Maestro

Octopodes

Yup, I remember that 😄

43 years old here. I can still hear it. I think I put about 10-15 chargers in the bin because of the noise. I also really hate those anti-mosquito ultrasone emittors people put in their yards. I can hear them whenever I walk around the neighborhood.

I have a small collection of Lego sets. I mainly collect the minifigure-scale Star Wars space ships (yes, I have the crazy big Millenium Falcon), but only original trilogy ships. My wife collects the big Lego Creator cars.

That’s harder, but perhaps the new wifi 7 sensing can help in the near future.

Home Assistant can do that. Put a Shelly smart plug in the stove outlet to see if it’s using power (or do you have an old fasioned gas stove?). It can also track what time you turned off your lights last night.

I put a Shelly smart plug in my washing machine outlet. If it detects the machine using power for 30 seconds and then stop using power for 5 minutes, then it sends a signal to Home Assistant, and HA send a notification to my phone. It’s easy.

Home Assistant has a really good basic presence detection: wifi. If you phone is connected to your home wifi network, then you’re home. Else you’re away. Simple. Works. Local only. No extra sensors.

It’s not about clicks, it’s about attribution. That is also why they all want to track you. It’s not just about targeting ads. If you buy something in a webshop and the advertiser can show that you saw a (related) ad for that somewhere in the last X days/weeks then the sale is attributed to the advertiser and they get paid a fee. That is why they want to track anything and everything. The more data they collect, the higher the chance they can show attribution. No clicks required.

Exactly. Shitty mods have been a thing since newsgroups, AOL chatrooms and good old internet forums. Probably BBSes too.

There’s a11y and l10n. What else is there?

Mine is called “Stoffie” (In Dutch a vacuum is called a “stofzuiger”). It translates to “Dusty”.

Ahhh yes. Lemonparty, Goatse, Tubgirl. Those were the days. I used to be a forum admin back in the day. I banned sooo many people trying to spam that shit.

And what would be left? A few hours of not-so-challenging sailing around to find the boss spawns? It reminds me of this: Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game.

If you want exploration for exploration’s sake, maybe play a game like Elite Dangerous?

I think it would be a lot more boring and less challenging than the current Valheim. And the game is already pretty grindy as it is.

Sad thing is WoW could already be that. But because all focus is on the last expansion, the rest of the vast game is basically dead and devoid of players. It’s not “World of Warcraft” but “Zone of Warcraft”.

Elder Scrolls Online has its fair share of flaws, but the “One Tamriel” update did make all content playable by all players. You see ESO players in every zone, not just in the latest expansion.

I wonder if AI’s like ChatGTP make this more achievable

I think Steam already has a whole category for that…

I do traditional woodworking as part of a medieval reenactment group. I also like games with basebuiling elements. Valheim, Minecraft, Ark, Conan Exiles, etc.