Planned obsolescence hidden behind a “feature”.
In ten years, when they want to pull the plug on this game, they will cite dwindling users and “exorbitant” per-user maintenance costs.
They don’t want playable legacies. They want something they can leverage for nostalgia marketing in 20 years, and if you break out the original game, they won’t make any money. Production companies want you to buy what they are offering today, because it pays for new yachts.
I enjoy it, though there is a little effort friction with deploying the tilt legs, but beyond that it’s a delight, and highly configurable, and well-supported both in the community and from the company. For example, the USB port on mine had some demonstrable connection issues after I received it; I contacted the company and they replaced it immediately under warranty.
While Oryx is a convenient online configuration tool, the firmware is open-source, called QMK (https://qmk.fm/guide), and it seems the project also has a GUI configurator.
When folded and stored in its case, the Moonlander is quite compact, though it’s not tiny. It will fit in a regular-sized backpack if it’s not already packed to the brim.
I specifically selected the Moonlander because I travel often and needed the small form factor, while also retaining the split design and large number of keys.
You’re right, and I was little ambiguous and unclear what I meant by formality.
By formality, I was suggesting that the US government spends a lot of time hand wringing about the budget, delaying for compromises, and then exceeds the budget anyway in certain areas.
They intentionally hold it hostage for compromises on other things we don’t actually want.
The budget is probably more a formality anyway.
I brought you into this world, so I can take you out of it! GO BRUSH YOUR TEETH!
Join Toastmasters and they will (quite kindly) help you rid yourself of this in a few weeks.
I’ve been there a few times over the past decade. It’s a major metro city with substantial tourism. The people there are just like people anywhere else in the world in that if you treat them with respect, they will reflect that; and if you treat them like smug shit, they will also treat you like smug shit.
The semi-popular reputation Paris has is unearned and based in prejudice.
But security be off committing their own crimes…
I am different from Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won’t.
–Mark Twain
“Stand of the tide” is offered by Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_tide?wprov=sfti1#Misconceptions
I used PiHole for a long time, then graduated to self-hosting a VPN so I could get as-blocking when away from my home network.
Ultimately I ended up using just AdGuard DNS via the DNS profile for iOS, and hard code the DNS into my home routers.
There might be a better setup, but this simple deployment takes care of 98% of ads.
If you’re on MacOS, you can run networkquality via crontab and append the results to a text file. I did this for a few months on a congested network to identify ideal times to try and do schoolwork.
E: A word.
Mi parolas iomete da Esperanton, y yo hablo tambien un poquito Español, pero medyo fluent ako sa Pilipino, ang wika taga sa Pilipinas. I’m pretty good at English, too.
What’s in vogue changes as the age demographic changes. Previously, it was spoons, now it’s 90s video games.
Having come from Apollo, the dev(s?) really focused on parity and it made the changeover simple.
This is the real value of agglutinative languages. We sort of try it in English but it doesn’t always work. I don’t speak German, but I recognize the word roots.
When I lived in central Alaska, I saw summertime temps of up to 90F (32C) and wintertime temps down to -55F (-48C).
Summer was amazing; endless sunlight. 23.5 hours during the Summer Solstice. Want to play sports at 2am in broad daylight? Easy.
Winter was also amazing, but with the serious understanding that venturing outside without the proper life safety equipment (proper cold weather gear and communication with someone about your whereabouts and route), you could die in about an hour. But those Auroras… a stunning, and gorgeous midnight sentinel dancing above your head—absolutely worth it.
I miss it.
The author needed the word count lol