EarMaster @ EarMaster @lemmy.world

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The final boss fight was good though. It fits the character and the final cutscene hit the tone of the series in my opinion.

I assume buying cinema tickets will require a PlayStation account?!

Long story short: The USA are not the moral compass of the world (thank god).

I totally understand your concerns. We just don't have such cold winters here in Germany. And I also understand your point more (also after having read your other comments). If the insulin vial in question is a spare it will most likely not being noticed if it freezes until it is needed.

In theory you could use the Bluetooth sensors of the companion app which can be used to detect BLE beacons. But that would require a special Bluetooth device that activates once a threshold temperature has been detected. Maybe such things exist (I'm thinking of (food) supply chain monitoring), but I am not aware of any.

I know this is technically not an answer to your question, but as a fellow T1 diabetic (for 20+ years) and dad to diabetic child (currently 2½ years old): Is this something that regularly happens to you? I don't know where you live, but in over 20 years of being a T1 diabetic I never had a vial of regular insulin go bad. I don't have to worry about the cost of insulin as my insurance would without any questions replace any medications gone bad for me, but I understand that this is a luxury not everyone shares.

There are products (but I have to assume you are aware of this) that can help you with the temperature safe transport of insulin for everyday use (basically insulated pouches with an integrated cooling pad). That may be something you can look into if this is something you need to worry about.

So he didn't claim even half of them?

• Transport Tycoon
• C&C Red Alert and Tiberian Sun
• Anno 1602 (1602 A.D.)
• Theme Park
• Commander Keen
• Doom 2 (and Wolfenstein 3D to some extend)
• GTA2
• Half-Life
• Dungeon Keeper (mainly DK2)
• Leisure Suit Larry 6
• Worms 2 & Armageddon
• Age of Empires 2
• Sim City 2000 & 3000
• SimTower
• The Settlers 2
• Lemmings
• Incredible Machine
• Commandos
• Outcast
• Quake 3 Arena
• Descent
• StarCraft (although I started playing it later)

All the other avengers were pretty weak. I didn't recognize any of them (apart from Thor) and they played no real part in the story. When combined none of their powers even mattered any more...

I hope it's not just a coincidence. I would love to see Home Assistant as a smart speaker platform progress.

What a perfect finale. It really shows what I most loved about Lower Decks. The crew - aside all comedy - is formed by professionals which are capable of working together and advancing beyond their single capabilities. There is no drama or trying to hide important info from each other like in PIC or DIS. This is what I always loved about TNG, DS9 and VOY and it is great to see it still works - even on modern television.

One silly, little joke got me out of nowhere (maybe I was a little bit emotional about the impending end): Ransom: Mr. Rutherford, a little birdie told me you made some pretty inspired updates to the plasma injectors. Rutherford: Was it Dr. Migleemo?

It can't be that easy. PEGI says that games containing gambling (real money or not) are rated with PEGI 12 to 18. So there must be something else to the game that led to this rating.

He can't be an Admiral and an Ensign at the same time...

Mariner asking about the purple carpet of the Enterprise D also references a somewhat vulgar saying about women.

Then he shouldn't have asked a question if he isn't open for answers. If an answer is obviously wrong or dismissive of some important detail I would understand it. But if the complaint is It's not a one-click-fix or I don't understand what you're talking about then that's the best way of not learning anything and not solving the problem.

On Android you have to disable the use of Private DNS (or something like that) in the WiFi settings. If this is enabled it will not use your WiFi's broadcast DNS, but a predefined one. The reasoning behind this (you can believe this or not) is so that on public WiFis your DNS queries cannot be tracked or manipulated by setting up a local DNS.

I can imagine there is something similar for iOS.

If this only affects some apps then they have decided to hardcore their DNS servers. The only thing you can do now is to identify these and block the calls, but this may also break other stuff if the servers are not only used to resolve ad URLs.

First of all: you don't have to like it.

I agree with you that the first chapters are confusing and overwhelming, but as others have already said this is deliberate. The storylines converge later on which makes it easier to follow what's happening. In my experience the book handles it very well to balance its sci-fi themes with a compelling story you want to follow.

The project is focused in Poland, but for a project of this scale it is common (and reasonable) to distribute the workload. So I'm sure there will be parts of it being done in the US.

According to Steam the top 3 are:

1. Oxygen not included
2. Civilization 5
3. Factorio

But that of course does not include the games not running from Steam and pre-Steam games. So World of Warcraft is somewhere in there too. And the final Top 1 must be Transport Tycoon Deluxe (even if you don't include OpenTTD).

There are a few buttons around the house. For my wife (and kids to play with) the most important ones are the ones controlling the light in the bedroom. There is a motion sensor covering the door and wardrobe area which can be muted with a button (e.g. if the kids have snuck into our bed and we don't want to wake them or if either one of us goes to bed later). We use mostly the IKEA Zigbee buttons.

We also have a great device called Home Buttons in our kitchen. It uses MQTT and has a fantastic battery life (using a 18650 rechargeable battery). It has an e-ink display and six buttons. I programmed it to display several things (you can use one MDI icon and a short text to display for each button) for everyday use, like switching some lights, displaying temperature and humidity and controlling the climate in our conservatory. You have to press a button for it to update (to save battery - even though it easily lasts months).

The main touch point though is the app. I built three dashboards:

• A general overview that dynamically changed based on events and time of day.
• A floor plan which holds every light, sensor and switch in it.
• A blood glucose dashboard as both one of my daughters as well as myself have diabetes. As I use the same insulin pump as my daughter I cannot use the pump's app to follow her data as I need the app for myself. So for me this is quite important. My wife uses the pump's app in follower mode for our daughter.

But I also made Home Assistant send notifications to our smartphones for several events (dishwasher, washing machine, too hot / cold in the conservatory, low blood glucose levels, kids turning on the TV in the morning). Some of them offer to respond with an action others are just reminders that something needs to be done.

My wife appreciates especially the notifications I think because you don't have to think about some things as they pop up when action is due and we both can more easily share the workload as she gets notified as well when I started the dishwasher without me needing to tell her. (This may sound like we're not speaking to each other, but we're just not saying things like I just started the dishwasher can you empty it later.)

Because you can game it?