Yeah, it seems likely to me that humans as a species will survive through the various climate crises, but I think the question is - at what cost? A lot of the scientific research and tech developments that might help us cope with or reduce the impact of climate change seem pretty reliant on our global system of trade / supply chain, and COVID showed how fragile that system is. I worry that by the time it gets bad enough that everyone is on board with doing what we can to reduce our impact, it’ll be too late because the systems that could create those new options will not be capable of operating at the level we assume is normal today.

If you’d like to stop Steam from automatically updating a game, select “Only update this game when I launch it” from the game’s Library page > Properties > Updates.

So I think in addition to disabling auto-updates you have to play in offline mode once an update happens, or launch outside of Steam. at least, with Skyrim the script extender directly launched the exe so Steam’s “update on launch” wouldn’t happen, and I’m not quite sure what the correct way to do that for Cyberpunk is. 🤔

First off, don’t be like me - either use a mod manager (Vortex with the cyberpunk extension), or be sure to disable automatic game updating - otherwise you’ll come back to your game after steam auto-updates it and wonder where all your mods went. 😅

Anyway, back to the list of mods I was running - no guarantee that they’re all 100% compatible with the latest update, but the vast majority of them should be. You also can’t go wrong checking out the Top of All Time list on Nexus - I’m sure there’s some larger overhauls there that are great, but not something I used.

• Vehicle Customizer
  • lets you swap skins on player owned vehicles, so you can finally own those not-purchasable cool car colors that you find in the world.
• Pocket Radio
  • lets you listen to the radio while on foot!!
• Sensible Stamina and Athletics
  • I was playing a melee character and even so, didn’t get super high in athletics with this mod. I’d be scared to see how rough it is to level up athletics vanilla
• Immersive First Person
• Enhanced Weather
• Ragdoll Physics Overhaul
• Subdermal Armor Scaled Up
• Black Durable Synthetic Biker Coat

UI / Quality of Life mods:

• Limited HUD
  • this gives you much more granular control over what appears, and also lets you configure UI elements based on game state (ie, show during combat or not during combat); combine with Muted Markers for even more customization.
• Minimal Markers
• Quest Untracker
  • for untracking that “meet hanako at embers” quest without going into the menus
• No Camera Auto-Centering
  • the camera re-centering after like 2 seconds when driving always bugged me, and this mod fixes it.
• Filter Saves by Lifepath and Type
• Smaller Item Arrows

Performance-increasing / bug fix / visual mods:

• Optimized Crowd & Traffic Density
• Optical Camo Bug Fixes
• Vanilla Billboard LODs Improved
• Misty Appearance Mod
  • b/c honestly she should look way more goth than the vanilla game

Mods around increasing immersion, depending on your taste:

• Restrict Crafting/Upgrading to Inside Apartments
  • what it says on the tin! I was trying to go back to my apartments pretty frequently to shower / sleep / etc so this was another way of nudging me back
• Street Vendors
  • most of the street vendors will now trade with you!

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor is one of my favorite indie games of all time. The city design really captures the feeling of wandering around an unfamiliar, large, bustling place. The diary mechanic at the end of the day is a great way to get in character, and I like that you can decorate the apartment. I did some light data-mining (mostly item info and dialogue strings), and I even have fridge magnets of some of the pixel art!

Depanneur Nocturne is also a great evening’s worth of exploration and vibes, but I mention it because it has a reference to Spaceport Janitor and it made me SO happy when I realized that. :)

Yeah, this is the distinction I usually make - beating the game is rolling the credits, finishing the story, what have you. Completing the game is doing all the side quests / koroks / enemy camps / content in the game.

So it’s not the same as a fully featured wiki application, but I host a docker instance of VS Code on my NAS pointed at my obsidian vault volume, then SSH tunnel into it when I’m on devices away from home. Foam (VS Code extension) helps add some missing Obsidian features (backlinks pane, syntax highlighting, some autocomplete, cmd-click to navigate wiki links).

I can share more implementation details if anyone’s interested; caveat is that unfortunately it doesn’t work on mobile.

Other options I looked into:

1. GitHub - gollum/gollum: A simple, Git-powered wiki with a sweet API and local frontend.
   • this requires you to use git in your vault, which didn’t work with my personal set-up, but might not bother you?
2. Raneto - Markdown Knowledgebase for Node.js
   • I couldn’t get this container to load anything in the browser; possibly less an issue with my vault content and more of an issue with my container set-up so maybe it’d work better for you.
3. GitHub - Zavy86/WikiDocs: 📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki engine…
   • this version looks like it supports PUID and GUID assignment for volume read/write, if that matters. I didn’t try it though.
4. Filestash — Self-hosted client for your data
   • Taking a look in the docker installation instructions, I couldn’t find anywhere to put a local volume mounted to the docker container. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t actually interface with local files, so I didn’t test further.

Oof, not quite impossible to kill… I put mine on the balcony as it’s getting nice here, but after a couple 90 degree days noticed the leaves were getting a rough texture, not the normal smooth shiny texture. I brought it back indoors and it’s been a couple weeks but the texture hasn’t been restored. :S

having subscribed to multiple games communities, the issue then becomes content duplication; the same trailer or article will get posted in three different communities, and I don’t actually want to see it three times in my feed. I’m not sure there’s a good way to solve that, though.

(I’m subscribed to multiple communities b/c I’m not sure which one will have the largest comments sections, and those are what I’m really interested in.)

I’m not super familiar with the Archive Team - what distinguishes this specific archiving effort from the dataset that PushShift archived? Is this primarily focusing on archiving specifically media (video, iamges), or comments/submissions in the time period since PushShift closed, or everything from the entire time period from 2005 onward?

170 plants?! and here I am feeling super overwhelmed with 7 of them, hah!

on a slightly joking but also sort of serious note: do you have spreadsheets to keep track of them all? is there a lot of variance in watering schedules, or do you have some auto watering…?

Building your own musical instrument sounds like a daunting project at the beginning but one with very satisfying results. :)

Not knowing much about marimbas or woodworking, I’m super curious about the actual hand-tuning process! Is it carefully trimming the boards down? And how much do the tubes (?) at the bottom affect the tuning vs the wood pieces on top?