Caveman

“Copilot, download the latest drivers and make it easy for me to update them” and it gives you some Driver Helper malware

That’s a nice theory but the dodecahedron was found in across a wide region of the western side of the empire and primarily in military graves. There’s also the rarer icosahedron which didn’t have large holes on the sides which really jumbles up theories. I’ll give some interesting ideas for it’s use I’ve heard.

Cryptography, when combined with a disc-like key it could be used like “move clockwise after every word” like this guy speculate https://youtu.be/vBDgmE3d0aw. Notable issue with this is that it’s waaaay more complex to manufacture than required. You could make the first key with a hexagonal hole and the second key that slots into it. No dodecahedron required.

Craftsman proof of expertise, since it’s very hard to manufacture it can be used as a proof you can make it. But then why was it found a lot in military graves?

Artillery calibration, by using the holes you could put down rocks at 200m, 300m and 400m marks and see which rocks fits exactly inside inside the view when the two holes line up in size. Hard to prove and there’s no need to have such an extensive number of knobs on it to fulfill that purpose. Could save a lot of expensive metal by having it made of wood for example.

Knitting fingers, it’s not very convenient and suuuper expensive for its purpose.

Weaved metal, more plausible than knitting but if this was the case we would see scratches or signs of use along the holes.

Religious artifact or recreation, this is the archaeological “we don’t have anything better” explanation. Can be used as a fancy dice or for asking the gods or something. It only sounds plausible because we don’t have anything better.

This is why it’s still a mystery even though so many people have guessed, the knobs on every corner, difficulty to manufacture, cost, varying hole sizes and that it’s found in military graves is very hard to put together. It’s looking like we’re going to need to find a non-existing manual for it’s use.

We are both actively exploring the stars and the ocean. There’s still a lot we don’t know and there’s still plenty of species being discovered in rainforest all the time.

Bacterias and viruses are also something that you can never finish exploring and there are for sure weird creatures like tardigrades that are still undiscovered.

You’re just in time to discover genetics, epigenetics, biomechanics of nutrition, chemistry, biochemistry, how to make custom creatures from DNA building blocks, protein folding applications, mysteries of how the brain works and even math as mature as it is also has tons of undiscovered parts.

Sure you might be too late and to early for a couple of specific things but science discovery is absolutely exploding and random average Joe types are discovering things all the time. I think on the contrary now is one of the most likely things where you can just flat out discover something about the world that nobody has discovered before.

I wanted to be an inventory that makes crazy gadgets or as wealthy as Scrooge McDuck.

I thought it was obvious, 2026 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.

I was in the same boat until I started running. It’s very nice to monitor heart rate so you can stick to a target heart rate.

I played Game Dev Tycoon (2013) from the same people and it was really good, I’m definitely going to try this one out

Thats not true. Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value. They suck everything dry. Private equity is the reason why daycare costs so much yet the daycare workers make minimum wage.

I think we’re probably not on the same wavelength. Privately owned doesn’t mean bad, a one person owner operated plumbing business is not bad.

Publicly traded corporations are also really bad because the goal is increase in share price at the cost of long term success often. If you can show profit or revenue growth at the cost of losing customers by cutting costs that’s positive over there.

Single person ownership of a company where the person cares about the company providing good value instead of making money is very different from maximising profit or resale value.

So the dissonance I think mostly stems from the example of daycare that you made and your conclusion that private ownership is worse than publicly traded companies. If the daycare was publicly traded it would probably look the same since none of the owners really care about the staff. On the contrary an owner operated business often do care about staff and their development at the cost of their fiduciary duty.

Private equity would gut a business for cash. Publicly traded would syphon away all customer value to increase the stock price. Owner operated business normally does neither since it’s their baby.

… and Gabe N owns more than 50% so it’s not really the same as owned by Blackrock. It’s still a founder owned and operated company.

They’re a functional monopoly in my case since I’m on Linux. GOG is the main competitor for my money.

