I’ve only realized just how unnecessarily locked down consoles are after i installed custom firmware on my 3ds. It feels like a basic feature to be able to export and backup your savegames but somehow that’s not allowed with stock firmware?!

For somebody wanting to get started with making digital music is it best to stick to flstudio or Ableton or are there beginner friendly yet fully featured DAWs for linux?

I personally loved the look of the HP 35s. Also the 35s had the ability to store algebraic formulas which neither the Casio fx-991CW nor the TI 30/36X Pro can. If HP could make an actually really good 35s successor that would be great. With fewer bugs and a handful of more features and maybe even with an optional multi line textbook style display? If it had a big dot matrix display you could have a large stack for RPN in addition to a textbook style mode with persistent history. The 35s is rather power hungry so it that continues to be a problem for HP calcs then why not have a USB-C rechargeable battery in it? And if it already has a USB port then it would be cool if one could export and import programs and formulas! I can always dream…

Well i personally was more thinking non-graphing calculators. I personally feel once i want graphs and complex programs I’m better off using a laptop. I feel like when comparing the HP prime smartphone app and the real HP prime, then there is something to having physical buttons that does help.

Shuckle! It has the best defense and special defense. I didn’t look at the other stats but I’m sure they’re good too.

Yes being Hot-Swap was very important to me. All the ducky one 3’s are hot-swappable right? I have some older mechanical keyboards but they are not hot swap. For example i have one with red switches and It’s really not bad at all but I just don’t use it because i don’t love the switches. If it was hot-swap i could just try out some new switches on it instead of buying a new board.

Thanks for your advice! I always like to double check that I’m not buying a brand that is generally regarded as poor quality or something.

I’ve re-read the first Harry Potter. It’s been so long since I last read it. I felt that it really wasn’t poorly written. Sure it’s a children’s book but i looked reading it. And I’ve started reading flatland

I guess it’s just a couple people i know IRL that keep insisting that Harry Potter is poorly written. Maybe they’re just upset at the little world building inconsistencies with the Time-Turner and what not, and are not thinking about the language side of things.

No telegram is definitely worse. Their cryptography is amateurish at best and wrong on purpose at worst. Attacks again telegram are regularly found (https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/506353) and telegram chats aren’t even end-to-end encrypted by default.

They are ignoring a lot of cryptographic best practices in their protocol to the degree where anyone taking a basic cryptography class will laught at it. The paper above shows that some cryptographic properties can be proven for telegram but those look more accidental than actually planed.

So yeah I’d say telegram is way more sketchy. The signal protocol is significantly better. Telegram’s still probably better than WhatsApp tho.

thanks your thorough response! I’ll have a look!