Loved Outer Wilds, but yeah, some clever “time dilation” could be applied while exploring inside of planets or particularly complex segments or close to a goal. So many times I had to go into Ash Twin to try to finish a puzzle before the sand rises. It does help that translator pauses time though, and options let you pause conversations too.
Liked Witcher 3, but absolutely hated Gwent that most people seem to love. What do you mean players use their own cards? How could this be even remotely balanced? I ended up simply running out of cards three times I tried to play.
(The sentiment applies to IRL card-hoarding games)
Does anyone remember Dendy? (Famicom/NES hardware clone common in post-soviet countries)
33 years later, Russia’s hardware still only good enough for NES games. Incredible progress.
I love forced illiteracy. Instead of educating people (whether about scams, using computers, or anything), let’s just make everything “easy”.
Awful tax burden for who? I pay less total tax in NY because they do not collect local income taxes. And property tax and sales tax are pretty much the same as the state I moved from.
1 bed apartment for 2-3K statewide? Where are you getting this from? A nice 2/2 with a garage in a desirable neighborhood of Buffalo is $2K.
Good point, that never crossed my mind. Maybe because it’s an Ender 3 so most things are reachable from the front. And for power supply or motherboard connections, I have to flip it upside down anyway.
My last enclosure was a plastic bin upside down, lifted by rope and pulleys, and that needs lots of clearance upwards and was more of a pain than a cabinet.
The one in the picture does not have ventilation, I even said
Just needs an exhaust.
Which is what I am putting in next :)
However, I did a small ABS print, could not smell it outside the cabinet, and when I left it to cool for an hour, the smell dissipated somehow. I’m still putting an exhaust in though.
I’ve thought of building a Voron, a RatRig or another printer that can for inside its own rectangular frame into a cabinet too.
90’s “media centers” that were rigid enough and deep enough to fit large CRT TVs might be a good fit for a printer enclosure too (if you can transport them to your residence that is).
That would have been even easier, but looks like those cabinets are not sold in US or Canada. (Search turns up hardware and/or other storage cabinets)
From recently read Service Model
There is no reason why Central Services will not be able to fix me. I only did one murder.
He was a robot put out of work by automation.
And some ridiculous unintentially-funny parts of Our Worm Ouroboros (old timey fantasy) that I wrote down:
Corund leaned on the parapet and shaded his eyes with his hand that was broad as a smoked haddock
I hold this burg of Eshgrar Ogo as a nut betwixt the crackers.
why, there’s a proper man indeed: weareth a shaven lip too, which, as experienced opinion shall tell thee, far exceedeth your nasty mustachios.
As the fool thinketh, so the bell blinketh.
…had our army smashed like an egg that is dropped from a watch-tower on pavement of hard granite.
Fifteen ships, and every ship as full of men as there be eggs in a herring’s roe
For the laughs, look up Ford Fusion Energi [sic]. It’s a PHEV retrofit, so it has a plug, very short EV range (12 miles? - that is if you can make it run in EV mode), but the best part is the trunk - the entirety of it is taken up by the battery, with enough space for maybe a briefcase, not even a bag of groceries.
IIRC (from my coworker) Samsung had a feature where their phones could somehow emulate swiping a magnetic strip on a reader. This was ~6 years ago, so only some terminals had tap-to-pay.
IIRC this is the premise of the VR world in Ready Player One - it started out as a game, but ended up being the “default” online place, with millions of level 1 avatars running around safe zones, going to school, work, etc.
I had only one app that used some obscure map API that would work only with Google Play, and crashed with MicroG. All while even Google’s own Maps worked OK.
If you can root the phone, you can do it after an install. Did it on a OnePlus that didn’t have a LineageOS image at the time. It worked fine, all apps stopped complaining about Play Services being off.
Eh, all of them are cumbersome. Termux is an entire (sub)system, not just the SSH client, so it lets you do other neat things.
Conduit seems okay (no immediate signs) and borrows from Termux, but has a long AI-looking page dedicated to it…
And Haven straight up says
Qwen3.8-Flash running locally writes most of the actual code; the maintainer’s role is closer to that of a messenger between the user group and the model: listening, setting the agenda, and quality-checking
So yeah.
AGENTS.md and Claude as contributors
TBH I know ConnectBot predates it, and I did not look further into it, but it’s still sketchy to have it in an app that I expect to handle secure connections.
That’s what I went with after all :)
F-Droid (the FOSS software repo for Android) has been getting more and more AI slop too. Just yesterday, I was looking for a SSH/terminal app, and top/recent results have Claude as author.
Sometimes difficult to tell, but what I notice:
Edit:
Misommar was meh. Yes, it had a new and unusual aesthetic for a horror movie, but that’s about it. Cults prey on the weak and traumatized, we get it. I don’t remember there being much of a plot, just weirdness and violence for sake of weirdness and violence.
But then the bigger issue is all the ignorant people who start associating flower crowns and Nordic (and even Slavic) traditions with “just like Midsommar!!”. Same happened with Kazakhstan (" very naice!") and Eastern Europe (after “Hostel”)