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So farewell then.

No wonder so many Americans are overweight: at Disney World, I was drinking all you can drink Powerade because they didn't have club soda available.
We've been drinking water in the car driving, but when you stop, it's huge amounts of food, washed down with cuke.

I rediscovered catfish at the Cracker barrel, though. Haven't had it in about 40 years: sooooo good! We used to catch perch for breakfast as kids, but the catfish was nice.

Americans love their fireworks, snacks and GUNS, if you go by their roadside advertisements.
It's been fun, but our timeline took us off the perfect eclipse viewing track. We'll still be in the US, though, so we'll see something anyways, lol. I'm going to try to video it for shits and giggles.

Almost home: going to go through Niagara Falls. Love that place.

This is written from the perspective of a Gentoo user.

So, my trusty if not pedestrian Logitech 3 button wheel mouse started giving out. It's not quite dead yet, but it'll be stone dead any moment! So last weekend I went to Best Buy to see what they had. The Corsair Glaive stood out: not overly complex, good weight, and only slightly too big for my hands. Eh, nothing's perfect, but it was good enough.

I grabbed it, got home, plugged it in, and was promptly disappointed as nothing happened! After having flashbacks to the bad old days—I can barely remember the last time I had something as basic as a mouse not work under Linux—I accepted my fate. I had purchased a mouse that was not supported under Linux. It even works in my EFI BIOS, but not Linux! Depressed, I skulked over to Windows, turned the mouse LEDs pretty pink, and realized while playing $current_waste_of_time that this mouse was awesome. I simply could not return it!

So, I scoured DuckDuckGo and even begrudgingly took Google out of my hosts file temporarily. I upgraded to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.12.6, but no such luck. The hid-corsair module did not even attempt to load, but at least I was getting HID errors in dmesg. I found the ckb-next project, a fork of app-misc/ckb in my Portage tree, but still no support for my new mouse!

Without attempting to learn too much about Linux's HID system, I noted that hid-corsair has support for other Corsair mice, such as the Corsair Scimitar. So I rolled up my sleeves and gave the first obvious thing a try: compile a kernel that sees my Glaive as a Scimitar.

Have a uuencoded patch! (Note: This is after the Gentoo patches have already been handily applied by emerge. Follow cafebabe's usual instructions or install app-arch/sharutils for uuencode/uudecode.)

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M#*K3)*XFL5^]B4;3.T$6$195X3H<3<;C:A!'/\(XJ0ZC(/T*_C@.17\K1KB^
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Hmm, should that be GLAIVE instead of GLAIVE_PRO? Anyway, after rebooting with my fresh kernel, I noted that I still received errors in dmesg:

[ 1344.597093] usb 10-2: new full-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[ 1344.893040] usb 10-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1b1c, idProduct=1b34
[ 1344.893045] usb 10-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1344.893047] usb 10-2: Product: Corsair Gaming GLAIVE RGB Mouse
[ 1344.893050] usb 10-2: Manufacturer: Corsair
[ 1344.893052] usb 10-2: SerialNumber: [redacted]
[ 1344.896435] input: Corsair Corsair Gaming GLAIVE RGB Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/usb10/10-2/10-2:1.0/0003:1B1C:1B34.000D/input/input28
[ 1344.896962] hid-generic 0003:1B1C:1B34.000D: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Corsair Corsair Gaming GLAIVE RGB Mouse] on usb-0000:04:00.0-2/input0
[ 1344.898989] hid-generic 0003:1B1C:1B34.000E: item 0 1 0 8 parsing failed
[ 1344.899004] hid-generic: probe of 0003:1B1C:1B34.000E failed with error -22
[ 1344.899012] corsair 0003:1B1C:1B34.000E: Fixing up report descriptor
[ 1344.900019] input: Corsair Corsair Gaming GLAIVE RGB Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/0000:04:00.0/usb10/10-2/10-2:1.1/0003:1B1C:1B34.000E/input/input29
[ 1344.954935] corsair 0003:1B1C:1B34.000E: input,hiddev96,hidraw5: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Corsair Corsair Gaming GLAIVE RGB Mouse] on usb-0000:04:00.0-2/input1
[ 1344.955015] usbhid 10-2:1.2: couldn't find an input interrupt endpoint

The errors reported by hid-generic and usbhid are the same as before (highlighted), but then corsair fixes up the report descriptor and (almost) all is well.

