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I'm not deeply into that topic, but the pan I use that's made of iron was 'burned-in' using linseed oil several times to create a non-sticky surface. Whatever that has as negative side-effects aside, that layer might trap the iron additives quite effectively.

Would love to see Elgatos response to your writeup :-)


Same here. I can totally imagine the excitement in their engineers eyes after reading this fascinating writeup, paired with their managers anger while they ask for a better way to protect the company's IP.


It’ll have to come from Corsair who now owns Elgato. IMHO, they’re a ‘conventional’ company with stock listed on the exchange. If they respond I will be pleasantly surprised.


Buy one share of their stock, then call investor relations and ask them why a hobbyist was able to fix the LED bug that their support claimed didn't exist while their whole expensive engineering team was not.


>while their whole expensive engineering team was not

Question is maybe not if they could, but if they were allowed to. If the project is already out of development and a bug is detected, sometimes there's only a barebones team left that barely gets the time to do basic maintenance.


Now i am curious if they know what causes their LED troubles or what causes the underlying memory corruption.


There's a very similar system in Germany with a hashtag code from Deutsche Post since 2020, called #PORTO:

https://www.deutschepost.de/de/m/mobile-briefmarke.html


Even if that were true, who paid for all this? It's mother nature, who's in such a bad shape that we'll soon start paying the price for it again and all the workers that this system has and still is exploiting in other countries (directly through bad working conditions/unfair pay or indirectly through pollution where they live). Please look up 'capitalism externalities' for reference.


Paper written by one transformer?!


Have a look at 'liquid democracy' it would solve these issues. You basically choose someone to delegate your vote to, but can change that at any time, or vote yourself for specific decisions.


Definitely doable and very common in many old cultures, have a look at the film "The science of fasting" (original German), might be eye opening: https://youtu.be/WgLJ_dfKy1E


> Video unavailable. This video contains content from LDS, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds

I hope LDS burns in hell, whoever they are.



Same here. Guess they don’t like Ecuador.


Apparently the only whitelisted regions are DE and FR, so they don't like a lots of people.


Latter Day Saints??? The Mormons? (I get the copyright block message here in the USA)


I looked it up, and it's "content management company" Little Dot Studios, who seem to make money by claiming things on youtube to steal ad money and extort people.


Ugh. I hope the Mormons hit them with a trademark violation!


You can create a perfect non-sticky surface on cast iron pans like this:

- clean well with strong soap and a metal sponge until it's one smooth silver surface

- put a few drops of flax oil on a paper and rub the pan with it (also inner sides)

- take off all excessive oil with a dry kitchen paper

- remove any non-metal handles from the pan

- open your windows

- heat your oven to the max and put the pan in for about 20 minutes

- repeat about 5 times

After using the pan, wipe with a kitchen paper. Maybe a little bit of warm water, better not. Never any soap.


Flax oil had been debunked over and over again. Just use canola.


Bit off-topic: My major pain point a while ago was that Gnome-shell crashes take down all running applications. Is that still the case?


Yes. Similarly a crash of Xorg will bring down all running applications. However thanks to standardized interfaces in X11 both the window manager and the compositor can independently crash or even replaced at runtime by a different program without affecting running programs. This just shows how much further ahead X11 is on a conceptual level and how bad the Wayland design philosophy really is.


> This just shows how much further ahead X11 is on a conceptual level and how bad the Wayland design philosophy really is.

I agree that the isolated failure mechanism in this case is a strength of X11, but it's too far to extrapolate that to the designs as a whole.


Yup, under an X11 session when Gnome goes completely mad you can hit ALT+F2, R, Enter and restart it without losing all of your state.


We used pglogical to upgrade between from version 9.5 to 13 with minimal downtime (< 10 minutes) running a large DB installation of 1TB in size and multiple extensions.


Interesting. Learned about liquibase which I hadn't heard of and looks like just what we need to handle schema changes over time across environments. Anyone used it or alternatives specifically for Postgres?


You can check out https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase. It provides a GUI for managing schema and data changes for Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, ClickHouse, TiDB.

Disclaimer: I am one of the authors.


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