Mason makes his way through this new reality and hooks up with Immunity, a rebel group led by a hacker named Calliope, who’s trying to fight the system from inside. ![]() Nobody knows what happens to prisoners after they go Pattern Black as it is kept a secret by Revival, the corporation that runs the prison. The Chamber Therapy program promises criminal rehabilitation, but it can lead to total failure known as Pattern Black - the total disintegration of identity that drives the prisoner insane. He only has two ways out: death or through Chamber Therapy. ![]() Mason is following in his father’s footsteps and ends up in prison himself. Mason Shaw’s father threw away his police career by going rogue which ultimately lead him to the privately-run prison, HRO22. Pattern Black is a standalone novel from Johnny B. The robots clumsiness has him set for deactivation and the robots must do as they are told. The aging robot staff is borderline obsolete and some of the family find them to be a nuisance, especially a failing robot designated BRN7. However, that is not how it turned out at the Lexington estate. There were programmed not to defy their owners or else they would be shutdown, and they could never harm a human. Their bodies were created to do the work with padded tips on their fingers and metal knees designed to keep them quiet in their work. The staff at Lexington estate is made up of robots who were created simply to serve their master. Robot Proletariat is the first book in The Inevitable series by Sean Platt and Johnny B. However, getting there won’t be easy as society veers into chaos. He has know something was coming and where he must take his family to keep them safe. An entrepreneur in New York named Meyer Dempsey has been making preparations for a long time, even when he didn’t know why. There is a popular app called the Astral space app that gives people the information that the government would prefer stay hidden. Scientist discover objects approaching from Jupiter and cities go into a panic. The first book in the series is Invasion and begins as the countdown to the aliens coming has begun. The Alien Invasion series is written by Platt and Johnny B. Cutter knows that they can’t track him and that they won’t know his plan until he hits them with it. At least that’s what they think, but trying to do so will be their big mistake. However, he’s also the kind of person that a wealthy corruption thinks that they can exploit and make disappear. He can design the next generation of shipping vehicles with his out of the box thinking. Cutter has unique skills though and those skills are in demand. Cutter lives his life off the grid and is never recognized by the facial recognition software. He’s not dead, but he is unchipped and unregistered in a world where everyone else is. ![]() The author is originally from California, but now makes his home in Texas with his wife and children.īurnout is a standalone novel written by Platt and Johnny B. He enjoys Mexican food, but he absolutely cannot stand inferior Mexican food. ![]() The author makes his home in Austin, Texas. He is the co-author of the Yesterday’s Gone series, the Alien Invasion series, and the Z 2134 series. This seems obvious when you see just how many books he has written thus far in his career. Platt loves reading books, but he enjoys writing them even more. Platt typically works with a co-author, he has written with Johnny B. In addition to that, Sean also writes children’s books under the name of Guy Incognito. Sean Platt is an American author who writes in the horror and science fiction genres.
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![]() I’m not sure why it’s not on by default because this always comes close to being a deal breaker for me, when apps don’t support this. While Fantastical was a pioneer for this technology, I actually found a setting in Bus圜al to turn on natural language event creation. Bus圜al is truly just an all-around powerful calendar app and one of the most powerful ones I’ve used on iOS to date. It shows the high and low weather forecast for your current day and week ahead, it lets you add in your own travel time and then accounts for that in the calendar display, it can include attendees and tags for your events and more. This alone could be a deal breaker depending on which services you use.Īside from that, Bus圜al has a lot of nice features throughout the app that really add up. The list is similar but Bus圜al still wins. Fantastical supports all of the same services that the built-in Calendar.app supports: iCloud, Exchange, Google, Yahoo, Outlook, CalDAV or subscribed calendars. For one, it supports a slightly larger array of calendar services: iCloud, Google, Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Fruux, Yahoo, plus any CalDAV or WebDAV calendar. What Bus圜al lacks in design it makes up for in features. Bus圜al deserves props for its excellent month view. It also takes much better advantage of the iPad’s larger screen while Bus圜al just looks stretched out. Aside from just being downright better looking, it wins major points for conciseness across the board especially when adding a new event. It relies mainly on natural language input, though you can show all the details if you wish.įantastical takes the cake for design. The search bar is at the top and the New Event sheet located above that is clean and easy to understand. If you turn your iPhone horizontally you can see Fantastical’s week view, but there is no month view to be found. They work in sync with each other so as you scroll through the list, the calendar moves down the line too so you never get lost. More on that in a bit.