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mox,

I would love to see a return of wax paper instead of plastic bags.

mox, (edited )

And reacts differently to abrasion, high heat, etc.

The silicone-coated stuff is generally called parchment paper. I’ve never seen plastic or oil-coated paper sold as wax paper.

mox,

Wrong community, IMHO.

mox,

Sigh.

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You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and...

mox, (edited )

A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.

And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.

mox,

I found it uncomfortable on my phone’s small screen.

mox,

I’d suggest Mint. It’s Ubuntu minus Ubuntu-specific annoyances, so it’s right in your zone of familiarity.

Also, the Mint maintainers have a sound exit strategy (Linux Mint Debian Edition) in case Ubuntu ever goes too far off the rails.

mox, (edited )

given nvidia having a better performance to cost ratio,

In what part of the world? I haven’t found that to be true.

the power usage (big one for a compact living room system),

You might want to do some more homework in this area. I recall AMD having better performance/watt in the tests I read before buying, but it’s hard to declare a clear-cut winner, because it depends on the workloads you use and the specific cards you compare. AMD and Nvidia don’t have exactly equivalent models, so there’s going to be some mismatch in any comparison. In stock configurations, I think both brands were roughly in the same ballpark.

Departing from stock, some AMD users have been undervolting their cards, yielding significant power savings in exchange for slight performance loss. Since you’re planning a compact living room system, you might want to consider this. (I don’t know if Nvidia cards can do this at all, or whether their drivers allow it.)

Regardless of brand, you can also limit your frame rate to reduce power draw. I have saved 30-90 watts by doing this in various games. Not all of them benefit much from letting the GPU run as fast as it can.

and the fact that they have the potential for HDMI2.1 support which AMD doesn’t have a solution to yet.

AMD cards do support HDMI 2.1. Did you mean Fixed Rate Link features, like variable refresh rate, or uncompressed 4K@120Hz? You’re not going to get that natively with any open-source GPU driver, because the HDMI Forum refuses to allow it. Most people with VRR computer displays use DisplayPort, which doesn’t have that problem (and is better than HDMI in nearly every other way as well). If you really need those FRL features on a TV, I have read that a good DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter will deliver them.

Another thing to consider: How much VRAM is on the AMD card vs. the Nvidia card you’re considering? I’ve found that even if a card with less VRAM does fine with most games when it’s released, it can become a painful constraint over time, leading to the cost (and waste) of an early upgrade even if the GPU itself is still fast enough for the next generation of games.

I switched from Nvidia to AMD, and have not been sorry.

mox,

I wonder if this could open the door to cost-effective desalination, carbon capture, and similar projects.

mox,

There’s plenty of room for optimization in recent games, meaning that new games can be made to run on the hardware we already own for years to come.

There is (still) a unusually high profit margin in key products like graphics cards, meaning that a price increase on some of the input components can most likely be absorbed with little-to-no change in product MSRP.

PC gaming can survive this just fine, certainly long enough for manufacturing in non-tariff countries to catch up.

mox,

Some fairly well-regarded reviewers.

mox, (edited )

Talisman is a good game, but the UI in this port can be very frustrating, especially in networked mode.

Examples: It freezes with no explanation while other players do trivial things like viewing their cards. It tends to play out the consequences of die rolls and player actions with no indication of what happened, sometimes leaving players who don’t perfectly recall the game rules mystified. It makes examining board tiles needlessly difficult. It implements optional player actions with a countdown timer that is both short and easy to miss, often leaving players either wondering how to perform those actions or feeling cheated once they realize they lost their chance. It treats any temporary network problem as though the affected player has quit, and immediately takes over their character, so they’re left suffering the consequences of the AI’s decisions after they reconnect. It offers no way to go back and correct the problems it causes.

Most of these things can be worked around if you figure out the quirks and learn to predict them, but you shouldn’t have to, IMHO. If you plan to play with friends, bring good humour and a couple extra large bags of tolerance for bad software design.

mox,

Was it human blood?

mox, (edited )

Lots of VoIP services offer plans (usually pay-per-minute) so cheap that you might not need a “park” feature. A few reputable ones that serve North America: Callcentric, VoIP.ms, Anveo.

EDIT:

The cost to keep your number on such a service can be less than 1 USD per month, with all-electronic billing that allows you to pay from anywhere that has internet. With that price and convenience, many people find parking/pausing unnecessary.

If having to regularly pay any amount is the problem, note that prepaid accounts let you leave a balance in your account and not be bothered to take any action until it runs out.

When looking for pricing info, bear in mind that a phone number is commonly called a DID (America) or DDI (Europe).

mox,

FYI, you can port your number to another provider. No need to stay with Google just for that.

mox, (edited )

The main issue here seems to be that no other provider, voip or otherwise, allows to pause the invoicing.

The comment you just replied to was a response to someone else, presumably in a situation different to yours.

Regarding number parking / invoice pausing, please see my other comment. I have updated it with more info.

mox,

In particular, it refers to PageRank, the algorithm that set Google apart from its predecessors and upon which it was originally built.

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