I never did Rails but I used Ruby for many personal projects in the 2000s.

When showing stuff to my coworkers or friends, I often joked how I tried to make my code look like it was already gzipped.

I recently was in the market for a new dishwasher.

I compared the EU eco labels (which are based on water and energy use).

Buying the worst possible eco label currently on the market, and comparing it against the best two:

• A label dishwashers cost almost twice as much (up to €400 more)
• ombined energy and water costs saved over the lifetime of the device (which I optimistically set for 10 years at three cycles a week) is less than €100 euros
• If you’re not into money, but more concerned about the planet, think about it this way: how much damage could €100 in energy and water spread over 10y really be causing our planet?
• These savings are only achieved if you use the most ecological program, which fails at it’s primary job, which is cleaning dishes.

If I could find a decent 90s model for which parts were still widely available, I’d buy that instead. I truly doubt that burning through these poorly made newer devices are sufficiently more ecological than just using a old machine for a longer time.

I have one of these, but only use it for SteamVR. Does this mean I can’t update either?

AFAIK, the drivers come from Windows.

Edit:

From the article:

Existing Windows Mixed Reality devices will continue to work with Steam through November 2026, if users remain on their current released version of Windows 11 (version 23H2) and do not upgrade to this year’s annual feature update for Windows 11 (version 24H2). This deprecation does not impact HoloLens.

Well fuck. This headset is the only reason I keep a Windows PC around at all.

Works for me in Belgium. Weird.

Man these are all things I’d love to see, don’t feed me this kind of hopium BEFORE Barcelona.

I can only recommend it.

I went to Spa this year with a few friends, with a standing only ticket. We had to walk over an hour to get to the spot we wanted to go. We then had to shovel the folding chairs we carried into the rocky hillside, and sit in the rain every day. We had to wake up at 6 every day to have a decent spot.

But I’d be lying if it wasn’t the best weekend of my year so far.

Because everyone is there, loving the same thing you do, sitting through the same rain.

When the cars went behind the trees and out of our view, we could see them go round the track because the rain splashed into the air over three times higher than the trees.

We had a big screen to follow the TV broadcast across the track from us, and local commentators describing the race in 4 languages on the tracks dedicated FM radio station.

We watched all the events - F1, F2, F3, Porsche cup, historical demos. We learned to identify the different F1 cars by sound. It was almost a magical experience for me.

I want to do a Monza road trip one of the next years.

I don’t know if shorter games should command a lower price. It depends on the value you get out of it.

Isn’t that what FedNow is?

Just a nitpick: it’s not always 19 more laps. It’s the fewest amount of laps that puts the sprint race over 100km (about 62 miles). At COTA, that’s 19 laps. Next time at Interlagos, it’s 24.

Watching the race, Alonso and Stroll were pretty close. Not sure if Stroll found a reason to drive, or if it was the floor. But before Alonso retired, they had been 2-4s apart for a while, and even a pitstop before they were pretty neck and neck.

I nees to try this. I’m currently running Debian stable + Flatpak, but not being able to access all local files from things like Firefox is really forcing me to jump through hoops.

This is Indian English, same as “I have a doubt”. It’s not something you commonly hear outside India.

KDE wouldn’t be slow on the kind of hardware he’s using. I’ve used it on far lower end hardware with no noticeable slowdowns.

Yes, KDE requires hardware accelerated graphics and more memory to run smoothly, but anything built in the last 10y should have no issues meeting those requirements.

Just give him a big raise & furlough him for 50% of the time, with the tacit understanding that he will hire some freelance help and work on a new regs car on his own dime and time.

Makes sense.

I used SlackWare a long time ago but the lack of package management for clean uninstalling and upgrading turned me off. No idea if that’s still a thing.

It has a global hotkey, but it’s hardcoded to the pause button (Fn+P on most keyboards that lack a pause button).

I made a similar thing a couple of years ago, but there is no UI or configurability: https://github.com/wvdschel/pause_process

What game is this? Kingdom Come?

Why is everything square!?

Wtf is with all these zombies and skeletons at night? Why is that green guy running at me? Does… does he not have arms? Are those… four legs? What is going on here?

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