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Starships use good old antimatter, which requires refined copper. Apparently, there are other ways to get it. I really need to explore unlockable blueprints at some point. Anyways! Some planets have more copper than others but it’s not too difficult to come across. Your vehicles on planet use carbon for fuel, which is their substitute for oil. And…[Read more]

As we know, I’m constantly doing research on a variety of things mostly related to circuits and other bits of science and came across this bit: https://www.avnirvana.com/threads/surgex-zerosurge-brickwall-tripplite-or-what-kind-of-surge-protector-do-you-use.9205/

It was a pretty interesting read. My understanding is that the current into the…[Read more]

Finally got the chance to watch The Evil Dead and that was fun. Bruce Campbell’s acting was superb.

So this is very important in No Man’s Sky: in order to unlock the teleport point for a station, you must land on a moon, planet, or the station itself. When you warp into a system, you spawn right next to the station so I recommend taking five extra minutes to land on it. Forgot about that for a moment so now I need to go back a system and snag…[Read more]

Really need to rewatch Gotham at some point. It was really good!

Finally got to see Christine yesterday after it showed up on Tubi. Well worth the time but it did have some gaffes. For instance, Arnie stops wearing his glasses even though it was implied the car initiated behavioral changes as opposed to physical.

Great! I can definitely attest to the stuttering being fixed with the shader change. Did that back with the 260 and voila! Really should reinstall Oblivion one of these days.

Another item to add to our possible knowledgebase?

I do agree with some of the posts in that thread that it’d be nice to get better Source Engine updates. While it works,…[Read more]

Can definitely see about reviving things there. And definitely, a blog series is a good idea. 🙂 Will look into it!

Yeah, I’m able to run it at max settings on Windows without trouble. I only dropped the resolution down to 1080 as I got tired of listening to the fans 😛

Looks like this is a very old issue. Got some tips in there. I can say that…[Read more]

I’m probably going to need to start reconstructing the base soon. If you follow the initial instructions, you end up with a bit of a mess as you unlock the various base parts. Now that I’ve got a good selection of structures, I should probably start laying things out better. Going to take a lot of resources, though. Really need to start taking…[Read more]

Whelp. My settlement in NMS farms dirt. Unsurprisingly, there aren’t any systems that want it. They will only buy it for 40% or less below market value. 😛

And another Python classic:

Sorry for the low video quality!

ROTOR, Turkey Shoot, and Brainscan were all fun if you enjoy B-movies

Could be some driver bugs. I know the ones Microsoft ships are sometimes hit or miss. Have you tried downloading any updated ones from HP or the component manufacturers? You also may want to check the monitor manufacturer’s site. Granted, monitors are usually fine with the generic one shipped with Windows

Cool! Really wish we could get similar experiences here in Florida. Disney and Universal need to take note!

Right now, they’re pretty general. You can catch sharks, mud crabs (but not giant mud crabs), eels and the like. Interestingly, you can catch the same ones everywhere in the Universe but there are ones specific to planet types such as fish…[Read more]

Yeah, I always wear earmuffs when using the mixer. It gets loud! Especially when I’m whipping up egg whites or cream. Ten minutes of that is pure torture!

In theory, one could make an in-wall mixer. Would be much quieter and would like quite nice. Wonder why nobody has taken the plunge yet?

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Haven’t made pumpernickel yet. Probably should at…[Read more]

Excellent idea! We can look at starting up our own list for Walrus Stuff! 😀

On that note: etckeeper is a life saver when doing server updates as it lets you compare changes between software versions and quickly get back up and running when something breaks in the configuration files.

NMS added fishing a few weeks ago. It’s pretty cool but the skiff they added is pretty basic. There’s no good way to get on it other than jetpacking and it’s a bit of a hassle to move while you’re on it. Hopefully they improve it!

Despite a lot of folks calling them dead formats (they’re not and still have good uses), 4k Blu-Ray discs and SACDs are still widely available. The latter is mostly available from specialty stores but there’s quite a selection!

Quite fond of Sin City. Picked up the graphic novel last year and it’s pretty enjoyable. It uses mostly sketch art instead of traditional comic art and is also in black and white, giving it an interesting look. It really worked out rather well

Saw Demon Seed yesterday and the plot made zero sense! It wasn’t even the fun kind of bewildering. It…[Read more]

Okay, here’s a more public article: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247129/kitchenaids-new-walnut-stand-mixer-is-indeed-as-impractical-as-it-is-beautiful

Sorry about that!

The plot thickens! I just did a bit of a dive and they just removed the link from the site, the pages still exist. The quickly thrown together Wikipedia article from information gleaned from the paywalled article says it was due to permitting and construction worker shortages but, again, I haven’t been able to find any other articles and no…[Read more]