So, I'm pretty much a layman when it comes to modding, game development, coding, etc. With that said, am I correct in thinking that creating a small to midsized mod for a game like Stellaris is a much smaller/easier undertaking than even a simple indie game?

If I want to get started in that direction, creating a small (functional) Stellaris mod might be a good idea?

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Any 3d printing nerd that can point me in the right direction? The amount of brands out there is overwhelming.

If you're looking for an example of why we should not trust billionaires with our cultural heritage, here it is. Now all the cool pieces will be auctioned off to people with too much money and the rest will just be trashed.

Stalin: STAtic Language ImplementatioN. A brutally optimizing Scheme compiler.

Stolen from https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/112676564786376626

The lab is available to researchers 24/7, uses real human neurons and uses the Python programming language, creating a “dream bridge between biology and data scientists,” according to Jordan.

After accessing the provided login/password, researchers gain the ability to remotely send electrical signals to neurons and receive their responses. It is then the responsibility of researchers to devise optimal algorithms for controlling the behavior of the organoids.

Users can mimic memory function by using periodic electrical stimulation to reinforce synapses through repetition, thus making desired pathways stronger.

Researchers do this by training the organoids through a reward system. The organoids are rewarded with dopamine, the neurotransmitter responsible for pleasure (and addiction).

Meanwhile, as “punishment,” the organoids are exposed to chaotic stimuli, such as irregular electrical activity.

A live view of the biochips working in real-time can be found at www.finalspark.com/live.

Still think it's kinda neat, but with clearly disturbing implications.

The Enshittification continues. Slightly better than Google because you can at least turn it off, but still on by default! Turn that shit off if you use DDG!

My laptop is 7 years old starting to show it's age. I'm worried it will die soon so I've been looking for a replacement, but DAMN are decent laptops expensive these days.

I would like something powerful enough to play stuff like Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3 and FF:7 Rebirth (And most importantly, Monster Hunter Wilds when it comes out) at a decent framerate. It also has to be a university laptop, so nothing covered in RGB lights that looks like an Alienware fucked a Cybertruck, please.

I don't want to spend a ton of money, but am I being unrealistic? I don't want to spend 5000 on a computer, that's ridiculous, my car cost less than that.

Yes it's a shitty car, that's not the point. Stop judging my poor ass.

Here's a good & readable summary paper to pin your critiques on

I've talked on here about my Pixel 4a and how much I like it, but the battery life has been really dreadful as of late. I was at 900+ cycles on the stock battery so not exactly a surprise, but I didn't want to buy a new phone so replacing the battery seemed the best way forward. I got a kit from iFixit for ~$60 including an OEM battery.

I read online that it's a tough process since the 4a has a very fragile screen that's likely to break during such repairs, but everything went (mostly) fine! The iFixit guide got me most of the way there but I supplemented with a YouTube video. Hardest part was actually removing the adhesive strips keeping the battery in place, I ended up having to use isopropyl alcohol to dissolve some of the glue instead of pulling it out. Also I did kinda puncture the old battery which shot out some sparks, but it seems to be stable (currently chilling on my kitchen table until I can take it to be recycled/disposed of properly).

One thing to note about the iFixit kit is that the included adhesive strips for sticking the screen back on are kinda doodoo and likely to get stuck on the kit packaging during transit, which ruins them. I tried to make do with the remaining strips but noticed edges of the screen sticking up, so I replaced it the next day using some TESA tape I got off Amazon which seems to work great.

Overall kinda sucks that you have to jump through so many hoops, but was also somewhat satisfying to feel like I accomished something. And of course battery life is much better!

Today, after seeing another bunch of Nazis gave 132K likes to a post from NickMercs telling Mr. Beast's recently-transitioned friend that she is "abandoning her family to play pretend," followed by the same Nazis going after Mr. Beast for trying to defend her, I have decided I am not even going to browse Twitter through a mirror anymore like I've been doing post-Elon takeover.

Since Trump announced his first presidential bid in 2015, I've stayed glued to this site, because I was always either trying to see the worst people of humanity get dunked on and ratioed for a burst of faith in humanity, or keep tabs on rising movements like the alt-right before they went mainstream. But as of late, as the discriminatory chud filth is becoming the bulk of tweets, I oddly no longer feel compelled to wade through them to gauge what future evil movements may spring up from Twitter.

