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If you need a small, durable, few-buttons remote for an elderly family member or kids, I highly recommend the official Google TV box remote.

• It's cheap. Get it officially from https://store.google.com/product/chromecast_google_tv_voice_remote (avoid Amazon unless you are 100% sure it's made by Google, since their site is full of fake Chinese knockoffs which look the same but don't work well).
• Go into your Android TV's "System Settings: Remotes & Accessories" and press "Pair Accessory".
• Press and hold the Back + Home buttons on the remote until the bottom front of the white shell has a white blinking LED underneath it (you can't see the light until it blinks).
• The remote appears on the TV. Pair it.
• All functions work. Volume. Power on/off. Navigation. Back, Home, Voice Assistant, etc. Voice text input works too (but the apps must have a voice activation button, such as the Gboard keyboard or the voice icon in YouTube, since the remote doesn't have a dedicated button for it).
• The YouTube and Netflix buttons don't do anything, but they can be mapped via the free tvQuickActions. However, both buttons send the exact same signal (this seems impossible to solve on a non-Chromecast device), so you can only bind them to the same thing, which is unfortunate. But tvQuickActions lets you bind them to an on-screen wheel of up to 5 actions which pops up visually, so it's a great solution. (This is why I don't recommend the "Button Mapper" app that I used in the past, because it doesn't have such advanced features.)
• To see a preview of what that wheel looks like, look at the "preview images here" link below, and look at the "tvQuickActions panel". It's the leftmost part of the image; the diamond-shaped wheel. That's the only style available in the free app.
• For even more advanced usage, I recommend tvQuickActions Pro which can create beautiful Apple TV-style docks or other menu styles. There are preview images here. The "Dock" and "Horizontal menu with centered buttons" are the best looking ones. You can customize the styles in the app. Mine shows the actual app icons and has a dark, transparent background. I bought the app to be able to put a bunch of apps in a nice shortcut bar, so now I don't mind that both hardware buttons bring up the same menu bar. :)
• There's one more quirk that I haven't solved: The Chromecast remote can't wake the TV from sleep if you're using a "TV with built-in Android TV". This is because the TV goes into deep sleep after a while and stops listening to Bluetooth signals. The TV's own remote still works, because they send an infrared signal instead. My parents just turn it on via the old, large TV remote and then use the small Google remote. I don't think this is solvable any other way, but would love to be proven wrong. (This is probably not an issue if your Android TV box is external (connected via HDMI), because those boxes expect a bluetooth signal at all times, and will then just forward the wakeup signal to the TV via HDMI-CEC.)
• PS: During setup of tvQuickActions, you will be asked to enable its service in "Accessibility". If the system crashes when you enter that menu, you need to set the system language to "English (US)" temporarily (you can switch it back after you are done with setup). This is an old Android TV bug.
• PS: Also, tvQuickActions will ask you to disable "Energy optimization", and enable "Usage access" and "Display over other apps". All of that is done in the Android TV "Apps: Special app access" menu. It was hard to find so I am mentioning this.

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Android TV tvQuickActions guide (bonus):

Permissions

• You must enable its "Accessibility" service. If your TV's settings crash when you enter that menu, you need to temporarily set system language to "English (US)". This is an old Android TV bug.
• You also need to go into "Apps: Special app access" and do the following changes for tvQuickActions Pro:
  • Energy optimization: Off.
  • Usage access: On.
  • Display over other apps: On.

Creating a custom menu bar

• Go to "Custom actions: Menus & panels".
• Click on "Create menu".
  • Type: "Dock" and "Horizontal menu with centered items" look the best. There are preview images in the official docs.
  • Actions: Add all the application shortcuts here. Long press on any shortcut to change their order, their names, or customize the icons.

Improving the Dock's style

• Go to "Settings: Dock".
  • Dark mode: On.
• Go to "Settings: Custom colors".
  • Click on "Dock: Icons color in dock style menu". Then drag all the sliders to the right to make the icons white. Otherwise any custom icons/non-app shortcuts will use a horrifying, pink-tinted color.

Remapping buttons

• Go to "Mappings".
• Click on "Add button".
• Press the button that you want to map (ignore the on-screen notice about "ADB access", which is only necessary if a button fails to be detected the normal way).
• Configure the mapping as follows:
  • Button action type: "Usual action".
  • Single press: Choose "Menus & Panels" and then the custom menu that you've created earlier.
• Tip: You can also rebind other buttons, and you can bind them to directly launch apps instead. You can have different actions for pressing, double-pressing and long pressing the button.
• Tip: Some buttons, such as the Netflix button, may be hardcoded to always launch the original application no matter what. If you aren't using Netflix, it's best to go into "Apps" and disabling it, so that the button doesn't launch the original app anymore. Then it can be remapped without issues.

