Very nice. Thank you for sharing!

You could always just do a plate that’s customized to the SBC layout, like what you’d get with a PC motherboard.

This was an underlying plot point in Metal Gear Solid 2.

Oh, yes. That’s how I originally saw it.

Lavazza is delicious too. I actually don’t know if the American Costco stores carry Lavazza. I didn’t think my local store does. I see in their website that they may only be available for delivery.

The Kirkland beans really are bad, which is surprising. I like the Don Pablo beans they carry a lot though.

“If it bleeds, I can use its proteins to reproduce!”

Just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

They’re definitely not going to sell their x86-64 business to a competitor who is obviously aiming to move into the desktop PC market with ARM platforms.

I’m going to pistol whip the next person who says shenanigans

Well your loss, my friend! That was a heartwarming anecdote about coworkers coming together to support each other in hard times and how their their microwave enabled that. I don’t know why it was hidden.

There is no rum in space

Those are still from a reputable store. I think the really cheap ones are the Chinese ones that don’t even have a brand name. Slightly above that are the Chinese made ones with a nonsense word for the brand name.

Yeah, but they always leave it a mess

I literally could not figure out how to get my GOG copy of Fallout 3 running on my Steam Deck, nor could I find anyone else online discussing what would make it work. I’m sure if I’d wanted to put in the work that I could have gotten it running. I was feeling lazy though, so I bought a copy on Steam. It works without any configuration.

Valve has taken a Linux PC and given it a handheld console form. I couldn’t be happier with it.

So basically this is where I’ve landed on this after rooting, moding, etc. all of my electronics for the last 30 years: for devices where I want to customize everything, it’s going to be done with a Linux computer to begin with because there’s absolutely nothing standing in my way. For other things that I just need to work reliably and not become yet another chore, I buy some product. So I would buy a thermostat, but build my own NAS (with a 3D printed 7-bay case).

I’m beyond sick - as I think you might be too - of all the extra stuff I have to keep up with whenever I jailbreak/root/whatever a device just so I don’t fuck it up with some careless action or update. I just don’t have the same amount of free time and mental energy to dedicate to this stuff anymore. I wish I did though.

I can relate. I’m getting tired of having to do this kind of thing for all my devices just to make them work. I’m even probably going to switch to iPhone because at this point I just want my phone to work reliably, and my OnePlus 8T never has.