This final solution is much better than the previous attempts, 10/10 very cool toaster

I actually saw those once! Was so confused what they were at first, I was visiting the USA at the time and they had them in some of their public toilets.

But then they also have a huge - intentional - gap in the doors on those cubicles, so that people outside the cubicle waiting to use it were just watching me poop.

It was really fucked up, and not just a one off design mistake, this was EVERY public bathroom. Mental.

What would someone do if they didn’t cook their own meals? Hire a butler? Just get takeaway for their entire lives?

That would be mental. Everyone, except the truly weird - or in special situations, home cooks the majority of the time, right? O.o

I also had an idea for a wifi network where a router talks to other routers in range to setup networks independent of the internet. The idea being that, if widely enough adopted, you could potentially cut out ISPs except in situations where the signal needs to travel long distances (like rural areas). The router would have an antenna for long-range communication, and then a second antenna to actually talk to devices in a smaller range. Kinda like meshtastic, but significantly faster (with the trade-off being distance and penetration).

There are open source projects in the works for just such a thing, I forget the details at the moment but I heard about them from the Meshtastic Discord funny enough.

Look up the IEEE 802.11ah standard (or Wi-Fi HaLow) for example, it’s a standard that can achieve pretty good WiFi data rates for quite a distance (enough that a neighborhood mesh would work well), whilst running on low power, sub-GHz hardware (like the Meshtastic hardware).

https://www.quectel.com/blog/what-is-wi-fi-halow-iot/

There are mesh internet projects using this, I just don’t remember their names right now haha.

Sadly while it uses more or less the same frequency band as LoRa in the USA (around 900MHz), I’m not sure how useable it is here in Europe given the band licensing restrictions. I’d like to think they’ve thought of that! But I dunno? I’ve seen HaLow hardware that only used the US band, but maybe other companies price EU equivalent hardware.

Sending multimedia via traditional text messaging uses the MMS service, which is ideal for very low resolution images, like sub megabyte, I didn’t even know it could support videos! Wild.

I suggest you add her on something like Discord, or WhatsApp, LINE, whatever works for you, and send each other multimedia that way :-)

Also depending on your provider you may incur lower costs and faster load times, too.

Most of these design decisions look like they were made to make the game incredibly bland and safe for a 5 year old to play.

Are you an outlaw or are you a big cuddly bear?

Who is this made for?

Put in my application for the beta last night, and grabbed Walker Patreon today :-)

I really love the vibes of this project, as someone who loves walking and needs to walk more, and someone who struggles with ADHD, and I’ve always loved RuneScape, this project calls to me haha.

I feel like my character was getting more exercise than me back then, I remember I used to spend a lot of time at the guild coal mine (with those bats), so much time that this is seared into my memory…

Welcome to RuneScape.

You swing your pick at the rock.

Why would you need an account to play a single player, non cloud hosted game?

In a nation so riddled with poverty, strife, and failing public services, where most of us are struggling just to keep a roof over our heads and get our serious illnesses treated, is it any surprise that things like this fall through the cracks?

It’s these sorts of issues that a first world nation should have the time and energy to focus on improving.

Unfortunately these days we’re a second world nation that still thinks it’s a first world nation. Heck, a not insignificant portion of us still think we’re as important as when we were the British Empire 🤦‍♀️

We’re delusional, we need to have a reality check on our new, smaller place in the world, and on how successful and wealthy our economy and our people actually are.

Once we come to terms with how weak and feeble we have become as a country, we can refocus our efforts based on reality - not on a fantasy of our past glory, and then hopefully backlogs like this can slowly begin to be dealt with ❤️

This was the game where I couldn’t figure out how to fly the space ship properly, and then I went to land on a strange abandoned space station and couldn’t figure out what to do there beyond reading some alien text that didn’t make much sense, right?

I’m sure I didn’t give it a fair lick, it’s just it took up 2 hours of my time and didn’t hook or particularly engage me up to that point, so I didn’t feel like going back in and slogging through the slow burn to get to the good stuff.

That’s on me I suppose, I should try it again!

Does it pick up and get a little more interesting and robust, at least? I’m not looking for hardcore shooter action, but like, I dunno, interesting people, engaging quests and cool places to go whilst doing them, and such. Something to keep me interested, you know?

Everyone’s different, of course, walking simulators with the occasional small bit of world building text to read just aren’t for me is all.

The really annoying thing is that these coatings used to be optional paid extras, and when I got some new lenses for the first time in almost a decade they quickly became blotchy and awful so I went back to get some more but this time with zero coatings.

Specsavers told me that’s wasn’t possible, that ALL lenses have these coatings now, it’s not even optional.

Glasses lenses used to last years and years, now they’re blotchy crap after only 3 or 4 years. Bloody ghets know what they’re doing. And ripping us off while they’re at it with their high prices £££

I am going to bang on so many apartment doors until the old lady that lives inside doddles over to answer and when I hear the key rattling in that lock I will flying kick that door off the hinges, blasting her unconscious, so thar I can take everything out of her wallet and her safe.

What was that? Is she a suspect? …Suspect in what? Hey did you see my cool apartment? I can afford a new sofa now!

Hell yeah, it’s was magnificent, and the expansions were better than the OC!

What news of the Waterdhavian creatures?!

These lot are fascist tossers, but let’s be fair, you can love your country, want to see it change for (what you perceive to be) the better, and fight the establishment because of that.

Take dissident Germans in the 1940s, or those setting fire to government offices, recruitment centres etc in Russia today. They love their home and their people, and want to change it for the better, and they believe this is their best chance of doing so.

I don’t think that’s what this fascist rioting lot are up to of course, they just want to smash stuff and be dumb racists.

But I think it’s important to remember that often we rush to frame extreme acts as inherently bad or unpatriotic, because we’re on the opposite side of things, or don’t have the full context of the situation.

Especially now, as so much propaganda is pushed down our throats these days - much of it stemming from our government - about how being an “extremist” is automatically evil, and not worth reading further into.

I’m an extremist for example, because amongst other things, I have the extreme opinion that we should nationalise all essential national infrastructure (water, gas, electricity, public transport, internet infrastructure, postal service, and such).

Am I evil because I’m an extremist, or is the government just trying to paint “extremists” as evil in order to suppress opposition to their way of doing things? Hmm.

Anyway thanks for listening! :-)

If you’re not capable of dictating what appears in your own company’s product, maybe that’s something to rethink?

Why would you think it can only be pronounced with an “uh” at the end? Where did that come from?

I could be wrong about how she uses her name of course, but I would pronounce it Cam-ahl-a, nothing the hard a at the end, as in apple.

We don’t say uhpple, we say apple.

Oh fuck a new Re-Volt? Yessssssss

That assumes you live in one of a small number of countries for which politics significantly shifted after one of those countries was attacked.

And also that you’re at least old enough to have had a reasonable mature understanding of the political landscape before 2001, so as to appreciate how things changed. Let’s assume that’d make you at least 20.

…So, we have to be at least 43 years old, and American, or you’ll assume we’re children?

Harry Potter actor? This man is the Doctor.

He’s a national treasure.

That’s very illegal in the UK and EU, oh my.