It’s pretty easy to scan and emulate NFC keycards and such on the flipper. I’m guessing that’s what they did. I’ve been meaning to try it out with mine.

Me too thanks. I can read my cat’s microchip now, which is cool, I guess.

That is entirely Elon’s fault. He refuses to use anything but cameras. There was a time not too long ago when lidar also had trouble in rain but modern lidar does not.

I was just in SF and while I was waiting for my friend to arrive I watched maybe close to a dozen Waymos come up, drop their people off, and leave. I was very impressed, this was dense traffic downtown and every one of them handled it very gracefully.

And we’ll never hear anything about it ever again.

Did she really do that? I’m flabbergasted she brought a pamphlet for her upcoming tour and a little flower to hold in front of the camera. This is the first and possibly last time you’re going to space, Katy. How vain do you have to be to be holding things in front of a camera? I would be glued to the windows and savoring the sensation of weightlessness.

That’s pretty far out of my wheelhouse unfortunately lol

Same. I have a C3 and it’s awesome. It has this feature where when you turn it off it has this nice subtle clock screensaver thing but it always shows the wrong time due to not having an internet connection.

If you try the ammo can idea make sure you poke a hole in it otherwise you run the risk of it becoming a bit of a pressure vessel.

Absolutely. I’ve only done it once or twice, just long enough to get the one low cell voltage high enough to switch back to lipo mode. Also, all the lipo charging I do is inside of a steel ammo can. My drone buddy teases me about it but I don’t care, big and/or lipo batteries are fucking scary.

Aw

There’s a trick I learned for drone lipo batteries where if you have low cell voltage, you can set your charger up to charge a different battery chemistry, I think NiMH but don’t quote me on that, charge it for a little bit and then switch it back to lipo mode. No idea if it would work here.

A few?

Ubuntu 24.04, as far as I know I have all the right Proton stuff installed and the latest Nvidia drivers.

Huh. I’m on Ubuntu 24.04 with a 2080 Ti 🤔

I spent a couple hours trying to get Baldur’s Gate 3 running on Linux. It was rough but I got it to run at 1440 but the latency made it sort of unplayable. It runs great in Windows 10 at 4k with the default settings. I have some other windows-only software so I guess I’m going to “upgrade” all my computers that are able to do so but I don’t feel good about it. All my computers dual boot windows/linux, I would love to be linux-only.

Edit: lots of people are saying theirs runs smoothly, I’m going to have to do further testing. Thanks for the input!

Technically, maybe. Pretty limited applications, I think, but very cool.

Yeah, so calling this a robot would be incorrect.

The title is misleading. Calling it a robot is being very generous. It’s basically a propeller with magnets attached such that, if you stick it inside an externally generated magnetic field, it can fly. It’s completely passive and does not have any onboard sensors.

I have ~10k hours in counterstrike

Damn. There’s 8760 hours in a year btw. That’s impressive.