įantastical takes a very clean approach: a calendar at the top showing when you’re busy and an interactive list of all your events below. ![]() However, Bus圜al does support natural language input, but not as the default setting. It’s extensive, but that can be either a good or bad thing. ![]() But the New Event form at first seems primitive as you have to manually go through all the fields: title, location, start and end time, calendar, alarm, etc. The live search feature is located at the top right of the screen at all times as is the New Event sheet. Even though it shows all of your events in tiny boxes spread across the screen, tapping one expands the view for that day into a clean schedule complete with all your calendars and even the weather if the date is close by. The best view is actually the month view. There is also a separate To Do list view of all your reminders. You can see your events in a single list, in day view, by the week or by the month. It’s a rather plain app with different calendar views based on your preference. Bus圜al has never been much of a looker even on the Mac and it appears the design didn’t get any sort of radical re-imagining for iOS. ![]() For some reason despite my wife hating them with avengence after they crippled her previous computer, she appeared to have a new "free trial" operating on her computer with a warning that Spotify was trying to do something wrong to her computer. And I think it has something to do with what I see as one of the biggest scourges on computing, MacAfee. Well after 2 weeks of slightly temperamental operation I would have agreed with you, until this morning. It can get quite frustrating but please do not give up. ![]() Also contact SOtM here they usually reply within a few days. If you have issues, post here and there are a number of experienced SMS-200 users on the forum who may be able to help. Both the power supply unit and USB cable to the DAC are 2 tweaks that should be considered early on. There are many tweaks to get even better sound out of the SMS-200. Some good videos from Hans Beekhuysen: SMS-200 review SMS-200 Ultra Review There are also plenty of other reviews on the web. Most people have found the SMS-200 (and Ultra) to significantly improve audio playback. System setup manages the network, library (NAS access) and software updates. MinimServer and Bubble are UPnP Audio Servers. LibreSpot is an open source implementation for Spotify-Connect. HQPlayer NAA (end point) requires a separate computer to do the upsampling. However, found MPD to sound better than LMS and is my current server. MPD is best described as under developed, with interface average, cover art depending on client and limited playlist management. With dedicated, well rated Apps on phones and PCs, also on browser, users can access music on servers, disk drives as well as Tidal and Spotify. LMS is well developed with a good ecosystem and is used extensively on PCs and dedicated Squeezebox’s. The most popular and most versatile is probably Squeezelite (also known as Logitech Media Server, LMS). ![]() When purchasing a new unit, SOtM offers a Roon trial license as well as a discounted one year license. Roon is well developed software, good UI, good metadata management which leads to new music discovery, Tidal integration. To manage and play music, a mobile or desktop App or a browser can be used.Įunhasu has a Roon end point, but requires (expensive) Roon license as well as a separate computer to run the Roon server. Note that Eunhasu is the same for the SMS-200 and SMS-200 Ultra. The Eunhasu software is accessed using a browser (//eunhasu) and all configurations and setups are done there. The SMS-200 comes with a number of servers/connectors to use. Unlike a noisy PC which can also be used at the centre of a music chain, the SMS-200 is specifically built to provide superb audio quality. usb disks, NAS, computers and online sources such as Tidal and Spotify and serves the music to a DAC via a USB link. It takes music from various sources, e.g. The SMS-200 sits at the centre of the music chain. Suggestions for improving this primer most welcome. ip addresses of SMS-200, NAS, static ip address vs DHCP). Note that the SMS-200 is not plug and play, and requires configuration and a basic understanding of networking (e.g. Decided to write this Primer to help people start their journey into the interesting (but at times frustrating!) world of a network player (also called network streamer). Based on the number of questions received, it was apparent that many people were still learning about how a network player can fit into the audio chain. Recently sold my SOtM SMS-200 (replaced with Ultra). If you’re struggling during the day and need something to calm you down (I know I sometimes felt really overwhelmed and anxiety took over when I felt ill / tired / hormonal) then Indigo Aromatheray ‘Pregnancy Care’ pulse-point has been really brilliant for me and it’s perfect just to have in your handbag.ĥ0ml rubbing alcohol (she used witch hazel) I was very lucky and my lovely friend Kate made me one, but if you want to buy yourself one I also love the Neil’s Yard Sleep spray. Having a sleep spray has also been great for helping me to fall asleep quickly, fall back to sleep if I wake in the night and just generally helping me to feel more relaxed in my bedroom. I always use Westlab salts as they have a great selection with different scents (or completely neutral if you’re having trouble with different smells!) I’ve been using bath salts for a long time as they’re brilliant for digestion, helping your muscles relax and are great to help aid a better nights’ sleep. I have spent SO much time in the bath since being pregnant and having a (warm, not hot) bath in the evening really helps to restore you and helps you sleep well. People really make pregnancy look easy….and you definitely have days (which can turn into weeks) where you feel totally normal, but it can sometimes be a bit of a challenge to remain energetic whilst being well-rested, well nourished and keep going with your busy day-to-day lives.