Sounds awesome!

Can I plug in an hdmi cable/keyboard/mouse and use it like a desktop and is there some way I can mount the android storage? (Eg can I get access to docs/pics/downloads)

Showing my ignorance here, but would genuinely like an explanation - aren’t/weren’t compromised exit nodes a thing?

Yeah, in hindsight, if I were a billionaire I’d be in my garage with some nice machine tools making stuff or coding for fun or any number of things I enjoy more than business.

Think I’d be the other way. All meetings before noon and then give me the afternoon to do shit I enjoy.

Definitely! Check out AliExpress, Moyu do some really reasonably priced cubes up to ~11x11 - 13x13, starts to get really pricey at 15x15 and above (although tbh there’s not much new after a 7x7/9x9). Megaminx is fun because you can pretty much use knowledge from cubes to get you to maybe the last 3 steps you just have to rethink how you apply the algos you know!

The other interesting thing with big cubes for me was realising I’d essentially forgotten how to solve a 3x3, because I couldn’t finger trick/abuse the cube in the same way it forced me to think about which algos I wanted to apply and I realised I was solving the 3x3 on pretty much muscle memory alone 😂

Love the idea of the challenge, my issue would be lack of a validator tool to confirm I’d completed the challenge - any suggestions?

Haha, when I first learned beginner we were switching cores on 2-3 different no brand Chinese cubes! I’ve not gone for a signature cube yet, but basic GAN/moyu/yuxin cubes today are just so much better it’s unbelievable! Yeah, it’s probably mostly prioritising cubing Vs other things and then when I do put the time aside I get tempted by bigger cubes/megaminx puzzles. Honestly 9x9 or teraminx can be a lot less intense!

The fact we’re the same age might spur me on a bit again. Drilling algos for muscle memory I’m fine with - I probably just need to dedicate a month to the cross, it was just so so much easier when I could sit for 4-5 hours straight with no real responsibility and drill cube lol.

I regret not just learning CFOP back when I was younger, I wanted to get below 1 minute with the beginner method first for some reason and the combination of my skills and current cube tech were never quite there. 15 odd years later I can do sub 50 with beginner method, but don’t have the motivation to learn CFOP (or I probably do, I don’t have the motivation to make my cross good enough). Moral of the story, learn CFOP when you feel yourself hitting a wall with the beginner method.

Can we not start that with the /j thing.

You had me at perl!

Of they’ve replaced it they might be open to the idea of freeing up the source code?

Yeah, I can see how that could go wrong, in practice it’s used to alias a python version python2 to python and impacts about 10 build scripts. (Which should be rewritten, but no-one is going to prioritise that work)

Which one?

Wouldn’t that require me to have access to everyone’s home directory and need to dump the scripts in everyone’s?

Potentially I could set up an alt bin directory everyone has access to and configure that in the shared profile, the only drawback there is it might be less obvious whats going on if something breaks and someone else needs to take a look at it.

Mostly because there’s a profile everyone sources that’s relatively straightforward to that’s straightforward to get access to. Whereas I’d never get root level access.

I use aliases for renaming commands and making bash scripts look like real commands to the rest of my team.

They all do, they just tell people they use arch cause it makes them look cool.

Is it the year of the HURD desktop?!

Now, think about the energy and forces involved when 2 supermassive black holes orbit each other and collide.