On the money, had not spotted how much he was making from this. Given he's been at this for several years and the quality of the product I'm quite happy he's been able to devote the time to this.

The precedent here I find a little weak, a mod isn't facilitating piracy nor is it a replacement for the original product. You need to own the game, the mod is a layer that adds additional features.

When mapping the context to the real world it's more worrying, you don't get car makers suing accessory makers for selling phone mounts advertised to fit their vehicles.

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The latter works well for larger datasets, outputs a TXT which you can analyse and decide what to do with.

ZFS:

- ensures you don't get bit rot

- manages both disks (raid/mirrors &c) and the filesystem, it's an all-in-one solution

- supports block level replication to local and remote systems, after the first backup it's fast

- can create dynamic partitions to group files together and build replication strategies around

Choose either RAID or mirrored drives (https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/06/zfs-you-should-use-mirror-vdevs...) I've gone mirrored but more for flexibility and performance. Use a calculator to see what options of disks you have https://jro.io/capacity/ (and google 'ZFS calculator' for others)

For backup get a second machine somewhere else in your house with a smaller setup and use ZFS replication to keep it up to date with everything on the main box you need backed up. Currently I use a raspberry pi with a USB disk but this is perhaps cutting it fine. You wanna keep this online so ZFS can periodically check the health of the data on the disks. Fully offline backups can be a risk.

Finally for a 3rd backup use some of those external drives, format to ZFS and use replication. Plug them in on a schedule and take a backup.

If you want to backup to remote systems (cloud/a box in your parents house) it also supports filesystem encryption. With the right options you can stream incremental backups over SSH only passing encrypted blocks. The system at the other end never needs to see the raw data.

Grepping through a large list of options is also painful, seems ther needs to be a balance here.

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> DO NOT DOWNLOAD TRON FROM GITHUB, IT WILL NOT WORK!! YOU NEED THE ENTIRE PACKAGE FROM r/TronScript

I see later it mentions you can check some signed checksums but that doesn't inspire confidence. Very much epitomises the state of Windows tweaky utilities vs stuff you see on other platforms.

]]>Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:04:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39189619wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39189619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39189619Spot on, Apple has done some fantastic work with these arm chips but we need the rest of the market to catch up so we have access to similar chips for other devices.

]]>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:38:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044772wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044772https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39044772These are Raspberry Pi Picos, they are embedded type devices and not the usual Pis you're used to. The keyboard I'm using right now uses the same chip (RP2040) as the Pico, runs QMK and seems to be more performant (flashes faster anyway) than the normal microcontrollers you tend to get in plancks and the like.

]]>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 15:42:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783062wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783062https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783062I don't have other controllers to compare against but found the Bluetooth latency on Linux similarly poor. Unsure if Linux problem or if this is limitation of Bluetooth.

Given I play at my desk I'm just using a lightweight USB cable which has zero issues plus avoids any other bluetooth weirdness.

]]>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 03:07:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778663wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778663https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778663I'm aware it's not the same as Chrome profiles but multi-account containers, where individual tabs can have their own sessions, is a killer feature of Firefox.

The ability to have multiple AWS accounts logged into at the same time in tabs side by side is a real time saver.

]]>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 22:05:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727698wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38727698We've had a problem with the cables provided with ThinkVision USB-C monitors. They're so horribly stiff either end gets quite a lot of force exerted on it. We use them for hot-desk setups at work and I've seen multiple with the metal part of the plug broken off from the plastic shroud.

I've asked for some "Cable Matters" ones to be bought as that's a brand I recognise and _think_ is good, we'll see!

]]>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:42:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333028wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333028I really like this idea. Is this supported anywhere yet or just something for future?

]]>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 12:19:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217964wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217964https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38217964I'm very much in the same boat as you here I think. I loved the idea of version controlled config and accepted the edit/reboot loop as that was the only way of doing it back then. It does seem though most of what was in config does live more naturally in UI, a great example is editing a scene with realtime feedback on the actual devices.

I do still periodically go into the config folder and do a bulk 'bump' commit, though given the config is likely useless without the state of the database I don't know if this is ever going to be useful. Perhaps having some history is good in case a complex automation is lost but still quite limited.

]]>Thu, 02 Nov 2023 10:07:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38111243wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38111243https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38111243I've set up my own DIY version of this. It pulls a new image via a cron job and repaints the screen with it. I've not invested time looking into it but by default if the device sleeps, which it does very quickly after loosing wall power, the cron job will no longer run and the display gets stuck. You need to poke the power button to get it to wake again.

]]>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:05:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645037wjdphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645037https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645037