Īside from the bacon sandwiches which really were an essential some days, here are a few of the things which I found really helped me…. ![]() ![]() The interface is clean and modern and feels really easy to use despite all of its advanced settings. You can also grab a portable version from the download page one is in the ZIP format and the other is a 7Z file.īuilt mainly for people with code development in mind, so most of the features are centered around project files, displaying code, etc.īrackets is primarily meant for web designers, but can of course be used by anyone to view or edit a text document. Windows is the only supported OS, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It saves text documents to a huge variety of formats like TXT, CSS, ASM, AU3, BASH, BAT, HPP, CC, DIFF, HTML, REG, HEX, JAVA, SQL, and VBS. Notepad++ accepts plugins to do things like auto-save open documents, merge all the text from open documents into one main file, align programming code, monitor open documents to refresh them as they change, copy and paste more than one item from the clipboard at once, and lots more. The Find option searches for words with criteria like backward direction, match whole word only, match case, and wrap around.Īlso supported: bookmarking, macros, auto-backup, multi-page searching, resumed sessions, read-only mode, encoding conversions, searching for words on Wikipedia, and opening the document in your web browser. It also includes a really handy text search-and-replace function, automatic syntax highlighting, word auto-completion, offline text-file conversion. This program can open nearly any file as a text document and supports lots of helpful plugins. Probably the easiest way to edit files with this tool is to right-click the file and choose Edit with Notepad++ from the context menu. While each tab represents its own file, the program can interact with all of them at once to do things like compare files for differences and search for or replace text. This program uses tabbed browsing, which means several documents remain open at a time and they'll display at the top as tabs. It’s really easy to use for beginners who just need a text file opener or editor but also includes some really advanced features. Notepad++ is an excellent alternative notepad application for Windows computers. ![]() Here’s what we know about the potential changes to our time changes. secretary of transportation must approve. Local governments also can request to change time zones, which the U.S. States may be able to opt out of daylight saving time, choosing permanent standard time. □ Got a hot tip? Pitch us your story idea, share your expertise with, or let us know about your sleep experiences right here.Īlthough dozens of states have considered legislation to end clock changes, only federal action can establish permanent daylight saving time in the United States. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, reintroduced it to the Senate, with a similar bill also introduced in the House.Įither bill would bring major shifts in our clocks, daylight exposure, and sleep if it were to become law. But in March 2023, not long before the clocks changed again, Sen. That didn’t occur with the 2022 version of the bill. So is daylight saving time becoming permanent or ending permanently any time soon? Not necessarily, as the Sunshine Protection Act still requires approval by the House and President Joe Biden. Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021, which would abolish clock changes in favor of daylight saving time year-round. On March 15, 2022, just days after clocks were adjusted to “spring forward,” the U.S. Learn more.įor much of the United States, daylight saving time is a part of our lives again - despite efforts to legislate out the time change. 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We only cite reputable sources when researching our guides and articles.Guidelines for our testing methodology are as follows: This hands-on approach allows us to provide accurate, data-driven recommendations for mattresses, pillows, sheets, and other sleep essentials. At Sleep Foundation, we personally test every product featured in our reviews and guides. ![]() The upside with these is that they are very effective against shields. Positioning is important with these, and you should try to place them in an area where they’ll hit more than one path. The Tesla Tower can be a difficult tower to use, as it has limited range and consumes mana on each pulse. You should opt for the explosion radius upgrade when the opportunity presents itself in order to boost the area damage. Overall, Mortar towers are effective against units with armor and health and tend to be weaker against shields. That means the attack could go to waste if the target unit dies before the shell hits. However, they are quite slow, as the mortar launches up in the air and takes a few seconds to fall. These towers have a lot of area of effect damage and are great against big clumps of units. Mortar towers are another tower you have unlocked by default, but you will need to draw the Mortar Tower before placing them. Slow is also a great upgrade to pick up for Ballistas, as that causes units to take more hits, and lots more damage, over time. Ballista towers are naturally effective against health but tend to fall off against units with shields and armor.