🚀 Dramatic Labs is excited to offer a special Captain’s Edition on Steam, alongside the standard version of the game. It includes a digital art book with over 100 pages of concept art and developer notes (in English and German). Plus, you’ll get the original soundtrack featuring ten epic pieces of music, specially...
I’m just really looking forward to that optimistic feeling of looking into a bright future. It’s what I always loved trek for and from the looks of it, Resurgence captures it.
Yeah, same. And man, I loved homeworld. Even spent too much money on that remastered collection with the mothership model when I was in college and shouldn’t have done it. But nah, not gonna buy an unfinished game.
Last year I needed a new phone. The Xperia V (I think) just got released and seemed perfect… But in the end I decided against it because of their horrendous update roadmap and large phone sizes. I’m not going to buy a new phone every three years and I hate phones that can’t be used with one hand - and despite doing a lot of things right, those two points are just not addressed by Sony. I want their compact range back and I want Fairphone levels of updates.
Yeah. That’s the one I considered more deeply. Still too big. Still only 3 years of promised security updates and only two major revisions of android. Nah, hard pass.
/edit just saw that I mixed up the Roman and Latin numbers in my previous post. Yeah, the 5 is what I meant by 5.
Tomorrow is Labour Day and next week on Thursday is Ascension Day. Most shops will be closed. But restaurants, petrol stations and shops that offer ‘Reisebedarf’/travel necessities will be open....
Das heißt halt, dass von 14 Leuten eine Person es okay hält, ihre Kinder zu vermöbeln. Das ist halt nicht die eine irre Person von nebenan. Ich wohne in nem kleinen Dorf mit 1400 Einwohnern. Jeder kennt jede. Die Vorstellung, dass hier hundert Leute ihre Pökse verprügeln würden finde ich erschreckend.
Hot take: you need to collect property taxes plus some reasonable amount of money to be able to afford repairs. Houses break. Five digits worth of repairs are common nowadays.
Yes, there are dicks who are landlords (especially corporations) but letting people rent your stuff for a reasonable amount of money is not ethically questionable. The fact that housing shouldn’t be something you speculate with to generate income doesn’t mean you can’t let people use your things.
Ich überlege, auf einer anderen Station im Krankenhaus versetzt zu werden, allerdings bei meiner Station haben die Mehrheit der Mitarbeiter Angst über Versetzungen zu reden, was ich nicht verstehe weil, was kann die aktuelle Leitung machen, wenn sie herausfinden, dass ich Stationen vergleiche und eventuell woanders gehe?...
Das hier ist wichtig. Dinge nicht an die große Glocke zu hängen ist legitim. Lügen hingegen wird dir auf die Füße fallen: so was macht dann die Runde und führt auch bei neuen Vorgesetzten dazu, dass sie dir nicht glauben können.
Ich würde generell nicht lügen. Wenn sich jemand in dein Leben einmischt: Grenzen setzen. Wenn irgendwas irgendjemanden nichts angeht würde ich das so auch sagen. Keiner zwingt dich mit offenen Karten zu spielen, genau wie dich keiner zwingt dir falsche Karten auszudenken.
Es ist ein vernichtendes Urteil: Der ehemalige britische Verteidigungsminister Wallace hält Scholz für denkbar ungeeignet im Amt. “Er versteht Abschreckung nicht, er versteht Mehrdeutigkeit nicht”, sagt Wallace, der Berlin zu Taurus-Lieferungen auffordert. Er äußert sich auch zu einem anderen SPD-Politiker....
There are sincere attempts to explain why things in the Alien universe are the way they are
But that’s not what made the original movies great. Not at all. A lot of stories are great because they do not tell certain aspects. Explaining it all just leaves you with nothing left to explore.
Being naked isn’t hot. Being partly dressed and suggestive is hot. You need to leave some things hidden to make it interesting.
I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?...
Um mal eine Lanze zu brechen… Auch Arbeitgeber sind Menschen (und gerade niedriges und mittleres Management sind auch meistens nur arme Hunde, die genau wie du im Hamsterrad stecken) und mit ein wenig Empathie kommt man meistens weiter.
Und was soll ich denn gesagt haben? Dass ich mich für mehreren Tagen krank melde, weiß aber immer noch nicht wie viele?
Also… Ja? Ich hätte das so gemacht. Einfach wenn du den Termin hast mal eben im Sekretariat angerufen und sagen “moin, ich habe am nächsten Montag einen Arzttermin mit einer Untersuchung. Den habe ich vor meinen Dienst gelegt” (das zeigt gleich jede Menge guten Willen) “aber wenn sich die Untersuchung verzögert oder sich dabei etwas zeigt, das weitere Untersuchungen nötig macht werde ich mich gegebenenfalls spontan krank melden müssen.” Easy peasy. Dann wissen die Bescheid und können schonmal planen und dein Kollege weiß auch, dass er evtl angerufen wird und für dich einspringen muss.
Also, musst du das tun? Nö. Aber es erleichtert den Leuten im Büro das Leben und macht den Tag für deinen Kollegen berechenbarer. Wäre also mEn einfach ein feiner Zug.
