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I like looking at butts more than heart shapes anyway.

Marmot Tungsten is on sale and is generally well regarded.

The half dome is great too.

The Alps Zephyr is criminally underrated in my opinion, and it’s normal price is very low.

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I use FreshRSS. Can’t say I love the interface, but with the open and standardized API, there are dozens of beautiful front ends to choose on any device.

For real? Damn it that’s going to be painful.

Never ask a man his pay, a woman her weight, or a data horder the contents of their stash.

Jk. Mostly.

I have a similar-ish set up to @Davel23 , I have a couple of cool use cases.

• I seed the last 5 arch and opensuse (a few different flavors) ISOs at all times

• I run an ArchiveBot for archive.org

• I scan nontrivial mail (the paper kind) and store it in docspell for later OCR searches, tax purposes etc.

• I help keep Sci-Hub healthy

• I host several services for de-googling, including Nextcloud, Blocky, Immich, and Searxng

• I run Navidrome, that has mostly (and hopefully will soon completely) replace Spotify for my family.

• I run Plex (hoping to move to Jellyfin sometime, but there’s inertial resistance to that) that has completely replaced Disney streaming, Netflix streaming, etc for me and my extended family.

• I host backups for my family and close friends with an S3 and WebDAV backup target

I run 4x14TB, 2x8TB, 2x4TB, all from serverpartsdeals, in a ZFS RAID10 with two 1TB cache dives, so half of the spinning rust usable at ~35TB, and right now I’m at 62% utilization. I usually expand at about 85%

Thank you! I was like, where are the supporting vertebrates?

Yes, sorry. That is what I thought, I just phrased it very poorly.

Doesn’t Kickstarter not pull funds until the project’s success?

Yeah, most of the Mars missions planned are around 900 days round trip, around 500 of which will be on Mars waiting for the next transfer window. All of them include the astronauts being well shielded from radiation.

My favorite city builder in decades. A few notes.

Pros:

• Easy mode is relaxing and quite easy.
• Medium mode is a fun challenge at first, eventually becoming fairly chill as you advance in skill and confidence.
• Hard mode is always fairly hard, especially on harder maps.
• There are many resources to manage, but none that feel burdensome.
• The game is extremely thematic, it feels alive with charm.
• Graphics are excellent, though sometimes graphical glitches can still be encountered.
• The water. It’s so hard to explain to someone who hasn’t encountered this system before, but water is life in this game, and it’s both beautiful graphically, and extremely well simulated by physics. Learning to control the water, and see the shortest paths to end water scarcity with beaver engineering is an amazingly fun and unique aspect of the game.
• Mods are well supported and the community is vibrant.

Cons:

• Not a ton of content. They’ve been very good about adding new mechanics (badwater, extract, etc) but there’s still just 2 races of beaver and a dozen or so maps.
• No directed experience. In similar games I’ve enjoyed a campaign, challenge maps/scenarios, weekly challenges, a deeper progression system, just… Something to optionally set your goals. There’s nothing of the sort in the vanilla game. It’s fully open ended and there’s only one unlock outside of your progress though the resource tree in a map.

All in all, I highly recommend it, especially at the modest asking price. If you love city builders, charming and beautiful art, thematic settings, dynamic challenge, and solution engineering, this is a fantastic game for you.

Other games I’ve enjoyed that scratch similar itches:

• KSP
• Cities: Skylines (but Timberborn has been far more compelling)
• Factorio
• Mindustry
• Planet Zoo (Timberborn has less of a directed experience, but is otherwise completely superior)
• Gnomoria
• Banished
• Tropico series (though I view this as more casual)

Get it and have fun is my recommendation.

Seriously. This guy thinks that regulators would have stepped in to stop OpenAI or Microsoft from acquiring a no-name 2 year old startup with two rounds of funding?

Please.

I use the Kishi and combined with the Steam Link app I’m hard pressed to understand why my friends all keep buying Steam Decks.

Apparently that wasn’t one of his MBOs, so we can infer the board is a bunch of dumbasses.

Just an offhand idea. If you look at the print in the thumbnail, you can see that while this clever brick-interleaving has eliminated the straight lines along the xy plane, the Z axis still has straight lines. Eliminating that so you have a “brick-interleaving” in all axis seems the most optimal.

Now we just need half-width extrusions on the outer wall!

Yeah honestly no idea regarding moderation. But the codebase is maintained by a team.

There is a team, not a sole dev.

I’m not saying everything is roses and rainbows, but this is FUD messaging being spread openly by the mbin dev team.

To actually reach the speed of light you’d be massless, so the only damage, would be from momentum transfer, at which point your particles would be reflected or absorbed like light.

But that aside, mostly I was referring to your statement:

‘Speed of Light’ compared to what?

Which is really not a concern. It’s the speed of light for everyone with respect to everything, or it isn’t the speed of light. Like, two beams of light going in opposite directions don’t see the other light beam going at 2x the speed of light, just at the speed of light with lots of time dialation.

That’s the neat part of the speed of light. It’s the speed of light for every reference frame, no matter who is looking at you or from where.