Same here. It’s not the type of game that seems worth the time investment, but it makes for a great video essay! Maybe some of its ideas could be re-used in a more polished experience someday.

That’s where I first heard of it, love the fact that he just outran the train for that one shot :p

I’m quite fond of Paneer Masala, but I had no idea paneer was so easy to make. Thanks for the write-up Nocturne! :D

I used to make Quark regularly at home, which is a soft spreadable cheese that goes really well with a jam on crackers or a bagel. It’s quite easy to make, and doesn’t require a press, just a cheese cloth that you twist to squeeze the whey out before eating, so should be pretty perfect for making in an apartment.

There’s a lot of different ways to make it, but the easiest/simplest recipes are the ones that just call for milk and buttermilk, like this one.

Nice looking setup! ^^

The purpose of giving Catalonia as an example is to show that an alternative to capitalism that doesn’t descend into authoritarianism is possible, as many are not aware that it even happened, and that Anarchist theory, when put into practice, really did work and wasn’t just hopeful pie in the sky ideas.

It shows that putting in the work to lay those foundations, even if it is a marathon spanning decades, is worth the effort.

They will never stop. A better life has to be built by the working class in-spite of the rich, and that can and has been done.

Gnome is quite good with dash-to-dock and the system tray plugins, but it does kinda suck both of those need to be plugins.

It’s available from a few other places according to its website, but I’m not sure any of them are free like the PBS source.

A deleted post will still remain visible to the person who posted it (it’ll have a little red trashcan icon next to the title to show it’s deleted), but it should no longer be visible to anyone else. And as Cris_Citrus mentioned, a deleted post can sometimes take a while to federate out to other instances so that it’s deleted on their end too.

I also don’t think it’s a bad question, and it appears to be generating an interesting and useful discussion, so thanks for posting it :)

I had not, this doc just happened to pop up in the recommended sidebar on youtube. That’s a great write up for it though, thanks for sharing it here :)

My family got this set off craigslist to replace an objectively better dining table set that just needed to be refinished. Tried using cushions with them, but they were still a bit uncomfortable.

Saying that, the OP set would unfortunately be quite the upgrade compared to all the MDF and engineered wood that’s so common nowadays :(

As a non-German who has never seen one of those, that actually looks quite nice, I’d gladly put that in my house :p

You can watch the full episode on Archive.org

I’m aware you started it asking about AM6, but I was responding to your comment farther below about regretting going with AM4.

I’m basically just making the case that you didn’t really make that big a mistake going with AM4, is all.

I was using the term upgrade just in reference to the relative performance delta between the two platforms from the perspective of someone deciding between which one to invest in. When I personally am making a buying decision between different tiers of equipment, I think of the more expensive option in terms of ‘if it’s worth the upgrade’, even before any purchase has been made, if that makes sense.

You mentioned that you regret buying into a dead platform, AM4. AM6 does not yet exist, so your only other option when building/buying a new PC was AM5, and I’m pointing out that had you gone that route, it wouldn’t have made a monumental difference in most average gaming scenarios. It only would’ve made a large-ish difference unless you were also able to afford a top of the line GPU and/or stuck with lower resolutions.

Did you mean that you wish you had stuck with whatever you had before you built your AM4 system and waited until AM6?

I’m not sure I understand, you said before you were prioritizing value and longevity. AM4 is the value king, and will last for many years into the future, especially as you have an affordable upgrade path to the AM4 X3D CPUs.

AM5 would only be a meaningful upgrade if you had fairly specific requirements, which would be if you prioritize low resolutions for high FPS monitors (with at least a 180hz refresh rate or above), and were able to also afford a top end GPU so that the CPU and RAM actually become the limiting factor for what the framerate will be.

Is the above scenario what you are targeting? Because if not, an average or good value AM5 system paired with the same GPU you have now would result in very little difference in actual performance, since most games will max out your GPU long before the CPU or RAM speeds can even come into play, and that will hold true going forward as well, since future games are going to be pushing the GPU harder and harder, meaning that is almost always going to be your bottleneck unless you lower the resolution to like 720p and put the graphics on low.

The PC industry is always going to try to push a sense of FOMO onto you for not having the latest system, but in practice old systems last a long time now that Moore’s law is effectively dead, and the pace if improvements has stagnated. We’re now in an era of computing where systems can effectively last virtually a decade between upgrades, and prioritizing the latest and most ‘future proof’ system now may only put off the need to upgrade by a year or two at most, meaning it may last 11 or 12 years instead of 10.

Future proofing isn’t generally worth it, IMHO. I doubt the difference in performance between a top end am4 CPU and a top end am5 system will be great enough that one can play a game well and the other can’t.

And high-end CPU power is generally only really taken advantage of by a small number of games, or at lower resolutions where the game can become CPU bound and push high framerates for high refresh rate monitors.

If you use a 1440p or 4k monitor, then an old CPU is usually more than adequate and won’t be the limiting factor; it’s the GPU that’ll be the bottleneck.

I find it’s better to wait until there’s a significant enough jump in performance to where the upgrade will provide a truly meaningful benefit, and there are games on the market that truly require that extra performance.

Are you often encountering games that your currenct CPU is not able to handle?

GIMP is honestly a lot better than it used to be, especially with the g’mic plugin, which is insanely powerful.

For Photoshop users, there’s also photogimp, which makes gimp have a Photoshop layout and keyboard shortcuts.

Though personally I use krita most of the time, which has g’mic built in nowadays.

One of those spray-can extension poles would probably work pretty well.