As soon as you wiggle the mouse it thinks you have a controller connected and breaks your keyboard bindings. You literally have screens you can't clear because you don't know what button to press.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupport.cdprojektred.c...

It's a known issue and hopefully they'll fix it, but it's unplayable for me until they do.

I live with my wife and 2 kids.

6-9 people I meet once per week sounds like twice as many people as I care to see in a week. I could see a regular RPG or tabletop gaming group, which I would love to do, but that is not about the people, and I also don't have time for it.

All of what you describe seems like a lot of effort. Like skiing. My wife says I'm actually pretty good for a beginning downhill skier, and if I would practice, I would get better. But, why? I don't like skiing. I'd rather go do something interesting.

Disagree. Covid showed me what life can be like when I'm not constantly exhausted from going places and having to interact with people. But now the word will open up and my wife will drag me to places teeming with them and I will have to be polite, make small talk, and so forth, when I'd rather just be at home doing something interesting.

Me too. Posts like this are why, every night I can (and it's rare that I can't), I come home and we eat dinner as a family, and I try to play with the kids between dinner and bedtime. Anything else I need to do, I can do after they go to bed. It can wait, because this is more important.

I guess the only advice I have, having had a father who was never around (not dead, just working long term contracts far from home) is to tell your daughter that you love her, and that you're proud of her, and that you hope she is happy, doing whatever she chooses.

I think that is the only thing that you can really count on being relevant to her life as she gets older.

As a software engineer, I've met too many other software engineers to trust software with something that is largely optional. If they screw up my eyes, I go blind and can't make a living. The alternative is that I wear glasses, which I don't view as tremendously inconvenient. Given inconvenience vs. catastrophic failure cases, I'd rather deal with the inconvenience.

Similarly, I don't like ABS or traction control on cars.

I took a slightly different approach.

I quit and went to work for a company doing embedded Linux devices (which I like much more than PHP web development) and making $20k more.

I once got called to HR because I made a coworker cry.

My offense?

I asked her to do her job (which was as an analyst) a provide me with the formulae and rating tables necessary for me to program the insurance rate calculations which I was attempting to code.

She said that was too technical and complex and that I should call the insurance company directly.

I said no, and that she should do her job.

That's a good start.

I approach it from the other end - I teach people (including women) how to shoot and refer them to concealed carry licensing courses.

Of course, now someone will insult me for carrying a gun. Compensating for having a small penis is the one I get most often.

Sorry, I wasn't clear - the logic 4 DOES add the analog functionality and thus qualifies as an o-scope. It is out of his price range, but he might inquire as to bulk or student discounts. They might knock some $$ off that $100...

We've been using the Saleae Logic 16 - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.saleae.com%2Flogic16 at work.It goes from 2 channels at 100MHz up to 16 channels at 12.5MHz. We use them for debugging all the low speed stuff (serial ports, I2C, SD, etc.) - basically everything but the CPU memory interface.

Their upcoming "pro" version adds analog sampling, but it is not yet out.

I'm still trying to get the ESN/MEID out of it.

No, it's not on the sticker under the battery.

No, it's not in the phone status.

Yes, I whacked build 7 times and turned on developer stuff.

Yes, I did ##DMMODE# to turn that on, but I'm not really certain what-all that does.

So, yeah, slightly stuck. :-)

I realize that people are trying to make money off this arcane knowledge, but it bothers me that the information is so scattered, proprietary and hidden.

I figure I'll fire up ADB and see if I can pull that info from the phone. I mean, it must know, right?

If you feel like dropping me a line with suggestions, feel free. matt@mattcaron.net. I'd appreciate any suggestions you may have.

Yeah, something I'm rapidly discovering. I bought a used Samsung Galaxy S3 and am having a hell of a time getting it to work.

I suppose I could find someone to remote flash it for me, but that seems like cheating.

PagePlus uses Verizon's network on a pay-as-you-go model. If your usage is low, you may save a considerable amount.

My family doesn't buy beef because the half dozen or so deer we kill per year more than meets our needs.

And MacGyver was a hippie who needed a haircut and a firearm. (Waaaah, I don't like guns!!) Hippie.