After a catastrophe like that left me on my first save with no power for 3 hours (no coal on the lines and a huge mess of wiring to debug in order to isolate the generation and bootstrap it once again) I went nuts on the second one. I decided that guaranteeing each power plant could self start was the way, I did that by keeping a single extra disconnected generator with enough resources to restart each power tier separate from the whole grid just by changing a couple of wires and maybe moving a pipe or belt (this was before switches)

Finally on my 1.0 save I even made 3 separate distribution grids: on my highway, on poles and on train tracks connecting each section of generation, production and power storage separately to all 3 via priority switches just in case I needed to do some complicated procedure to restart the plant like connecting just coal to batteries until there was enough power to start fuel generation and then gradually reconnect several areas to fuel while I recharged batteries from coal to restart nuclear.

Never ended up needing them because by then I knew better, but it made a nice looking control panel

Just over 8 tb since yesterday, just on getting my trove (RPG) of Linux isos

For a simple setup you can do discreetly and without much technical knowledge try wifite on an old phone running netrunner (Kali for phones) and then crack the password on your home PC, or if they have wps enabled (surprisingly common on shitty corpo office WiFi where I live) the phone might just give you the password directly

When you turn it on by the menu button (8bitdo logo button) hold either a or b for xinput or dimput mode, on ximput it only has the same buttons as an Xbox controller, but on dinput you get the extra buttons the gyro and the accelerometer

Update the firmware on a windows VM and then turn it on while holding b to go I to dimput, if you want it to go back to x input turn it of and then on while holding a.

On dimput you can use the extra shoulders, the paddles, the gyro and the accelerometer

With my ultimate 2 wireless I just put it in dinput by turning it on by holding b and everything works, including gyro and accelerometer and can bind anything with antimicrox

I would love to try the game if it is available on Linux (sorry but I don’t have any windows machines to try it on)

I just have a heavily customised and themed KDE setup that I’ve been updating and bringing with me from machine to machine over the years, I’ve even set up all relevant dotfiles on a syncthing sync so any changes I make are reflected between my desktop and laptop

Unbalanced centrifuge, IRL a small tabletop one like the image will just be a really expensive mistake, but the worst case scenario can indeed be lethal. Here is a larger one exploding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IOL5iLwG8

I just set up everything via ansible and comment everything religiously, I’ve gotten to the point where I have playbooks for my laptop and desktop so if I have do do a clean install I just have to run the playbook and everything is set up and installed to my liking

It’s annoying to go to my playbook to make changes and rerun it every time I want to install or remove anything from my daily PCs, but it pays off when I migrate computers or for some reason have to do a clean install

And for high level stuff and things not in ansible I keep a tiddlywiki since no matter how catastrophic the failure of my systems I can always find a way to access an HTML file for my own reference

I recommend setting it up with a let’s encrypt cert via tailscale, that way not only you get a proper cert for free without opening your pihole to the internet, but also you get a way to use it when you are not at home, but if you are using a raspberry pi 1 or any other pi from the SD card I recommend using Log2ram in order to preserve the SD card

Edit: forgot to add that you should install zram-tools and run

sudo dphys-swapfile unistall

on a first gen pi since the low ram can increase the tendency to swap especially with unbound and that can also kill your SD card prematurely

Back when I constantly needed a pen I used to use a Parker espirit telescopic fountain pen, since it was the best small fountain pen that cost little enough that I wouldn’t mind loosing, but it was still small enough and good enough for my tastes. More recently since I stopped needing an actual pen with any sort of frequency it just kept getting dry and I just decided to stop carrying one.

This days the only thing that I physically write with any sort of frequency are ttrpg character sheets and for those I just need a good pencil, so I moved to the wsd magnetic 2.0 mm lead holder. I just love it both as a great mechanical pencil and a fidget toy

I use those and they have lasted me 5 years without issues, you just have to bend them to the side instead of out/in.

If you want anything more durable it would have to be nitinol for the superelasticity and memory effect, but as far as I know you would need to buy some thick nitinol wire and program the shape yourself, and that requires some specialised equipment

edit: spelling