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That's 70ºC, 49ºC (120ºF) is usually plenty hot enough and the recommended temperature. It can actually cause burns with long enough direct exposure at 50, 70 is madness.

Because remaking the same features from scratch was taking too long. They had already delayed the project due to covid at that point. They ended up with three games: the one they started before intercept was created (and that never saw the light of day), the one based on KSP with the upgrades and new features added (also never seen publicly), a neutered version without the incomplete new features (like multeplayer and improved heat simulation) that was launched as early access. Poor fellows were set up for failure.

Not just making the same mistakes, they were told to scrap years of development and reuse the exact same codebase of KSP1. They had to start over the project with a decade plus of technical debt from a team they weren't allowed to talk to.

Oh, the fucks up are massive. They hired a new studio, but also, they pulled the funding then the project without warning. Then they poached the devs, forcing the studio to close and sending them to a newly funded studio. But then, they forced the devs to scrap years of work from scratch, and start over the project with the old codebase and only a year as a deadline. Finally, when it became obvious it wasn't a massive success, they cut their funding too without warning, and sold the IP without telling the studio about it.

KSP was mishandled so wildly that it should be a case study of how profit oriented management kills creativity and destroys IPs. They killed two studios and a massive IP with their shenanigans. This is why you never let the MBAs run anything.

What is this straw man? No one, not in my comment, or in the article linked has advocated for a blanket ban. The word excessive has been there this whole time.

This has to be qualified more strongly. Most of the medical benefits of circumcision are apparent only after puberty. There is no medical reason to circumsize a baby.

On the contrary. It relies on the premise of segregating binaries, config and data. But since it is only running one app, then it is a bare minimum version of it. Most containers systems include elements that also deduplicate common required binaries. So, the containers are usually very small and efficient. While a traditional system's libraries could balloon to dozens of gigabytes, pieces of which are only used at a time by different software. Containers can be made headless and barebones very easily. Cutting the fat, and leaving only the most essential libraries. Fitting in very tiny and underpowered hardware applications without losing functionality or performance.

Don't be afraid of it, it's like Lego but for software.

Excessive screen time at 3 is bad, and we do have evidence. Computers from the 80s we grew up with have nothing in common with today's highly advanced skinner boxes. It has been so since the age of TV, but today's tech is worse. They fuck up cognitive and social development really bad. Using screens from time to time is fine, but having a tablet in your face every waking minute hurts even adults.

They would've already laid off 90% of the entire Dev team and closed the studio.

As someone who has had neighbor's children randomly walk into my house and demand things like food, water (I won't say no to children, I'm not heartless), and use of my TV and internet. I'm sorry, but don't let kids be pest is unironic in some areas. Some people haven't socialized their kids properly and we were the ones who had to explain to these kids (4 to 6 year olds) that wandering without permission into other people's houses was not only inappropriate but dangerous to them. We, the strangers, telling these kids that they should be wary of strangers. The parents just didn't give a fuck and wouldn't even talk to us, but they were apparently fine with their kids roaming into stranger's homes. I'm glad we moved away.

Most tweaks on protondb are either copy pasting a few settings to a Steam dialog box, or picking a particular option in the compatibility list on the GUI. Mostly old games take a bit more effort, yet it won't be any harder than what you used to do to make mods run on Windows. Really, the only reason anything Linux could be intimidating is because it is unfamiliar. As soon as you start seeing the parallels with tinkering and tweaking on windows, you'll realize that it is actually easier, more intuitive, and more stable than on Windows.

You want to game and you want it to be easy. Just install Bazzite, ignore people suggesting Mint. Mint is the best traditional distro ever made, but it has major flaws and it gets difficult if you try to game in it. Containerized immutable OS are way better for novices and the average user. People want to use their computer, not manage a computer they never use. A lot of us Linux fanatics we tend to forget that fact.

You have plenty of technical knowledge to get it installed. And that's about it for what is required.

Don't dual boot Windows, it gets too hands on and too technical fast. Instead, have Windows on a entirely separate second drive. Boot to the desired drive accordingly. Linux plays nice and can work with windows perfectly, but windows actively hates linux and will fuck up any drive it shares with it. So it is best windows is absolutely oblivious as to the existence of Linux in the machine. For that you'll need to disable secureboot and probably disk encryption as well. As I said, it's a technical challenge. Not worth it in my personal opinion.

Be mindful about the games you play, often if it doesn't run on Linux is not because of any technical limitation on Linux side. It's because of the political will to hurt Linux. This is why virtually all indie games run fine on Linux, it's AAA slop that is designed to stop working if it detects it's running on Linux.

Language is natural to humans. It would be hard, but you'll eventually get there if there's no alternative. Think that babies learn how to speak without having any previous language of reference. It's just a thing our brain does spontaneously. Watch or read Shogun, you'll notice how multilingualism is actually more common than we think. And historically people have always spoken several languages. Depending on which point in time you'd get to ancient Egypt (we are talking about a really long period of time, over 3 thousand years), the high class would probably also speak Greek, Latin, or Arabic. Depending on diplomatic relations and pressures. Not to mention the lay people would also probably speak other languages alongside Egyptian, like Domari and Hebrew.

Another interesting thought, if you traveled to late ancient Egypt, learned to speak there, let's say five years or so. Then traveled further back in time to early ancient Egypt, you probably won't understand a single word again. If you traveled to the 800s England, you wouldn't understand the English they would speak.

Cheap protectors suck, no surprise there. Go with a reputable brand and have a shop install it. I've never had any problem and they definitely work. The glass used on modern phones is strong but not infallible, it will eventually scuff and break. You'd be surprised by the amount of stuff you find in everyday life that's harder than even the strongest gorilla glass. Even then, any high density material the glass is resistant to, will eventually wear it out with enough prolonged friction.

All you have to accept is that screen protectors and cases are like car tires, or shoes, you do have to change them eventually. The idea is that they take the wear and tear instead of the phone itself, and for that they are perfect. Just because your feet could take a hike up a mountain barefoot doesn't mean it is not a good idea to wear shoes.

High quality protectors come with microfiber cloth cleaners to keep the phone free of dirt and oil, spray with alcohol or slightly soapy water. You should do it to your phone too, even if you don't use a screen protector, something that is always in your hands and with you everywhere does get filthy and dirty. It's just basic hygiene.

Classic, straight out of the fascists playbook. Everyone who supports the fash is grassroots movement, everyone who opposes fascism is a paid shill from the scapegoat du jour.

You can sprint now, so, there's that.

In the Soviet Union, the Proletariat had taken control

Then why did they kill so many peasants and workers?

The outcome was quite positive for the Working Class.

Except for the ones who are dead.

[...] implementation of the dictatorship [of the proletariat] was clearly defined by Lenin as early as in 1906, when he argued it must involve "unlimited power based on force and not on law," power that is "absolutely unrestricted by any rules whatever and based directly on violence."

Leszek Kołakowski

Never idolize anyone. I think the lack of certainty in the number of deaths Lenin was responsible for adds more horror to his decisions. No matter how pretty his ideas were, or how cute he looked with a cat, an oligarch is an oligarch, and as soon as a revolutionary acquires power, they become the oppressor.

Fascism has no ideology. They will just take any varnish that makes them look acceptable in the short term. Just like fake tan, it's just gold paint over a turd.