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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • Right, BattleEye is hit or miss depending on the game developer.

    Another significant drawback I have is OBS compatibility. It technically works, but just having it open drops my framerate by ~30%, and having it record drops it by ~50%. I haven’t found a fix for it yet, so I’m effectively unable to stream or record gameplay on Linux. The same settings used in Windows hardly impacts my framerate.

    I’ll continue using Linux, but I haven’t deleted my Windows partition yet.







  • I haven’t, but I’m also an electrical engineer so I’m pretty familiar with the issue haha

    Fun thing you can do, is open your mouse and look up the PN of your switch on DigiKey. Filter for components with the same package/footprint, then sort by actuation force. Get a few different ones and try them out. They sell good brands there.

    I play a lot of shooters, so my left click is real easy to press, and my right click is ~3x harder.




  • More than just “ripcord likes to have lights on at 6:00 pm,” surprisingly.

    It knows what brand lights you have, who’s interacting with it, who you might be with if anyone speaks in the background, what times and days you’re typically home… it’ll even infer your mood based on how your voice sounds.

    Unfortunately, Amazon isn’t required to disclose every bit of personal data they take from you, so only so much is known about it. If you consider though that data collection is a new, multi-billion dollar industry, and how effective hundreds of PhDs in data science and social-engineering can be with near infinite resources to develop tools to extract as much information from these devices as possible, it starts becoming more believable.

    Here’s a good paper I found: http://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.10920





  • Honestly, interesting thought.

    My first concern is fidelity - you can only get as detailed as the diameter of your laser, which I imagine is pretty big relative to the tiny features on PCBs. A 10 mil diameter sounds pretty good for a home job to me.

    How well does cured resin hold up to copper etchants? I would assume pretty well.

    What benefit does this have over other methods, such as transferring a laser print on glossy paper to a blank PCB? The resin/laser method sounds very similar, but more automated and essentially the same, minus the transfer step.

    Now I want to try this haha.