Sorry you’re getting down voted. NMS has my most played number of hours of any game. But my spouse and I have felt really demotivated to play it of late because of just how damn buggy it has gotten. It’s always been a buggy game (my Trace of Metal bug workaround was up for yeeears on Reddit before it was fixed and I’ve seen the odd comment that its still broken). The settlement update was completely unplayable for me and the bugs have piled higher with each update. We barely got through the Corvette expedition and missed the last one because the bugs have just killed our want to play. I wish there was more bug squashing and QOL updates than new ‘features’ that are actually just testing for Light No Fire.

https://www.registerguard.com/story/news/local/2025/11/11/flock-camera-locations-map-eugene-springfield/87202411007/

You’re very naive if you think only propaganda is controlled solely by right wingers lol

I fill almost every pen I own with a syringe because I hate the mess that dipping pens or converters can cause. So that’s my main recommendation. Second method is a bit like filling a syringe. Dip nib, draw up ink with converter. Hold pen nib upwards and tap the pen to get the air to the top of the converter. Slowly screw the converter to push the air at the top out. Dip pen again again suck more ink in. Rinse and repeat till you have a satisfactory amount of fill. Honestly though, syringing ink into the converter is just easier. You can give the converter a little turn (once its back in the pen) to force ink into the feed faster if you can’t be arsed waiting for it to make its way down the feed. 😊

This is one of the things I don’t get about any of this shit - if we were talking about physical items, letters, a hard landline, physical art, written medical information, etc. this would require a warrant, court order or whatever. Why the fuck is digital anything viewed as a free-for-all by govts, AI techbros, data brokers et al. How do they not understand that just because something is ‘digital’ it doesn’t deserve the same protections as before?!

Unless you’re using GrapheneOS and then the answer is “Mostly but it depends”.

Ah, the privacy invasion is indeed the devil. I wish more folks cottoned on to Jitsi.

Aside: Have a look at SmartTube instead of NewPipe. It’s made for TVs and the devs are excellent at keeping it working despite Google constantly trying to block alternate front ends.

https://smarttubeapp.github.io/

The arguments around piracy are less about legality (in most places its copyright infringement which is NOT “stealing” but is illegal). Its more the moral and ethical arguments. Is it moral for a service to remove something that you’ve paid for? Is it ethical for people, through no fault of their own, to not be able to afford entertainment. Is it moral for large corporations to price gouge and continuously Make Line Go Up while offering a continuously worse product? Is it moral to copy software not available in your country? Is it ethical for companies to force people into subscriptions for the sole purpose of making more money when they already have loads? Is it ethical to pirate when companies refuse to support the operating system you have? Is it moral to copy software when the company that makes it is not just unethical but has been found to be taking part in things like genocide? Is it ethical for huge corporations to manipulate democracy and laws to serve their profits at the expense of everyone else? Is capitalism itself ethical?

Most people I know who are anti-pirate just lack an understanding of why people engage in copyright infringement. Calling people “scum” and “thieves” without understanding the very big moral and ethical considerations behind what drives people to piracy is reductionist, ignorant and Othering for the sake of self-superiority.

Not saying that your partner thinks that way, just that its a very common example of thinking that misses the important points and that its not just about what’s legal and what’s not (because there are many things that are or have been illegal that are completely unethical.)

I keep meaning to sign up so now is as good time as any!

Last time I used Acrobat via WINE, it was more work than it was worth to get stable and running without issues :/

I tried doing print to PDF but it flattened the resultant PDF so the layers were lost. Almost all of the software I used to try converting altered the PDF layout in some way and patterns must not change at all, otherwise they get messed up :/

I was already able to remove the edit password with qpdf --decrypt. Most of the PDF editors I used, changed the PDF too much (e.g. added margins/padding) which ruined the very specific layout needed for the patterns to work. There has to be no changes to the PDFs apart from removing the ‘footer’ text :/

A Brave New World describes pretty well the self imposed glass prison the human race will end up with if the general apathy so pervasive now continues. Panem et circenses

Not entirely sure I understand what you mean but in addition to the suggestion of WordPress, all the plugins must be licensed as GPL as well. So all the paid for plugins can be obtained and legally used without paying. You will however have to forgo support and automatic updates on most.

I would suggest the WordPress section on babia.to

Unfortunately you likely still have a shadow account :(

It’s not science that’s destroying society - its the misuse of science and worse, greed that has a veneer of science or rather, $cience.

It’s the usual story of capitalism, oligarchy and big corp ruining everything for everyone but themselves.

HOW is that comfortable?!

Tell me you don’t understand GrapheneOS without telling me you don’t understand GrapheneOS.

This typed from a GrapheneOS phone that works just great, including the UI (breath of fresh simple air, no clutter, no crap, no AI).

And I’m happily using my phone knowing that not a single thing is spying on me or data mining and everything on my phone is there by my choice. And even happier that there’s not a damn thing Google can do about it.

Yes, you are wrong.

Did you have any problems with Aurora? I thought it would be perfect for my parent. But ran like a dog on their laptop and could work out why. Tried Mint instead and it just worked out of the box.