Trixie has been great except for the proprietary nvidia driver. The upgraded 550 driver has known problems with 4k @ 120hz that causes crazy flickering [1].

I tried the 580 bundle with the same problem. I had to revert to the 535 bundle.

[1]: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/nvidia-555-58-4k-120hz...

Code signing certificates are even worse.

Play Atari 2600 Adventure online.

https://atarionline.org/atari-2600/adventure

I once ported the game into Flash, using a disassembly of the game as reference. I had it on my website, but it got DMCA-ed off for trademark reasons.

> 2) do not use liquid fabric softeners. see #1. I use a fabric sheet on drying.

Have you tried vinegar in the wash and wool dryer balls? I pre-wash with vinegar and add an extra rinse cycle. It's way better than fabric sheets and the balls also speed up the drying process.

Vinegar is also good for dissolving lime, which builds up in the washer when you have "hard" water and will make it stink - not a mold stink, though, more some kind of bacteria that loves to live in lime. In this case it has nothing to do with residual water.

And vinegar is a pretty good cleaning agent all by itself.

I could but my wife has an intense hatred anything with vinegar in it. It makes her gag.

Me too. Luckily the smell doesn't persist.

It would be interesting to see something like this that runs WASM as a universal bytecode.

I'm sure it's been done. I doubt it really is any better though because you can do a lot of optimisations in software that you can't do in hardware.

A picture for anyone else curious what a Kohler Derry looks like.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/101034470@N04/52044489934/

May be it's the angle, but it looks a little too closer to a toilet bowl than a urinal.

Occasional spills are probably easier to manage compared to a misunderstanding over it's purpose.

What direction do you use that from?

The big 3 get hired to protect managers. Hire a smaller consulting firm and the project goes sideways you both get fired. Hire a big firm and it goes sideways they get fired - until the next project.

Or: you both get fired but they hire you because of all the money they made anyway.

Sounds like the contracts are not written correctly then.

Yup, sort of the whole point. There's a lot of cost plus contracts floating around here, which is a terrible incentive.

I recently used this generator to deploy a fleet of Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machines in VMWare Workstation. Very nice.

Have fusion splicers come down in price? Can you recommend any?

You don't need them unless you are running a mile or two of fiber - mechanical fast connectors (IE no polish, etc) are less than 0.3db loss at this point.

Fusion splicing will still be 0.01db or better, but you will be well within the power budget of any transceiver you find with mechanical connectors, if we are talking home networking - even a 2km 10gb transceiver that is 20 bucks has a 6db power budget.

Heck, the 10km are cheaper than 2km at this point - 17bucks on amazon, power budget of 16db.

This is VERY true - especially for home use. You could have many db of loss and still have a perfectly functional 100g network.

AliExpress sells some basic ones from $300-700 CAD ($200-500 USD) with reasonable reviews.

Whatever you do, don't try using the razor-style "hand splicers" and adhesive splice kits. Without a splicer that has a scope, you're just making bets each time that are difficult to test.

I've learned the hard way that it's just not worth it unless you can _see_ what you're working on.

I have a $1000 fusion splicer from Amazon, and it is fantastic. It is very straightforward to use, and for my home use it is perfect. If I did spicing as a job this wouldn't be the tool to use, but for occasional splices in my homelab it works great.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW2HGVT2?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...

For Multimode, they now make splices where you jam the two cleaved ends into the splice. It costs about $5 per splice.

You can have them second hand for ~500€ on ebay

Any advice on making sure you get a good splicer?

I know a little about fiber connectors, and the different connector modules for speed, but I am not really sure what I need for a splicer for fiber.