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Congratulations for going on this adventure! IMO, living for a few days now and then away from human development is almost like a spiritual experience. Occasionally reminding ourselves that there is existence outside of the systems we are familiar with really changes the way we see things. I've only been dispersion camping for four days at a time before -- this week+ trip you're on sounds like it will be great.

Alright, I never mention this in real life because it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but... the first time I dug a hole to shit in it, I felt like a different person. I was like, damn, I can do that. I just did that. Anyway, have a good shit. I mean trip.

Absolutely. I mean, I love the fact that GOG has DRM-free games. It's really incredible how many games are available without DRM because of them.

But I'm not going to make Valve out to be the bad guy here. Valve is like 99% of the reason why gaming on Linux is viable right now.

Valve seems like a great example of how, if you don't sell your company to venture capitalists, you can just be cool nerds that make good products. As much as I want DRM-free to be the norm, I'm also not going to vilify a company that is one of the best examples of not enshittifying right now.

I agree, and I absolutely love Sonic Adventure. I think I've beaten it more times than any other game I own, but the gameplay hasn't really aged well. It's probably my biggest nostalgia soft spot, though.

This is a good point.

They keep using the term "motion sensor," probably to avoid saying "this device that you will place next to your kid's bed has a camera and an internet connection."

(related community if that makes you nearly have an aneurysm: [email protected])

edit: OK, it probably doesn't actually have a camera, see comment below. I assumed it had to, since it mentioned detecting "hand gestures." However, that could mean that it just roughly detects you waving in front of it, which wouldn't require a camera. I still hate it.

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This same question you're asking is what made me realize that I just don't really like linears, so I'm not sure if my insight will help your decision.

I've never used Kailh Reds or Red Pros, but I did have some 40g linear switches and found them to be too light. Even if I wasn't getting misfires, I would notice the keys sagging a little bit under my fingers, which was irritating. And the only way to not have that happen was to get really stiff springs, which was also not pleasant. That's what made me realize that the tactile bump in tactile switches really has a functional purpose, so I just always go with tactile switches now.

I don't think it's so clear what some of the money is going to. From the article:

the package includes $3.5 billion for “essential wartime procurement” [...] and a $5.2 billion grant for air defenses. The ministry said the $5.2 billion for air defenses “will significantly strengthen critical systems such as Iron Dome..."

With Hezbollah launching rockets towards civilians, I am in favor of strengthening the Iron Dome. But it sounds like that $3.5 billion could be to resupply Israel for their attacks on Gaza, thereby enabling new ones.

The Juicero was seriously a major point in my personal ideological journey. Around 2013, I was still very convinced that Silicon Valley (and VC-backed startups in general) were a source of innovation that could do a lot of good in the world. I was starting to question that a little bit because I had noticed that every new startup was described as "like Uber for ," but I still largely believed that most SV startups were innovative and improving people's lives, or at least had the potential to do so.

And then the freaking Juicero came along, and I was like, "What the fuck? Do these people actually have no idea what they're doing? Oh my god, they don't."

Look, I'm not saying that if the Juicero didn't exist, that I would be some Elon Musk fanboy right now. Something else probably would have woken me up instead.

But in this timeline, in this current universe we are in, the Juicero made me see things differently. No one wants to believe that they were changed by the Juicero... but I was. And I... I... I don't know how I feel about that...

I've been loving RFF the last few months, it might be my favorite new thing I've found since I switched from Twitter to Mastodon. It also always shows you the artists' fediverse usernames so you can follow them, and they usually have a Bandcamp link if you want to buy an album.

They recently said that they could use some volunteer help. I haven't been able to check out what they need yet, but their matrix channel is #radioFreeFedi:matrix.org, I think that's where they organize things.

Yes! And if I remember, those races actually lasted 24 minutes, right? I hadn't played a game that did that before. I loved the fact that there was an actual endurance/focus element to that race.