Its pretty modular for workflow and layout in the contemporary. Would recommend checking out the trial version to see if it looks alright to you now, or otherwise just watching through some videos.

Nothing for me. All the games I care about run great, I’m much happier with my UX/UI using KDE Plasma, I’m very happy being able to use a bash shell in a terminal emulator of my choice, etc.

Look into Bitwig if you haven’t, it is kind of ableton-like in that you can pretty much automate anything with anything else - fully cross platform as well.

Big time, guy very likely has had a god complex his entire life but it’s probably also being driven by the LLM echoing back to him that “you made me and im AGI and therefore you are the greatest engineer of all time”.

Management loves to say everything is critical, but never seems to realize that when everything takes priority, nothing does.

Like others said, you did fine. Make yourself safe, report it, call security if required, but also understand that when people are under extreme duress such as the death of a loved one, they want to blame anyone and anything.

People have a really hard time coping with the fact that people often die without reason, unceremoniously, to such a degree that they feel they have been wronged by something or someone, even if there isn’t anything to blame.

When this happens they may pick something they perceive as being in proximity to the event to blame to try to make sense of it. It might be disease, the equipment, the medication, a family member, or in this case yourself.

You deal with this by knowing the facts of what happened, and knowing you did your best and aren’t to blame, and by understanding that people lash out when they are upset.

Nothing you could have said would have helped the situation with this person in their state, so saying nothing and leaving to de-escalate the situation is 100% the best thing you could have done.

Ehhh I initially thought similarly at first as well but the more I have used freecad the more it grows on me. At least I can have more than 10 projects in freecad lol.

I really like this, I keep coming back to look at it.

1 - Ask them if they can either not drop the weights, or if the time this occurs can be adjusted to make it less of a problem. Document that you asked them somehow including date, time, what was said in the request, and how the request was sent.

2 - If nothing can be fixed through step 1 review your condo rules and verify if they are breaching them by doing what they are doing, see what fines are like for each breach of whatever rules is covered by this. If there are no rules for this, you are basically screwed and should either lobby your condo board/property manager for a change in rules or move.

3 - Set up a camera/mic and have your phone handy. Record the noise when it happens noting the date and time.

4 - Submit a complaint to the condo board/property manager every time this happens including the date and time and the recorded evidence, citing which rules are being broken. Be prepared when you start doing this that your neighbor might try to retaliate. If they retaliate by making the noise worse, do the same thing recording it and sending it up the line. If you play music really loud or whatever, they may also try to retaliate by submitting complaints about you - try to not let them catch you out on that.

Eventually, if your property management/condo rules are set up in a reasonable way they would either stop, get evicted by their landlord who is now receiving fines, or be evicted by proxy because the fines are too numerous and expensive. Repeatedly making complaints to your board/property manager usually gets them involved pretty quickly because it creates a constant nuisance they can’t easily ignore.

but mean “to sell it to others for our incommingsto lease access to it repeatedly to maximize profit”.

They are handy - you can also establish one over an SSH connection using ssh -D if I recall correctly, which can be super useful in combination with a dynamic dns service and a bastion host/jump server.

I swear to god when I was working IT, some vendor we worked with had the superman movie theme song as their hold music and I once had to sit through it for 2 fucking hours because none of those lazy motherfuckers were around to answer the phone.

What is your implication here?

That no has ever or will ever discuss VPN alternatives outside of this +30 vote thread on lemmy.ca and that the governments of the world will reference this thread to go about determining what to outlaw?

I’m sorry to tell you, but every single one of these governments is already in some regard aware of everything in this thread and beyond by virtue of it already being public information - and if they weren’t aware of this stuff, don’t you think they would for example, just pay someone to tell them?

They know Tor exists, they know I2P exists, they know Socks5 Proxies exist, they know meshtastic exists, they know freenet exists, they know Yggdrasil exists, they know mail exists, they know sharing the password to an email account so that people can read each others saved drafts exists, they know carrier pigeons exist, they know SSL/TLS exists, they know telnet exists, they know ssh exists, they know IRC exists, they know matrix chat exists, they know signal exists, they know simplexx exists, they know telegram exists, they know dead drops exists, etc.

You also realize that if they wanted to cover all of their bases they don’t even have to go that far? They could just pass a law stating “Any product or technology which hides internet bound network traffic from your ISP is now illegal”? They could even say “Attempting to keep any information private from a government entity is illegal”.

Like unless you secretly wrote your own communications protocol and then never shared it (which kind of defeats the purpose), then if you have access to the knowledge of the protocol existing, so does any government (at least in the case of any widely used communications technology).

Socks5 proxying and an international friend group you trust and who trust you with each others internet connections perhaps.

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Have it dim and brighten N times over the course of a few seconds to chime the hour on the hour, or have it blink a color.

Shooting ones self in the foot can be misconstrued as accidental whereas hammering ones dick is clearly an intentional and motivated activity.

Like others said, the bottle neck will be the OS doing it’s thing with python rather than the hardware. Remember that you can perform pulse width modulation with the GPIO, so they can physically toggle states really very fast.

I seem to recall that there is a GPIO header file for C available for the pi somewhere. If python proves too slow for what you want to do, you could look into writing something in C instead to try to speed things up potentially.

Final straw?

So it was contradicting itself and would not update no matter how many times I would hit “check for updates” over the course of a week.

So not only was the system not functioning correctly, but I could no longer trust it was going to be secure from third parties.

I had intended to switch for some time before then for a litany of reasons but this definitely convinced me to stop wasting any more time and I moved myself and family over less than a week later.

The fox art here is by stewy:

https://stewy.uk/shop/ols/products/fox