I wouldn’t be surprised to see some foundries retooling to produce DRAM in less than five years.

More accurately, the headline confuses respirators with valveless FFP2/N95 masks, which are adequate.

Civ 4 is great.

Civ 5 is mostly great if you add the Brave New World (or maybe Gods and Kings) expansion, which revises the game mechanics. My main complaint is that I don’t like how religion affects the mid-late game, but the game is still great overall.

Both can be had for cheap when they go on sale.

There’s a free and open-source Civ-like game called Unciv. I haven’t played it, but I’ve seen it mentioned often enough that it might be worth a look.

Appalling? Yes. Shocking? Not to anyone who has been paying attention.

“Before I knew it, I saw ICE agents circling a young woman who appeared to be Hispanic, and so I approached her, and we were at that point chanting, ‘We are not afraid, we are not afraid.’”

Callaghan then said he told ICE officers to take him instead of harassing her. An agent then “came, got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, ‘Are you afraid now?’” Callaghan recalled.

After he said he still wasn’t afraid, the officer handcuffed him before putting him into the back of an SUV. “They came back three times and they asked me if I was afraid yet, to which I replied, ‘Hell no, I’m not afraid of you, and I’m never going to be afraid of you.’”

Callaghan said that he asked if he was under arrest after officers asked for him to hand over his identification and his cellphone.

“And then they said to me, ‘Well, you’re white, you won’t be any fun anyway. You can get out of the car.’”

I played the tutorial, and continued the game for several hours after the tutorial part ended.

I struggled to stay awake. It was by far the most boring slog I have ever experienced in any edition of Civ. (I haven’t played Civ 7, though.)

We won’t know until it’s released.

The new Steam Controller is supposed to release early this year, so I would probably wait for that.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamcontroller

If that were not an option, I would pick up a DualSense next time it goes on sale. (Most recent sales were in June and December, I think.)

it never turns off with inactivity, so basically runs until dead unless I manually turn it off…

I think it powers off when the bluetooth connection drops, which you could trigger from your desktop if you ever decide to go wireless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)

Are drifting controller sticks the new mouse jiggler?

Calibration can help with drifting sticks.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamepad#Setting_up_deadzones_and_calibration

If you want one that isn’t a bloated Electron app, there’s Minigalaxy:

https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/

in my car I’m searching through the one screen, not hunting through a field of obscure symbols with no standardisation on where anything is, and all those little lights.

That seems odd to me. I think most of us learn where the physical controls are, and then operate them by touch while driving.

We don’t take our eyes off the road to read the brake pedal or gear shifter, either. ;)

Native linux builds. Not clients. As far as I can tell, these games do not have a client or server.

You might find this interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe

It’s refreshing to see Expedition 33 winning a category it deserves, and only that category.

However, how long should heirs continue to sponge off the work of their parents and grandparents?

And how long should they continue to sponge off the rest of society, whose taxes pay for copyright administration, adjudication, and enforcement? Each one of these monopolies costs money, and it’s the rest of us who are stuck footing the bills… for an awfully long time.

And then there’s the matter of big corporations routinely buying copyrights and sponging off of us for all that time.

you had no objectives.

So you could just stay on your ship forever.

Are you sure you haven’t inverted the cause/effect relationship here? ;)

https://xcancel.com/slikey/status/2006774600491827296

Just think how much culture could be enriched (through derivative works) if US copyright was rolled back to its original term: 14 years with an option to renew it once for 14 more.

The Trump administration earlier in the year announced plans to entice new ICE recruits by offering them $50,000 sign-up bonuses and assistance with repaying student loans in a bid to double the agency’s head count.

Reminds me of this:

All over Russia, young men have been recruited to go to the front. Their families receive the equivalent of $2,000 to $20,000, or more, depending on the region. In three years, the government spent almost $38 billion, or 1.5 percent of Russia’s GDP, on these payments.