100% agree - that all falls into my “con artists using religion” bucket - I know it’s a stretch.

You are dangerously close to the “both sides are the same” rhetoric.

I can understand how it could be seen that way - it was not intended. It is very clearly a genocide. But, I don’t think you can deny that there are religious zealots on both sides that would resists the proposed “simple” solution.

I totally agree in theory, but unfortunately there are too many religious zealots on both sides that won’t accept this. As I age, the thing that frustrates me most is realising there seems to be something fundamental built into human nature that makes a huge number of us susceptible to manipulation by con artists that use organised religion for their own purposes. (Just in case it’s not clear - I’m an atheist and view all organised religion as a con)

I understand your sentiment, but it’s a really difficult situation. I don’t pretend to understand the history but I think I understand that there are a lot of people that believe the very existence of Israel to be illegitimate (and with my limited understanding I tend to agree) but we now have generations of totally innocent people, that despise their government, living there. I don’t have a solution, but I can’t accept that these innocent people have no right to self defence just because they have not yet had the strength to overthrow their government.

I’ll disagree. The Israeli leadership is doing horrible things and the only way for those of us not in Israel to attempt to stop them is to boycott all of Israel - we have no way of picking and choosing products/services from Israel that will help/hurt the regime. Moves like this by NVIDIA are seen as subverting the boycott in a very significant way and draw out the negative responses you see here. The only people that can legitimately change the Israeli leadership are the Israeli people and they are going to face negative opinions from outside until they do. I understand very well that I’m extremely lucky that I live in a country that has not been taken over by fascists and I do what I can to keep it that way.

I can’t remember the timeline - whichever came first should have been the last.

Grab em by the pussy should have been the last straw!

I don’t use this laptop for much else, so heavy isn’t an issue - I might end up trying winboat.

Thank you for your detailed response. I had previously found a page with instructions for running electron apps and tried the “WINEDLLOVERRIDES=“libglesv2.dll=d” wine /path/to/your/app.exe --disable-gpu --no-sandbox”. Unfortunately, it does not help. Strangely, it still gives the “Failed to grant sandbox access…” error, and the others but then goes into a loop of lots of “Exiting GPU process due to errors during initialization” - so at least we know it is parsing the additional options.

I got a bit excited when you pointed out the web version. Unfortunately, all the web version has is links to download the apps for various platforms.

I’m just running Wine from the command line for now. As this is the only Windows app I need I don’t see why I need an extra app, like bottles, to manage the configuration.

As FireQ is an electron app, am I right in understanding that it should be close to trivial for them to ship a Linux version if they already have Windows and MacOS? They seem fairly willing to help - maybe I’ll offer to test a Linux build for them.

Does not need a VPN or similar. I believe the “connect failed” messages are a symptom. I think the real problem is the “Failed to grant sandbox access to network…” or “ERROR:network_service_instance_impl.cc(265)] Encountered error while migrating network…” above.

I had no idea where Aya was so I looked it up. It’s about as far west as he could possibly get and still be in “Russia”. It’s probably a lovely spot on the black sea, but I’m sure there are nice places that are safer. It’s like he’s deliberately looking for ways to be aggressive and project power.

And I was sitting here being amazed at how marks that look so random and messy when zoomed in make such a beautiful and realistic image when viewed from a reasonable distance.

Nah, the left is going to get a real thought leader any day now

I understand that - that’s why I mentioned terminal sessions into my home assistant instance and the file editor add-on. But when developing a home assistant component the only way to run it is in a home assistant instance. VS Code with devcontainers provides a development home assistant instance for this purpose. If I’m just editing the files in my production instance then I need to keep.restarting it to load new versions etc. Maybe I’ll just install another instance for development.

Yeah, I’m just learning that now. Devcontainers is great because it runs a full instance of Home Assistant for debugging and test. There is DevPod Containers that might do the same thing, but I don’t use DevPod so it’s also a bit overwhelming (using that word a lot today…) to get going and I’m not sure if it’s compatible with the devcontaiers configuration in the Home Assistant dev tree.

Codium sounds perfect - thanks. It’s still going to be a bit overwhelming - but that’s another learning experience.

Thank you. I made a comment about it being a shame that we don’t capture the waste heat from some process a while back and someone quipped something like “2nd law of thermodynamics moment”. I went and did some reading, but couldn’t make sense of it. Your explanation makes sense.

You can’t always trust the KPatience solver for some games. I have not worked out yet which games it’s broken for but I routinely win Simple Simon games that it says can’t be won. There others, but I can’t remember which.

I also have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the solver hinting - I’d like hints to only point out moves that I’ve missed based on the cards on the table. The hints often seem to be positioning the cards for future moves.

I’d had good luck running similar length copper outside, between buildings, in the past. I had regular blue indoor cat5 just under the surface, tacked to the bottom of fences etc for 7 years and never had a problem with it. Dropping a roll of pre terminated cable built for direct burial in the trench seemed like a no brainer.

With the benefit of hindsight - having that 4’ deep trench open was a once in a lifetime opportunity that I should have better taken advantage of.

I think I’ve figured it out, but have not fixed it.

I’m fairly sure it’s a ground loop type issue. It comes and goes. It ran at 1Gbps for a few weeks at one point and I thought it was resolved, but it’s now back to 100Mbps.

I have a few options - I have a pair of Ubiquiti airmax gigabeams that I can put back into service, I can dig a shallow trench and bury some fibre (it only recently occurred to me that fibre is not electricity so doesn’t need to be down 2’) or I can dig a shallow trench and bond the ground between the two buildings.

The gigabeams are obviously the easiest, the fibre is the best (and what I should have done in the first place) and bonding the grounds would only really be out of curiosity to see if it actually works.

And with your advice I have another option - double check the contacts for cleanliness and possible corrosion.