I’ve also used .local but .local could imply a local neighborhood. The word itself is based on “location”. Maybe a campus could be .local but the smaller networks would be .internal

Or, maybe they want to not confuse it with link-local or unique local addresses. Though, maybe all .internal networks should be using local (private) addresses?

I just recently started working with ImGui. Rewrite compiled game engines to add support for HDR into games that never supported it? Sure, easy. I can mod most games in an hour if not minutes.

Make the UI respond like any modern flexible-width UI in the past 15 years? It’s still taking me days. All of the ImGui documentation is hidden behind closed GitHub issues. Like, the expected user experience is to bash your head against something for hours, then submit your very specific issue and wait for the author to tell you what to do if you’re lucky, or link to another issue that vaguely resembles your issue.

I know some projects, WhatWG for one, follow the convention of, if something is unclear in the documentation, the issue does not get closed until that documentation gets updated so there’s no longer any ambiguity or lack of clarity.

My open-source, zero dependency JS library for requesting and generating certs with dns01: https://github.com/clshortfuse/acmejs

I only coded for name.com but it is compatible with anything really. Also can run in the browser, which could be useful in a pinch.

Burn-in is a misnomer.

OLEDs don’t burn their image into anything. CRTs used to burn in right onto the screen making it impossible to fix without physically changing the “glass” (really the phosphor screen).

What happens is the OLED burns out unevenly, causing some areas to be weaker than others. That clearly shows when you try to show all the colors (white) because some areas can no longer get as bright as their neighboring areas. It is reminiscent of CRT burn-in. LCDs just have one big backlight (or multiple if they have zones) so unevenness from burnout in LCDs is rarely seen, though still a thing.

So, OLED manufacturers do things to avoid areas from burning out from staying on for too long like pixel shifting, reducing refresh rate, or dimming areas that don’t change for a long time (like logos).

There is a secondary issue that looks like burn-in which is the panel’s ability to detect how long a pixel has been lit. If it can’t detect properly, then it will not give an even image. This is corrected every once in a while with “compensation cycles” but some panels are notorious for not doing them (Samsung), but once you do, it removes most commonly seen “burn-in”.

You’d have to really, really leave the same image on your screen for months for it to have any noticeable in real world usage, at least with modern OLED TVs. You would normally worry more about the panel dimming too much over a long period of time, but I don’t believe lifetime is any worse than standard LCD.

TL;DR: Watch RTings explain it

Of course they have milk! With vodka and some Kalua/Bailey’s!

The Who were kinda silly (eg: Boris the Spider) in their early years.

Show me potato salad!

The entire Material Design framework in JS and Web Components in 80kb

https://clshortfuse.github.io/materialdesignweb/components/buttons.html

JS and Web Components are not the problem. Poor design is.

Here you go everyone: https://youtu.be/ICXltEUJ41U?si=gZnpuN8A85UKyjyC

Exactly what you didn’t know you were looking but, in the back of your mind, you really were.

Years (decades) ago it wasn’t uncommon to create self-signed/local CAs for active directory, but it’s really uncommon today since everything is internet facing and we have things like Let’s Encrypt.

It’s so old, the “What’s New” article from Microsoft references Windows Server 2012 which is around when I stopped working on Windows Server. I kinda remember it, and you needing to add the server’s cert to your trusted roots. (I don’t know about Linux, but the concept is the same, I’m sure. I never tried generating certificates, but know all the other client -side stuff. Basically you need a way to fulfill CSRs.)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-cs/

What you’d want to do it in Windows is all there, and Microsoft made that pretty easy back then to integrate with all their platforms and services, but I’d caution, do you really want to implement 10+ year old tech?

I said that?

The problem is it’s a script that logs onto Haier’s servers with the user’s email and password and starts polling for data. Considering that most designed usage is probably based around users every once in a while checking and adjusting their thermostat, just one user with an HACS install doing a poll every minute is 1440x more usage than the next who checks it once a day. If HACS uses were the majority of traffic for these devices I wouldn’t be surprised by that metric.

That’s what probably meant by the ToS because the users using it are probably violating it, and the addon can be considered as something that makes violating it easier (it doesn’t have a secondary purpose other than using a set of credentials that are only given after accepting the ToS).

I’ve had crappy “Smart” ACs and Samsung was the absolute worst. At random times their AWS instance in Europe would go down or their app wouldn’t respond. I gave up and coded my own script to directly interface with the device over the local WiFi. You cut Samsung completely out of the equation. You don’t have to worry about their servers not working anymore. That’s an ideal way for an add-on to work. Ideally most of the script can be retuned to work directly with the device.

Did well with Brother laser printer. Canon was okay.

I had setup a friend’s HP printer and noticed he was constantly switching to WiFi Direct in order to print. I did him the favor of connecting it to the AP, so he wouldn’t have to manually switch all the time.

The moment it got online, the printer locked itself down and refused to continue print until he paid for a subscription service on the ink.

Different locations can have different CPC (cost-per-click) bid configured. Even if you have multiple locations of a business, it’s still managed per site. Different areas also have different CPC rates depending on who is around that location (not including your own businesses). For example, a metropolitan CPC rate is higher than a rural one because so many others compete with you.

That 25 minute one is near a bunch of other stores and I’d bet has a higher CPC rate. The 2 minute one is more isolated.

I checked and that all have about the same rating (3.5), so it shouldn’t have been ranked by that. In the end, Google isn’t picking what’s best for the consumer, and enough to encourage me to go 20 minutes extra out of my way. Them being all the same franchise helps clarify it isn’t an issue of finding a better search term match since they’re all identically labeled the same.

Same for me literally today. I know what was closest, but didn’t want to deal with the “recalculating route”, so I decided to ask Google to pick the nearest McDonald’s as an extra stop:

• 19 minutes detour
• 4 minutes detour
• 25 minutes detour
• 2 minutes detour

At this point, I’m convinced Google only cares about presenting what’s most profitable to them regardless of any sort of convenience to the consumer.

It’s too far gone for it to be even usable.

SORT BY BOTTOM_LINE vs SORT BY BEST

We don’t like when people add color to our monochromatic text.

According to Route Note, which appears to offer a middle-man service for artists, their ranking, as of November 2023, is:

• Napster
• Tidal
• Apple
• YouTube Music
• Deezer
• YouTube (official content)
• Amazon
• Spotify
• Pandora
• YouTube (ContentID)

People actually use Arch, and it’s that popular? TIL.

Champions of Norrath has ruined every single isometric RPG for me.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is meh to me. I acknowledge it’s technical, narrative, and gameplay achievements. I can’t get into it.

My backstory was the game is good and gameplay is immediately in your control. No rolling of dice, no pauses between moves. Just loot, aim, and kill. Hack/slash at its finest.