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Dome Keeper is a really fun up-to 4-player co-op game about digging for minerals beneath a dome and defending it from creatures on the surface who try to break in every so often.

I saw a couple standout titles like A Short Hike (polished cozy game) and Neon Struct (thief-like). I’ll see if there’s anything else that jumps out at me.

Edit: Eldritch is a rather good rogue-like Cthulhu FPS

Dungeon Bodega Simulator looks fun.

Deep Space Exploitation looks good.

Hyper Gunsport looks like a fun multiplayer game.

The Wratch’s Den looks neat.

Off ebay (though I’ve seen thicker ones in hardware stores too), they should pop up from searching 20x20x4 Merv filter.

The thicker ones are much freer flowing compared to the thin ones due to their increased surface area, making them comparable to a Corsi box, but easier to move around.

Was it a 1" thick filter, or 4" thick?

Personally I use a single 4" thick HVAC filter taped to the back of a box fan, which has similar advantages to the Corsi box, but in a smaller footprint, and allows it to still be pointed at things besides the ceiling.

The 4" thick filter has far more surface area than a single 1", giving it much less flow resistance, so no danger of potentially overheating/straining the motor.

They are also known as HVAC or MVHR filters, which appear to be available in the UK

Based on this chart, you’d want an M5 rated filter to remove car exhaust particulate, something like this (though I have no idea if that’s the best deal to be had, that site was just the first one that popped up from searching UK HVAC Filter).

Ah sorry, I meant to link this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53LdJcvOo

In the meantime I also found this video by Phil’s computer lab where he tests your CPU, and at the end concludes that, at least for gaming, the desktop CPU’s are better (but also assumes over clocking is an option, and I have since learned it’s not terribly viable to do on coreboot).

I think for people who don’t use highly multi-threaded tasks, the lower core count Piledriver CPU’s would be a better choice, as the 6272 is likely going to use a lot more power at idle, and each core is clocked significantly slower than a lower core count chip, exacerbating the already low single thread performance of those chips.

The desktop chips also overclocked quite well, I recall pushing my FX-6300 to 4.5ghz without much issue, and the same for the 8-core FX-8320. Though I’m unsure if Libreboot supports overclocking (if not, than having higher default clocks would be even more important, IMO).

I beat the first Gabriel Knight from Sierra for the first time. I was surprised how excellent the voice acting is, and liked the direction it was going, but the ending was kind’ve off putting, and I ended up needing a hint book toward the end due to some pretty out-there puzzle design, but overall I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

I tried the sequel, which is rated pretty highly, but found the switch to FMV unfortunately unbearable due to really slow, poorly acted awkward dialog, and a big down grade in the music and setting, so I chose to pass on it.

Instead, I discovered that with a little soldering, I can convert my 90’s sidewinder joystick from game-port to USB, making it usable on modern PC’s. That made me curious to finally try Wing Commander 3, a space dogfighter combined with interactive FMVs. It took some fiddling with Dosbox to get it working, but I tried the first few minutes, and was impressed with the quality of acting on display thanks to the cast having Mark Hamil, John rys Davis, and the villain guy from back to the future.

From DuckDuckGo AI:

Cannot recommend DuckDuckGo’s NoAi page enough so that we can avoid encouraging the construction of yet more data centers and the destruction for both the climate and the local environment they are built in.

I’m pretty sure one of the creator’s/writer of voyager was really disappointed that it never actually fulfilled the premise at all, so he went and made the Battlestar Galactica reboot in 2003 as essentially what Voyager should’ve been if the premise was taken seriously.

Actually quite cool, I could see myself trying that.

Good find, hadn’t considered that effect. I always tend to use the mineral types that study seems to show blocks sweating the most.

Was curious from your comment, and found a rather good article testing if sunscreens caused skin to heat up more. They found un-tinted sunscreen does not meaningfully contribute, but tinted ones did.

Valve has a history of hiring modders and making the mods official products (counter strike started as a Half Life mod). Black Mesa was originally a free mod, they then approached valve about selling it later, which Valve then approved. Had the devs not asked permission, Valve probably would’ve shut it down had they tried to sell it.

