Canoeing. I'm not an outdoorsy guy at all but everytime I see US tourists in a canoe they just spin in circles. It feels like Canadians are just born knowing.
Not saying this is you, but I feel like a lotta people who wanna live in the country also want all the city amenities - internet, garbage pickup, municipal sewage, etc.
To me, the problem isn't cities, it's late stage capitalism - gentrifying neighbourhoods, driving rents beyond reach, displacing communities. Plus its zeal for car-focused infrastructure, conspicuous consumption. All that stuff.
Anyway communal life is very appealing - I long for my college days of living in a house full of peers. Even if i'm off-base with my capitalism ruins the city argument, I think we'd all do better at coping with modern life with a wider support network.
I hear they are growing more popular in the bay area? Gideon Lichfield, outgoing editor-in-chief at Wired, mentions he spends half his year living in a commune of sorts and would like to do it full time in this podcast.
They're not really the same vibe, but they do have an extremely far future setting, vast intelligences called Minds that run society, and my favourite part, luxury space communism. Most people recommend you start on book two - The Player of Games since it's a better example of what the series is. While that's true I stated on book one - Consider Phlebas - and liked it, so up to you I guess.
Or FATE and its numerous incarnations. I feel like I get as far as saying "it's like DnD except..." before it veers off irrevocably into talking about DnD
I met my wife playing Mage: the Ascension. Truly one in million. I know. Never got to try out M20 though. That should put a rough date on when this happened...
Oh yeah. Fly for your life is just great short film on its own merits.
I actually really like music videos in general. I miss the days when we had MTV or muchmusic here in Canada. Back before they got invaded by reality tv.
I am not an expert, nor do I love nuclear power. But as I understand it with renewables we need to solve the storage problem. Wind and solar intermittent, and battery options are terrible in efficacy, cost, and environmental impact. Plus the north american grid is old and built around power being always-on - there isn't (yet) the ability to shuffle power from areas with to areas without to the scale we'd need.
So I have a feeling that despite all these issues nuclear will be part of the solution. Lucikly it's so expensive and has such low public opinion that I doubt governments will go "all-in" on nuclear any time soon.
Understandable, but for me it's more... Respectful? I guess? OP's not trying to push influence the organic reaction or waste's anyone time.
Seems to me this is about what link aggregators are for. Is the goal to surface things from the internet or is the goal to discuss and build community? Surely it's both, but different folks will emphasize one over another.
They are called Nothing Adaptive icons ( not sure what's "adaptive" about them) and I just found them in the play store for less than $2 CAD, which seems reasonable to me for an icon pack.
When I open a post with a link and OP has a written a novel I usually just move on. For me the link is just the seed for organic discussion. If OP has opinions that's for the comments. Depends on the community I guess. I'd offer more personal insight in Music post than a News post.
i too enjoy top-down action games on the deck. I've have good results with The Ascent, Hades, and the Hotline Miami games. I think Ruiner will be good but haven't tried it on the deck yet.
i also love the retro 2d beat 'em ups like Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shedder's Revenge. Caveat: while good on the small screen i mainly did both with a group doing using local multiplayer on the TV. And we all used steam controllers because i am among the dozens who love those. put it all together and it's like having a steam console.
I have used Jabra 85ts with the steam deck and have not noticed any latency issues. I do have to manually reconnect them after i put the deck to sleep. Otherwise they're the best wireless earbuds i've used.
Clutch is a stoner rock band with some really unique lyrics - Neil Fallon has the manic poetry of someone who has seen The Truth and has lived to tell the tale. The first 3nsongs of their 2015 album Psychic Warfare are presented as the singer recounting a weird tale to the authorities after the fact.
The Affidavit is spoken word opener where a cop or someone asks the singer to just write down everything that happened.
X-ray visions launches into the tale pychi warfare, conspiracies and the vengeful spirits of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
Firebirds continues the tale: the singer encounters a strange girl who demands classic automobiles and energy weapons or else.
For extra credit a subsequent album revisits the same speaker years later trying to explain it all to his young son -
In Walks Barbarella
Probably most clutch songs have this storytelling style and I can't recommend them enough
I do this exactly. I have a Pop Os installation on its own drive and the original win 10 drive, plus they each have their own secondary storage drives. I switch using the BIOS but honestly I find myself doing that less and less.
I used to have a larger NTFS storage drive both systems could see but it kept getting marked as read-only so I gave up and just got a fourth one for Pop Os.
Sometimes when I boot up Pop Os after having been in Windows it can't see any USB devices until after login or until I plug and unplug them.
So there's some minor annoyances to this setup but at least windows doesn't overwrite the bootloader every couple updates.
I'm very much considering never getting windows 11 (or 12 lol). The only games I have issues with are some AAA multiplayer games - like Borderlands - and even then they run they just don't play nice with other players.
I haven't found the really dry information-dense philosophy podcast for me yet. But these two have been great lately
Hi Phi Nation is in its own words, a podcast that the turns stories into ideas. Most of the episodes start with a real world story and then tease out the philosophical questions underlying it. But there's a whole season on the life and theories of David Miller
Overthink is two friends who are also academics exploring contemporary philosophical topics, like the ethics of ghosting someone
Canoeing. I'm not an outdoorsy guy at all but everytime I see US tourists in a canoe they just spin in circles. It feels like Canadians are just born knowing.