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A crucial point was ensuring that all layers were deposited at or near room temperature, thus [...] [allowing] the use of plastic or polymer substrates, opening the door to the flexible electronics of the future.

So, to answer the headline, no. This isn't about the top end, its more about the bottom end I guess?

Plastic layers don't sound great for heat dissipation or max temp, but still very interesting for miniaturization of low end stuff.

Direct link: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

I'll second the thrift store suggestion. I picked up a Samsung BD-H5100 bluray player at the local FreeGreek for $5 and it has been nice to just pop a disc in and not worry about all the streaming shenanigans.

I'd say you might as well look for a bluray player. Second hand bluray discs are some times cheaper than the DVDs and sometimes the quality bump is nice. IMO, 4k bluray isn't worth it. I've watched a few 4k blurays and while I can tell there's a difference I've never felt myself missing the extra quality when watching a normal bluray.

Another option to consider is an old game console. Anything back to the ps3 has a bluray drive. (Though, not the xbox360, iirc? Also at one point Microsoft forced you to make an account and buy a license to watch blurays, so make sure that's not a thing for any game console you consider.) And I know at least the ps3 had an official remote you could buy so you didn't have to use a controller.

From a privacy perspective, all your options are the same as long as you don't connect whatever you get to the internet.

I've always wondered if something like this would work:

Take a relatively short bit of wire, make a flat spiral at one end about the size of the button, tape that spiral to the button. Then take the other end of the wire hook it up to a relay with the other end attached to ground (or any big metal object probably). I would imagine then closing the relay is "touching" and opening the relay is "not touching".

I have no idea if that would actually work, but it seems to me like it should. You just need something to interrupt the electric field above the "button".

Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I've had I've applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.

In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it's just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)

I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I've applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.

Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I've been unemployed for almost 6 months.

I'm in the process writing my own version of webscript.io, an old service that died back in 2017. It was a dead simple service that would run a Lua script for each HTTP request that came in to a URL. It sounds pretty trivial, but it was remarkably useful for hacking together little scripts for things like watching webpages for changes, little custom APIs for DIY IoT devices, translating from one API to another, and other simple stuff like that.

I've got enough of it built that I've been able to make a few actually useful things with it already. A few different job posting website scrapers were the first thing I made. I also made a little script that queries a live traffic api and sends my wife an estimated drive time for her commute home. The plan with that one is to watch the drive time as it's getting closer to the end of the day and if it starts spiking earlier/worse than normal, it can email her letting her know she should leave early if she can.

Before anyone thinks this could be good news for EA...

The offer comes from a group of investors that includes Silver Lake, one of the world's largest private equity firms, and Saudi Arabia's controversial Public Investment Fund.

WSJ states that it would "likely be the largest leveraged buyout of all time."

A leveraged buyout from a PE firm means they've decided EA needs to die and they're going to pick the carcass clean.

I've been wanting to play this for years, it seems right up my street, but I've never been able to get it working. No matter how much I fiddle with in-game settings, steam input, or proton, I can't get it to do anything but immediately look down and spin the camera.

1. Post your actual configs and logs or people will only be able to guess. (Censor any secrets.)

2. My guess: It's probably your nginx config.

3. Why are you using 0.19.4? That version is over a year old.

I'm curious, have you used Rust much? Most of those changes just feel like "rust should be more familiar to me" changes.

Also:

As Rust 2.0 is not going to happen, Rust users will never get these language design fixes

Isn't necessarily true for most of your suggestions. Since most of them are just changes to syntax semantics and not language semantics they could be made in an edition.

Edit: Oh, I just saw your budget. This is ~$800, so maybe not.

There's the Starlite 5: https://us.starlabs.systems/products/starlite?variant=55242571612540

I've got one. It's got an x86 processor and runs standard fedora just fine, including pen input.

Though, I don't use it for much because I haven't found any note-taking software that I actually like using. I used something back in college that just created SVG pages in an HTML notebook which I absolutely loved, but I can't find it now. It wasn't open source so I'm guessing it might have just died.