In USA metropoles during rush hours, maybe.

For people where >3 out of 4 stop sign encounters are uncontested, the feature is idiotic because not only it slightly wears out the starter, but shutting the engine off and immediately turning it on burns more fuel than letting it spin for those 0.5 extra seconds worth of power, and I doubt the catalytic converter feels that little difference.

Granted, I regularly see a few cars idling while their driver/passenger is buying cigarettes and it drives me nuts, but that has little to do with the start-stop system itself (and that *little* involves them disabling it).

At this point my muscle memory simply toggles it off as soon as the engine is on, occasionally I even manage to predict when I have to stop for more than 5 seconds and turn it on in time.

It seems unnecessary, they could just have its user-set switch as one of those factors rather than forgetting everything upon disablng it.

Some cars, like mine, only allow you to temporarily disable the start-stop system, and it turns on every time you (fully) start the engine.

In my car specifically, if you manually turn the system back on, for whatever reason you have to reach a minimum speed of 10km/h before it works.

Unfortunately that’s the case with all UWP applications, they’re deep-rooted into the OS

That would be “pasta puttanesca”

Checks out, “pasta alla puttanesca” literally translates to “whore-style pasta”

I beg to differ, unmarked sarcasm has the side effect of ragebaiting the less hinged of us, if done well - Starship Troopers wouldn’t be ¼ as good as it is if every scene ended with an actor saying “by the way, this is meant to be satire, we don’t actually like hypermilitarism”

Sarcastic comment or not, not knowing that you could use something other than Gnome (or what Gnome is in the first place) was the reason I avoided Linux as much as possible when I was forced to use it during my first year in university

Vntage Story is pretty neat, it does require a WAN connection to start it for the first time but AFAIK it’s possible to play it completely offline afterwards.

Beimg as mechanically complex as it is you’d think you need a wiki open the entire time, but the ingame “guide” has everything you need to know.

I don’t know about the state of public multiplayer servers, but it is LAN compatible and it actively supports modding!

The duplication never made any sense to me, I’m not aware of any OS’ mechanisms for ensuring that files don’t get fragmented;
idk about Windows, but the Slim version was just as fast on Linux when I had the game on an HDD - most of the mission loading time is CPU bound anyway.

It’s still a great game - it has a whole bunch of issues, but a fraction of the online community is making it look like playing it will burn your house down and frame you for the assassination of JFK.

Hey, there’s no need to be mean just because they have a þorn addiction

As Bungie demonstrates: you can take the studio out of the Microsoft management that makes passionate employees quit, but you can’t take the Microsoft management that makes passionate employees quit out of the studio.

It says “top left”? That’s wrong, it’s the top right corner

Impressive that they managed to get Gnome running on it

No, that one’s just Hunt Down The Freeman

Ah, a reference to the latest moist critical video

still 3x slower and annoying when dealing with slopes (= all the time) :c

My favorite part of the game by far - with the least favorite part being my friends demanding silly things like “making pretty railway pillars” and “bringing everything to a single place and processing everything locally”…