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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah exactly. The key combo was ctrl+shift btw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What moved them to pick the bigger devices?

Asking as someone who is currently trying to pick between the smallest options on the market

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY

Tell that to Microsoft! I remember people using Windows would complain their : turned into ± etc., actually I haven't heard that in a while now, did they finally fix that or just change the layout switching hotkey to something one doesn't accidentally press?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It's not bad. What actively bothers me is the incessant flashing of the whole screen for two minutes every two minutes or so. Besides that,

Fulgora discovery spoilerthere not being any enemy whatsoever
makes it less... special? deep? highlight-worthy? I'm not sure what to call it but that makes it feel pretty barebones so I wouldn't say it's among the best planets, even if it is a good planet

Fulgora resource management spoilerIt also feels wasteful to trash so much stuff just to get a trickle of Holmium ore, even if it's a fun challenge, it feels kinda wrong. I've just accepted that now, though, as there is no way around it and the near-spawn deposits are rich enough for it not to be a problem in my current save's production scale

Which is not to misrepresent how fun the unique challenges to Fulgura are to solve: very much in line with how Factorio should be, yet also unique. I did enjoy it (last night I spent some time working on the setup there and enjoyed myself) even if it's not imo among the absolute best planets :)

Curious how you see it. The Gleba experience was exquisitely frustrating for a while but I've come to enjoy it, even if I can see why someone wouldn't. But Vulcanus, for example, how'd you rank that with Fulgora?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  • 2 decades: Netherlands
  • 2 years: Belgium
  • 2 months: Finland
  • 2 weeks: Iceland
  • 2 days: United Kingdom
  • 2 hours: Switzerland
  • Somewhere between 2 minutes and 2 seconds: Netherlands, Germany, Belgium all at once

  • 6 years: Germany
  • 6 months: France
  • 6 weeks... this is getting tricky, Luxembourg is probably closest but not close enough to claim this tier
  • 6 days: Poland
  • 6 hours: Sweden
  • 6 minutes: I give up

I didn't realise it was a life goal of mine to spend 6 minutes in a country until this post, but now I'm not sure I can unsee this list. Maybe the Vatican is a good candidate for that? Italy can go in the 2 days slot, bumping UK up to 6 weeks another time. Germany will exceed the 6 years slot soon though, maybe I'll need to visit all sixers to get bingo on a row of sevens instead. And where are we going for 7 seconds? Another tripoint, does that count?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can never have enough socks. Many a christmas goes by where again nobody gifts me a nice pair of socks. People always seem to think I am in need of more books to read!

(Hope I'm somewhat correctly recounting Dumbledore's answer in relation to the mirror of Erised)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Before you buy the other plug standard for your place, please check legislation and insurance terms. It may affect liability if you install a nonstandard plug

Most devices I have are compatible with both, perhaps because Netherlands and Belgium are similar markets (because Flanders) and Belgium uses French plugs, so loads of products made for the Dutch-Belgian market will be compatible with both plug types. The only product I own that isn't French-compatible is from Germany, not sure if that's an exception or the norm there, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that it might also simply not matter which one you install since it's easy and common to make universal plugs for these two socket types

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The cross-section between high volume and easy to make

  • Vegan replacement products? Easier to make than animals, but low volume so it's more expensive than it needs to be (and often in a higher tax bracket, classified as candy or whatever)
  • Eggs? Needs healthy animals
  • Bananas are clones of each other. Might become an issue at some point, might not. Apples, too, but there's many more variants
  • Maize, tomatoes, potatoes? Grown by the bazillion, cheap, afaik needn't be clones of each other to get (something close enough to) the desired product
  • Rice? The pre-boiled stuff is afaik around the same price as the raw product, that's how large the volumes are
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just as a small note just in case, since this data is quite irreplaceable: raid isn't backup. Especially if the drives are of the same model, they're fairly likely to fail at the same time. Speaking from experience sadly

I use restic for off-site backups, hosted with a friend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Eyeing the replies, does not one other person here get results constantly flooded with content farms? They've gotten significantly worse

But then, I don't use Google so maybe this is still better than Google Search?

It started maybe three years ago, around the same time as LLMs became usable for this, but I'm pretty sure >50% are human-written still. Probably the LLM generates the structure (saves any time they'd have to spend coming up with plausible-sounding texts) and someone from a low-income country is contracted to make it look more legit

Of course, queries for topics that have a Wikipedia page get Wikipedia first, recipes get tons of big-name recipe sites, products get stores. But when there's no obvious market around a topic, 3~4 out of 5 results are content farms pretending to have useful information to show unwary visitors ads

(As an alternative, I still have to try Kagi properly. It seemed on par with DDG when I did a few searches last year, but then their payment processor refused me trying to load my account, support was unhelpful, and I've gotten sidetracked since)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OpenStreetMap contributor here. What address format isn't supported? Maybe I can help

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Tried OpenStreetMap? Quality varies by country though

 

Shows how https://www.factorio.com/galaxy grew over time. Also has a tool to show where your star is and find whom you're neighbors with :)

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