Cheers for taking the time to do that, nocturne :)

Surprised it’s not a blend, since full polyester I would’ve thought to be uncomfortable in high heat, but I guess those little holes throughout the fabric really do allow it to breath and negate that effect?

I agree, the tradeoff doesn’t seem worth it in most cases.

While looking to see if they mention what those shirts are made of (doesn’t seem like they mention it anywhere, unless I’m missing it), I did notice one of the pictures mentions it’s treated to be water resistant, which unfortunately could mean they’ve been coated with a PFAS containing repellent, which from what this test showed, appears to come off and potentially contaminate the environment somewhat :(

Could be they use something else, but I think PFAS containing stuff is still the most common.

From what I understand, the dyes used in dark colors tend to be less transparent to the wavelength of UV light, and thus absorb some of the UV instead of letting it through. As a side effect, that also makes them heat up more, but the skin is technically more protected (assuming a like-for-like garment, as it’s likely that a thick white shirt will still be more protective than a thin black one).

Looking into it again for this comment, it appear that all color dyes offer some UV protective effect in clothing, and the more intense the color, the more protective it can be (though still varies by the specific color itself). There’s a more in-depth explanation of how that works in this scientific article, under section 6.6.2. I’ll put in an spoiler for convenience sake.

:::spoiler How Dye blocks UV The UVR protecting ability of the dye sources depends upon absorption characteristics of the functional group present in the chemical structure. Sankaran et al. reported that the UVR protection ability of cotton fabrics was effectively improved when dyed with vegetable and animal dyes from madder, indigo and cochineal [79]. Some direct, reactive and vat dyes with darker shade are capable of giving a UPF of greater than 50 due to the nature of dye-fibre bonds. Multiple studies investigated that the potential role of few natural dyes like curcumin and onion skin dye on fibre or fabric by providing UV protective characteristics. The combinational effect of dyes and UV absorbers together on fabric can also reduce the transmission of UVR. The dye shades substantially increase the UPF value of bleached cloth when compared with non-bleached fabric [43,46,74]. Although, light colours reflect solar radiation more efficiently than dark ones but part of the radiation penetrates more easily through the fabric. Since the dye’s absorption bands extend to UVR, all types of dye function as UV absorbers (280–400 nm). The capacity of dyes to raise a fabric’s UPF depends on the extinction coefficient. Another experimental result revealed that the colour depth and dye concentration are the most essential factors influencing the UV protection property of cotton knitted fabrics. Therefore, the UVR blocking ability of textiles are enhanced with increase in ingredient concentration with either a dye or pigment or a delustering agents or other additives [80,81]. :::

But the construction of clothing (how dense or thick the weave is) and what it’s made of appears to matter more for UV blocking overall than the color does. Cotton, linen and Rayon for example appear to offer less protection than wool, polyester, or nylon (synthetics feel kinda gross to wear in hot weather though, IMO). A blend can help make-up for that, though then there’s the problem of microplastics every time you wash them, so personally I still stick with natural fibers.

The usage of commercial AI’s hosted in data centers encourages the growth of that industry with the construction of more data centers, which are hazardous to the populations that live around them, encourage pretty severe water waste in areas with already dwindling groundwater, and collectively use a tremendous amount of particularly polluting electricity since the local grids cannot adequately supply them, meaning many resort to using inefficient portable power generation on-site, and in many cases is causing energy prices to spike.

While I personally think that AI use is virtually always detrimental (since there is growing evidence that AI usage appears to cause people to atrophy their critical thinking skills, and many deferring to incorrect answers), for those that still insist on using it, using a self-hosted local LLM is the most ethical option, as it does not encourage the construction of more data centers, and avoids feeding multinational fascist corporations with more data.

I’m quite fond of Paneer Masala, but I had no idea paneer was so easy to make. Thanks for the write-up Nocturne! :D

I used to make Quark regularly at home, which is a soft spreadable cheese that goes really well with a jam on crackers or a bagel. It’s quite easy to make, and doesn’t require a press, just a cheese cloth that you twist to squeeze the whey out before eating, so should be pretty perfect for making in an apartment.

There’s a lot of different ways to make it, but the easiest/simplest recipes are the ones that just call for milk and buttermilk, like this one.

Nice looking setup! ^^