kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

I wish I had something more to add to this. I saw this when you posted and thought surely someone more creatively minded than I would chime in. Just want to say thanks for taking the time to write this up, it makes you think about how many other one off deux ex machina type races that Star Trek likes to throw out there. The Organians, Talosians, whatever they decided Trelane is, the Douwd, the list goes on and on. It's quite fortunate for the rest of civilization that these omniscient beings seem to stick to themselves.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

This is almost the exact experience I had playing Elite Dangerous in VR one time. I had my HOTAS mounted to the arms of my office chair so the whole setup could swivel. One day I was sitting in orbit over a planet researching a route or something. Ship sounds going in the headphones, comms coming in every now and then, then out of nowhere for just a brief moment I was in space flying that ship. I wish so badly that I could extend that feeling.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Oh good point. When you nest something into commas like that the sentence is supposed to still make sense when you remove the bit between the commas.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The irony being that now people use ellipses to mark a sentence pause, which isn't really how an ellipsis is meant to be used. They were supposed to be for removing unnecessary but implied language from quotes. Agreed on the oxford comma though.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago

this here is the real issue.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The update was meant to fix a situation where an attacker would somehow get grub onto a machine that was SINGLE booting windows and use grub to tamper with secureboot. this fix was meant to only apply in single boot situations where it should be entirely unexpected to see grub. as they said, something went seriously wrong.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

I was thinking the meters with the metal probes that go through yeah. Wasn't aware that could exacerbate the issue.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 24 points 4 months ago (4 children)

"At the root of the problem are cowboy traders (unlicensed tradesman/contractor) who apply the foam without a full survey or appropriate expertise – but because of lenders’ caution, this is affecting other homeowners who had similar work." also "because surveyors are unable to inspect the roof timbers behind the layers [for moisture], mortgage lenders tend to issue blanket refusals on properties where any foam is present." Maybe in the U.S. we just use wood moisture meters to check for moisture?

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

It seems to me that the real reason people are upset is that they don't want to accept that the devs of games they like willingly accepted the money. As if Epic forced them.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I can't think of any time in history that the public has had that ability for anything. Imagine being upset because a Ford dealership won't sell you a Toyota, or that Kohl's won't sell you some designer brand.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's DRM free. Pirate it and add an external game to Steam if the other options are unappealing to you.

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