This is based on a misunderstanding of how prices are set. The price is set based on what the market can bear. Costs pretty much only determine if the thing is worth making, given that.

It’s the same reason rent doesn’t go down when property taxes do. I mention this not to tear you down, but because it’s a common argument for bad policy.

I use separate buttons for that, but it has pages, so you could do something with that.

I have something similar to this, but I initially used an old android tablet running Macro Deck, an open source application that basically replies a stream deck. It has a good ecosystem of plugins for stuff like home assistant, and it was easy to add command line stuff to talk to custom electronics.

The upgrade path is good too. I ultimately switched it out for custom hardware, but it just sends keyboard shortcuts to trigger macro deck.

Thanks! Might steal that for my setup.

I’m not sure, but what are the wheels mapped to? Are they scroll or mouse x/y/something else?

I had one option for a backpack skin available from the deluxe version (don’t judge), but that was all so far. I haven’t finished any major quest lines though,

I’m for defederation at least until instance blocking is available. I’ve already blocked most of their communities from my feed, but comments have been really unpleasant since they federated.

It’s not really about the ideology as much as not wanting to have to scroll past endless political bickering. Rage addiction is real and contagious.

I think they made the right call too. It’s better for almost everyone. A lot of flight sim types are also techies, so I bet the mods will bias that way.

I’m having a great time, but I also love FO4 and No Man’s Sky. The toe-dip I’ve done into colony building shows that they put real thought into Astroneer-like automated manufacturing stuff, which is my crack, and something I missed in NMS and FO4. It’s also clear from the first city that they know how depressing FO4 is, and wanted to add more variety.

Story and characters are a cut above any other Bethesda game so far, but that’s not saying much. My wife is replaying BG3 next to me, and it makes Starfield’s writing look amateurish by comparison. It’s not the core of the game though, so eh.

Downsides so far have been that the minor planets/moons don’t have much to do, and that inventory management is annoying with how much crafting components weigh.

Ship combat is… Fine. It’s not as intricate as Elite: Dangerous or SW:Squadrons (for sim gamers, weapons are all on REALLY forgiving gimbals, which makes precision unnecessary), but not actively bad like NMS VR. I think it’s a good compromise, because not everyone wants to deal with a realistic sim in what is essentially a minigame.

It’s also complex, which is good, but adds some awkwardness to the beginning.

Love that cozy sci-fi. The Last Gifts of the Universe was also really good. Mostly a story about people in space.

As far as I understand, energy is conserved. Light inside a closed box will ultimately turn to heat too.

Scorn was worth a shot if you’ve already played Soma and RE. The mechanics are… Fine. The art is jaw-dropping. It’s like Amnesia if H. R. Giger had been the art director.

Don’t forget a bathroom trash can with a bag.

Spirituality is kind of an odd word because it can mean either “rigorous self-examination” or “crystal magic.” The former is indispensable. The latter… Not so much.

I haven’t read those, but the general tradition of Secular Buddhism they seem to be describing is covered in a ton of great books like The Mind Illuminated and The Science of Enlightenment, both of which I recommend.

There’s a difference between allowing speech about a thing and embracing the thing. This is a classic case of embrace, extend, extinguish.

If you’re interested, I’d look into what happened with XMPP and Google talk. XMPP was a federated chat service. Google Talk became compatible with it, and instantly became the most popular client for it.

It then broke compatibility slowly, pushing more people from other XMPP clients onto Google talk.

They finally removed it completely, and because they were the most popular client, XMPP users moved to Google talk to maintain their connections to other users. The protocol basically ceased to exist.

People are broadly assuming that’s Meta’s plan with threads and Mastodon, because it’s an extremely common way for corporations to get rid of open systems.

They’re basically /r/the_Donald.

After all that work they did to screenshot Twitter?

Because the same legion of full-time Eric Cartman impersonators smears the same hateful dogshit over normal comment threads. This is a lot more effective than individually banning every member of the inevitable asshat brigade. There’s room for instances that federate with them, but it probably shouldn’t be the default.

The problem is that the articles from exploring heads take an average of two sentences to reach an obvious and malicious lie. There is no room for discussion under those circumstances.

For those who don’t respect the authority of conservatives as the arbiters of reality, they have no purpose except as a glimpse into the abyss. It’s like having your stream of memes interrupted every few pages by a graphic crime scene photo, only with the dread that comes with knowing that the criminal has a wide support base.

We’ll probably see sooner or later.