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I've played an old Yamaha CPX700 for 20+ years and I really like it. But it feels like now that I'm older, have the money, and play the damn thing every day, I ought to be playing a nicer guitar. So I'm going to buy the guitar I'll play for the next 20 years.

I'm going to go try some guitars (J-45, D18/28, FG5/7, AC5R, D-40, Hummingbird, 414, etc - I haven't really figured out what I want but that's a separate post) but I'm wondering: how "nice" a guitar would you actually keep out in your home, rather than what you read in the marketplace ads "Always kept in its hardcase with a humidifier"? I don't want to get a nice expensive guitar, and then realize that the guitar I play every day is

I’m trying to make git annotate work in the sensible way which is like ”git blame --first-parent”. The default in VS appears to be the mode that follows branches which is rarely what you want (I want to know when a line was changed in master if I’m in the master branch).

Is there any way to do this in VS? Or any way too configure an external tool to view annotate?

Not sure how dumb to feel here. I want to play a breakthrough game on a normal matchmaking server, on a specific map. How do I do that?

There's both "browse servers" or "find experiences" (or similar) but both seem to be Portal related? How do I join a BT+Golmud game for example?

Whenever copilot (Copilot CLI) does anything nontrivial, it needs to perform 10, 20 or 50 different build/test/directory listing/etc operations over say 30 minutes. If I have to be there to accept every single one, then whatever it is doing, I could do in the same time!

It doesn't have a "yes and accept this command in the future" option either. And there is no global config file for this like claude has (as far as I'm aware).

How can I stop it from doing this? Can I make an alias to start copilot that passes in --accept="cd" --accept="dotnet test" etc?

Has anyone done this and has such a script handy? I'm using copilot cli on windows for .net dev.

I just want a YOLO mode. I can restore

I often sit and wait while Copilot CLI waits for some build, reads some command output etc. Not seldeom it complains that something didn't succeed and wants to try something else etc. I don't know if it's correct because I didn't see what problem occurred.

Is there any way to see the output that Copilot reads?

Often it's

Running some command ...
1 line read

Oh no that didn't work. I must try something else

Running some other command
2 lines read

If I could see what it actually read from those commands' output, i might be able to help. But can I? in some cases it pipes output to a temp file etc, and then I can go dig there, but some times it doesn't, and e

Would it be possible/feasible to use conversion operators as "extensions" ?

As an example:

I create a library that uses System.Drawing.Color, and an app that uses this library in a UI

Now I want to get rid of the dependence on System.Drawing in my library, because I want to use it from a different project where I can't use System.Drawing.
It's easy enough to make a new struct MyLib.Color. But then if I want the consuming assembly to still use System.Drawing.Color, then I would want to make an implicit conversion from MyLib.Color into System.Drawing.Color.

The problem is where to put this implicit conversion. I can't put it in System.Drawing.Color since that isn't my code. I can't put i

Trying to grind some weapons and wondering whether 50-60 kills in a round in casual is quicker to level up a gun than say 10-15 kills in a regular round?

I know they reduced the exp awarded for bots but how much?

I use VS 2026 with git and it's working well for most operations. But since 2022 and even worse in 2026, any time I do some big operation on command line "behind the back" of VS, I run into conflicts.

E.g. if I bring up my console (windows terminal, not inside VS) and do a big git rebase, then it runs for a few commits before it says

> error: Unable to create 'C:/dev/Pamir/.git/index.lock': File exists. Another git process seems to be running in this repository, e.g.

And so on. So it seems VS has some file system watchers (understandable) which are really REALLY eager on detecting changes on disk and starting _its own_ git commands. But I don't want it to. And I also don't want to st

I'm sick of buying WiFi routers that stink. I live in an area with almost no neighbors running WiFi (Detached house) and I still can't seem to get a good WiFi in a small wooden house. I currently run a pair of Asus routers (XT8) which have a dedicated radio backhaul etc but I can't seem to get them to work well.

Whenever I read tests of routers, it's invariably speed tests. I really don't care if my speed if the speed is 300mbit or 100mbit, what I'm most interested in is the WiFi never strangely disconnecting, weird firmware issues, mesh nodes dropping out, and so on. Some times I have my laptop (intel chip) show 10% signal strength and disconnecting sporadically when my cell phone has gr

I have authored a dwg file programmatically (Using Autodesks libs). I have taken care to make sure the db has the correct MEASUREMENT=1, that the correct .pat files are used etc

My demo file exports only a rectangle polyline and an associative hatch. The Hatch is non-annotative and uses a predefined ANSI31 pattern with PatternScale=10.0

When I open this in AutoCad (I Used LT 2026 trial here to verify) the hatch looks too dense. It looks exactly as if it has scale 10.0.

If I select the hatch and nudge it in any way e.g. change the scale to 9.99 then back to 10 then it instantly becomes correct.

Doing any kind of regen upon load does not help. Nor does making sure the objects exported h

Am staying there and need to get to a pharmacy to get medicine for my daughter but it’s a whole day project to get both to a pharmacy and back. If you’re going and could help a stranger out please DM.

When executing programs in cmd/ps there is suddenly output to the console stderr like

D_Lib: debug printing for files [.*] and level [100] is turned on
D_Lib: debug printing for files [.*] and level [200] is turned on
D_Lib: debug printing for files [.*] and level [300] is turned on

I think believe this is coming from CyberARk.

Is this a) A setting, b) A known bug c) Not related to CyberARk at all?
If it's a setting, where is it?

Is there a brand (EU) that sells electric radiators with WiFi connection and decent Home Assistant support?