i have over 300 hours in farming sim 2015. i bought the deluxe edition. got a little model tractor and a keychain.

i… don’t know.

that unshielded CRT gives me anxiety.

one of them sounds like Kermit, the other sounds like Cookie Monster.

this doesn’t match my experience at all.

i had the misfortune once of having to try to understand a >400kLoC python codebase in a critical position and let me tell you that maintainability is a Problem. the system was older than most of the best practices of today and had a structure i can only describe as “a duolith of sqlalchemy soup”.

it does have a setting for triggering the alarm if you pull the cable out without unlocking the doors. which just feels like such a non-solution.

asking questions like this is how i found out that one of the allowed characters in names in my country is ÿ, which is fine in Latin-1 but in 7-bit ASCII is DEL.

fair point.

a charge cable is like 500 bucks. it’s definitely worth more whole.

that’s a first-gen chevy volt from 2012-2013. it can’t fast-charge at all, it’s limited to line voltage only. a full charge takes five hours, give or take. thankfully it’s a hybrid.

because the chevy volt uses a J1772 charge plug which, unlike the Type 2 used in Europe, doesn’t have a lock in it.

this is a very annoying fact about the chevy volt.

explore the island you got stuck on. look around for details. sit down and watch the spectacle until you can continue. there’s no rush, and no such thing as wasted time.

or to be more prosaic, you go back home automatically after a short while anyway. not only that, every island gets thrown around by the storms periodically, launching them clear out of the atmosphere every five minutes or so. it’s just a matter of observing your surroundings, and something will happen.

I use a french press and endeavouros. don’t know what that says…

you have to drink it at the gate to show that it’s safe

it’s weird that. it’s obviously possible to have a flat-shaded skeuomorph, just look at basically all of windows 95, but for some reason we connect them to this particular graphical style. files and folders are both part of the old classic “desktop metaphor”, so they basically have to be skeuomorphs. but like, the application icons are basically just mosaic tiles of the normal icons.

a proper skeuomorph would indicate what the program is for. krita and whatever map software that is are both good, if a little flat. but the libreoffice suite just being squares with a letter on them? have them be like, a spreadsheet for calc, a stack of cards for impress, and a printed page for write.

remember all the icons for windows 95 network utilities that have people in them? those are also (attempts at) skeumorphs because they’re trying to communicate what the program does.

a skeuomorph (from greek, “tool/container-shape”) is something that retains the characteristics of another thing that it is based on, even though those characteristics are no longer useful. think lamps shaped like candles, or the floppy disk save icon, or media player programs with volume knobs.

skeuomorphic UX is a good way to get users comfortable with a system by using designs they are already familiar with, and the original iphone used this to great effect.

This is a good example of skeuomorphic UI:

all to say, I’m not entirely sure these icons are skeuomorphs. they’re just glossy.

i used to do IT for a company that isolates and sells antibodies. the amount of money you can charge for what is basically a single drop of liquid is truly staggering.

also, they had freezers that went down to -90C for long-term storage, which was really cool.

it looks sort of like a continuation of the beaker browser project. basically, a peer to peer browser that also serves content you have made to others using the browser. it’s a cute idea.

furries in denial?!?

100%

cryptid club is also by Sarah, she advertised it on her page.