Heck yeah, I use it for all sorts of macros. Especially in CAD, I’m generally off the keyboard and on the streamdeck for modifiers and tools. The per - key screen comes in handy when I switch into other programs that I don’t use so often, so don’t have a muscle memory for the keys.

The internet has totally changed how humanity works, learns, socialises, and plays. I cannot think of a more dramatic social upheaval, aside from possibly the industrial revolution, or the taming of the horse.

If you want to feel what the car is doing, it’s great. If you want to feel the clutch point, it’s great. If you want to have precise throttle control, it’s great. If you want to have protection in a fire, not so great.

As an Aussie I remember meeting foreigners when I was a youngster, and just being totally bewildered that they couldn’t swim. To me, it was as if they had said they never learnt to run, or how to open a door.

My next lesson came when I took a foreign friend who could swim to the beach. I swam out past the breakers and bobbed around wondering where they were… Turns out that not everyone grew up around waves, and they didn’t know you could dive under them. So they were still back by the beach, waist deep, just getting smashed around constantly.

I’m interested in why you chose the i5 for the automation, rather than the video server?

I’m no expert, but things like transcoding (or even just re-encoding) take a lot of grunt, which it seems the i5 would be good for.

The i3 would be good for more constant, lower power tasks like automation.

At least, that’s my thoughts, happy to be shown your reasoning…

Ooh, fun. May I?

Each player had a single movement piece that went around the perimeter of the board. There was four short sections that went into the middle of the board, but offset, one dedicated to each player. I think there was a couple sections where you could ‘slide’ your piece, snakes and ladders style. If an opposing piece was on the 'slide ’ you would knock them back some squares.

They’re actually a pretty cool company- If you sent them an email clarifying their refund policy first, I’m sure they would refund you if it doesn’t do what you need it to.

Why stand when you can sit?

Mint is not a version of windows.

But it’s a really heavy feather.

Oh jeez, I hadn’t even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.

Bunker.

Deep bunker.

Oooh, amazing! Do you use it? How mature is it?

But do I type ‘ImportantFile’, or ‘importantfile’?

As I understand it, if I searched for either of these strings in a case sensitive file system, I would not find a file called ‘IMPORTANTFILE’.

At best, a case sensitive file system makes naming conventions more complex. At worst , it obfuscates files. I just can’t imagine a scenario where it would be helpful. Do you really see a need to have a file called ‘aaaAaa’ and a totally separate one called ‘aaAaaa’?

So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.

I get why it’s more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it’s a pain in the ass.

Ascending order implies going from low to high

If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?

edit: I don’t understand why this was downvoted?

Yeah, I like the idea of being able to switch floor lamps and what not from the doorway. No-one likes the big light, right?

Not sure if I like it enough to implement it in my dream home though. Possibly with some kind of different shaped plug, or a colour code that matches the switch?

We’re getting into the weeds a little bit here, but there’s a lot of things that have power buttons that will put the thing into standby, not off. I’ve often done a ‘hard reset’ on my ‘smart’ tv when it starts acting up, just gotta cut the power.

It’s a small convenience, but it’s nice. I’ll happily pay the extra three cents in manufacturing costs for something that lasts decades and may be occasionally mildly helpful.

Huh, it’s interesting- Here the power switches are a similar size to the UK, so when I searched up a picture of the Indian switches I thought they were ridiculously giant, not like regular sized UK/Australian ones

I guess it’s just whatever you’re used to is the ‘regular’.

Are light switches the same? What happens when you have a lot of switches together, like six or eight? Do you just have really wide banks of switches?