Howdy.

I set up all of my old game consoles for fun, and feel like there must be a better way. I have an NES on the antenna connector (RG6?), about eight consoles on composite (Y/R/W), and four or five on HDMI. I still have my old school Composite switch, but I need more inputs, and it would be nice to be able to use the TV remote instead of getting my old bones up. My TV has two or three HDMI ports but I need a few more.

Do I just need an RF adapter, a bigger Composite switch, and some kind of HDMI switch, or is there another option I'm not thinking of?

Thanks!

I'm hoping to find a turtleneck with a turtle on it, or something with a similar vibe. It's not surprisingly difficult to find listings on Etsy or elsewhere that gave both the words "turtle" and "turtleneck".

I'm going to play a turtle person in an upcoming TRRPG game, and I wanted a fun shirt to commemorate it. I'll buy a plain green and figure out an iron-on patch if I must, but this feels like something that should already exist!

Would appreciate another set of eyes.

Generally, do the general-purpose mutual funds from the big brokers like Fidelity, Vanguard, Schwab include international companies, or is it mostly US companies?

I'm interested in investing in other countries, but I don't know if it's strictly necessary to choose a fund that says "European" or "International" on the tin as I'd like a mix. Is there an advantage or tax issue with investing in a European broker? Any recommendations there?

Thanks, folks.

Howdy folks,

Pixel 6 Pro was working fine when i went to bed on Monday with no update notifications or anything interesting. Tuesday morning, it was off and wouldn't turn on. I've tried a few things and I'm all out of ideas.

Held down power for 30s to get it to hard reset. It showed a black background and the grayscale G and progress bar for over an hour.

Held down power and volume down to get to the fastboot menu. I can get to Rescue Mode and Recovery Mode. Stupidly, they both show a broken android character and "no command", and you need to hold power and click volume up to get to the actual menus. Why in the world did they add this step, when you've already done the work to get to the fastboot menu? Anyway. Neither menu has options for clearing cache, mounting as a USB MTP device, or enabling ADB debug mode.

After who knows how many times booting into fastboot and playing around, following various XDG, Stackoverflow, and listicle suggestions, now it boots up to black background with the colorful word "Google" and stays there forever. Is that progress? I can't tell.

lsusb doesn't list the phone while it's off, while in fastboot, in recovery, or in rescue. I used the "mount /system" option but that didn't do anything useful. I installed Android Studio, but it doesn't detect the device either. The Google Pixel Repair page doesn't see the dang thing.

The "recovery logs" option doesn't indicate anything that I can see as a reason to fail booting - it looks like only logs of the recovery mode itself.

I finally resorted to the "wipe to factory default" option with a heavy heart.

It booted to a white background and colorful "Google", but never went anywhere beyond.

I let the battery die, and plugged her back in. Now I need to hold the power button for 30s, and see the white screen with colorful Google, and then the broken android character with "no command"! I appear to be in rescue mode.

lsusb on my computer detected it as "18d1:d001 Google Inc. Nexus 4 (fastboot)" , which is fascinating. A "Pixel" device showed up in my file browser for about a minute, but trying to mount it gave an "Unable to open MTP device" error. I installed mtpfs to see if I could mount the device, and the Rescue Mode menu announced that an "ADB update timeout" had occurred. I hadn't triggered one from either end. Hmm. lsusb no longer shows the device. Then the device disappeared from the file manager and from lsusb. sigh

I triggered a reboot from the Rescue Mode menu, and I'm back on the white background with the colorful Google, and no movement. Interestingly, I can see the ghosts of the top status bar. It almost looks like burn-in, but I keep everything on dark mode and the ghost is darker than the background, so I dunno.

So.

Any ideas? I'm thinking I gave it a fair effort, and it's time for a new phone.

TIA,

Clay

Was going to leave a bug report for pictures in a spoiler not working. Example: https://mander.xyz/comment/24233134

I see the spoiler tag, but expanding it shows an unclickable link markdown instead of the link or picture.

Anyway, I updated to be sure it wasn't fixed in your rapid updates (thank you!), and found that my accounts had been forgotten.

