Teach them how to evaluate sources on the internet.

Seriously, all the hardware/OS whatever is cool, but if you want to really make a difference that will affect everyone, teach them how to find information, how to evaluate it, and how to use internet reference material.

Probably a bucket hat to keep the sun out of my face while reading in the backyard.

Is it really unreasonable to explain that nothing you do on a work computer is private, though?

Obviously you don’t want to do any of that. But if you have a reasonable set up, you can when you need to, and telling people not to do shit they shouldn’t on company hardware is a good thing.

I haven’t played much of the older ones, but I really enjoyed Rifts Apart. It’s beautiful, but it’s also mechanically super polished and fluid, and while the storytelling isn’t really my style, I think they do it reasonably well.

There have been games that showed hints of stuff you could get to, but I think BOTW was the first major open world game that actually universally followed that rule and didn’t have invisible walls all over the place.

Like Skyrim there was a lot you could “climb” by abusing the mechanics and spamming jumps until you got lucky, and everything existed in that sense. But it was glitches, not part of the mechanics. BOTW having points of interest almost entirely discovered visually was unique.

I would say the defining characteristic that sets Breath of the Wild apart from its contemporaries is its “chemistry engine”, as they call it.

It’s traversal. The interactions were cool, but mostly about the puzzles.

What BOTW changed was how exploration works. You see a landmark in the distance, start moving towards it, and figure out how to get there. There’s nothing you see that isn’t part of the traversal system. There are no invisible walls. Some things are absurdly high to climb, some things are slippery, etc, but everything you struggle to traverse is clearly a product of the systems the game uses and makes sense.

(The problem was none of that exploration got you anywhere interesting, but the core element of “everything you see is a destination” is the thing about BOTW that was groundbreaking.)

Because freedom.

Windows is one OS, with limited ability to customize. Mac is one OS, with limited ability to customize.

Linux, as a core concept, is hundreds of OSes that anyone can customize any of, at will, to meet their requirements. Different versions of Linux diverge because different people/projects want different things.

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The entire thing is completely off topic and doesn’t even sort of make any point you tried to make anywhere in the thread.

Play isn’t relevant in any way to the discussion.

You understand the difference between fiction and pretending fiction is reality?

Usually “expensive money” means that it’s hard to borrow.

“Devalued” refers to purchasing power. “How much food will $1 buy me?”

They’re describing different things. In terms of the economic relationships that result in the current scenario, I’m not even going to try. Ignoring that we don’t really know and a lot of traditional economics rely on the assumption that actors are rational (which we now know is absurd), I’m far from an expert in macro-economic theory. Systems are complicated.

Google’s proprietary “RCS” and iMessage are the same thing. They’re proprietary apps that work on their OS and are useless for intercommunication.

Their proprietary extensions are for the same reason Apple took forever to implement it.

RCS still sucks.

They’ve been full on unstable nonsense since the day Ryzen dropped.

They immediately started playing games with their metric to make Intel win.

Prosecutors don’t write the law, and prosecutorial discretion is only actually meaningful when circumstances are unusual.

She didn’t have an option to just not do drug charges.

To be fair, people having ideas for features is a valuable contribution in its own right.

Entitlement to them, not so much. But feature suggestions have value even if many of them aren’t practical and many more never get added.

I desperately wish someone had explained to me why putting the work in mattered.

I never tried, because I could get the grades without it.

Now I still don’t really have the habits the “busy work” are supposed to teach you.

This is literally the first time I’ve ever heard mashed potato be singular. My phone even tried to make it plural.

Sigma has this beauty for only 26 grand.

You can definitely spend money on the stuff that’s for actual professionals who need every shot to count, but you can get really good stuff that just misses more shots or has some more quirks at much more reasonable prices, especially used. I’ve still spent probably a little over a grand on the stuff I use regularly (unless you count $400 more on a DJI Action 4 to play with throwing in water), but I also have some lenses that I got for free (they were throw-ins on someone else’s goodwill order that they didn’t have a use for) that really aren’t bad.

And the too much detail follow up lol.

That’s roboto size 13 on a boox go color 7, on moon+ reader.

And a macro shot of the text to show that the apparent sloppiness is really just the picture. But other apps without the smoothing don’t always look the same. I’ve used different variations of the font on different apps to get the best result.