Private equity is commonly referring to “owned by a private equity fund” like Blackrock. It often involves extracting unhealthy amount of short term profit to make the numbers look better then sell the business so they can record a profit.

Ackshually, KDE is an organisation that makes KDE Plasma (a DE) and KDE Linux (a distro)

The increase in framerate varies from game to game. Hogwarts Legacy and Kingdom Come Deliverance run better on Linux.

Step one, write in a dream journal or just try to remember the dream as soon as you wake up. Doing this will improve your dream memory instead of it just fading away.

Step two, have a check to see if you’re dreaming as a habit. Holding your nose closed and breathing through it is a nice one since you’ll be able to breath anyway in a dream.

Step three, establish cues, like every time you walk through a door or whatever just so you’re doing it frequently, the more the better.

Step four, wait until you get a dream where you try breathing through your nose. You’ll become lucid instantly and gain control over the dream.

Step five is just exploration of how to maintain the lucid dream state. Generally it’s very exciting to have a lucid dream but excitement wakes you up. Spinning around in circles and trying to involve all senses such as touch, smell, taste etc will help you make the dream clearer and more real.

I used to be into this and had a blast flying around, teleporting, conjuring and whatnot.

That’s the beauty of it. You hate stuff but you can automate it away. You have a shortage but with more automation you can scale up 2x or 4x. You have logistic issues but you can use bots and when bots don’t cover it you can use rails.

We all want you to enjoy factorio maaaan. This game is magic.

You can tune the biters and make them spawn less, tech up slower etc.

IIRC you can also use the Rail world mode and turn the settings as if they are Normal mode since any cleared space will not respawn biters.

You can also turn up the resource richness and size so you have to expand less and then every now and then clear out an area. I used to be a bit turned off by the biters but now I’ve leaned into it and have have blueprints for making laser perimeter which kinda automates a lot of the biter handling.

Maybe you just need a mindset shift where the biters are another automation challenge instead of it being an intrusion. I really hope you get to enjoy this game, I can’t anymore since I have a baby now but I hope you can. I’ll for sure start again as soon as time allows.

Also, aim for 100% roboport coverage so you can automatically rebuild everything that gets destroyed. Then you can clear out something, paste a perimeter wall and continue on with factory stuff.

Wow, I thought the reason Adobe wasn’t on Linux was something more difficult than “Needs dependencies, files and an installer”. Since Wine is LGPL they could literally just bundle it with the software in an installer.

It just makes me think about how Adobe just doesn’t want to the bare minimum for Linux support and force people to learn alternative tools.

Most recently when I used Windows was because of work. I’ve been seeing these posts for a while now and I can make some valid arguments.

• Anti cheat games
• Adobe products (Web is not the same)
• MS Office desktop
• Work has processes linked to Windows specifically (server that only works on IIS Express maybe?)
• Big legacy codebase where they don’t match filename casing.
• Specific Visual Studio scripts or plugins for a DSL.
• Security requirements that need windows APIs (like mandating crowdstrike)
• Music production with a Ableton (it works but it’s not noob friendly).
• You have deep knowledge of Windows and getting up to speed on Linux would take a year without guarantees you have a comparable system.
• Your client is on Windows and you’re making a desktop Windows app that’s not cross platform.

Thankfully none of these apply to me so I’m on Linux but I can see how this is an issue.

It depends on the distro. Bazzite might get in the way since it’s a more closed distro if you want to do docker stuff. I personally managed but setting up extra hard drives that docker (podman) uses, but it was tricky. You’ll not have issue browsing the Web or installing most apps though.

Nobara might be a good choice although the user base is not that big so you might have to migrate in a couple of years.

Otherwise I’d stick to regular distros since they have great support and will stick around for a long time such as Fedora or Kubuntu. I’ve also heard Endavour is really good these days.

You should consider choosing a distro based on the Wayland integration since you can get HDR fractional scaling and variable refresh rate with them.