Probably not a bug but a feature fix?

The Profile > Saved page still has Search and Sort buttons at the top, but they don't apply to the Saved posts and comments, instead they exit the Saved page and go back to the normal feed.

I think the search and sort buttons should apply to the Saved items when I am on the Saved page, or the buttons should be hidden.

Previously, when I collapsed the Favorites and Moderator menus, they stayed collapsed across app open and closing. Now, favorites seems to open again every time I open the app.

Doesn't really bother me but it feels unintentional.

In which country is the house, who used it first, and how did the second country come to use it?

For the last few versions I've noticed that the OP's username is no longer highlighted in the comments.

I got the Overprepared achievement when I logged in. But I've never cleaned the holy fountain? I noticed after equipping my kelp diving gear, but it might have been there already.

Aloha,

I got an Elegoo Carbon FDM coreXY printer and a roll of PLA from the same brand. I've read that some filament brands are better than others but I figured I'd start easy.

I've taken STLs to the library to print, but I've not done my own before. What's all this slicer stuff? What other software and tools do I need? Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51460656

The member broadcasters of the EBU Held the annual Winter Meeting on 4 December, after the organizing body delayed the meeting while they decided what to do about Israel.

A rules change package was proposed, and many come in direct response to Israel's behavior in the 2025 contest. (Government social media pushing votes, significant ad spend across Europe to support their artist) Those rules changes are:

• Juries are back in the Semi Finals. The last few years have been televote-only. There will be a 50/50 split weight.
• Juries increase from 5 to 7 people per country, and 2 of them must now be 18-25 years old.
• Half as many votes allowed per payment method, from 20 down to 10.
• "discourage disproportionate promotion campaigns…particularly when undertaken or supported by third parties, including governments or governmental agencies.”

Unfortunately, the EBU reportedly met separately with Israeli officials to negotiate the rules package in advance. When the actual voting was announced, the EBU tied the votes on Israeli participation and the rules package together, with the idea that member countries voting Yes on the rules package believed that it was enough to deal with the situation. Only if the rules package was voted down could a separate vote be held on Israeli participation.

Here's a leaked picture from inside the meeting showing the voting terms and results.

Several of the rules changes were desired for years, and so the motion was adopted. No vote was held on participation.

In my opinion this is very shady behavior from the EBU. While I personally think these are good rules change, there's no reason they should have been tied to the Israel vote.

In essence, the EBU has determined that Israel's participation is more important than that of Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and the Netherlands (as those countries had promised to boycott). An interesting twist of history is that Spain has never missed a Eurovision, and they are boycotting to oppose the inclusion of a country with an authoritarian government, just as Franco's Spainish participation was itself boycotted in 1970.

One argument we have heard in favor of Israeli participation has been that it is important to support independent public broadcasters in member countries where they are under threat, and indeed that is a core function of the EBU. Russia was allowed to participate under that principle until after the full scale invasion of Ukraine.

KAN, the Israel public broadcaster, was fairly independent and so this argument held water, but the last two years have seen significant interference from the government, including the selection of the propaganda song "October Rain". The Netanyahu government has been vocal about their dislike of KAN due to critical reporting.

The EBU choosing to favor KAN is especially short sighted when you consider that a bill to privatize and/or shut down KAN is currently in the Knesset.

The member broadcasters of the EBU Held the annual Winter Meeting on 4 December, after the organizing body delayed the meeting while they decided what to do about Israel.

A rules change package was proposed, and many come in direct response to Israel's behavior in the 2025 contest. (Government social media pushing votes, significant ad spend across Europe to support their artist) Those rules changes are:

• Juries are back in the Semi Finals. The last few years have been televote-only. There will be a 50/50 split weight.
• Juries increase from 5 to 7 people per country, and 2 of them must now be 18-25 years old.
• Half as many votes allowed per payment method, from 20 down to 10.
• "discourage disproportionate promotion campaigns…particularly when undertaken or supported by third parties, including governments or governmental agencies.”