The adaptable nozzle is slightly wider than the widest regular nozzle (white) and has more power (better dirt removal). And it lets you tune in exactly how much water you need to remove dirt.

Unless you like the basic size presets, there's no reason to use the basic nozzles anymore after buying adaptable.

The existence of the basic nozzles makes it tedious to switch between soap and nozzles. It's 2 clicks on gamepad/keyboard instead of one.

LOTS of people complain about this!

Please add an option to sell or hide the basic nozzles when adaptable nozzle has been bought. I hate them so much. They're literally just clutter and extra steps to move past! They reduce the chill of the game!

Or maybe even automatically replace the basic ones with the adaptable. Because I do not see any reason why ANYBODY wants BOTH. People either like the quick presets of the basic ones, or the full fluidity of the adaptable one, but they don't use both. So a person can just go to sell/re-buy the adaptable if they ever want to switch back to basics.

The current game design makes an upgrade (Adaptable Nozzle) feel like a punishment/downgrade!

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Edit because some people claim nobody else cares about this:

Nobody?

Then what is this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1ofrdf3/comment/nlers8j/ from u/AlmalexyaBlue

>Using soap is the main reason I've basically immediately sold the adaptable nozzle. Before, swapping to soap was just one press, now it's two, and I don't feel a real difference between the adaptable nozzle and the four normal ones, it's the same key to swap from white to green that to adjust the nozzle. Long press to open the wheel isn't really better either so I just just sold the adaptable nozzle back

>I like the idea, I certainly see the appeal of it in theory. If it could totally replace the normal nozzles, I'd keep it. But turns out it just makes swapping from soap to normal less convenient for me.

And what is this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1oeec4x/comment/nl32uuj/ from u/needykoala

>I love the adjustable nozzle! So much that I want remove the regular nozzle from the cycle menu! I would love to be able to cycle between just soap and adjustable

And how about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1oeec4x/comment/nl4341a/ from u/berserkeremu

>I would love an option to leave equipment in the van. Regular nozzles would be ditched the moment I can afford the adjustable for my chosen washer and those awful leaning ladders would never see another job.

By the way, the adaptable nozzle has more power than the individual ones, and wider angle.

The Adaptable nozzle is literally all the other ones-in-one. It replaces all of them. And it still fits into roleplay of using softer jets for sensitive objects: Use the widest setting to make it softer for glass.

Here's some love for the adaptable nozzle:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1olj1jl/best_nozzle_interested_on_everyones_opinions/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1ofrdf3/point_of_the_adaptable_nozzle/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1oeec4x/comment/nl0ul7c/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerWashSimulator/comments/1v4nssr/comment/ozcd12q/

Lastly, some people said I am gatekeeping by wanting an option to hide/sell the useless basic nozzles. How about YOU'RE gatekeeping for denying that OPTION for me and all the others who want more convenience? It's literally the first word of the title of this thread: "OPTION". I am starting to think the entire issue here is that people here don't know what the word "option" means.

To move a single character one step to the right:

• Vim: xp
• Helix: dp

Need I say more?

In my top block, I have "Comment Code" which says that it's a "2x multiplier for Contribution Points when you Commit commented code".

So I made two groups. One with comment (Optimize 3, top), one without (Optimize 2, bottom). I unpaused them both at the exact same time, and gave them both the exact same amount of Coding Speed.

And look, wasting time generating the Char for code commenting reduces the overall Contribution Points more than what you gain:

• With Commented Code: Generates 3.42/s, worth 2x score, so equivalent to 6.84/s uncommented code.
• Normal Code: Generates 8.54/s, worth 1x score. So this is almost 25% better than commenting code.
• You can also clearly see this difference when looking at the Commit "Contribution" counters on each of these groups. Removing "Comment Code" is BETTER.

What's the point of commenting the code then!? The in-game node description says that the only purposes is to get more Contribution Points when you Commit Code. But you get LESS!

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UPDATE: SOLVED! Thanks to the comment below. The issue was that I produced 1 char (because I didn't see the tiny "1/2 char" text on the Comment Code input so I thought it only consumed a single char per run. But you NEED to produce 2 chars to fix the bottleneck in the Comment Code node.

Setting the IDE in the top group (Optimize 3) to 1:1:2:2 fixes the bottleneck. Overall Contribution Points production goes up by +35% (compared to not having it) when using the fixed, properly configured Comment Code node. So everyone should be using that node when you get it! :)

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Every day, there's new features, fixes and improvements.

