Dillon, you son of a bitch you piece of shit!

Also in the UK but needed no clues. I guess I’ve been exposed to enough American media to at least be aware of these things.

I have my dock plugged into a smart plug and the laptop set in the BIOS to turn on when it receives power. I have an NFC tag on my coffee machine that I bloop while I’m making my morning brew, and that turns the dock on so that everything’s ready when I move into the office.

For turning things off I have HASS.Agent installed and sending state updates (locked, unlocked, etc, which is useful for other automations) and when that sensor goes unavailable for 15 minutes it turns the plug off. I find that’s long enough to allow it to reboot for updates and what not.

The sensor does report shutdown, reboot, and sleep states but I found that it often happens too quickly to get the change sent, so the unavailable state is more reliable.

Not being from the US/Canada, it took until my late 30s to figure out what this line even meant.

Yeah honestly Eternal should’ve been a Quake reboot using the new engine rather than a Doom sequel. Everything about it felt like Quake.

Meh. I was really hoping they’d go back to the sci-fi aesthetic of 2016 but instead they’ve doubled down on the weird high fantasy with guns thing.

It’s like they actually wanted to reboot Heretic/Hexen but they couldn’t get the license for it so they’ve just shoehorned it into Doom instead.

I can’t stop chuckling. Needed that, thanks!

I think it depends what the price is. If they can make the experience compelling enough while (heavily) undercutting the Steam Deck then they may be onto a winner.

… Though being in the console market people will make comparisons to the Switch, so that might be their target price point.

I think Labour has already pledged not to raise taxes, but let’s play devil’s advocate and pretend that they were going to slap a £2000 on everyone of working age.

Doing some fuzzy maths based on statistics I can find online from 2 years ago, that’s roughly 45 million people, or £90 billion a year. Or to put in into the Brexit campaign’s favourite terms, £1.7 billion per week going into public coffers.

I’m not suggesting such a flat structure would actually make sense as a policy, but that maybe tax rises as a concept aren’t always a universally bad thing.

Dude’s never had a conversation with my wife then.

Unless you’re hosting VHDs and need maximum throughput (in which case use NFS), SMB is going to be the easiest to setup and maintain across those 4 platforms.

The Linux SMB implementation is decent and supports the latest version of the protocol (or close to, at least) whereas NFS in Windows ain’t so great and is a bit of a pig to get working in my experience.

Thirded. It’s helped me a lot with picking up the compose syntax, to the point that I’m now comfortable combining disparate services into their own stacks. And I can spin something up from an example compose in less than a minute.

Dammit, really?

Other than the weirdly janky CG, which was both excellent in some parts while ruining my suspension of disbelief in others, I enjoyed it. No, it wasn’t as good as Fury Road but, let’s face it, that bar is so high it’s almost stratospheric.

Thanks, I’ll muse over this when I next get the chance!

Was looking into Docker volume backups just yesterday so this is perfect timing!

That was pretty much his speech this afternoon, too.

Thanks for the re-upvote. My guess is it was someone who sets timers on their phone. 😂

Dammit, now you’ve got my head swimming with ways to improve the washing machine stuff. I bet a vibration sensor on top could be combined with the smart plug power monitoring to detect when it’s being emptied.

How did you do the Google-turning-on-the-smartplug thing? I feel like I’m missing a lot of tricks by not having HA integrated into those. I just use them for audible notifications currently.

Yes please, I might revisit it with a fresh pair of eyes.

Nothing on the PS2 was compelling enough for me to buy one at the time, and I found the dualshock’s stick layout uncomfortable. Then Xbox came along with Halo and that was that, really.

The PS3 was overpriced and underwhelming while the 360 knocked it out of the park. Still my favourite console ever.

Then the Xbox One and PS4 happened… Yeah, MS ballsed up the messaging and then floundered even more every time they tried to re-explain their ideas, but I honestly think the whole put-the-disc-in-once licensing thing was ahead of its time. The people claiming that they couldn’t possibly connect their console to the internet for 2 minutes every month to refresh their licences were being disingenuous, and Sony’s “this is how you share games on PS4” bit, while understandable from the free marketing perspective, just came across to me as both short sighted and incredibly mean spirited.

Since then I’ve been team Xbox by default, but they’ve never really recovered from the shit show that was the Xbox One launch and it’s a shame.