We asked for your gym etiquette questions, and you answered! Or, rather, asked. A lot. Thanks! Today we’ll tackle a tough question about what to do when somebody is using the equipment you want, and seemingly wasting their (and your) time.
Source: LifeHacker – How Do You Get Someone to Stop Hogging Gym Equipment?
An ambitious couple set out to travel from Washington to the Alaskan Arctic, off the beaten track and under their own power.
Source: TreeHugger – ‘The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000-mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds’ (book review)
It still remains to be seen if Purism will be able to ship the Librem 5 Linux smartphone this quarter as is their current revised target, but at least today they are publishing the finalized specifications for the phone’s hardware…
Source: Phoronix – Purism Finally Announces The Firmed Up Specifications For The Librem 5 Smartphone
Craig Mod: I love fast software. That is, software speedy both in function and interface. Software with minimal to no lag between wanting to activate or manipulate something and the thing happening. Lightness. Software that’s speedy usually means it’s focused. Like a good tool, it often means that it’s simple, but that’s not necessarily true. Speed in software is probably the most valuable, least valued asset. To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance. Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why. […]
Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand. Speed can be a good proxy for general engineering quality. If an application slows down on simple tasks, then it can mean the engineers aren’t obsessive detail sticklers. Not always, but it can mean disastrous other issues lurk. I want all my craftspeople to stickle. I don’t think Ulysses (a popular text editing application) is badly made, but I am less confident in it than if it handled input and interface speed with more grace. Speed would make me trust it more.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – On the Benefits of Speedy Software, and How It Affects User Perception of Engineering Quality and Overall Usability
In addition to the release of OpenXR 1.0 for kicking off SIGGRAPH 2019 week, The Khronos Group has released Vulkan 1.1.117 as a fairly notable update to this high-performance graphics API…
Source: Phoronix – Vulkan 1.1.117 Adds Line Rasterization – Helping Out CAD Applications & More
It looks as though the 2019 iPhones will get plenty of company on stage at Apple’s fall keynote address. In addition to three “iPhone 11” models, Apple is also rumored to debut updated iPad Pro tablets and potentially an Apple Watch Series 5. But we’re now learning that Apple could potentially reveal the widely rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro at
Source: Hot Hardware – 16-inch Apple MacBook Pro Flagship With Thinner Bezels Tipped For September Unveil
An anonymous reader shares a report: The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world’s largest host of source code, is preventing users in Iran, Syria, Crimea and potentially other sanctioned nations from accessing portions of the service, chief executive of the Microsoft-owned firm said. Over the weekend, GitHub CEO Nat Friedman wrote on Twitter that like any other “company that does business in the US,” GitHub is required to comply with the U.S. export law. The confirmation comes months after work collaboration service Slack, too, enforced similar restrictions on its platform.,
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – GitHub Confirms it Has Blocked Developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea
A Kiehl’s sale, Echo Dots, Logitech Speakers, and Speks discount lead off Monday’s best deals from around the web.
Source: LifeHacker – Monday’s Best Deals: Board Games, Anker Gold Box, Hogwart’s Library, and More
Catra’s willingness to fight dirty and deceive those closest to her are big parts of what makes her such a formidable force in Netflix’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. And even though she’s fallen on some hard times recently, that doesn’t mean she’s lost any of her signature edge. In this new exclusive clip from…
Source: io9 – Catra Gets Her Han Solo Cantina Moment in This Exclusive She-Ra Season 3 Clip
Having a bad day when everything goes wrong and feels off can happen from time to time. But then there are longer stretches that can turn into weeks or months of feeling unmotivated, lost or hopeless. Life may keep piling it on, but here are a few starting points for how you can climb out of your hole and get back on…
Source: LifeHacker – Where to Start When It Feels Like Nothing Is Going Right in Your Life
Will NEOM be “an aspirational society that heralds the future of human civilization” or “a totalitarian surveillance state”?
