I love all the ideas you have! Explaining how computers work, on a basic technical level, is something everyone should know nowadays.

I would suggest to focus the programming on something small, fun and instantly rewarding. Something like Snake in Pygame is not overly complex and you can take it step by step, so that every student will have something to show at the end, with varying levels of complexity. I would advise against using templates for projects, a lot of courses do but in my opinion it makes it harder for the student to replicate the work on its own later on.

In terms of networking, setting up a small test network with a WEP access point, a WPS access point and a WPA2 access point and letting the students (in groups, probably) try to figure out how to access/crack the passwords for them. (WEP and WPS should be easy, but WPA2 would require the deauthing exploit, which is a tad more complex).

Also the idea of cheap usb drives, which they can put on a live distro (or make it come with one) is a great way to start the lesson. This way they can have a setup that’s detached from the usual limitations school pc’s give. (if that’s still a thing).

Do make sure to teach them the ethics around hacking, cracking and downloading. From what I remember, Germany used to be decently lax on all three, but started to crack down on it in the past 10 years. Teaching responsibility and what the consequences are is very important.

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When a new game is released I usually check if it’s steam deck compatible, if it isn’t for no specific reason (like, a 2d platformer, I’m not going to expect a high fidelity 3d game to work) I’m way less inclined to buy it. The market is there and really should be picked up.

I’ve used it, it’s pretty rough and unfinished, the current main branch doesn’t build without help and you’ll need ollama or openai keys.

The results however are impressive, even with a small model like phi3 mini through ollama. They got some good prompts behind it and the results name the sources + have some good followup questions.

There truly are toml

I don’t directly have a game recommendation, but make sure to launch the games once before your flight to get the dependencies installed too :) I forgot that last flight and couldn’t play half of the games I planned to because of it…

That’s way too far-fetched!

tbh, a lot of big players (Microsoft, Facebook, Google) host a lot of AI stuff on huggingface and quite likely have to pay for that.

Also they had a few successful funding rounds, last one led by Salesforce.

Also Amazon is invested in them, probably offering a lot to them for free or discounted.

something like this? https://github.com/exelix11/SysDVR

Full 32 bit on 64 bit Unix support is a big thing in my opinion, even though most people won’t notice it (as an “extra” this also will allow running 32bit games on osx games and proper wine support on arm64 devices like your phone).

Also the additions to directshow will get more (older) games working properly.

From what I read this was some great work in the foundation of wine and hopefully accelerate their work even more.

Up, since I fill the dishwasher 😅. I have been trying to convince her to get a top tray dishwasher, but for now I’ve not won the battle. Personally I prefer the convenience of not accedentially having a utensil outside the basket and messing with the rotor.

This was one of the earliest discussions I had when I moved in with my partner. She had the utensils spoon - fork - knife and I had knife-fork-spoon. (She won btw)

Kont is also not the most used, nicest way of saying it. “Billen” is a better match.

I do blame the “why is it so different from English” on “Het Nederlands taalgenootschap”, that was an organization that decided that a lot of Dutchified English would be changed to more Dutch terms. So is “Math” changed into “Wiskunde/Rekenen”.

sounds to me like a timing issue. By using the proton log you might slow down to the point the timing issue doesn’t give you problems anymore. Try disabling vsync and enabling a fps limit (warframe has both settings itself).

Another possible cause could be filesystem going to a powersaving mode during normal gameplay and by writing logs you keep the disk in high performance.

yes, those two “autofixes” are “fixed” now. (it’s a opt-in setting)

Python is soon to be integrated into excel, I might not be a python fan but if it’s gonna replace vba I’m all for it.

I use a single gpu that I detach from my host and reattach in a vm when I start the vm (and vice versa). I don’t think windows will enjoy a sudden lack of gpu.

As far as I know, no, rotary phones don’t use the nowadays default way of dial tones, so even numeric inputs in call menus don’t work

It used to work at least here in the Netherlands, when you send a sms to a landline, the phone company has a tts service that reads texts like: “incoming text from zero six one… (etc) with the following text: ok boomer” and repeating that twice.

Used to be a really mechanical voice, but I’ve not had a landline in at least ten years.

You can still receive texts on a rotorary right, then it’s read aloud by some computer voice