Same. The Linux setup there is a fucking mess though… AD authentication freezes login for a minute or so if you switch networks at the wrong moment, puppet keeps messing with the system and recently they installed clamav as a live malware scanner on all machines, making them eat batteries for breakfast and slowing down even menial tasks. If you have admin rights, they refuse to add your user to sudoers but instead create a new admin user (another indicator that they’re just really coming from windows) which everybody just uses to add their original user to sudoers, which was a nice workaround but which they now noticed and want to prohibit via puppet or user rights or something. It’s just such a mess. I mean, still leagues ahead of using windows, but a corporate environment really is a machine that transforms time and money into a terrible experience for everybody.
Oh we have a dedicated Linux service contract with a dedicated Linux support company that has technicians just to deal with Linux issues and provide the Linux setup. We’ve had time to adapt. I guess some bloke still decided that there just had to be a malware scanner and now we all have to eat shit. This is much less a lesson for it departments and much more a lesson that the people who manage stuff just have other goals than the people working with the tools that are managed, so you end up with somebody who wants to cover their ass in case something goes wrong in the future and makes it a terrible experience for everybody in the process but can sell it as a necessity to the people below and as action to the people above.
The Porsche Cross Performance EXC 2ND GEN e-bike is now available to pre-order. This is a more expensive model, with a carbon frame and a full-suspension system. Other features include tires from Continental and a Shimano display showing your current speed and remaining battery level.
So, this just popped up on my feed and I’m that much into bikes beyond owning an older one to get me from a to b in my small town or to the next city, so bear with me if the question is stupid, but I always thought carbon frames were used because they are so warp resistant, thus losing less of the energy that you put into the system to bending the frame. How much sense does it make to have a frame that is expensive due to this property and combine it with a suspension that is supposed to absorb energy put into the system into warping springs to have a smoother ride? Like, it seems those are pretty much drawing the properties of this bike into opposing directions, no?
If the alternative is Windows which is increasingly filled with ads or Linux which shifts the burden of computer administration to a user who might not have a clue about what they’re supposed to do if their WiFi doesn’t “just work”, paying for a managed walled garden that doesn’t try to install candy crush without you asking for it isn’t such a bad option.
Giveaway! Win your Steam Copy of the 'Captain’s Edition' of Star Trek: Resurgence! (startrek.website)
🚀 Dramatic Labs is excited to offer a special Captain’s Edition on Steam, alongside the standard version of the game. It includes a digital art book with over 100 pages of concept art and developer notes (in English and German). Plus, you’ll get the original soundtrack featuring ten epic pieces of music, specially...
Why does a moon rock taste better than an earth rock?
It’s a little meteor.
Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended] (opencritic.com)
Focus (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Bayer asks EPA to again approve twice-banned weed killer (www.thenewlede.org)
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New German research shows EVs break down at less than half the rate of combustion engine cars. (www.adac.de)
Exclusive: Sony Xperia 1 VI leaked – Improved Telephoto, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, and more -mspoweruser (mspoweruser.com)
It looks like the improved tele on the Xperia finally.
chapter3_finalfinal8FINAL5.docx (mander.xyz)
PSA - Public Holiday ahead
Tomorrow is Labour Day and next week on Thursday is Ascension Day. Most shops will be closed. But restaurants, petrol stations and shops that offer ‘Reisebedarf’/travel necessities will be open....
Wenn Worte Kinderseelen verletzen (www.tagesschau.de) German
Landlord Forced To Raise Rent Due To Thinking Of Bigger Number (www.theonion.com)
Habt ihr schlechte Erfahrungen mit dem Vorgesetze gehabt, nach der Mitteilung, woanders im Betrieb versetzt werden wollen?
Ich überlege, auf einer anderen Station im Krankenhaus versetzt zu werden, allerdings bei meiner Station haben die Mehrheit der Mitarbeiter Angst über Versetzungen zu reden, was ich nicht verstehe weil, was kann die aktuelle Leitung machen, wenn sie herausfinden, dass ich Stationen vergleiche und eventuell woanders gehe?...
Bodycam video shows handcuffed man telling Ohio officers 'I can't breathe' before his death (www.nbcnews.com)
Scharfe Kritik aus London: Wallace nennt Scholz "falschen Mann am falschen Ort" (www.n-tv.de) German
Es ist ein vernichtendes Urteil: Der ehemalige britische Verteidigungsminister Wallace hält Scholz für denkbar ungeeignet im Amt. “Er versteht Abschreckung nicht, er versteht Mehrdeutigkeit nicht”, sagt Wallace, der Berlin zu Taurus-Lieferungen auffordert. Er äußert sich auch zu einem anderen SPD-Politiker....
With ‘Alien’ back in theaters, ‘Alien: Romulus’ director teases how the new film connects (apnews.com)
working on cover for my next solarpunk novel (slrpnk.net)
I’m swimming-with-mermaids delighted to reveal the cover of my next solarpunk mystery novel, Missing Mermaid. Right now I’m deciding how best to arrange the text on the cover. Do you recommend option one (author name on her tail) or option two (author name and title both up in the sky)?...
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Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
Porsche reveals new high-end full-suspension e-bike with carbon frame (www.notebookcheck.net)
The Porsche Cross Performance EXC 2ND GEN e-bike is now available to pre-order. This is a more expensive model, with a carbon frame and a full-suspension system. Other features include tires from Continental and a Shimano display showing your current speed and remaining battery level.
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
VW Teams Up With Xpeng To Build 2026 Lower-Cost EV Platform (www.carscoops.com)