Source: TreeHugger – Saudi Prince building solar powered city with robots, glowing sand and an artificial moon
When one door closes, another one opens, and sometimes it will transport you back in time. That is how the saying goes, right? In any event, the Fortnite World Cup came to a close on Sunday (after a wild weekend of gameplay!), and at the end of the event, Epic Games teased the launch of Season 10, which looks to bring players back to Dusty
Source: Hot Hardware – Epic’s Fortnite Season 10 Teaser Cranks Up Dusty Divot Nostalgia For Battle Royale Fans
The first-person psychological horror game Blair Witch is set to arrive next month. Today, Bloober Team released the first gameplay trailer. The minute-and-a-half clip offers a preview of just how creepy the woods, haunted houses and monsters of Blac…
Source: Engadget – First ‘Blair Witch’ gameplay trailer is all kinds of spooky
Because just like the wheels on the bus, the internet will never cease going round and round, this is the Thor vs Hulk fight from Thor: Ragnarok, but with lightsabers added because “lightsabers make everything better.” Ha, try telling that to my friend’s penis.
Keep going for the battle, in two parts.
Source: Geekologie – Thor: Ragnarak’s Thor Vs Hulk Fight With Lightsabers Added
You’ve installed a new graphics card, you’ve added a ton of LEDs to your case, but your gaming PC isn’t quite complete. What you could really use is some ambient lighting behind your monitor to make the whole thing really pop. Here’s what you need to make your rig glow.
Source: Kotaku – Everything You Need to Trick Out Your Home Theater or Gaming Rig’s Lighting
In a brutal camera market, only the strong survive. Until recently, Panasonic has not just survived, but thrived by focusing on niche, video-centric mirrorless cameras like the GH5. With the S1 and S1R models, though, it’s going head-on with riva…
Source: Engadget – Panasonic S1R review: Big, powerful and too expensive
After many lessons, my six-year-old daughter is becoming a proficient swimmer. She can tread water, retrieve toys at the bottom of the pool, and find her way to the wall after jumping into the deep end. But there’s a skill she still needs to learn, and it’s one that I don’t think her instructors will be teaching. That…
Source: LifeHacker – Teach Your Kid What to Do If Someone Grabs Them While Swimming
Some months back, we received an email from Rob Chinery, explaining that he’d created a virtual reality (VR) tour of the Raspberry Pi Store, Cambridge.
When I heard about the new Raspberry Pi store in Cambridge, I was immediately impressed by the design and aesthetic of the store. I thought it would be a great project to add to my portfolio, so I put together a quick virtual experience based around the store.
Here’s a video for those without VR headsets:
Raspberry Pi Store VR Tour With Narration
A narrated VR tour of the Raspberry Pi Store in Cambridge, U.K.
Cool, right?
Based in New York, Rob hadn’t visited the store at the time and created the walk-through using images and video content that he’d found online.
I had to rely on a few press images from the opening to make the model (which did make things a bit difficult). One of the reasons I decided to build the app is to allow us Pi fans on other continents to virtually experience the store.
Since our initial communications in April, Rob has now managed to visit the store in the flesh, as he explained on Reddit.
Rob has built the tour specifically for mobile VR platforms, and it is available for free on Oculus Go and Gear VR. You can also view it via Testflight on Android and iOS using a cardboard viewer. You can try the Raspberry Pi Store VR tour here. And, if you’re in need of a mobile VR experience for your architectural projects, Rob’s your guy!
In the words of Liz, colour us impressed.
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Source: Raspberry Pi – Take a virtual reality tour of the Raspberry Pi Store
It has often been said that the art of computer programming is part managing complexity and part naming things. I contend that this is largely true with the addition of “and sometimes it requires drawing boxes.”read more
Source: LXer – How to structure a multi-file C program: Part 1
The Nintendo Switch is an excellent game console, one that is uniquely flexible for playing games on your big screen TV or in portable form. If you happen to own one of the earlier models, it is also hackable. Now thanks to Switchroot, a group for open source development on the Switch, the nifty console can be modded with an Android port,
Source: Hot Hardware – LineageOS Android Port For Nintendo Switch Arrives With NVIDIA GeForce Now Support