Unfortunately, the EBU reportedly met separately with Israeli officials to negotiate the rules package in advance. When the actual voting was announced, the EBU tied the votes on Israeli participation and the rules package together, with the idea that member countries voting Yes on the rules package believed that it was enough to deal with the situation. Only if the rules package was voted down could a separate vote be held on Israeli participation.

Here's a leaked picture from inside the meeting showing the voting terms and results.

Several of the rules changes were desired for years, and so the motion was adopted. No vote was held on participation.

In my opinion this is very shady behavior from the EBU. While I personally think these are good rules change, there's no reason they should have been tied to the Israel vote.

In essence, the EBU has determined that Israel's participation is more important than that of Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and the Netherlands (as those countries had promised to boycott). An interesting twist of history is that Spain has never missed a Eurovision, and they are boycotting to oppose the inclusion of a country with an authoritarian government, just as Franco's Spainish participation was itself boycotted in 1970.

One argument we have heard in favor of Israeli participation has been that it is important to support independent public broadcasters in member countries where they are under threat, and indeed that is a core function of the EBU. Russia was allowed to participate under that principle until after the full scale invasion of Ukraine.

KAN, the Israel public broadcaster, was fairly independent and so this argument held water, but the last two years have seen significant interference from the government, including the selection of the propaganda song "October Rain". The Netanyahu government has been vocal about their dislike of KAN due to critical reporting.

The EBU choosing to favor KAN is especially short sighted when you consider that a bill to privatize and/or shut down KAN is currently in the Knesset , at which point Israel would be ineligible to participate in the EBU and by extension the ESC.

Searching for a post that I just saw is frustrating. I need to log into an alt account to search, and if I want to comment as my main I do a goofy process where I find a user who posted or commented in it and find another post of theirs to search for on my main and find the hidden list in their post history.

There's gotta be a better way.

I have a vendor that sucks donkey balls. Their systems break often. An endpoint we rely on will start returning [] and take months to fix. They'll change a data label in their backend and not notice that it flows into all of their filters and stuff.

I have some alerts when my consumers break, but I think I'd like something more direct. What's the best way to monitor an external API?

I'm imagining some very basic ML that can pop up and tell me that something has changed, like there are more hosts or categories or whatever than usual, that a structure has gone blank or is missing, that some field has gone to 0 or null across the structure. Heck, that a field name has changed.

Is the best way to basically write tests for everything I can think of, and add more as things break, or is there a better tool? I see API monitoring tools but they are for calculating availability for your own APIs, not for enforcing someone else's!

I've noticed than when my brightness is all the way down it's barely visible, and not legible, in a completely dark room. All the way UP, and I can see the screen well on cloudy days. On sunny days I need to remember where the icons and buttons are or to shade my phone.

Is it normal for the screen to be so dim? I've had it for three or four years, but I don't remember complaining about the screen initially. Do backlights lose power over time? Is it a power saving feature for old batteries?

I used an app called Twilight for a while that dims the screen and tints everything red for bedtime, but I haven't used it since the equivalent features were released by Google. Is it possible that some old dimming setting is still active even if the app is gone?

Other people's phones seem to get much brighter than mine. Help!

I remember reading a webcomic back in the day and using the cute zombie as my Myspace avatar. (Yes, my back hurts. Why do you ask?) The comic had bright colors and was cute, not scary or sexy. The zombie character had brain sticking out of a hole on the top corner of his head. I didn't remember any other characters or plot.

Searched around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2000s_webcomics for comics whose names sounded familiar and had no hits. Any ideas?

Howdy,

I've got a jealous friend that wants to walk with me. When is their next chance to enter the beta or buy the game?

Thanks!

I am pretty happy with my configs now, with home manager but no flakes so far. I am, however, annoyed by all the dotfiles that I didn't define, and I'm worried how many other files are laying around without getting imperatively defined.

I'm sort of picturing a kiosk mode, where every time I reboot everything is wiped and I only have what I defined. Any files I want to keep are on other partitions or network locations mapped in my config. If a new config file is created by changing a setting in an application, I want to be notified so I can add it to my Nix configs.

Is this possible? Is it a terrible idea?

The biggest challenge I see is in installing games, because it looks like they often leave bits all over the place.