Layoffs are unpopular so companies are tightening the belt by making the working conditions less hospitable.

Return to office is designed to have employees leave willingly so they can reduce headcount without making employees feel unsafe about budget cuts.

What they don’t seem to care is top performers are the ones most able to move to another job with better working conditions.

With a trim at the bottom by letting go of low performers and encouraging top performers to leave they are just trending toward mediocrity.

Based on the size of the connector a tear down is going to show a rather complicated board for a “simple” adaptor. Because the Lightning port is designed to be reconfigured on the fly depending on the accessory plugged in and not a single dumb bus protocol like USB2.0 the chip in this cable needs to be able to talk in HDMI and some other standards.

Fun fact: while Lightning was originally designed around being a reversible USB2.0 connector because of the dynamic reconfiguration of the reversible sides at the port it is capable of speaking in native USB3.0 on all of the pre-Usb-C iPad pros.

The price is reasonable for what it is, honestly, but very few people will actually need to buy one.

But not great illumination tools.

Hello from c/[email protected]!

Link? Haven’t heard of this one

It's been amazing to feel like we're part of something that's growing so fast. I'll miss Reddit but I expect Lemmy will fill in the role sooner rather than later.

Hank is a real gem. I am amazed at his customer service and willingness to take custom orders.

My iPhone 4S went for a swim before phones were generally waterproof and the screen backlight went out and the camera light stayed permanently on. I used the blind assist mode with the phone for a few months and even took photos totally blind. Eventually the backlight came on again and I could use the phone totally normal. Finally killed it falling out of my pocket 150’ up while rock climbing. Great phone though.

I’m still disappointed Hank decided to checkerboard the LED channels instead of making separate frosted/clear channels possible.

1m sounds like an amazing deal to buy a president

Jesse who makes the Citadel in his one man CNC shop makes them on the lathe first and then screws them as tightly as they fit together and then does the long cuts on the assembled body. When you screw it tightly it will always align perfectly.

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Having a few LEPs now I can say that the smaller ones are my favorite and the most useful because the beam isn't as coherent resulting in a larger, more usable hotspot. The Lumintop Thor 1 and 2 are really great pocket cannons and sold at a pretty fair price especially if you can snag a deal coupon. The bigger ones like the Weltool W4 are not as useful because the beam is too tight!

That said, the FW2 that @[email protected] recommended looks like a great option and its larger brother, the Mateminco FW3 with its dual flood/LEP beams is very handy and the beam is still not too tight because the LEP optic itself is fairly small.

Nice setup. I’ve always felt the S6 was classy and criminally underrated. I didn’t even know the 18350 Ti tubes dropped!

That deeper textured reflector is really nice. Clean beam and smooth transition but plenty of throw. If you don’t mind the narrower field of view, it’s quite a versatile beam for near and far.

I just put one together like yours but with 519a and the new buck driver!

Good eye, it’s actually the newer Emisar D4K which takes a 21700 battery but maintains the same head size as the 18650 powered D4v2. The raised button is a huge game changer for me!

They also now make the D4v2 in a 2 channel variant (two sets of different LEDs) and the D4K just became available in a 3 channel variant!

The DT8 is a marvel. I love the shape and design.

It's worth checking out Blue95, which was originally made as a novelty but has all the power of uBlue behind it, as an opinionated, batteries-included Linux based on Fedora.

On the M150, it’s possible to desolder the RPP. Can you do that on the H150 as well?

This was one of my favorite games growing up. I never understood why this was considered the sequel to Bubble Bobble, but loved it all the same.

I sure hope they don’t discontinue the SP36 BLF. Even though there are lots of more exciting lights now (cough M44 cough) there’s really nothing that can come close in value for the money.

No barriers here. As a developer by trade, I was attracted to "Cloud Native" or atomic Linux exactly for its promises of reliable, managed OS, while promoting containers as first class interactions.

For the same reason I ditched Windows and Gentoo over 15 years ago for MacOS, and now for 4 months to Bluefin Linux as a daily driver (an amazing, batteries-included OS based on uBlue -> Fedora Atomic), I'm happy to give up some freedoms to have a regular workflow that is easy and streamlined, and best yet, whether it works or not is "somebody else's problem." And if an OS image ever fails to load, rollback is automatic and seamless to the last known bootable image.

Yes, there are some limitations, like if you want/need a kernel extension that isn't officially supported by the maintainers, or you want to tear out systemd, or you really want X11 (it's gone as of upstream Fedora 42), but as someone with not enough free time to tinker, I'd rather just have an OS that's continually updated and boots to desktop flawlessly every time.

Works great for web browsing, gaming, software development, and spinning up new containers and VMs to try stuff I want to check out :) After much success running Bluefin on a miniPC desktop and my laptop, I wiped away Windows 10 for Bazzite on my gaming rig and couldn't be happier.

The biggest issue for me getting into this new paradigm was just re-wiring old habits. More documentation would help in that regard, as getting familiar with how to do old things in this new way where system and userspace are deliberately separated, was a little confusing. Maybe it was my bad for not understanding as much in detail about Docker/Podman specifics before, and being on SELinux for the first time was a bit of a learning curve.

There is and always will be a place for non-atomic Linux, and I think anybody who wants to really tinker and exert total control over their system should stick to it! But as far as I'm concerned, the only way I'll be running non-atomic on a personal machine is in a container.