donio @ donio @lemmy.world

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It depends. If there is any money on the line or don't want to burn bridges then I'd do the smart thing, whatever that is. Otherwise I'd just skip it.

Picked up Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor a few days ago and I'm now 20 hours in, really enjoying it. It's a very thematic translation of the original DRG into a survivor game. The terrain and mining are a great addition to the survivor formula, it's not only for resource collection but it also gives a new twist to the positioning puzzle. The game seems very well suited for more content so I hope that it will keep coming.

Anno 1800

I've been eyeing the boardgame version which is also highly regarded. I guess will have to look into the original too. Always fun when hobbies intersect.

If you have an email workflow that you like then something like rss2email might be an option. You simply feed your incoming rss into your email. You'll want to auto-tag (or otherwise organize) these emails to keep them separate from regular emails. Then you use your usual email tools to organize them further.

I've been using such a setup for the past 15 years.

Great idea!

I'll probably stick with Firefox but I will set this up using the Vimium browser extension which has a very similar hint based link selection.

With Fez I feel I may have forever missed the window when I could have picked it up. It used to go on sale for $1.99 with an all time low of $0.99. Now it never gets under $4.99.

In a vacuum I'd probably just pick it up for 4.99 but knowing the pricing history I just can't do it.

This is a personal decision but I think it's better to be pragmatic about it. If your country of origin permits dual citizenship I'd do the naturalization simply because it gives you more flexibility. It's a more secure status, no need to worry about renewing or spending longer periods abroad. And you get to vote of course.

Citizenships and passports are bureaucracy and they don't define who you are, that comes from your heart. I'd look at it as a practical matter.

My understanding is that Germany is looking to start permitting dual citizenship later this year.

I've been using various Aftershokz/Shokz models for many years and well over a thousand hours. They are a great option for speech-focused contents like podcasts, audiobooks and that's what I use them for. I almost never use them for music, the lack of bass (even with earplugs) just doesn't do it for me. But I don't find any earbuds satisfactory for music either so maybe I am more picky than most.

I agree with OP about the controls. They are workable but could be much better even considering the limited inputs. I particularly hate the choice of triple-click for backwards-seek and I mess up the timing half the time. Another pet-peeve is the loud beep on play/pause that cannot be turned off. Using the phone/computer controls instead of the on-device ones avoid these issues.

As far as models I originally got the Aeropex and later on "downgraded" to the OpenMove. The audio quality is comparable between the two, the only thing you are missing with the lower end model is comfort - but that is highly subjective! I actually prefer the way the OpenMove feels.

I really wish that there was more competition in this space. The Shokz products are a bit overpriced and slow to evolve and the rest of the options I've seen seems lower quality and worse form factor. Would love to hear if anybody has found a different brand that they prefer over the Shokz models.

Yep, original is Java and uses libGDX. Slay the Spire is mentioned in the showcase.

Maybe a stickied thread with suggestions and each week pick the highest voted one that hasn't been discussed yet.

SearXNG is great at what it does but it falls into the Bing/Google/etc-frontend category since it just forwards your query to one of the search engines it has modules for. It doesn't have its own crawl and index.

I wish that was the case but sadly most of them are basically Bing or Google frontends or belong to entities that I trust even less. As far as I can tell there are very few independent crawls out there.

Roguelikes: DCSS, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, Nethack

Costs a lot less than therapy too.

And Downfall has a scene for the second half of the joke. (Warning, while it's not graphic you may not want the scene in your head)

Not OP but my answer to this is that I only add sources that I know I need to make sure I understand where everything comes from and to keep that attack surface lower.

I only add some app-specific repos to get more frequent updates on those. Newpipe and Fedilab in particular.
I know that I could use other tools to install directly from their release images but sticking with F-Droid for now for simplicity.

Traveling right now and I am playing Dead Cells. It's gentle on the battery and I am fairly new to the game so lots to explore.

I'm only here to appreciate OP's username. Quazatron is such a cool game, I still fire it up every once in a while.

Finally picked up Dead Cells from the current sale. I play a lot of roguelikes/lites but never been much into Castlevania type stuff so started out skeptical. But a few hours into it I find myself enjoying it more and more. It feels good to get better at it which is a key ingredient for great games.

The game is perfect for the deck, gentle on the battery, works great at the screen resolution, excellent controller support.