My mouse is at least working as an input device. I was surprised that the button under the mouse wheel to adjust sensitivity works as well.

The only major problem left for me is that by default, the mouse LEDs have this sickly neon piss yellow color instead of pretty pink! This is where ckb-next will come in to the picture.

I did some quick hacks on ckb-next using the same strategy of trying to interface with the Glaive as though it were a Scimitar. It sees my Glaive, shuts off the LEDs, and then promptly disables the mouse! So that's not quite working yet. Turning it off and on again (unplugging and re-plugging) restores the mouse to working order. If I can figure this out, I'll post a part 2.

Socialist Juggalos gear up to fight pro-Trump ‘Nazis,’ and the internet is loving it

The Juggalo March on Washington, a protest against the government’s classification of Juggalos as a gang, will take place at the National Mall on Sept. 16, the same day as the pro-Trump “Mother of All Rallies.” There’s no love lost between the two sides.

Typed on my crappy tablet: took fracking forever.

Welp, as the title says, Disney can fuck my telemetry up the ass for all I care (I'll care in a few days), my son (which means me, lol) just had a Game of Thrones quality day (or a Tom Baker-Doctor Who day?)

First of all, stay at a resort: when we booked (aug. 15-18), it was hurricane/thunder storm season so we got a free meal plan which my wife upgraded to a dinner plan with sit down meals: smart woman. (Plan ahead and book ahead, of the restaurants fill up quickly). We have had mostly cloudy days, so less sun to burn, but high temps with high humidity (93, feels like 109).

When you register, tell them about any food allergies and it will follow you around!
Our first dinner was at the Rainforest cafe at 9pm (first time we could get for the first day): steak dinner that would have cost us $34 each was free. A 'chef' came out to explain what we could order to avoid gluten and dairy, and it was an excellent meal.
Second dinner was a buffet at Boma restaurant: buffet that would have been $43 each: waiter took us to table and then sat down with us, took allergy info, talked with us (thought he was going to eat with us, lol) then brought out a chef to walk us through the buffet to tell us what we could eat and not.
Xcellent service and food.
Third dinner was Best. Dinner. Ever. at Chef Mickey's: personalized service again, but had a MOB of characters at the tables and doing dances. Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Pluto all came to our table for pictures, hugs and high fives (although I should have punched Goofy for missing my wife, lol).
Our son loves it all, and the buffet took second place (they have gluten free waffles that were amazing, though).

We got free snacks with our plan and a free cup with, I guess a chip, for free drinks (except, there's no club soda, so the calories aren't great: I drank the Powerade). Cup sits on platform/scanner and won't dispense drink unless it senses a valid cup. I tried to fill my son's water bottle with Powerade, but it cuts you off after a fill and a bit of the cup and makes you wait 3 minutes before you can dispense another cup. Free, but semi-limited. Dang!
The snacks: we were really too full to use them, and only started using them just to use them (cinnamon glazed almonds...yesssssss!)

Stay at a resort if you can:
We stayed at all star music: you can go to the park (if you don't bring a bag, you don't have to go through the bag check, but do have to do the metal detector thing).
We put drinks, etc, in a backpack and put the backpack on the wheelchair!
Go to the park in the morning and hit what you want with little wait and use pre-booked fast pass too.
When the heat and rain is coming, go back to the resort for a rest/swim, then back to park in afternoon.
If you stay outside the park (like we did years ago), if you get tired, you trek back to your car, drive back tired, then probably too tired to go back at night.....
Much better this vacation.

You can skip the meet and greet character things if you go to chef Mickey's.

