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The problem

• I got "Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition" from Amazon Games.
• I have a 4K screen on my laptop
• Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is tiny in the middle of the screen

The game doesn't have an Options screen that I can use.

The solution

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<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Shared;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

/*
I couldn't find a clean way to extend Laravel's Query Builder, so this will have to do.
Reason for this file's existence: I'm tired of writing `addcslashes` everywhere I use the `LIKE` operator.

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<?php

/*
References:
* https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/9908/multibyte-character-exploits-php-mysql
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1401317/remove-non-utf8-characters-from-string
* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17992893/how-can-i-get-the-single-bytes-from-a-multibyte-php-string-variable-in-a-binary
* https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt
* Related reading, but not using UTF-8: https://shiflett.org/blog/2006/addslashes-versus-mysql-real-escape-string
*/

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"os"
)

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The Motorola Moto G10 is very sluggish on Android 11 (the latest Android available for it) due to its low-end CPU, low RAM (4GB), and what feels like slow flash storage.

The most annoying point is that I can't answer phone calls in a timely manner. It takes about 10 seconds for it to load all the code that can handle the "Answer" button.

I otherwise quite like its battery life, and don't miss the features of a flagship.

But I did manage to make it more usable using the Developer Options:

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<?php

// File path in Laravel project: `tests/RefreshTheDamnedDatabase.php`

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Tests;

/**
 * Quick and dirty database refresh for tests

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#!/bin/zsh

## This function exists because on a Mac the `realpath` program doesn't have a `--relative-to` option like GNU does.
## This file can both be used as a standalone command and as a sourced file to use in other scripts.

relativepath()
{
	local RelativeTo=$1 Path=$2

	if [[ $RelativeTo != /* || $Path != /* ]]; then

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// this is an "abstract class" pattern for Javascript

/*
extend `AbstractClass` (meta-class?) to declare your class abstract
define an `abstractMethods()` method in your abstract class to declare which methods child classes must implement
extend your abstract class as normal
*/

// the `AbstractClass` meta-class
class AbstractClass {

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// Ext4 leaves metadata allocated for directories when files are deleted.
// That isn't usually a problem, as that allocation is reused when new files are created.
// But if you leave lots of abandonded empty directories around, they can slowly eat up disk space.
// Note on "slowly": "very slowly". On my system (8 cores, nvme drive), it takes aproximately 10s per iteration.
// 100 iteration take 15-20 minutes.

// This program creates 200K small files, and then deletes them, after which it repeats the process in a new directory.
// By default, it loops 100 times using the `output_files` directory.

// If you run `du -h` on a directory that has undergone this process, you'll see that it takes a few megabyets of space.