I only got through the first week and a half of my fitness schedule goal then got violently ill. Now I haven’t run or lifted for another 3 weeks.

Every time I start back up, I get sick immediately, right now my throat has had razor blades in it for 4.5 days such that all I can eat is soup.

Now that I go to work when it is dark and come home when it is dark, there is even less motivation and I have to find my headlamp or it is just dangerous.

I wish it was socially acceptable to interest-dump someone and for them to do the same to you.

Just getting a 5-10 minute lecture deep into a topic that someone is passionate about is fun and educational! Much better than trying to make small talk or talk about the 3 common topics at your workplace (at mine it is local tv, energy spending/taxes, and cars), which is often sports. Then you get to learn about other people’s interests too!

I peel carrots to give the peels to my dog because it is her favorite.

I peel pumpkins/squash that aren’t roasted, and potatoes if they will be fried (very different texture and they are unhealthy anyway), what other vegetables do people peel normally? I am coming up blank.

Didn’t most Nazis also get off scot free or even get jobs in science or the government? Only 12 high profile ones didn’t. Of the 100,000 arrested for US trials, 2500 were identified ad “major war criminals”. 142 were convicted of a crime.

Not to mention US constant blocking of the prosecution of war criminals both within and outside.

Probably >99% of fascist goons will get off with zero consequences.

Jokes on us, investors and shareholders are already doing that.