Rides for kids and kids at heart:
Go to The trouble with bugs' thing: bad smells wafted down at you, my wife got a poke in the back, but I wasn't sitting with my back against the chair back so I missed it. You also get this funny/creepy 'bugs running under your butt' thing which is really kind of just cool.
Our son liked the Buzz light-year spin ride thing, but he likes Buzz so he's biased, lol.
Small world ride is aging and looking it, but it's a long ride to relax on.

Carousel of progress has been my wife and my favourite since we went as not quite newlyweds.
Fun ride, until you get to the modern/future time: then I get lost a bit. I like the simple format of the guy sitting in his chair with the dog on the floor, and he narrates with things happening behind screens on either side. The modern/future one is the whole family at once, and seems chaotic and not as interesting for me. But would watch over again...... because!

Skip the animal kingdom: not that interesting for us, but we did not see Pandora, so....

Haunted house is a skip: it seems darker (to keep paint from fading?) and ghosts dimmer. Or I'm getting old. Anyways, not worth the wait, we decided.

So, if we ever go again, note to self: (especially if grand kids ever come along)
Stay at resort and upgrade meal to dinners.
Book chef Mickey restaurant, absolutely! Book restaurants ahead of time (2weeks or more ahead, if possible).
Skip animal kingdom.
Go to Trouble with bugs.
Ride monorail, but only the air conditioned ones.

I am not affiliated with Disney at all, this is just some things I wish I had known years ago.

Next, off to Mammoth Caves: we went there years ago: it is so deep underground, they turn the lights off, light a match, then blow it out and drop it. You can hear the match hit the ground like your ear is right beside it.

Better than my stay at home vacation last summer!

Walt Disney World, I've found with this vacation, tracks you everywhere and now has my finger prints: they use chipped cards and 'watch-band' type things. AND, you also use a finger to pass through the park gates.

The system for passing through the park gates is glitchy, and you either have to use a fingerprint or get your picture taken because of the glitch not making your chipped device work.
When the devices don't work, the person letting you through raises their hand, and a supervisor type comes over to solve the issue. The issue happens constantly. He supervisor comes over and tried to solve the issue with a pad device running Windows, which you can see because when they tap the device, there is a brief flash of the windows logo.

The issue happens CONSTANTLY.

My son won't wear the watch thing, so I wear his and mine, and use (because I was surprised by the request for a fingerprint) my index finger on my left hand for him, and my middle finger of my right hand for me.
Now I have to remember which finger for which hand, AND they have my fingerprints.

Will the prints be wiped when I leave? I'm going to have to ask, but I'm doubting it.
At least they don't have my son's prints, but they did take his picture for the 'disabled fast pass' thing.

Sigh: go to enjoy yourself, and end up wondering who has your details.

Note to self: don't go for the Disney hookers.

BUT, my son is enjoying himself, so......worth it.

An external SSD has become Samsung's first drive to hit the market with 64-layer V-NAND. It includes a 10 Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C connection and capacities ranging from 250GB to 2TB:

Moving on to the pricing aspect, it must be remembered that the Portable SSD T5 is a pilot vehicle for Samsung's 64-layer V-NAND as its production ramps up. Samsung naturally expects this to be a low-volume, high-margin part. Therefore, despite the higher density, consumers should not expect much difference in the cost per GB compared to other external SSDs in the market. The 2TB variant will have a MSRP of $800 and the 500GB will retail at $200. At 40 cents/GB, it is priced close to other such products currently in the market.

Also at Samsung, PCWorld, The Verge, PCMag, and YouTube.

Not a submission because: Intel First to Market With 64-Layer 3D NAND SSDs

You’ll Never Be as Radical as This 18th-Century Quaker Dwarf

Last of Secret JFK Files Slated for Release This Fall

Fresh Air interview with Philip Shenon, author of A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination, airing now. Will edit link in later.

Walmart is apologizing after a display seemed to market guns as back-to-school items

Walmart apologizes for sign marketing guns as back-to-school items

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The official Kek cult attire is now a trenchcoat.