įor upgrades, focus on plus damage to each type to get a head start and make them more effective later on in the game. As such, they are the most basic, but you’ll be using these at the beginning of every run before you unlock additional tower cards. All Towers in Rogue Towerīallistas are the default starting towers in Rogue Tower. Keep in mind that these are only the offensive tower buildings, and there are other structures available in the game that you can build like mines, mana siphons, and haunted houses, to name a few. We’ll also provide some of the best upgrades you can use for each tower to get the most out of them without having to save up too much XP. Before you decide where to distribute your XP for upgrades, you might be wondering what all the towers are in Rogue Tower so you can plan accordingly.īelow, we have a list of all towers in Rogue Tower, and a brief explanation of how they work. As we clear levels, we accumulate money that can then be spent on towers, as well as XP to spend on permanent card upgrades. From indie developer Die of Death Games, Rogue Tower starts us off with the most basic of towers, the ballista, where we must expand the board and fight off incoming waves of enemies. Rogue Tower is a roguelike tower defense game, a combination of genres we don’t see often. ![]() And in a way, the film itself is easily compared to that house at the center of their story. Chuck is seen shirtless a couple of times.Īre We Done Yet? is a sequel to 2005’s Are We There Yet? This time, Nick and Suzanne are freshly married and trying to pull their still-adjusting family together in a new home. And she wears a number of form-fitting shirts that accentuate her full-figured pregnant physique. Suzanne lounges in bed while wearing a very low-cut, cleavage-baring top. Nick also uses a double entendre when talking to a raccoon that has stolen his bag of corn nuts. Nick lifts his wife’s skirt … and promptly passes out.Ī remark about booties (for feet) is given a mild sexual twist. When Suzanne’s sudden contractions lead to a home delivery, Chuck instructs Nick over the phone to see if the baby’s head is crowning. The couple kiss-but Nick is called away by noisy raccoons on their roof. Later, Suzanne lights candles in their bedroom for a romantic interlude. When Nick and Suzanne are standing on a roof-side porch deciding to purchase the house, Suzanne says, “There are a lot of rooms in this house that are going to need breaking in.” Nick suggests they get started and moves toward his wife-but falls off the roof over a broken railing. Persons.” A young guy is held accountable by his older brothers, and he apologizes to Nick for taking Lindsey to a party without asking for permission. During a heated argument Nick fires Chuck, prompting all of the other workers to pack to leave as well, saying, “It’s called loyalty, Mr. Right before Lindsey and her family move, a bunch of kids from the neighborhood gathers to hug her and send her off. ![]() But in the end the two men recognize their common ground and give of themselves to help one another through their problems. Then, when a large fish pulls Kevin in, Nick (who’s afraid of drowning) immediate jumps in to save the boy.Ĭhuck, meanwhile, connects with Suzanne and the kids while driving Nick to distraction. “FYI, I think you’re a cool son,” says the stepdad. He takes Kevin fishing and the two connect. Nick apologizes to his family, spends time with the kids and selflessly serves them to make up for his failures. (There’s no question that the film uses physical repairs to draw attention to emotional and psychological ones.) When Nick wants to throw in the towel and sell their disintegrating house, Suzanne asks him, “Is that what you want to teach Kevin? When the going gets tough, you quit?” And he takes steps to repair what he knows is important. Nick recognizes how his frustration and negative choices have estranged him from his wife and the kids. And the importance of family becomes the movie’s theme. Nick, for all his bluster, sincerely wants to “become a true family” with Suzanne and her children. ![]() Tonally, it’s not great for the show that has become synonymous with the equivalent of your parents saying they’ll get you a puppy and then they get you a plush pug from the thrift store with an eye missing and some of its stuffing removed from its tiny knitted behind. While the showrunners could give us all an ending that will tickle that tiny fancy in all of us that begs for everything to be okay after such a slog through plots of murder and mayhem, we just don’t see it happening. There’s too much happiness and… justice going on. Probably one of the most feasible endings, but it still doesn’t cut it with us. Clap, clap… Clap if you believe! Is It Likely? It’s just a great idyllic vision of a future we could have if only we believe. Our favorite equally damaged characters tying the knot to unite the houses of fire and ice, Tyrian doing the job he’s the best at, Sansa gaining the power and authority she rightfully deserves after gaining her independence, and Arya playing swords better than all the other boys in Winterfell. Wouldn’t it be great if everything just kind of worked out? In this ending, we get the best of everything. It may be a mutual defeat with both sides regrouping for another battle.īut since we know the Battle of Winterfell is episode 3 of 6 and each one is about an hour and a twenty minutes long, we don’t see the Night King being the final boss.