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It's really useful for having a decent screen up in front of me when I'm a passenger trying to do something on the laptop. Saves staring down at my lap, and removes any motion on my screen from the peripheral view of the driver.

Still somewhat odd when a bus drives out from behind your Terminal mind.

> Sometimes I wonder, may be we could remake twitter with Rails again to see how well it goes.

Mastodon is written in Ruby on Rails (:

Took me ages to connect the fact the phone was flipping around at hyper-speed on the webpage because I had the cursor over it whilst scrolling down. Had to move to the right side of the page to then scroll down.

Extremely well, even supports passing arguments (`--HEAD`) through and integrates with services for casks too, so it can restart things like postgresql when homebrew updates it.

Having nix-darwin uninstall brews not declared in the flake makes me stay honest about keeping my configuration up to date as well, if I've just `brew install x` to try something it'll get removed next time I apply my config. Needs adding to the flake to keep it installed persistently, which in turn means my config tends to be up to date.

Some cron implementations do, it's not portable.

I think the MG4 has a brake by wire system, although those are supposed to have a failsafe built in but if it's not electro-hydraulic there might not be a mechanical link between the pedal and the callipers. Handbrake will be electric too, so activation depends on enough of the car brain functioning.

Keyless ignition usually has an override for a running car too, in a ford pushing the button three times within a few seconds turns the combustion engine off. Wonder if that's the same in electric cars, otherwise the only way I can think to kill it is isolate the batteries, same as emergency services would do in an accident.

"no longer" suggests it was, but now isn't, which appears to match reality?

They likely have work issued mobile phones, I know my local force does that.

Edit: reading the judgement shows the phones were issued by the force:

> While it is acknowledged that the App was downloaded onto officially provided encrypted mobile devices, evidence was provided during the investigation to indicate that copies of call recordings had been manually transferred onto removable media

There's also issuance via DNS which took most of the complexity out of it for me. (Especially as the first time I went to deploy LetsEncrypt I had something like four web servers behind a LoadBalancer without the LB terminating TLS.)

I think the tooling has improved somewhat since too, although I didn't look too closely.

The old world still works in those situations, but we have a better experience when the new world hasn’t experienced a fundamental failure.

Seems like a reasonable trade off to me.

I've got a lego stand built from a few bricks holding an iPhone 7 in landscape above my screen. The lens is maybe 18mm above the top of the display pixels.