Thanks! I’ll see if I can find a windows machine and give it a try. I can’t pass it through to the windows VM I keep around, since it doesn’t show up as a USB device at all.

The bluetooth connection definitly works:

$ bluetoothctl info F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A
Device F4:6A:D7:9A:42:3A (public)
	Name: Xbox Wireless Controller
	Alias: Xbox Wireless Controller
	Appearance: 0x03c4 (964)
	Icon: input-gaming
	Paired: yes
	Bonded: yes
	Trusted: yes
	Blocked: no
	Connected: yes
	LegacyPairing: no
	UUID: Vendor specific           (00000001-5f60-4c4f-9c83-a7953298d40d)
	UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Device Information        (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Battery Service           (0000180f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Human Interface Device    (00001812-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	Modalias: usb:v045Ep0B13d0501
	Battery Percentage: 0x64 (100)

I don’t have another device to plug the USB port into, but it can at least get power from it.

Exact same story here. I had lost evenings before I got mine, now I can enjoy a couple hours to myself after the kids are down.

Huh. Thief 1&2, System Shock 1&2 and Deus Ex make up half of my top 10 games list. But multiplayer? I donno, maybe if there is also a good single player campaign I’ll be interested. I’d be happy with a modern Thief 1&2 remaster. NewDark and TheDarkMod are great, but I’d love to have full raytracing in Thief.

I once worked for a small company that was based around using a patented variation on this. It works really well and creep can be basically eliminated by using multiple counter-tensioned steel cables instead of rope and running a burn in process to let the tension settle evenly. You can even get an arbitrary number of rotations by extending the capstan.

I think the main reason it isn’t used more is that assembly is more difficult due to needing to deal with winding the cables and a general lack of knowledge on how to do it well.

Tracker or cdparanoia. IIRC cdparanoia was more reliable.

Vapor locking is an interplay between a mechanical vacuum based fuel pump and carburetors that causes the engine to get starved of gas and stall out. It’s made worse at high altitude and particularly when ascending rapidly like driving up a high altitude pass such as Wolf Creek. If you’ve even needed to pop your ears several times while driving you’ve been in a situation where it could have happened.

Back in the day, the fix when it happened was to stop the engine and wait for air pressure to equalize through the system, which generally took about 30 minutes. Of course, this was on the side of a narrow twisty mountain road and people would sometimes get impatient or not know what was going on and flood their engine in a panic.

It’s pretty rare now due to electric fuels pumps and fuel injection.

Cars that would vapor lock when driving in the mountains.

The first one that comes to mind is Jimmy Hoffa, but they never found the body. He was almost certainly killed by the Mafia, but no specific person was ever prosecuted for it.

It’s mostly covers of pop songs from the last 50-60 years in a bunch of different styles. The stand outs for me are Fortunate Son, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

I’d love to see a System Shock remake type project for them. It’s not as necessary due to NewDark but would still be nice.

But the soundtrack is 🤌

Then add Thief 1&2 to the list so that you really get where those two came from. They both still hold up surprisingly well due to fan support.

I really, really want to like KCD, but after a bad experience early on I’ve never been able to get back into it. There is a mission fairly early on where you need to sneak from one end of a large map to the other. There was a lot to do and explore on it, so it probably took me 60-90 minutes. Then right at the end I got jumped by 4-5 soldiers and died. And because of KCDs aggressivly-anti save system, I would have had to repeat the entire thing. I get that KCD is supposed to be super hard core, but I’m a busy dad of two small kids. Finding an uninterrupted pocket of 90 minutes to enjoy a game is a rare luxury, so having it ended like that completely soured the game for me.

More games need a “busy parent” easy mode.

Ooh! Time to give it another look.

It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.

Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.

To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.

Looking back… that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn’t come in.

I’ve left two jobs because they were toxic. I always had something else lined up beforehand though.

I remember having a few of these for WordPerfect, MS Word for DOS and Lotus 1-2-3.