Lol, the game is actually pretty snappy with a light mod list (Harmony, base game, official expansions + whatever I’m working on), I think my load times are only a couple of seconds. Plus steam will send out the “Alias is playing RimWorld message” as soon as the game is launched, regardless of whether the game fully loads or not.

Over RimWorld mods?! While I will acknowledge that everyone should play the vanilla game before diving into mods, RimWorld is one of the most modder friendly games I’ve ever seen (mod support was literally mentioned in the game’s original Kickstarter).

I’m not a big fish, but I’ve been around a long time. Most of my mods are cases where the original author has stepped away from modding and I saw an opportunity to add some improvements of my own while carrying on the torch (I stand on the shoulders of giants and all). I maintain a handful of mods, but the biggest/ most notable are probably Setup Camp, Camping Stuff, and Doormats. If you’re interested in the full list, here’s my Steam / GitHub

I make mods for RimWorld and my poor friends get subjected to this all the time (I’m really bad about remembering to set myself as offline and my friends find it more amusing than anything else) because the fastest way to test my code is usually just to close the game, and reopen it.

Woo! Congrats on pinning down the source!

I’m taking a complete shot in the dark, but it’s happening on the X and Y axes and what looks like similar spots every layer, which makes me think that’d it be something mechanical that’s only manifesting under some condition (like flow rate or speed). Maybe check your bolts, belts, and rails? My gut says loose toolhead/ extruder (wiggling could cause weird lines like that), but that’s more a guess than an “I’ve seen this before” kind of thing. Failing that, I’d be curious to see if that pattern shows up in a flow rate test.

I know many folks have sworn off Discord, but if you haven’t, maybe try asking in the Voron discord too?

Maybe it’s because this is the Fuck Cars comm and they (much like you) completely failed to read the room?

Yeah, some places have shitty infrastructure, but it doesn’t have to be bad, that’s kind of the fucking point around here.

Hi and welcome! Do you have a budget and a rough idea of the kinds of things you’d be looking to print?

Naively, I’d second the core one recommendation, assuming that the price tag isn’t a problem and that you aren’t looking to print multi-color (it’s still possible on that machine, just not something that comes stock).

Pretty much the same. I’d be curious to try PHA, but can’t justify spending 2-3x the cost of my cheap prototyping PLA (Zyltech) or functional ABS (LDO or Polymaker).

West3D stocks Ambrosia PHA for $35 /kg. They also occasionally do sales (just had 20% off for the 4th), so you could probably get it cheaper if you’re willing to wait.

It’s something of a local solution, but MusicBee supports custom tags/ filters and has auto-playlists that sounds a lot like what you’re asking for.

I’m not sure if any of the streaming services have anything similar though. It boggles my mind that Spotify is a billion dollar company and there’s no way to say “make a playlist with the discographies of all my favorited artists and keep it updated as they put out new songs”.

Mmm, there’s nuance with a bit of ambiguity here and I’m not deeply familiar with onion routing (security isn’t my specialty, I know enough to say that I’m very out of my depth).

Let’s back up to what a VPN does: it’s effectively a detour for your network traffic. Instead of traffic going from your client (I’m grouping computer/ phone and routers tougher, because you can do VPN routing at either level) and to whatever you were trying to go, the VPN server acts as a middleman. (Assuming secure traffic ssl/ https) A VPN masks your traffic from your ISP (because they just see you connecting to the VPN instead of your destination) and from your destination (because they see the request as coming from the VPN server*).

As I understand it, onion routing conceptually similar to chaining multiple VPN hops together, such that each hop is only aware of where to go next. (I think technically, each packet is sent along a different random path).

So. There’re a couple of ways to answer your question, depending on how you interpret it or how you layer technologies.

1. Onion routing on its own would theoretically already have the privacy advantages of a VPN- because of the way requests are bounced and split up, the receiving end doesn’t know where the call came from. That assumes that whatever the client is trying to talk to accepts onion traffic and can talk back over the same protocol.
2. Otherwise, you have to have a client on the other end of the onion route to accept your traffic, make a call to whenever you were trying to go and send it back to you. At that point you’ve more or less made a VPN.
3. You could go through a VPN first and then onion route, effectively this would decouple your machine from the onion network, but it does put you back at 1 or 2 for actually getting the data you want.

All that said, the major downside to onion routing is speed, it’s incredibly slow to break your request apart, bounce it around the network a bunch of times, reassemble it on the other end, and then turn around and do it again for the return trip.

* That also means that some sites, like reddit (fuck u/spez), will block traffic from VPN servers because multiple people’s traffic all coming from the same place looks a lot like spam.

Unless I’m mistaken, also problematic

You can totally self-host your own VPN, a lot of folks will do that so that they can access their home lab remotely (without having to open ports or set up a reverse proxy).

That said, self-hosting kind of defeats the purpose of using a VPN service if the goal is to anonymise web traffic or bypass regional restrictions/ content blocks.*

* Technically you could use a hosting service and host your own VPN in another region, but it’s probably not going to be cheap, and it’s kind of a stretch of the self part of self hosting.

Aww dang that’s tragic (if you’re into fantasy, video games, or over the top absurdist humor, it’d probably be right up your alley). Would it help if I made up lies to un-hype it?

If you haven’t seen Primal yet, I’d highly recommend it! It’s crazy how much of an emotional punch can be packed into a series with almost no dialogue.

It can be both. The three RAM manufactures (Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix) have a historical record of price fixing and collusion (I believe Gamers Nexus has some excellent reporting on this). It isn’t just supply and demand, it’s that three sketchy companies have the world over a barrel and may well be using the demand spike to keep prices (artificially) high with the knowledge that nobody else can enter the market and that it takes YEARS and a truly ridiculous amount of money to scale up production to increase supply.

Lego City Undercover, Marvel Superheroes, and DC Super-Villains. Definitely not the primary gameplay focus, but all three have an open-world map that you hop on a Lego motorcycle and cruise around between levels. There’s even some racing challenges here and there to put your motorbike to good use.

It’s not watermarked or signed, but I’m inclined to believe that it’s Jess Rose (Artist Instagram).

I was a bit late ordering mine, so I haven’t gotten mine yet, but I’m super excited!