It gets weirder the longer you look at it.

Sure, let’s just say the guy was overzealous with the (silicone caulk? lol) adhesive compound. Maybe the white cord is DC power, replacing the battery… but the red wire that’s right beside the ‘power’ wire is a USB cable plugged into the phone’s USB port.

What is plugged into the other end? It’s Zalgo isn̴̝̂’̶̯̾ṭ̷̆ ̶̫̈i̷̹̚t̴̩̉?̶͊͜

Honestly, if someone is just looking to get started cheap and easy, buying a pi and installing pi hole is a great first project that has immediate positive returns. Adding more services can be easy (if you used containers) and expanding to add more services is cheap.

Then, when you decide to spring for a server box, those Pis can still be useful as home automation devices. For example, they can control a decent amount of programmable LED strip lighting. Attached to a sensor shield, a solar panel and battery it can do atmospheric monitoring outside (while also controlling your driveway lighting) while being easy to integrate into HomeAssistant.

If you need to retire it, you can throw some emulators on it (retropi), load it up with a few thousand ROMs and donate it to a place that buys kids toys for holidays/their birthday.

37? In a row?

It’s not a bug, it’s in production so it’s a feature

Super key for DE keybinds or other global hotkeys. Nothing uses it so you don’t have to worry about collisions.

Cheaters who are serious use DMA cheats or fast AI classification on the video output. An external machine runs the cheat software and takes the input from your mouse. It connects to the PC running the game over USB where it pretends to be a mouse. It can adjust your mouse input on the fly to hit targets based on target solutions generated by the cheating PC. It can even read map and location data and display them on the original screen with some additional hardware.

The whole setup costs about as much as a midrange gaming PC though.

Nothing runs on the machine and it is completely undetectable to local anticheat. They could maybe catch people by VOD watching or by analyzing their mouse movement on the server-side… but local anticheat only catches cheaters on a budget.

My NAS is a steam library, some games will even run off of it perfectly fine. It’s mostly to free up space on my SSDs with games that I’m not actively playing.

Screenshot protection doesn’t protect you from the system seeing your screen. They’re running software with kernel-level access to your system, anything that they want is available to them.

As to what they do with this level of access, I could only speculate.

Private companies put them up on behalf of the police

From here, it sounds like someone trying to make a local user account.

After my 17th time climbing the burning tower in order to fight the master, I just stopped climbing, turned off the video game and was enlightened.

Imagine using an operating system that you don’t have to labor away to escape advertisements and upselling after every update.

The problem isn’t you, the problem is people who consume news by scrolling headlines.

They’ll get rid of shady sourced websites right after they bring that criminal BitTorrent to justice

They did say the word driver, yes.

That is in no way evidence that their current problem is a problem with their gpu driver.

Inside the word install is the implication that they installed and configured lot of things in addition to the driver. Considering that the game launches but fails to play some multimedia file it’s incredibly unlikely to be a low level problem like an incorrect driver. This is typically a missing proprietary codec or library inside of the wine environment.

By default ctrl-b ctrl b is how you access the remote tmux. It can be more comfortable to use a custom bind though.

It’s not too late son, turn away from the dark side. May the terminal be with you

Oh, right now I’m sure that it is way easier to use the mouse, because most people have been practicing using the mouse and a GUI for years and years. Once you’ve had practice with the terminal and autocomplete you can do most tasks fast far quicker.

Staring at this browser, see how long it would take you to grab your mouse, click the file explorer, navigate to /etc/, and then locate and open the fstab file (there are over 100 files and directories in this directory). 10 seconds? 15?

I’m using a terminal called yakuake and it’s bound to F12. So if I press F12, a terminal window slides down in the top middle of my screen. It’s always on top as long as it is visible so nothing can take focus away. To do the same task I press: F12, type “cat /et” <tab key>“fs”<tab key> <enter key>. If I wanted to edit it, I’d type nvim instead of cat. If I wanted to copy it somewhere I’d type cp instead of cat and then press, at the end of the previous command: “./pro”<tab key>.

If it’s a command that I’ve typed before, I can press CTRL+R in the terminal and it will open a search of my terminal command history. I can start typing part of the command and the search results will show me the top 25 commands that (fuzzy) matches what I’ve typed, I can press up and down to select the command I’m after, enter to put it into the command line.

Once you’re in the mindset of thinking about problems from a terminal point of view there are a lot of useful applications. If you’d rather move files in a GUI-like experience (a TUI) you can use nnn, a TUI file manager. Still have to use a mouse to change music? Run mpd and ncmpcpp. nvim gives you a text editor, tmux the ability to open multiple terminal sessions inside of the terminal.

Much like switching to Linux from Windows, it takes a bit of learning initially but that little bit of learning will pay dividends.

Welcome back to terminal land. Pick up basic tmux (attach, detach, change session, open/change panes, scroll/copy/paste), it really helps when you need to type a command and also read the output of another command or config file.

For example, pressing ctrl-b % splits the window into two panes. So you can read the man page for a command and then use ctrl-b and left/right arrow to swap between panes. Now you’re back to 'alt-tab’ing between windows without the need for a mouse.

That’s a surveillance camera, it can be remotely aimed.

It may read license plates too but it’s not the mass produced ALPR that’s used by Flock and co. Likely it is part of the the building’s security system.