vvv

I have a stupid little script for this:

#!/bin/sh

setres() {
  output=$1
  width=$2
  height=$3

  xrandr --output $output --brightness 0 --auto
  xrandr --delmode $output better
  xrandr --rmmode better

  xrandr --newmode better $(cvt $width $height | tail -n1 | cut -d'"' -f3)
  xrandr --addmode $output better
  xrandr --output $output --brightness 1 --mode better 
}

setres "$@"

on my car, there's a fuse you can pull out, which theoretically cuts power to OnStar. check your car manual/forums about your model

Gen 2 chevy volt owner here, PHEVs are absolutely not a step back. If I didn't buy the volt, the one car our family could afford would have been an ICE car. IMO, these things help bridge idealism with current reality - for most of my day-to-day, I drive a fully electric car. I just also get the option to toss some gas into it when on a long road trip.

For some good fiction, that puts this in context, check out:

• Ex Machina (2005) which is nominally about an AI beating the turing test, but really more of an illustration of that AI in a box problem.
• Snow Crash (1992) which is about a future where the two professions remaining on earth are software development and pizza delivery.

Very important distinction. When the apple vr battery dies, or the software fails, you're suddenly blind.

Why do you need to back up that server data? The great thing about joplin, is that the full content of your notes (and history) is distributed, like a git repo. As long as you have one device left with your notes, everything else can be bootstrapped from there. If your sync server burns down, start a new one and sync your notes to it again.

https://github.com/rwos/gti

in the same vein