Hahahaha. I actually didn’t check the FAQ… and my intuition was right. This is the link to the FAQ: https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/now-portal-overview

Reporting back: I ended up buying the SteelSeries Nova 5X. I was gonna buy the Nova 7, but surprisingly the mic quality on the Nova 7 sucks ass. I found some videos where the reviewer showed the mic quality on the 7 vs 5 and the 5 sounded way better.

This seems pretty well supported by headsetcontrol.

$ cat /etc/os-release | head -n2
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="44.20260823.0 (Silverblue)"
$ uname -sr
Linux 7.1.9-200.fc44.x86_64
$ sudo ./headsetcontrol-x86_64.AppImage --caps
Found 1 supported device(s):
 SteelSeries Arctis Nova (5/5X) (SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X) [0x1038:0x2253]
	Capabilities:
	* sidetone
	* battery
	* inactive time
	* chatmix
	* equalizer preset
	* equalizer
	* parametric equalizer
	* microphone mute led brightness
	* microphone volume
	* volume limiter

Hint: Use --help while the device is connected to get a filtered list of parameters

Haven’t run on SteamOS yet.

We’re not gonna rush out and buy new cameras.

Ah, nice. They’re walking back their mistake.

As soon as football season starts… nobody is gonna pay a whole hell lot of attention.

sips beer

Wait, what!!!

curl up and Libe!

I currently have regular bluetooth headphones, but I’m curious about other options. I found this article https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteelSeries-Nova-7-5X-2026 that says some of the SteelSeries headphones are getting better Linux support! It seems like SteamOS is currently on the 6.x kernel series, but it’ll get to 7.3 eventually. Maybe these headphones will get better overtime.

I also have an LG TV. I bought an external Android TV box (Nvidia Shield) and now primarily use that as the interface.

yes you can start a voice chat through the Steam client.

Ah, ok. Of course, of course.

BT

Any thoughts on 2.4Ghz wireless headsets vs bluetooth ones?

Cool! I bought mine through Clove several months ago. This is great news! The Fairphone 6 is a pretty good phone. I’m happy with it.

The power button + volume buttons are in the perfect place… for accidentally taking screenshots!!! :( That’s the one thing I don’t like, but everything else is good.

Oh, and I wish I could use either SailfishOS or at least Graphene. But, still. I don’t miss my old Pixel.

It’s ok to be afraid, but when scary change comes wise folks listen and learn.

Peas, safe mee Experienced Professional. I’m so scared of Claude’s massive slop hose. It makes me feel inadequate. >_<

LOL. Speak of the devil, some slop coder just opened a massive PR on our codebase with gems like:

func runHandler(h: Handler)  
// ^^^^^^ ERROR: runHandler will panic if h is nil  
// Severity: High 🚨  

Uh… yes? Do you not know how pointers work? That’s the point? You want to be able to run runHandler(nil)? That doesn’t make any sense. That’s clearly a mistake and we should loudly fail.

type OptionsWrapper struct {  
  Foo bool  

  otherOpts other.Opts  
}  
// ^^^^^^ ERROR: OptionsWrapper hides options only available in other.Opts.  
// Severity: High 🚨  

Uhh… yes? That’s the whole point of OptionsWrapper. To hide stuff otherOpts. It’s a wrapper.

This type of clanker output is why another slop coder opened a PR on one of our repos, angry because he said Claude said that one of our functions was deceptive. Claude said the description and docstring was misleading and we should change it.

Our function was called RunNoWait() and, hold on, you may be surprised by this, Claude was, what this function does is run something… and then it… does… NOT wait. wtf. I know. Shocking. Misleading, deceptive name. Claude wrote some big manifesto about why the docs were misleading and rewrote the function to add a wait. 🤣

The dude backed down eventually, but he insisted we add more paragraphs of clarification to the function docs…

Whatever. Let the slop flow… I give up.

most of this is just lots of tiny fixes.

If it’s anything like Claude on our codebase then:

const id = "foo"
// ^^^^^ WARNING!!!! GO MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE THE MEMORY FOR THIS STRING!
// Here's an Enterprise String Implementation to guarantee this assignment works.
// Severity: High 🚨

nobody has hear of a template

Eggsfuckingactly. Company says use AI as a starting template! Uh, hello, what if we used a fucking template as a template?? And that way we could have a deterministic source?? And we could track and fix bugs in the template?? No? We want to roll the dice each time to create the template? Ok. Ok…

From the viber’s blog: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html

A developer who created another web app called DarkHours.app replied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the name.

Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships

Thanks, honey. Another text message from ChatGPT. How thoughtful.

What doesn’t at this point?

If you’re actually curious: https://noailist.org/

Netbird reverse proxy: https://docs.netbird.io/manage/reverse-proxy

It’s like Tailscale, but Open Source. You can self-host the components, if you want. I just use the cloud offering. I have a domain name that resolves to my server. There’s different ways you can do auth. I just hard coded an allow list of IPs. Otherwise, devices in my Netbird network can use the private IP.

Ever wondered why the address for your own home has a random number stuck on the end?

Nope. That thought has never crossed my mind.

What I’ve always wondered and keep wondering is how to debug these dang thread pairing failures. I want that to be more approachable.

https://piefed.social/c/opensource@lemmy.ml/p/2231796/does-the-mpl-2-0-have-a-giant-loop-hole

Corporations DGAF. They will steal your source available content, de-compile your binaries and wrongfully sue you out of existence if you dare to raise a case against them.

Also true. Although, that doesn’t mean you should bend over and make it easy for them by licensing things as MIT. GPL if you can, MPL if you must.

we have so many choices.

I’m actually not sure about this. I wish the FSF or someone would come out with more licenses for different use cases.

My general approach to licensing these days is:

• binaries, apps, products -> AGPLv3, fuck you I don’t care if your company can’t use my shit
• libraries -> MPL-2.0 or LGPL, grr… maybe you can use my library…

For things I might try selling: BUSL. It isn’t FOSS. It’s source available, but it turns into FOSS after some time period.

I’m not super happy with MPL-2.0: https://piefed.social/c/opensource@lemmy.ml/p/2231796/does-the-mpl-2-0-have-a-giant-loop-hole

I wish we had something closer to OSL 3.0, but OSL itself has its own problems. :/