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If you use paper towels to clean your bed: Do your paper towels feel 'papery'? If not they might be waxed.

If you use reusable towels to clean your bed: Do you use fabric softener? Don't.

Heroic and Lutris are both what you're describing.

I think it may also be possible to install GOG Galaxy in bottles and use that directly, but I've never tried that myself.

🤷, embedded device manufacturers were really bad at software back then. I honestly don't remember the details anymore.

Yeah, to be fair, there was an issue getting string.h to work (so i could just use strstr) with the vendor's shitty toolchain, that took me talking to an engineer at the vendor, and the dev who wrote that was out of our Taiwan office. But also, my first fix was just doing a sort of sliding-window check, manually checing for s[0] == '\n' && s[1] == 'C' && s[2] == 'o' &&..., which was gross, but much more correct.

I worked at an IoT platform startup. All of our embedded device demos stopped working August 1st. I was told the same thing happened last year, but it was fine, things would start working in September. I decided to go fix it anyway. Eventually I figured out the culprit was a custom HTTP library. Instead of doing anything sensible, the way it found the Content-Length header was to loop over the bytes of the response until it found the first 'g' add 5 to that pointer and then assume that whatever was there was the number of bytes it should read. Unfortunately, HTTP responses have a Date header which includes the month and August has a 'g' in it.

There were a bunch of these demo devices already flashed and shipped out. The 'fix' to get them to work, even in August, was to downgrade requests to HTTP 0.9 which didn't require a Date header in the response.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html

This means that in most cases you’re automatically a Canadian citizen if you were born

• before December 15, 2025
• outside Canada to a Canadian parent

This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12772.htm

Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment?

There is no federal statute mandating that a private business, a person, or an organization must accept currency or coins as payment for goods or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether to accept cash unless there is a state law that says otherwise.

A few states have introduced bills to require taking cash (Idaho, Mississippi and North Dakota), but as far as I'm aware none have ever actually passed into law.

That's not really relevant here yet. GP doesnt have a "debt" before the transaction takes place. Nothing about that statement forces a business to do business with you. They are perfectly within their rights to only agree to do business with you if you pay in chickens.

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.

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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".