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Looks like we will have to carry two devices. Not that big a deal for me to be honest.

Yea, but a repeater drops your connection speed by half. Then again, even with a proper AP the speed may be bad if there is enough attenuation. Oh, I just though of something. Do you live in an individual house or an apartment? If it's an apartment then you may have problems because of interference from the neighbors, in that case you should look for a less used channel and set the width to 20MHz instead of 40..

Get a proper AP then . Bricks do attenuate the signal, but it should not be that much, unless the wall also had metal in it.

Yea, they probably couldn't get away with that - the E51 is packed more densely. If I absolutely had to have a smartphone, it would probably be some version of xpPhone or the Gemini.

I personally use a Linux server as a router as that allows me the most flexibility. However, such setup is not for everyone, so I have two alternatives I suggest to people: 1. An older PC/server with pfSense installed. Has a lot of features, but has a web interface so it's easier to control than my Linux server. 2. A Mikrotik router. Takes up less space and uses less power than a PC, but also has a lot of features and is very reliable. It may be a little difficult to configure compared to a "normal/crap" router, but that is offset by the fact that you will only reboot it when updating and the fact that you can do a lot with it. For WiFi my recommendations are like this: 1. If you need to cover a smaller area and do not have a lot of WiFi devices, then you can use a Mikrotik router with WiFi, they work great. 2. If you need to cover a large area and require multiple access points because of that, the I would recommend Ubiquiti UniFi series. I personally use a single UniFi Access Point. DISCLAIMER: I do not work for those companies, I am not paid to advertise their products, just that I really like them and will happily suggest them to clients.

Draugen, a couple of months ago. Good game, but a bit short.

Do I have interests other than MLP? Yes, definitely. I like listening to music. I have some servers and setting up my system just right is fun (especially nice when it is done). I build and repair electronic devices (really rewarding to see the built/repaired device work), mostly audio stuff and I prefer devices that use vacuum tubes. I like my car and doing some work on it. I also like to watch other movies and TV shows, particularly SciFi or detective stories. I watch anime too. I sometimes play games, mostly shooters and adventure games. I have general interest in old technology and I like steam engines, I drove 800km and paid quite a lot of money so I could drive (and fire) a steam locomotive.

How about a puzzle platformer game like The Lost Vikings, but with ponies? Each pony has different abilities and you need to use them to get all ponies past puzzles. It would go together with the whole "working together" part of the show. I remember playing Vikings a lot, I really liked it. Or an adventure game (point and click or otherwise). I like those types of games. Other than that, I can't think of what game would specifically need ponies in it or, conversely, what game to put the ponies in.

The fan noise of (some of) my servers. If it changes I may wake up because a changed noise usually means something's wrong. I cannot sleep in total silence so, if I'm on vacation or something, I usually turn on my laptop and sleep listening to its fan noise. OTOH, if the noise is repeating (for example, someone is snoring, a server spinning up and down its fans), then I cannot sleep.

Earl Grey tea. For me it's almost always tea (usually Earl Grey or regular black tea, though I also like caraway tea). Sometimes it's Coca-Cola, sometimes it's Baikal (I really like it), but normally tea.

When I was a kid, I had a (probably Chinese) copy of the NES and then a PC. I played everything on a PC (I liked Commander Keen, which is a platformer), so using a gamepad is a bit weird to me. I think Chantelise was a game that made me try using a gamepad (since it was obviously designed for a gamepad and its analog controls), but IIRC playing with a keyboard was still less weird. I sometimes play Recettear (another gamepad-centric game) on my miniPC (GPD WIN) that has a built-in gamepad. It's OK, but no better than a keyboard (better than the tiny keyboard of the GPD though).