įeasibility Score: 3/10 2) A Fairytale of Thrones How that will play out, we don’t know, but we don’t think the battle between the army of the dead and the combined might of the Vale, Unsullied, and the forces of The King in the North has enough mass to spread out over the huge continent and consume everything. We don’t think The Battle of Winterfell (the one we see in the trailer) will be the last battle in the series. That would mean humanity has won and the Night King didn’t manage to spread his dominion over the whole of Westeros. We highly doubt Jon will be alone in the world, especially if everything else is dead. Though, we’d be really hurting for some other characters, especially all the powerful and alluring ones that Game of Thrones offered us. If this had been the premise from the start, we’d have still watched that show. While there’s no shortage of post-apocalyptic shows out there, there are none that feature the last son of a fallen king and the most popular beasts of fantasy turned evil popsicle. Nonetheless, we turned to our fellow Fictionphiles on Facebook, and asked for their best, weirdest, or most feasible attempts to spoil the end of this titanic series. The show, at this point, is a strange alternate universe from the one depicted inside the Song of Ice and Fire books. This is all the more difficult because the show moved well past the books in terms of plot. We know, because we attempted it in preparation for this article. With so many plots and subplots spinning around inside the Game of Thrones universe, it’s hard to sort through it all to figure out exactly what will happen. It very well could come in the teased climactic final showdown with the Night King and his armies, a sequence the cast has dubbed “The Long Night” because of its required 11 weeks of night shoots to complete, or during some interconnected plot of assassination and scandal. Because we’ve had confirmation that many major characters will die this season. I’ve got twenty bucks on every cast member, so I’m either going to be very rich, or only moderately rich. At any rate, the time has come for the internet to buzz with anticipation and theories about how the show will end. Why? We don’t know, holding a sword while wearing the moon-like locks of Daenerys makes me feel powerful and pretty at the same time. With April 14th fast approaching, fans of Games of Thrones are in full froth mode: breaking out their replica iron thrones, dusting off their platinum wigs, and brandishing their overpriced novelty swords. Brace yourselves, Game of Thrones theories are coming. Open CMakeLists.txt located in the root directory and change the contents to the following: cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8) The project should now fail to compile because it’s not configured for C++ yet. Rename main.c to main.cpp in the folder named main. This list is the most common folders that will be used for most projects.įor this tutorial, you do not need to add the components directory to the folder structure because we are not going to use any custom components. You can add more folders as needed for example a data folder to store HTML and CSS pages for a web server. components This is where we are going to add the libraries that we will create over the next few tutorials.All other components are automatically added as dependencies saving us from having to add all of the dependencies manually. main This folder is treated specially by the ESP-IDF when in the correct position.build All the files needed during the build process are generated in this folder.Changing these settings can cause the build to fail. This folder contains the configuration and task settings for your build process. vscode This folder is also hidden in a Linux environment. This is useful if other installations interfere with your ESP-IDF environment. It contains settings if you want to run the project and build-environment in a docker container. devcontainer This folder is hidden in a Linux environment and should not be edited. If you have not built the project yet then the build folder will be absent. You should now have a folder structure that looks like the image to the left. If there is no build directory then you receive a message informing you that there is no build directory to clean. If the project builds successfully then you know that everything worked correctly. It is important to do a full clean before you build the project. The next thing to do is to clean and build the project. At this point you might encounter a message to select or create a build environment depending on which plugins you have installed, do not select any of the options. Now you can open the newly renamed folder in VS Code by clicking on File and then on Open Folder. I’m going to name this project HelloCMake. To close the folder click on File and then click on Close Folder. ![]() You need to close the project folder in VS code before you will be able to change the folder name. ![]() To change the project name, navigate to the project folder using windows explorer and manually change the folder name to whatever you want to name the project. The downside is that the project folder and project name are set to sample_project which is not ideal. vscode folder are properly created saving us a lot of headaches. Select ESP-IDF: Show Example Projects Select the current ESP-IDF framework Select sample_project and click on Create project using sample_project Give the project a nameīy creating a project from a template all of the settings in the. This will bring up the list of available example projects. When available, click on ESP-IDF: Show Example Projects and then click on Use current ESP-IDF. Begin to type ESP-IDF: Show Example Projects. Open VS Code and press Ctrl+Shift+P to open the command palette. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. ![]() ![]() Some of the following links might be affiliate links to amazon. |