I heard Cartman say it’s ok to use it now and he is my moral compass.

Counterpoint: you could not have TPM and secure boot requirements that needlessly alienates a large player base of Linux users.

Seeing any em dash in the wild makes me immediately suspicious

I’m going to have to watch the episode again to give it a fair chance, but I think I agree. The characters were acting pretty much exactly like the teenagers you see in a cliche slasher film.

I know that the episode has to happen, but discovering a facility like they did during a dig should have called for a thorough study before proceeding, but they just strolled in. Chapel even gave a sample of her blood to an unknown alien mechanism just to see if the door would open.

Then when they walk in the first thing they should see are a couple of corpses lying on the ground, but it takes them several minutes of wandering around the room before noticing. Scanning the bodies reveals that they died a long time ago of starvation; possibly a hint that they were trapped and sealed in maybe? At this point Spock should have deduced that the door was going to lock.

They also lost contact with the Enterprise pretty much immediately, but with the front door still wide open it doesn’t occur to them that it might be a good idea to set up a comms relay. These are 8 skilled professionals that just waltzed in here without a plan or backup, and then lost contact with their only support and chose to keep going anyway.

And then Gamble, in full view of everybody, and after just hearing the chief of security say not to touch anything, grabs the shiny glowing orange sphere of destiny and holds it up for a good last look.

From here most of the rest of the episode is actually really good. I enjoyed the puzzle of them figuring out that they’re all still in the same room.

I didn’t enjoy so much the explanation that Gamble is brain dead but is somehow still being controlled by a non-corporeal being. If his body is moving around then surely there are still signals in his brain indicating life. I suppose this could be explained by the entity taking control of his lower brain functions only.

And finally I don’t know why they made such a big deal about crossing the invisible bridge to reach the door. After taking a single step the bridge is revealed to be solid, so why couldn’t they have just stuck a toe out or thrown something to see what would happen? Or hold on to Chapel by the arms and carefully lower her down over the edge.

Just so many unnecessary risks taken again and again this entire episode.

I am in the piss area. I can confirm that we were just pissed on.

Build Canada Homes needs to have a program to help fund non-market and co-operative housing startups. Most property owners currently view real estate as an investment that makes them more money, but non-market housing discourages this mindset by keeping costs (and profitability) low in the name of affordability.

Cooperative housing isn’t even run by the government, it’s in the name; the housing is owned and controlled by all the residents collectively. The big problem is getting off the ground from nothing to purchase the land, potentially demolishing existing structures, and then building a multifamily complex.

Probably 135mm focal length on the lens?

In fact Gareth Coker’s soundtracks for Ori are so good, they are one of the few video game OSTs that I’ve bought on vinyl. That and Signals from the Outer Wilds.

Pure magic and they definitely helped make the games.

You upload your files as a jpg or pdf or however you’d like, then paperless runs OCR text recognition on it so you can search by keyword. You can add tags and categories to each file to keep them organized, and this way you don’t have to go scrolling through your cat photos to find last year’s property tax bill.

I kinda wish I could go back to experience the game as a new player again.

I have fond noob memories of not understanding that supercruise was different from normal space and failing again and again to drop on a station. And running out of fuel after only a couple jumps in the sidewinder, and after googling what to do, opting not to bother the fuel rats and self destructing instead.

My home base for the first few hours was Sylvester City in Eravate, but everything that happened after that has all become a blur of experiences.

Instead of relying on immich for keeping track of documents, might I suggest Paperless-ngx as an alternative

Immich is a photo/video hosting solution à la Google photos

For those who don’t know, you can wash cast iron with modern detergents, and as long as you dry it properly you won’t have any problems.

It used to be that dish detergents contained lye that would strip the seasoning off of cast iron cookware.

I adored Moss (mostly for its theme but also for the highly innovative gameplay) but I haven’t had a VR system in some time. This one might be first on my list to buy if I ever get into VR again.

Except Canada is going to have to reciprocate in kind. This is basic game theory, tit for tat. We can’t allow ourselves to get stepped on without hitting back.

Heyyy relax guy!

Boost for piefed? 👀

As a 30yo unmarried asexual introvert, I also get totally thrown off when people ask if I’m married or have kids.

A few weeks ago somebody straight up asked me what my wife does for work and I had to process that for a second before I could even think of a response.

The idea behind a ransom is that all parties need to believe with certainty that as long as money is exchanged, then nobody gets hurt. As soon as there’s doubt about getting paid or about being released, then suddenly there’s turmoil for any other party to hold up their end.

If I’m told I need to pay a ransom to get somebody freed but I know they may not be released even after I pay, then I may not pay. So it’s in the captors best interest to always release them upon receiving payment.

Then again we’re dealing with desperate, possibly evil people with no sense of morality and who will never have considered game theory before. Real life is messy.

I mean if the idea is to get people off of the matrix.org homeserver and onto smaller federated servers, this might accomplish at least half of that.