It's because I see that the white supremacists, tech ancaps, and incels of all races who are thriving on the new Twitter will just keep brigading innocuous posts with shock value slurs and devouring deliberately-phrased clickbait, until they drive everyone half-sane out and get quarantined in a new porn, gore, spam, and virus-filled digital sewer. The new right-wing boosting X algorithm will usher these people into a complete untethering from reality, and embroil these chuds in intra-clique feuds until they either grow out of it, get swindled by one of the many scams now allowed to advertise there, or **** themselves. I firmly believe that Twitter will soon completely stop being where political and cultural winds are steered, and it's all thanks to Elon's stupid decisions.

After seeing the recent deliberate attempts by the Twitter groypers/incels to be inflammatory--by spamming slurs, or saying "based and chuds" to posts reporting hate crimes, or finding another unflattering image of some woman they saw in the media then adding the caption "they are doing this to demoralize you and destroy the west"--- I am confident that the right is devolving into a 'soy' movement with both eyes open the way 2012 college "SJWs" did, and that it will turn them into pariahs who tank their own popularity via infighting. Even this dumbass pickme bitch sees it:

I've recently seen Trads feud with tech libertarians, MMA chuds feud with Great Replacement chuds, groypers feud with old MAGAs (like the post-left and socdems feuded over the Squad), and TERFS and redpillers calling one other groomer enablers and transvestigating one another, and I feel at peace to fully check out and only check back in when it's all burned down.

The difference between all this new Twitter vitriol and the 2016 alt-right rise, is that these new reactionary panics have lore that is too obscure, far-fetched, and indigestible unless you spend long stretches of your life not interacting with real human beings, and is made by a scattered market of profit-driven grifters with no central messaging, coordination, or real-life social competence (unlike the Koch/Mercer/U-Line backed 2016 stuff). I mean look at this extremely normal reply to the above tweet, this shit is not going to travel among normies of any political affiliationm because it will not ring true to anybody who isn't a socially maladapted NEET:

Elon is already a dogshit manager who is in over his head, but this latest pathetic attempts to juice Twitter's declining revenue, like by paywalling streaming, and offering A1 conspirat*rds revenue sharing, are just more Jenga tiles removed from his "free speech" bastion, that bring it closer to its collapse as a political force.

Would like to spend under or around 1k.

My refurbished laptop that I got from work crapped out and I need a new one. I'd like to do light gaming, like Cult of Lamb or Disco Elysium and that would probably be the most heavy use application that I need it for. I'm also a caveman and can be pretty rough on my things, I think my last laptop ate it because I dropped it like 3 feet to the ground by knocking it off my couch on accident. So something that's somewhat durable, but I do not plan on throwing it across the room lol.

I plan on learning how to use Linux; I know next to nothing about it but have just heard good things and I think I'm just computer savvy enough to figure it out. Also any suggestions on solid alternatives to things like Word, Google docs, etc would me super appreciated!

Setting up your USB: https://x.com/ghost_motley/status/1804950177611927922

Getting the iso file for rufus: https://x.com/ghost_motley/status/1805021483892146249

Register using some Auto-KMS script, something like https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts might work, haven't checked in in a while.

You really don't have to do scorched earth and install linux. Just do a proper install of win 11 enterprise, with Rufus, and a few minutes disabling anything else you don't like. Also, use explorerpatcher https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to fix various things like start menu, task bar, etc.

No ads, no Copilot AI, no search using bing, no telemetry, etc. etc. You can safely ignore all the doom and gloom about how windows is getting worse because if you remove all the crap its actually getting better.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/x-is-putting-another-previously-free-feature-behind-a-paywall

Long article about the collapse of that VC-financed coding bootcamp that tried to "disrupt" education with income-sharing agreements (indentured survitude) and shitty online zoom classes

You can buy an 8-inch silicon wafer with these chips for $9000. That sounds expensive, but a wafer holds an amazing 100,587 tiny chips. That yields a price of nine cents per chip, making them cheap enough to use in disposable tickets.

So far I've been charging them between 15-30 min and I get about 6 days worth of juice out of them. But by day 6 the taste is pretty much gone. Wondering if charge time plays a role in this. Google has been very unhelpful getting an answer (shocker).

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/astronauts-stranded-in-space-due-to-multiple-issues-with-boeings-starliner-and-the-window-for-a-return-flight-is-closing

Setting up following this guide: https://mullvad.net/en/help/shadowsocks-android

And I have everything in OpenVPN and Shadowsocks set up like they say, but when I try to connect to the Shadowsocks server I get the error "Failed to detect internet connection: connection closed". The upload/download shows I can upload at ~30 kbps but no download.

I'm on MIUI 14 which may be the problem because I know it has some issues with...everything really... But I turned off power saver so it should be allowed to run in the background

Consider the RSI-prone gamer. I would like to have healthy hands and wrists in older age and still use the computer.