Same here. I prefer keyboard+mouse (or a joystick for flying) instead of a gamepad. I usually play shooters and adventure games, I think that both of them are better with keyboard + mouse and only flighting games are better with a gamepad (which you can plug into a PC as well), though I do not really play them. I do not really have a console (a broken first Xbox that I don't bother to fix or use does not count). I do not like MMOs and games like DOTA and LOL, actually make that most online games. Playing a co-op game with a friend is fun though. I use arrow keys instead of WASD. I dislike VR - tried it, the tech just isn't there. I also dislike motion controls.

Also, make the villain smart. If he has the biggest army in the world, then maybe he does not need to spend disproportionate amount of resources in trying to build a super weapon or something to take over the world (which leads the heroes to destroy that weapon and defeat him because he has no plan B ). He probably can do it the conventional way. Also, someone like that would not capture and then release the heroes unless he has tricked them into doing his bidding (like Handsome Jack). Think about real life people who are considered evil - like Stalin. If you were enough of a nuisance to him to get noticed, you would end up disappearing - no second chances, no monologues trying to justify himself, nothing. By the way, what made Handsome Jack lose - over reliance on a super weapon and the fact that he left the heroes alive for too long when he could have killed them rather easily by sending lots and lots of robots. Also, the government described in "1984" - how do you even begin to fight against that?

Yea, after I built the bluetooth adapter for the headset, I don't need to replace the headphone jack. It was easy to replace on the 1100, the headphone jack/charging port/microphone module is not even soldered. It is more difficult to replace on the E51, thankfully I did not have to. Not really IMO. I do not always carry one of them with me, while I carry my phone almost always. So, I would either be taking the SIM card out often or would have to carry the miniPC all the time (and it is bigger and heavier than a phone). And holding the miniPC against my ear would be more uncomfortable than holding a (smaller and lighter) phone. Also, it would be problematic to build such a device - you need a phone battery to last a long time (well, at least a couple of days), but the x86 CPU in a miniPC uses more power than an ARM CPU in a smartphone. For example, the battery in my GPD devices last about 6 hours. Great for a PC, unusable for a phone. So it would have to be a hybrid device, essentially a PC and a phone glued together. But then using the PC and draining the battery would leave me without a phone too. There were attempts to do that, xpPhone is one of them. If you just want normal Linux and do not need x86, then "Gemini" PDA looks interesting, it looks like it has a keyboard that is very similar to Psion Series 5 (which I have an used a lot on the past), that keyboard is really good (at least on the Psion).

Playing on the radio: Joe Dassin - Si Tu T'appelles Melancolie

I like "Still Alive" from Portal. IIRC some background music In Serious Sam The Second Encounter was cool. Oh, and I really liked the soundtrack in Syberia.

Nice, I won't be alone Nokia E90, to me, is pretty much the best phone I know of. I can write SMS with its keyboard, it has GPS and it also has limited ability to browse the net. And I found an ssh client that works on it. However, if you want to connect a PC to the internet using this phone, you can, but it will be slow. I have a separate mobile AP for that (and a cheap service since I do not use it much). For work (calls and SMS), I used Nokia 1100 for a long time, but then I had to upgrade to Nokia E51 because there was a need to use VoIP for calls (and 1100 cannot do that). There is no longer such requirement, but I still use this phone for another reason - I can use bluetooth to connect it to my headset instead of wearing out the port on the 1100 (which I had to replace once, I also had to replace the plug a couple of times - 2.5mm jack is not very durable). I still use the 1100 for other stuff though. As for the mini PCs - IMO they are much better than smartphones because they are full featured PCs with full OS (Windows or Linux) instead of limited devices with "apps". And they still fit in my pocket (unlike, say, a tablet). So, if I want to browse the net I get the normal site instead of the "mobile" version or I can do whatever I can do with my normal laptop (even if it is less convenient to type on a tiny keyboard).

Nokia E90 as personal phone and Nokia E51 for work (and Nokia 1100 as kind-of backup work phone). I dislike the modern touchscreen phones. I also kinda dislike both Android and iOS. If I need to, I can just use a pocket PC (GPD Win, GPD microPC) to browse the internet etc.