Oh great, it’s USB3 all over again. Or should I say USB 3.1? Or USB 3.2 Gen 1x1? I know those are real things, but I have no idea what they actually mean.

Either that or the tech has plateaued.

I just don’t think bandwidth is a meaningful bottleneck, or will be in the next decade, even.

The job title should be “Tech Traitor”.

You can also just sync your files. Koreader, by default, stores metadata in the same folder as the epub file. If you sync the directory with something like Syncthing, then you don’t need a server.

If you go into KDE’s settings > Sound section, what devices does it show, and what type of output (like “Digital Stereo” or “Pro Audio”) are they set to?

Once in a blue moon, my audio output will get mysteriously changed to a format that does nothing, or the audio controller will go *poof* and I need to manually re-enable it. It’s rare, and I’ve never been able to pin down the exact cause, but it seems more likely after I’ve been connecting and disconnecting alternative audio devices, like my PS4 game controller (which also reads as an audio device due to its headset port), USB microphone (same deal), or USB headphone amp.

After all these years it’s still a pain point.

We’ll definitely see Rocket Town in Revelation. I’m looking forward to seeing how they adapt Cid’s temper when we finally see him with Shera.

Technically, Rebirth (part 2) ends at the same place in the story as disc 1 of the original. Disc 3 of the original was mostly the same as disc 2, since you could do a lot of side content early or late. They just needed another disc to fit all the FMV scenes.

So the general flow of the remake trilogy is:

Remake: Midgar. In the original, this was the first 5-8 hours for a typical player, and included roughly 1/3 of the whole game’s dialogue, so it’s not as crazy as it sounds at first, even though you can speed through Midgar in like two hours if you rush.

Rebirth: Open world up to the “big event” that ended disc 1.

Revelation: Everything after the “big event”, so discs 2 and 3. (Possibly also adapting some aspects of Advent Children and/or Dirge of Cerberus, but we’ll just have to wait and see.)

There are a couple things that were moved around. For example, we didn’t go to Rocket Town in Rebirth, while that was much earlier in the original. Cid appeared in Rebirth but was not a playable party member, so they’ve reorganized it a bit to focus on Cid’s whole story in Revelation.

The gist is that it’s a trilogy (Remake, Rebirth, Revelation), and there are some spinoffs.

It was officially confirmed as a trilogy about 4 years ago, and unofficially known as a trilogy for a couple years before that. Revelation is the final installment.

Remake and Rebirth are awesome, and you should play them.

They also remade (or “remastered”, whatever) the 2007 PSP spinoff/prequel, Crisis Core, a few years ago for PS5. It’s okay, but not great. Worth playing if you’re really into the series, otherwise skip.

Then there’s a mobile game called Ever Crisis, which sucks like only mobile games can. If you really want to catch up on obscure side stories, just read the wiki. It’s way more fun.

I enjoyed this one, as I’ve enjoyed all the Murderbot stories.

I did feel a bit let down by the dangling thread of the other rogue SecUnit. It showed up, ran off, and then we never saw it again. I guess it was just setting the stage for future stories; the hack is uncontained and any SecUnit could realistically have it in the future.

That’s after you already have a passkey. I don’t think you can create a passkey without a different form of 2FA. At least…you shouldn’t be able to, because that would kind of defeat the purpose.

Not really comparable. Passkeys don’t replace 2FA. You need to bootstrap passkeys with 2FA.

Out of curiosity, when did your doctor tell you this? I ask because standard medical advice changes over time, and if its been a while you might want to ask again.

I’ve had low modestly low blood pressure at times. Never a big deal, but once they turned me away from donating blood because my pressure was a little lower than the standards allow. It was minor enough that my doctor basically said “be sure to stay hydrated and don’t worry about it”.

Could be worse. She could have got a Final Fantasy Cactuar tattoo.

There is also testing, but that is just to place thing in before promoting them to stable so has the same release cadence as stable.

Small point of clarification: Debian Testing is more fluid than Stable. While Stable will not receive any feature updates in its 2-year lifespan (only bug fixes and security patches), Testing does receive feature updates, up to the point where it is “frozen” for the final stages before release as the new Stable. Usually that happens a few months before release.

This is why Debian 13 “Trixie” has some packages that were released toward the end of Debian 12’s lifecycle.

For example, Debian 13 Trixie was released in August 2025, and contains KDE Plasma 6.3, which was released in February 2025. It does not include Plasma 6.4, which was released in June 2025, because that was after the freeze.

So in practice, you can expect Debian stable to have feature releases that are ~0.5-2.5 years behind the latest, and Testing to be 0-6 months behind.

If you haven’t seen, his testimony is hilarious. Clip here: https://youtu.be/0pvJmxe7LdE?t=1217

It doesn’t need to be good to replace jobs, as long as there are no consequences for the people making those decisions.

I’ve lost count of how many “oops, it was AI’s fault, not my fault!” stories I’ve heard, even within highly regulated fields. Like, lawyers submitting documents with completely fake citations, and then…no real consequences. Seems to me like that should be cause for immediate disbarment, but no, apparently not.

I almost started a little rant about Ignaz Semmelweis before I got the joke. :P

Everything bad people said about web apps 20+ years ago has proved true.

It’s like, great, now we have consistent cross-platform software. But it’s all bloated, slow, and only “consistent” with itself (if even). The world raced to the bottom, and here we are. Everything is bound to lowest-common-denominator tech. Everything has all the disadvantages of client-server architecture even when it all runs (or should run) locally.

It is completely fucking insane how long I have to wait for lists to populate with data that could already be in memory.

But at least we’re not stuck with Windows-only admin consoles anymore, so that’s nice.

All the advances in hardware performance have been used to make it faster (more to the point, “cheaper”) to develop software, not faster to run it.

For instance, a leaked 2009 Pepsi marketing presentation with language such as “The Pepsi DNA finds its origin in the dynamic of perimeter oscillations…our proposition is the establishment of a gravitational pull to shift from a transactional experience to an invitational expression …”

uhhh okay this is tough. how about:

Pepsi is known for waves (maybe lmao? i genuinely don’t know what perimeter oscillations is trying to say). We want to make people feel like buying Pepsi isn’t just buying something but is an invitation.

LOL that one’s a mess.

“Perimeter oscillations” sounds to me like a way to describe shifts in consumer opinions and preferences. A really dumb way. But who knows? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of marketing execs?

I get the same feeling from corpo-speak as I get from bad poetry. Like the author runs all their ideas through a few rounds of mutations, out of fear of being seen as simple. The goal is not to be understood, but to make yourself harder to criticize.

What fresh hell is this?