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I've participated in (and now have been a ref for) a robotics competition, First Lego League, a couple of times. The robots can have a height of up to 30.5cm (12"), and that's usually quickly checked before each round.

Since there's pretty much always some A4 paper lying around near you, probably a copy of the rules, in most situations we just hold up a sheet (rolled up if you're feeling fancy) next to the robot. Much quicker than finding the ruler that's probably in use (or misplaced) somewhere else :D

The problem is that apparently, often enough that is just not the case.

On laptops, the LED is not powered with the camera, but controlled by it. And on smartphones, if it's a green dot on the display it can obviously be bypassed in different ways given the right vulnerabilities.

Also, aside from that, your condescending attitude is frustrating.

What are Jack and Jill parties? (DDG only gives me generic listicles for how to plan a wedding shower.)

You have to enable a setting to see apps marked with that anti-feature when searching

As described in the README, the combination of root access and locking the bootloader has the caveat that it's easy to brick your boot partition by accidentally making changes to it. That causes the signature check to fail, and then you have to unlock the bootloader and wipe all your data to re-flash it.

I don't know if there's any good solution to this, since all this seems to be necessary for the security model.

EDIT: Wait, isn't this what A/B partitions are for? (ie, you can brick one partition and still boot from the other) Also, shouldn't it be possible to flash an image signed with the correct keys without unlocking the bootloader and wiping the user data?

You would spend some time outdoors being active, which is good for you but also entirely possible without killing animals. I'd argue that's the same for meat.

> DP has a HDMI compatibility mode that allows a DP output to output a HDMI signal, but at the wrong voltage. The external adapters are just level shifters to bring the signal voltages into compliance with HDMI, but their entirety passive devices.

That's DP++, which is not supported on all DP outputs, and notably is not supported by the USB-C DP AltMode.

I sometimes think about trying keyboard things like this, but I'm pretty much always on the go with my laptop. My desk at home can be described as just the horizontal surface that happens to be near where I sleep and sometimes do other stuff, not my primary place of doing computer activities.

Is there some kind of very portable ergonomic/alternative typing device? Maybe something designed for steno or whatever. It would be cool if I could just hold it in my hands, since often that'd be more comfortable than the surface my laptop is on.

Depends on your definition of sale, but influencing elections comes to mind.

AI scrapers aren't a subset of the users/readers/audience of a website, they are parasites to society that harm their prey by causing huge costs.

I suppose they're going for a trade-off between "cheaper" and "satisfying" (as in, the satiafaction of sticking it to unethical shitty companies)

TFA = The Friendly Article (or with the other word that begins with f)

It's used as a shorthand for "the article we're talking about"

Probably depends on the city, but where I'm from it's difficult (but probably not completely impossible) to get a Döner for 5€ :(