captainsiscold

captainsiscold , 3 months ago

Alaska's healthcare system kinda works like that, but only for Alaska Natives.

captainsiscold , 3 months ago

Specifically Native American Alaskans (i.e. those with a tribal ID)

captainsiscold , 4 months ago

I recently switched from my ISP's combo device to a GL-inet Flint 2 (https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt6000/); no complaints with it thus far, and I've enjoyed some of the quality of life features it's got built into it.

captainsiscold , 4 months ago

I'm admittedly not much of a networking expert, but you might be able to improve your existing network by running Ethernet backhaul for your mesh network (assuming your access points support it).

Regarding whether you would benefit from a router like that: I've only got a 25Mbps connection, so my main use case for it is using ZeroTier to access various services on my local network, more advanced firewall controls, and the dual 2.5G Ethernet ports for connection between my main PC and home server.

captainsiscold , 4 months ago

Fedora Server, with most of the services I need running via Docker.

captainsiscold , 4 months ago

Just got a Pixel 8 (256 GB) for $510 a few weeks ago. I'm good with that, thanks.

captainsiscold , 4 months ago

Unlocked, brand new direct from the Google Store. They emailed me a coupon code for being on the Google Assistant mailing list that gave me an extra $150 off, and it stacked with a $100 discount they were already running (so $250 off total). I'm a self-admitted headphone jack enthusiast, but the price was just too good to pass up.

captainsiscold , 5 months ago

I have to say, I was really impressed by how well the Pixel 7a did. At $400 now, that's a great (somewhat) cheap option for folks, though I do wish its battery life was a bit better...

I've got a Pixel 8 non-Pro on the way, so I'm excited to see how it performs compared to my old Galaxy S9 :P

captainsiscold , 6 months ago

Welcome to the club!

The only game I can’t play is rocket league.

Have you tried it on Heroic Games Launcher yet? I play RL from time to time with a buddy, and both of us have gotten it to work without any notable issues via Heroic.

captainsiscold , 6 months ago

I'd love to see those features in phones today; all of those are basically dead in the US market (Xperia 1 V gets two out of three, Zenfone 10 at least gets the 3.5mm jack...might be some cheap Motorola something that still has a jack, as well?).

Me personally, I could even live with just the 3.5mm jack. The whole argument of "it's for waterproofing/making the phone thinner/insert BS excuse here" falls flat when my Galaxy S9 has a 3.5mm jack and the same IP68 rating as the Pixel 8, yet manages to be thinner.

captainsiscold , 6 months ago

At this point, I'd honestly be fine with that too. Unfortunately it looks like one of the only ones around that has two USB-C ports is the Asus ROG Phone 7 & 7 Ultimate, which both already have a headphone jack too, lol.

captainsiscold , 6 months ago

CS2 official Twitter says the bans were mistakes and are rolling them back: https://twitter.com/counterstrike/status/1732111185804394746?t=r9hlLfaMl05qwiwTlsgyyA

captainsiscold , 7 months ago

Have you ever found a way to make reminders in Tasks through Google Assistant actually work? When they switched from the Assistant reminders to Tasks, they became so unreliable at showing at the specified time (i.e. "remind me to do ___ at 3pm") that I can't use them anymore.

captainsiscold , 7 months ago

Yeah, that seems to be a common theme. Creating timers from Assistant still works fine, but anything with Assistant that has to go through Tasks is basically broken :(

captainsiscold , 7 months ago

You might be on to something there; I'll have to give that a look!

captainsiscold , 7 months ago

First Android phone was a Motorola Moto G4. Solid phone, great budget buy at the time. Replaced it with a refurbished Galaxy S9 in 202, which is actually still serving me to this day. My S9 is showing its age now, but I'm refusing to buy a phone that does not have a headphone jack, so I'm going to run it into the ground.

