Someone I know got screwed over when 3G shut down. Their business used an alarm system with a 3G modem (using a cheap data-only SIM card).
The “updated” version requires subscriptions, an app, and goes through manufacturer’s servers, so more expensive, and several more points of failure.
Ironically the free-but-with-ads Tubi is the least bad when it comes to UI. They have categories with exhaustive lists, and even labels for movies highly rated on RottenTomatoes.
Netflix sucked for a while (don’t have it anymore). Apple TV is absolute shit now (subbed for a month to watch a few shows)
Thank you for the warning, that sounds incredibly frustrating. I see Blue Prince recommended alongside Outer Wilds as “knowledge based” puzzle games, but it does not sound fun now.
I also could not get through it and gave up. Some roguelites (Everspace) give you enough upgrades to at give you a better chance of making it to the end (and/or to breeze through the beginning), but weapons, upgrades and blessings in Hades seemed rather marginal, and I am not that good.
Destructible walls. It’s possible to destroy some walls, but that is not in the manual nor hinted at in a classic way (discoloration or cracks). You can complete the game without knowing that. It simply did not occur to me to throw dynamite at blank walls.
But you need to destroy a wall to get to a fairy puzzle.
Invincibility toggle is nice to have, but even more of a statement of how bad the balance is. (Didn’t need to use it though - found an exploit to instakill the quarry boss :)
Not an avid gamer and play mostly indie.
Tunic. Was recommended for fans of Outer Wilds (fantastic game), but I see no similarities. Tunic’s cover art looks like a Zelda ripoff, world borrows from Hyper Light Drifter, and the game plays like a Zelda + Hyper Light Drifter ripoff, but very poorly tested, unfair, and misleading at times. I get the impression that game designers had zero external opinions and very little playtesting.
Exploration is “bump into every nook and cranny to find a way forward”. Bosses are absurdly difficult, clearly catering to the “git gud” crowd, and do not feel fair (as a counterexample, HLD felt difficult but fair). Puzzles are all backloaded to the latter half of the game, they are mostly fun, but at least one relies on a mechanic that is never hinted at nor used in the game otherwise. The untranslated manual, main gimmick of the game, is misleading at times. Midgame apocalypse / dark world is not that, it’s… Night time (not putting the spoiler because that is just absurdity)
Yes, I finished it, and got the good ending, which only elicited “Um, ok?” from me.
The shape goes into the shape press that presses the shape into pressed shape.
People already have been brainwashed on “how many years of security updates does this smartphone model have?”, and being paranoid about older-than-a-few-years devices, so you’re not far off.
(Not trying to diminish the necessity of software security updates, but at the same time I could not find any Android exploits that do not involve users installing malicious apps, supply chain attacks, or state actors)
If those “improperly adjusted” or pointing forward headlights weren’t the same height as my eyes, they would not be a problem. Which is my exact point.
A thought occured to me the other day: there is absolutely no reason that headlights have to be on the upper part of the front grille. Mount them as close to the ground as possible. (Like busses and some cargo trucks) At least it will address a situation where pickup truck / SUV headlights are at eye level for drivers of anything smaller.
Of course! Dark Streets on Lexaloffle
Plays in browser, you can see the code right there too, or LMK if you want a more-commented version (had to remove comments to save space)
Ukrainians would also want to rm rf
I wrote a computer game (including the engine), and matrix / vector math plays a key role in movement and rendering. Definitely needed some refreshers, but the good thing is it is not abstract anymore like it was in school, all math things are directly relevant to in-game objects and mechanics.
First we had Merlin Appholes who would submit misidentified and similar sounds as “sightings”, but Cornell tightened the tolerances on the recognition model.
Now this. But to be fair, even before AI there was a subset of “birders” who loved to exagerrate via ignorance. Cardinal = scarlet tanager (it’s red), american robin = baltimore oriole (duh, orange), red-winged blackbird = Bobolink (it says this meadow has Bobolinks, therefore, any large bird on grass = bobolink), and so on.
Just a fair warning: Element (Matrix client) also had issues with notifications not appearing in time, or attachments/images not loading. (This is on a self-hosted Synapse with a handful of people and 1 bridge).
I haven’t kept up much with new developments, but last I remember, hosting the official Element Server Suite Community requires Kubernetes. Third-party servers or some install scripts are an option though.
These are so bad they cause integer underflow, making them good again.
You will make a great father.
(USA)
Less lawn care and more native plants: save money on fertilizer, save time on mowing, grass looks better too, you get fireflies and birds.
Own tomatoes taste much better. And they grow like weeds in subtropical regions of the US, so very little effort needed there.
Repair and DIY: You want to get ripped off by some person who will also put minimum effort into fixing your house or things? Or worse, company salesman who will wear you out with endless speeches until you agree? “Want it done right? Do it yourself”.
Solar power: This is MY power.
No car / smaller car / older car: Gas is expensive (ironic for Americans, I know, but it’s a common complaint)
Smaller house / apartment: Save lots of money on heating and cooling, pay less taxes and lower insurance rates.
But to even get this far, we have to somehow overcome cultural norms, such as: my neighbor(s) whose hobby is mowing the grass twice a week; people ordering shit on Amazon as the default; stupid laws about solar; wanting a bigger car, house, yard for no practical reason.
And I can’t find a good selfish argument against big tech and AI - it’s free, and most people are indifferent about external costs and surveillance.
I used porkbun, and never had to upload an ID (but I am in USA). IIRC still need to provide an address, but they mask WHOIS.
This reminds me of “bugoga” from the olden days.
(Circa 2007 on bashorgru, there was a meme about writing “bugoga” into a text file, renaming it to exe and then running it. That made the cursor jump around the console and if you had a connected matrix printer, it would start going crazy - something about writing spaces to all available output in an endless loop)