DuckDuckGo: Use us because Google is so evil they were banned in Europe

Checked my game purchases, typically spending less than £20 a month on PC games. A lot of my playtime is in games I already have or are FOSS.

Ill stick with slow cooking it until its almost falling apart

Yeah a lot of these games that try and do a bit of everything seem to often fail to entertain anyone.

Just accept that if your house burns down you now live in a tent on the same property. Until the local government evict you from your land for living on it in an unauthorized structure.

Or how ever your government does it there anyway, they don’t like it when people live cheaply and come up with bullshit excuses to justify it.

Why should it be an app? I would prefer a website, it works on everything then as everything has a web browser. We don’t need to harvest user data here so what would the app provide? Plus it restricts users that are not on apple/android

I quite like sandbox games so in those cases I would like it bigger, but at the same time I have no need for some main storyline to be in the game either. I want to be able to live in the world and either challenge comes just from surviving or things you find while exploring.

Planning on sitting in front of the heat pump in summer with the BBQ going and I can tell my partner to go have a really long shower. Really is win win, the hot water would be almost free with the hot air outside and I get a nice cool breeze outside.

It was PG in the UK, think they raised it to 12 more recently. But the US rating was PG-13.

Were they not allowed 1 swear word in each film to keep the same age rating in the US? Of course probably different for other languages, but I think this would be a good case to make use of it.

So we need to encourage locally hosted AI lovebots?

If you want a janky setup for it I have one for you and its probably slightly better than the fish tank condensation collector. Turn your heating to full power, then connect the heat pump to a tube that takes the cool air and directs it to you.

Optional: Watercool your sofa by putting a few PC rads next to the heat pump and they pump water round a hose pipe on your sofa. Turn off the radiator in the room you want cooling in.

I have been kinda thinking of the hosepipe watercooled sofa idea myself though without using the heat pump for it, just a bucket of water and a pump, put some ice cubes into the bucket. Or freeze a 2L bottle and put that in. Avoid thermoelectric, its inefficient. Passive cooling or perhaps make use of cooler underground temperature are also interesting thoughts. But in reality I doubt I will end up doing something like it and it just remains in the idea phase.

Allow parents to implement DNS logging/blocking? I did this inadvertently where I used to live in a shared house at one point. Set the DNS settings of the routers DHCP to point to my pihole.

Then a few months later I realised when I looked at the logs when trying to diagnose an issue that I had logs of everyones DNS history. I needed a shower after glancing at that. Trivial to bypass if you know how to of course, but logging it instead of blocking it means you are less likely to realise at first while a block is obvious and you can go on to bypass it.

I live in the UK, its always humid. You will end up with a condensation radiator.

Looking at the price I can hardly blame people for turning to alternative sources. Based on the wage there it would be like a bottle costing £150 or so here.

If people selling it on the black market are going to keep poisoning people it would be safer to make it yourself.

Cheap is relative. Was speaking to an indie dev who lost half a million of his savings on making a game that wasn’t very popular and eventually he had to stop working on it.

Just have a safety vent. But I thought they cooled off within days, not months?

Love my heat pump, although its not AC. In the UK if you get ground/air to water the government give you £7.5k towards it. Air to air you get nothing. I suppose it is quieter, but for the 2/3 days in summer where it goes over 30°c having AC would be nice.

What counts as a modern game? Been playing CDDA lately which is still in active development, does that mean it’s modern? Certainly isn’t AAA though. Been thinking of opening a pull request soon, had some small ideas the game could do with.

I go with do a meaningless job that requires minimal effort and is low stress while trying to maximise free time and the energy I have available to enjoy my free time. I don’t need lots of money, working from home I can often go for a bike ride before or after work, or in lunch breaks. In summer I have often gone to the beach for a swim before work and sat on the stones cooking breakfast with a camping stove.

My job has no real meaning, the pay is shit, but WFH + low stress is easily worth it