I started buying games after buying myself an OG play station. Even back then, I remember $40 and even $50 MSRP game prices. Their greatest hits line was discounted to $20. Final Fantasy 7, which remains an all time favorite of mine, was $50 at launch.

Their greatest hits line was generally priced at $20, which offered a way of discounting games after launch. IMO man games in Steam follow a similar pricing strategy these days - high launch prices with discounts later.

Note that I’m not advocating for the digital only model. Not being able to sell your games again is super lame.

In the case of the universal media server there wasn’t a need for an app. The PS3 found it on the network and it showed up under the media UI thing.

Very nice. Did you pull the switches apart to fiddle with the springs? I’ve never seen that many, or really any, springs in the same photo as a mechanical keyboard before.

Totally agree! Let’s celebrate the journey and not just the destination. Oftentimes, the journey is more interesting and you might not ever make it to the destination.

Go for it! Those sound like things I would be interested in reading about.

I’ve been (slowly) battling making a hand powered generator with one of my kids who’s fascinated by these kinds of things. I am going to try to put together a post describing where we are, why progress is currently stopped, and what I’m doing to try to get over the hurdle.

Years ago, I ran a universal media server that my PS3 interacted with fine. Granted, the UI was a bit clunky (folder and file based) but it worked. I haven’t locally hosted any media in a while. Does the PS5 no longer support this type of solution?

I could see that. We have a pretty old TV, so we don’t have a need for things like HDR.

PS5 (or 4 or even 3) is quite a bit more money, but it’s also a very capable media device that also happens to play video games.

As a recent modern Mac user, this experience is so bizarre and is always a little different.

I grew up on macs (thanks mom) and built a PC as soon as I had my first real job in highschool. I recently bought a MacBook for the promise of battery life and cool running. If only it was easier to get my arm windows laptop to boot Linux…

Another great option is kiwi. It requires cold weather though (does it snow in your area? Perfect).

Wait, what?!

Kiwi plants grow best in USDA zones 4 to 9, with fuzzy kiwi varieties preferring zones 8 to 9 and hardy kiwis thriving in zones 4 to 7.

TIL that there’s two kind of kiwi. I wonder how good the hardy ones are relative to fuzzy. This could be a fun experiment.

Haha, TIL that SQL is 51 years old. IBM mainframes were still all the rage in the 70s. My assumption is that government would have not been an early adopter, but I could obviously be wrong.

That sounds surprising modern. That’s good! Or at least I would think it is good. So many things run on mainframes still.

We have 4x raised beds that are 4’ x 8’ and live on the south edge of zone 7.

We start our whole veg garden from seed. It’s not that we grow very eclectic things, but the specific species we like are not available to buy at the garden stores around us.

We tend to have heirloom tomatoes in different sizes and colors, some type of pole bean (last years were purple), a few kinds of peppers including shishitos, mini cantaloupe, carrots, onions, etc. We try to do something the kids are less likely to know visually too, like artichokes. Last year we grew some luffas, although I didn’t realize we were cutting it very close on our growing season.

Edits: I’ll start some seeds pretty soon indoors. Others will go straight in the ground when it’s warm enough.

No problem! Ideally, the root flair would be the highest point in the surrounding area. If it’s a low point it will fill in eventually. Thankfully, you’re starting in a raised bed so it shouldn’t be too hard to remove a bit more dirt if you need to.

I would pull the dirt a away from the trunk until you find the main flair. Alternately, you can plant the whole thing a bit proud (eg sticking out of the hole some).

Often times trees bought in containers have been potted too deep and/or have girdled roots.

Genuine question: do they make money from AOSP being used on third party devices? Obviously they get revenue via the Play store, but you can avoid that by either installing something like graphine or an alternative store (Fdroid, Amazon, etc).

I was thinking the same :(

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition

There are many, many variants. The idea is the smaller player can’t really afford to fight in court, so even if the larger actor has shaky legal claims they will still win.

Eh, your account is still tied to an instance. That instance stores your subscriptions, as well as the vast majority of your preferences. If you want to get way into the weeds, that’s why Jerboa won’t persist comment sort order, but other clients will - there is a server side prefer for all/local/subscribed and new/hot/best at a post level, but not at a comment level.

The Frontier’s Q3 sales of ~16k were outpaces by the Ranger (21k) Colorado 29k), Maverick (45k), and Tacoma (57k). It did outsell the Ridgeline (13k) and Canyon (10k).

I know there are ebs and flows as models change over, but I don’t think either Nissan truck has ever been close to the front of the pack.

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