First Android device was actually a Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet (16GB storage, 1GB of RAM). Ended up running Jellybean, and finally KitKat, off of a microSD card to keep it going. Actually still have it, but flashed to Android 7. Gapps doesn't install, but I'm impressed it was able to run as well as it did.

captainsiscold , 8 months ago

Pixels don't support display out over USB-C? Well, that's dumb. Surprised I've never heard about that being a missing feature before.

captainsiscold , 8 months ago

Bit late to the party, but so far the game seems to be working fine on my Manjaro install (running Wayland+Pipewire, RX 6800 XT).

captainsiscold , 8 months ago

Yes, in further testing I've seen purple artifacting around smokes, and sometimes around molotovs. It seems to be worst with the smokes, though.

captainsiscold , 9 months ago

Sweet, just got my invite! Curious to see if this means they've also expanded the limited test to include Linux, since my main desktop is running Manjaro.

captainsiscold , 9 months ago

Your friendly reminder to promote and encourage development of walkable and bikeable cities/towns, and to promote good public transit!

Some resources that may be of interest:

• PeopleForBikes
• Strong Towns
• NotJustBikes

captainsiscold , 9 months ago

My thoughts on it: cool, now give it a headphone jack again and I might buy it.

I'm not buying a phone that requires $100 wireless earbud DLC (which honestly feel like just another thing to become e-waste in a few years when the battery gives out).

captainsiscold , 9 months ago

Galaxy S9, and most likely a Sony Xperia 5 IV (or 5 V, since that's supposed to release in a few days). Honestly I'm using the S9 until it completely gives out on me.

captainsiscold , 9 months ago

Fair enough, adapters do exist, but as you point out, there are situations where that is not ideal. On a long flight, for example, where I might want to charge my phone and also listen to something, or (in my case) someone who does some amateur audio engineering work on the side, where having the ability to simply wire in a device to play some audio is a big plus. My biggest problem is that phones from five years ago could do both wireless and wired headphones just fine, no adapters needed. What have we gained as consumers by the loss of one of those options?

captainsiscold , 10 months ago

Hmm...not sure how I feel about the change, but then again, it doesn't really matter since I don't have beta access anyway :P

captainsiscold , 10 months ago

I suppose it comes down to the definition of "cheat"; as I recall, the consensus was that it was an unfair advantage because it made use of a one-way texture that allowed the CT's to see the T's, but not vice versa (let me know if I'm wrong on this, it's been a while). Granted, it's using stuff within the game, but is kind of not in keeping with the spirit of a pro match.

captainsiscold OP , 10 months ago

Late to the party, but I thought I'd update with some more info for anyone stumbling across this in the future. @MrHandyMan was at least partially correct in the assessment of the issue. In that thread, the launch option LD_PRELOAD="" %command% is recommended to alleviate the problem. In my experience, this was not particularly helpful, and actually prevented the game from launching sometimes.

However, based on discussion on the Github issue thread, it seems that the issue was (either wholly or in part) caused by me having the Steam overlay disabled for CS, which I had done in order to fix an unrelated crash that seems to have been fixed. Enabling the Steam overlay fixed the problem, and my game seems to be running as intended now.

captainsiscold OP , 10 months ago

I discovered the same thing; fortunately the game crash that was caused by having the overlay enabled seems to have been fixed, so enabling the Steam overlay seems to be the best recommendation to make now. Thanks for the suggestion!

captainsiscold , 10 months ago

Very important message; this gambling stuff is a cancer on the game, and it negatively affects all of us.

captainsiscold , 10 months ago

Still on my Galaxy S9 for now, but I'll be watching for the release of this one. I flatly refuse to buy any phone that does not have a 3.5mm jack, and so far it seems Sony and Asus are the only two players left in that space.

captainsiscold , 11 months ago

Dang it, I got especially excited because I thought FaceIt was finally going to support anti cheat/their client on Linux for CSGO, too. Glad to see that BBR is getting some love, but c'mon, FaceIt...

captainsiscold , 11 months ago

For some perspective:

• Funding given by BofA to the groups listed in the source: $390,000
• Funding given by BofA to fossil fuel companies: $232,000,000,000

(Granted, this is not a perfect apples-to-apples comparison, as the fossil fuel numbers are for 2016-2021, not 2017-2020, but regardless...)

captainsiscold , 11 months ago

CSGO and Northgard both have native clients; I think Northgard's native client has an issue where you can't use the Steam overlay in-game, but I believe that's some sort of OpenGL glitch. Otherwise they're both pretty flawless.