A lot of problems basically boil down to using an nVidia card and dealing with their drivers. Either use an AMD GPU/APU or if you don’t need anything fancy the iGPU in an Intel CPU.

There’s always Don’t Starve which definitely fits the mood, though I’ve always found that game insanely difficult.

It’s actually from the Cold War.

1st world = USA, NATO, and their allies. 2nd world = USSR, the Eastern Bloc and their allies (the 2nd world doesn’t really exist anymore). 3rd world = anyone not in the 1st or 2nd categories.

You are right though it’s not about any real statistics. It’s about political alignment.

I’d really like to know where you are buying 15 year old GMC trucks for $2000-$3000 that presumably run and aren’t beat to shit.

Pro… you’re transported to the Star Trek Universe. Con… it’s still year 2025.

That’s pretty much how the game is designed.

With that said, I always thought it would be a bit interesting in Factorio if the bugs were at first neutral towards the player and only got hostile after the player started polluting too much or chopped down too many trees.

The one smart feature I could see useful on a fridge would be for it to send me some sort of notification if the door is left open. Perhaps it could also send a notification if the temperature inside gets too warm (or too cold) - which assuming the door is shut would probably mean the fridge is broken.

With that said, I’m perfectly happy with a dumb box that gets cold inside and has a simple electro-mechanical switch to turn the light on when the door is opened.

My fridge is about that old too. It’s entirely possible that fridge will still be chugging along in 2050. Whereas a brand new Samsung fridge has about a zero chance of lasting until 2050.

The really stupid thing about the party line is the thing they are attacking Kimmel for wasn’t even about Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was talking about MAGA.

I do like that phone, but it’s 5 years old now. Do they even make it any longer?

Unfortunately there’s way too much of these leeches who charge for stuff that is otherwise free, then use spammy SEO techniques to bury the free options.

As for QR code generation, DuckDuckGo has a built-in generator that’s always worked for me. For example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=qr+Visit+Lemmy.World±%3E+https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.world

Some people also have a lot of trouble understanding that Kimmel is a comedian.

But hey, if we’re pulling things off the air for intentionally spreading misinformation for political purposes on live TV, then lets shut down Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN too.

That every other version thing hasn’t been true for a while now. Every version after Windows 7 has been terrible.

My main problem with the current crop of Linux phones is, or at least it’s my impression - is that they still struggle with the basic phone part. As in network connectivity (at least in the US), making and receiving calls, SMS & MMS, and VoLTE support. If there’s a Linux phone where that stuff is solid and works, I’d buy one. I don’t really care about the whole app ecosystem - I barely have any apps on my Android phone now.

That’s also why they tend to have cellular modems that have poor support for US frequencies.

Interesting. I’ve not heard of FuriOS, but if it is a Linux phone that actually can be used with US carriers, makes calls and supports SMS/MMS, and can do VoLTE that’s a actually a pretty big deal.

While pretty neat, I’d have a hard time even calling the WiPhone a phone if it doesn’t have a cellular modem. You’re entirely dependent on having a wifi connection. I suppose it could serve as a replacement for a landline, but that’s about it.

Chevy still makes a regular cab, 8’ bed version of the Silverado in the entry-level “WT” (work truck) trim, which at least theoretically is available to non-fleet buyers. Good luck finding one though.

You can certainly 3D print a building, but can you really 3D print a house? Can it 3d print doors and windows that can open and close and be locked? Can it 3D print the plumbing and wiring and have it be safe and functional? Can it 3D print the foundation? What about bathroom fixtures, kitchen cabinets, and things like carpet?

It’s actually not a bad metaphor. You can use a 3D printer to help with building a house, and to 3D print some of fixtures and bits and pieces that go into the house. Using a 3D printer would automate a fair amount of the manual labor that goes into building a house today (at least how it is done in the US). But you’re still going to need people who know what they are doing put it all together to transform the building to a functional home. We’re still a fair ways away from just being able to 3D print a house, just like we’re fair ways away from having a LLM write a large, complex piece of software.

Every salary job I’ve worked is 8 hours a day of work with a 1 hour unpaid lunch. So it’s something like 08:00-17:00 or 09:00-18:00 as your work hours. That’s what is called 40 hours a week around here. You could consider that 45 hours a week. As lunch is unpaid that’s considered your time to do whatever you want including leaving the job site for that hour.

Some shift-work places will do something like 09:00 to 17:00 with a paid 30 minute lunch. Since lunch is paid time, they can require you stay on the job site. This is isn’t as common now as it used to be, but some places like factories that run a 24 hours a day schedule still do things like that.