I am addicted to pulling them and building the latest Zed Develop. It's just two lines. I use sccache to speed up builds.

git fetch upstream main && git merge --ff-only upstream/main
RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache ./script/install-linux

I wondered when I will ever be able to return to the public releases. But then I realized that Zed Preview/Stable is built from outdated snapshots with very few cherry-picked commits and doesn't even get those fixes until much later. Currently those public versions are 165 commits behind.

So I start my day by pulling the newest changes and rebuilding Zed Develop.

I don't know how to stop doing this. Please send help.

Edit: Help. In the 60 minutes since this thread, two more commits have been added to Zed. One is automatic detection of programming languages in unsaved/untitled text buffers. Now I must rebuild again.

Edit: Thanks for recommending the Zed Nightly binaries. I didn't know about them. That saves me the hassle of building! Installing the nightly also gives you automatic updates every day directly inside Zed itself. Brilliant!

curl -f https://zed.dev/install.sh | ZED_CHANNEL=nightly sh

The linked page is all the free models. How do you know which one is the best for agentic coding?

See the linked page for an example. The 1.17.0 Preview has major fixes such as:

• Adding lots more AI models. Ones that I want to use.
• Improved editor rendering speed: 7x faster.
• Reduced memory usage in general.
• Massively reduced memory usage when editing large files.
• Fixed a huge memory leak bug in agent tasks, where canceled tasks stay active forever in the background and grow their RAM usage forever (the bug report mentions 45 GB RAM wasted after a few hours).

The next stable release is in 4 days. I want to install Preview now. But should I stay on Preview? Or reinstall Stable later?

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Update: Thanks everyone! Lots and LOTS of people have said they run Preview permanently and that it's reliable. Someone even runs the nightly build and only had one minor issue in half a year. So the pre-release Preview is definitely an acceptable choice for a permanent installation!

I will stay on the Preview version. Nice to have bug fixes and features a week early. And yes there may be some new bug, but the Stable version has serious old bugs and issues instead (like all the ones I mentioned above).

After all, it's written in Rust and the code quality is incredibly well managed. Thanks everyone!

u/Snoak- I hope you see this. Your MDBLists are great, but there's a problem with incorrect ID mapping, so the wrong shows and movies are in your lists. I've sent a chat request about it, but since you're inactive on Reddit, I am creating this thread too just in case it reaches you better. :) I am personally terrible at checking chat requests.

The contents of a container such as Chocolate Smoochies (chance of containing Valentine's Fortune trinket) or the Easter Eggs (chance of containing elemental damage trinkets) is determined when the container SPAWNS, meaning it's NOT randomized when you break it!

This means that you cannot just save in front of a container and break it endlessly, because it will always contain the same loot. (This has been verified by me saving in front of a container that had a trinket, and seeing that it dropped 100% of the time every time I reloaded that save.)

This video shows that the loot is the same every time I reload the save game. I used my method of speeding up the farming of these trinkets (see link at the bottom of the post), and saved before every attempt until I had reached one that contained the trinket. As you can see, the trinket is there every time you reload the game, which PROVES that loot is determined on SPAWN, and NOT randomized when you break the item.

YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226F4dkluNw

Alternative video link if the YouTube video ever goes down: https://imgur.com/a/QeOAibk

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This is a followup to my guide about how to get these trinkets very quickly: WORKING GUIDE: How to save-scum the seasonal event food trinkets and other loot, to get a 100% guaranteed drop and save dozens of hours of your time!

• This problem started happening after I upgraded from Fedora 43 to 44. It was perfectly stable in Fedora 43.
• I use GNOME and my display output is a TV with VRR mode (variable refresh rate).
• My pipewire + wireplumber config files are default, unmodified.
• After a few hours uptime, the audio becomes extremely delayed. Let's say someone speaks in a YouTube video or there's an audio effect in a game. The audio will be heard 2 seconds later after the event has already happened on-screen.
• My only way to fix it is "systemctl --user restart pipewire". Then it's in sync again for a few more hours.

It seems like Pipewire builds a larger and larger audio buffer the longer my uptime has been. I have no idea how to fix it except to constantly restart Pipewire when it's too delayed... Any ideas?

• This problem started happening after I upgraded from Fedora 43 to 44. It was perfectly stable in Fedora 43.
• I use GNOME and my display output is a TV with VRR mode.
• After a few hours uptime, the audio becomes extremely delayed. Let's say someone speaks in a YouTube video or there's an audio effect in a game. The audio will be heard 2 seconds later after the event has already happened on-screen.
• My only way to fix it is "systemctl --user restart pipewire". Then it's in sync again for a few more hours.

It seems like Pipewire builds a larger and larger audio buffer the longer my uptime has been. I have no idea how to fix it except to constantly restart Pipewire when it's too delayed... Any ideas?