That’s the beauty of cooperative storytelling.

And the ability to rapidly pivot and discard all the preparation you did is THE most important skill for a good DM.

I wish they filmed Andor before Rogue One.

A while ago I watched Andor, Rogue One and Episode 4 chronologically. It felt like a step backwards with every switch.

Episode 4 is quite good, but it’s really old and kinda primitive by modern standards.

Rogue One is the best star wars movie so far, and it’s just really well done.

Andor is just pure amazing! They took the comparatively long time they had and really developed the characters, the world and the story.

Watching these three in that order is really good. But watching them in chronological order really lessens the experience.

I wonder how great Rogue One would have been if it had all the worldbuilding and character development of Andor behind it.

That is what every dog owner should be forced to do who doesn’t clean up their dog’s shit.

Well said, this is it.

Sometimes the cure is worse than the poison.

Can you store “The Birds” on the birds?

In a dictatorship.

We did the same thing, going so far as to “build” a simple imaginary CPU. It was interesting but ultimately dead knowledge.

I built an emulator for that CPU, which the university course took over and used for a few years for the course. But after that I never did anything with logic gates or anything like that.

I got into DIY electronics lateron as a hobby, but even then I never used logic gates and instead just slapped a cheap microcontroller on to handle all my logic needs.

I do use transistors sometimes e.g. for amplification, but we didn’t learn anything about that in university.

In the end it feels like learning how to theoretically mine sand when studying to become an architect. Interesting, but also ultimately pointless.

I see there’s a fellow German speaker ;)

I do agree though!

Aliexpress. Spares are €3-6. Quality differs, so it’s a bit luck of the draw if you get a good one. But for that price I could just order a handful different ones and pick the best.

I printed a cut-off case that doesn’t cover the keyboard attachment part. I just took a random case 3D file for my phone from yeggi.com and cut the bottom part off in the slicer.

On an old phone I used before I printed the attachment big enough to wrap around the case I was using.

I hope you didn’t throw out the priv and key. In working order they are ~€150 each on ebay.

Not any more waste of time than reading 90% of other tech news (or any news in general). It’s basically entertainment, not education.

So if I wasted some time reading a interesting article about some prototype technology, I haven’t wasted any more or less time than reading some news article about some other topic that doesn’t affect me.

I’m not holding my breath that this specific technology will beat Li-Ion in a year and I will not use the article as investment advice, but there’s nothing wrong with using it for free entertainment.

Well, computer science is not the science of computers, is it? It’s about using computers (in the sense of programming them), not about making computers. Making computers is electrical engineering.

We all know how great we IT people are at naming things ;)

Yeah, I developed that, and I’m daily-driving it since 2021. Wouldn’t want to go without one.

JLCPCB is really nice.

The phone does get long, but I got used to it quite quickly.

If you write them yourself. Then you actually need a bit of math.

But claiming that you need math skills as a programmer because some kinds of programs need you to know maths is like claiming every programmer needs to know a lot about logistics because some people write software for warehouses.

Tbh, as a dev knowledge of transistors is about as essential as knowledge about screws for a car driver.

It’s common knowledge and in general maybe a little shameful to not know, but it’s really not in any way relevant for the task at hand.

Because only the annoying parts get put into oligarch-controlled media.

LiFePo4 was first brought up in lab experiments in 1996/1997.

NaIon first came up in the 80s, but were shelved and most research happened in the 2010s.

But as you rightfully noticed: It took Li-Ion Batteries 20 years to become usable and another 20 years to become really good. Why would you expect that other battery technologies would be faster to market? Many other chemistries are on the market but just haven’t (yet) become better than Li-Ion.

Battery development is a huge amount of trial and error, and Li-Ion was also a series of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. On the way to develop Li-Ion hundreds if not thousands of chemistries had to be tried, tested and discarded. That specific technology went through multiple companies and research facilities who each discarded the idea when they got stuck and coundn’t find a way around the problems, and then the next company picked it up to continue working on it.

https://github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

Also, with the coming merger of ChromeOS and Android, there will suddenly be tons of Android users with keyboards.

But… battery tech did revolutionize everything in the last 20 years.

Minecraft: Super chill sandbox building game, but when you are lost 150 blocks deep in the mines, just found your first diamonds in the dark after you ran out of torches and you hear that hissing sound just behind you…

So basically what the climate protesters are doing.