I liked it briefly, but it fell off for me. I feel like there needs to be an area to go to, or missions to pick up, or something that is a higher difficulty. I feel like a mid-range quality ship and weapon will do everything in the game without issue, and when you continue to get upgrades and suddenly everything the game has to throw at you poses so little of a challenge you could afk while being shot at with little issue… Well, it didn’t hold my attention anymore unfortunately. I really want to like it more than I do.

Amazing, thank you for the in-depth (but simple enough) explanation!

OH. So like, it’s a situation where the “lock” has 2 keys, one that locks it and one that unlocks it. You keep the “unlock” key on your person and never let it out of your sight, but let the “lock” key just gets distributed and copied anywhere because all it can do is LOCK the door, and it really doesn’t matter who locks the door so long as only you can unlock it.

That is very interesting. I still don’t quite understand how it technically works, because I thought if you encrypt something with a key, you could basically “do it backwards” to get the original information… This is probably due to getting simplified explanations of encryption though that makes them analogous to a basic cipher (take every letter, assign it to a number, add 10, convert back to new letter - can’t be read unless someone knows or figures out the “key” is 10) and now it is obvious that it is significantly more complex than that…

But I am much more confident that I understand the ‘mechanics’ of it, so thank you for the explanation!

Considering they don’t want your address or name, how the hell would that work anyway? This had to be a joke…

I find the best way to torment Linux ISOs is using the live environment exclusively to:

1. Bing search “how to burn iso to usb” 1a) immediately change search to “how to burn iso to usb linux”
2. Bing search “windows 11 install free iso” 2a) download the first link that is an iso
3. Follow instructions from step 1a 90% to the letter using the iso from step 2a, changing the 10% ignored until it “works”.
   3a) bonus points if you try to write the image to the same USB the live environment is on - if the “chosen” method allows this, congratulations secret ending unlocked, skip to step 6.
4. Bing search “is windows 11 free install safe” 4a) change search to “is windows 11 free install safe reddit”
5. Either unmount the live USB while it is still running, or just hard power down the computer, without even closing the browser.
6. Plug USB drive directly into USB power wall adapter and never plug it into a computer again.

Now, before you ask, yes, you absolutely could do all of this in a VM, but I’ve found it is more tormenting if there is real actual hardware wasted and/or at risk of damage. Linux is the natural enemy of consumerism, so buying a 12 pack of flash drives just to do this on a thinkpad over and over until the thinkpad dies really hurts the linux ISO to their core.

Okay, but like, if the carrier sees all your texts, don’t they also receive the public keys and can then also decrypt the messages?? I’m genuinely curious how this works. The more I think about it, the more I am convinced I don’t understand how any encryption works because the intended recipient needs the key to decrypt it, and if I’m giving them that key, but my traffic is also being watched… doesn’t whoever wants to snoop get the key too??

I feel like I have to be missing something because this just sounds like having an encrypted flash drive that you leave out in the open for someone else to grab, but it has the password written on the side of it in sharpie.

Oh cool. Thank you for the info. I hear people talking about RISC-V a lot, but was nearing the parks and rec meme of “I don’t know and am too afraid to ask”, lol.

Are the processors good? Like, does performance compare to the alternatives? (I’m assuming these are alternatives to like an ARM based SOC?)

That is unlikely to be the lesson the players learn… More likely they get frustrated and decide either TTRPGs are not for them, or that the DM “sucks”.

For the my layperson friend reading over my shoulder… erm, why?

Sounds good in theory, but imo it is SO much harder (and/or so much less fun) to run a campaign when you have less than no idea what the fuck the party is going to be doing next session…

I feel like you gotta know the party a little bit… If they aren’t the type to talk their way out of a problem, then the monologue has to happen from some relative safety instead of within arms reach of the not-paralyzed barbarian. Hold person exists. Magic Mouth. Message. Hell, a big ol’ balcony above the party.

Else you gotta have a back-up plan like fallout where the players get the information from a journal or something - maybe it isn’t as clearly laid out and it’s harder to follow the breadcrumbs but the party isn’t just lost in the wind looking for the next guy to punch.

with a pronounced first syllable

They are one syllable words…

That’s the first one… Wait, how do you think Cache is pronounced??

Damn it, it’s been too long and I forgot the name of slow fall… I think that means you won the internet today.

Hope you’re quick on the levitate, cause we are going to summon you off a cliff.

Shit I miss Ventrilo… Setting up custom binds so I could talk shit about the raid leader directly to the other warlock in the group just by pressing a different “talk” button was amazing. And I can still here the push-to-talk notification sounds… When the guild moved to Discord, I died a little inside and didn’t even know it yet. Yea, we have a meme channel now, but at what cost??

Gotcha, that makes sense. Thank you for explaining it!

I feel like every time Halium comes up it comes with qualifying statements (like “I don’t love Halium”). I don’t really know enough about it to know why that is. What are the problems with Halium that people don’t like? Is it what it does (or how it does it) that is the problem, or something else about the project?

I’ve mostly just heard they are a little under-spec’d in general, so performance is not great.