Any tips on finding someone who does component level repair? I have an old-ish laptop (7 years?) and the only issue is the USB C charger seems to be losing connection. If I flip the charger it works fine, so I think the solder just needs to be reflowed.

I think it would take an experienced person <30 min to fix. It’s almost not worth it though since it’s so old, but I’d be willing to pay $50-100 if it makes charging work better.

Here’s the interpretation by the US copyright office in their FAQ:

Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution.

The enumerated rights of copyright owners are detailed in Title 17, section 106, with exceptions (e.g. fair use) described through section 122. The relevant portion is:

(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;

(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;

(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;

My understanding is that the copyright office is using 1&3 in their interpretation. So my understanding is that Meta is violating copyright by downloading copies of copyrighted work if their use doesn’t fall under the fair use claims.

And what’s with those legs on SMB2? He’s clearly on some kind of drugs.

Valve isn’t public, but they seem to be making plenty off of WINE. In fact, companies of all types love building on other projects, because it reduces how much work they need to do.

They just don’t seem to care. They could literally hire someone who works on Heroic to make an official Galaxy port reusing most of Heroic’s functionality. Yet they don’t.

And caring about Linux…

Heroic did it. Why couldn’t GOG?

Nice!

Is devrandom your router or something?

What happens if you decide to use Fedora or Ubuntu on two devices?

Sounds like a good option for a VPS.

What happens if you add another RPi?

Hmm, this wouldn’t work well for me since I use Dvorak. All the vowels are on the left and the most common consonants are on the right.

My consonant options on the left hand are: py (top) and jkxb (bottom).

? A and L are on opposite ends of the keyboard.

Use Lua, it uses one-based arrays. This is nice for a few reasons:

• last element is array[length]
• zero can be reserved for the type (especially nice for representing XML: 0 = node name, 1-N = children, named table entries = attributes)
• very rarely see + 1 and - 1 in my code

It feels wrong coming from C, but it’s actually really nice, especially since the reasons C does it don’t apply (i.e. index is just a memory offset).

Nah, just a huge fan of barley tea.

Hmm, what does localhost.local do if you use mdns?

Also, your router must be a bit confusing:

• localhost - 192.168.1.2
• localhost - 192.168.1.3
• …

Why not Saṃsāra? Or maybe it’s Rin’ne in Japanese?

Well, they’re often cheaper and easier to rip. I ha e a bluray reader w/ Libredrive flashed, but not everyone has that.

It could be a good one, you don’t know the details.

Exactly. That will have to be proved in court, and just making something available for anyone to use as they please is not “working with Russian hackers.” They would need to prove actual collusion to make the malware-ridden version more accessible.

Downloading is absolutely illegal, it’s just not really enforced because you need to prove criminal intent. You’re still accessing copyrighted material without a license, which is a copyright violation.

Distribution has much higher penalties and is more likely to push people to buying (harder to find copies = potentially more legal sales), so that’s where enforcement is focused.