Software developed by government funded research is typically released open source in the US.

Take a look around https://www.zillow.com/us/

You can probably get a small house for 200k-300k in “middle of nowhere” parts of the US, but if you want to be in the vicinity of a big city (which is typically where most of the best paying jobs are) you will need more like 500k for a small house, and in the most popular areas (like the areas around Sam Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, Boston, or New York City) you might need more than 1 million.

By “small house” I mean like at most 3 bed 2 bath.

Even if you are going for a 200k house, you’ll need at least 40k for the down payment.

That would be 0.5 million USD (20% down payment), which is about how much a house costs in many parts of the US. In the most popular areas, 1 million USD is how much a modest house costs, and you’d need at least 200k for the down payment.

More like 100k

Literally just the basics of choosing audio/subtitles/quality settings

Jellyfin simply doesn’t work as well as Plex unfortunately.

I can try it again, but what I did was compare h265 to SVT-AV1 in ffmpeg, using a couple different clips of different styles (including a video from my phone and some ripped blu-ray movies). I used “constant quality / variable bitrate settings, and ran each file with a variety of settings for both encoders. I judged the videos with a quality comparison tool ffmpeg has, and I also took subjective notes when I could tell the difference.

I found AV1 did better at very low quality (when it was firmly into the region where it was visibly different, AV1 did have better quality per bitrate).

But when trying to produce high-quality clips, AV1 was never able to produce a clip that matched the quality score of h265, even when the bitrate of the AV1 file was higher.

AV1 only has gains at very low quality settings. For high quality, h265 is much better. At least with the codecs available in ffmpeg, from my tests.

It would be nice if they could finish AV1 first…

Then they complain about the moderators, and if enough of the community agrees, things will change.

If the moderators won’t change, the community moves.

If they don’t agree with the community, they should find a different community.

It sounds like what you want is for moderators to ban people for you, which they will do if you report them and the moderators agree that what they are doing is unwanted in the community.

I don’t know if you could have chosen a worse example. The sexual ads in cyberpunk are part of the worldbuilding and statement about society and capitalism. They absolutely are necessary to the story.

You can also just buy digital downloads from sites like Bandcamp and Quobuz, and even iTunes if you click past the Apple Music streaming part.

As a general rule the more you spend up front, the less you will spend (in time and money) to fix and maintain the thing.

3D printers are finicky which is why they often become a whole hobby on their own.

As part of that, I’d strongly recommend you stick to one of the easier to work with materials (PLA and TPU seem to be popular rn). Those are good enough 99% of the time, and printing more exotic materials is more work. If you really need a better material, prototype in PLA and then buy a professionally printed final piece (I’ve personally used Shapeways a couple times. I wouldn’t call it cheap but for small parts it’s reasonable and the quality of the end result is quite good).

I personally am using an EnderV3 right now. It’s very customizable, and was one of the cheapest options when I bought it, but it tends to take a lot of debugging every time I want to make something.

This is the “metroidvania” genre part of the game but, it’s not for everyone.

That being said, both Hollow Knight and Silksong make the exploration a lot more streamlined than in older metroidvanias with the map features. When you don’t know where to go, check your map and look for paths that lead to areas that aren’t filled in yet. When you get a new power, see if you can remember any locations where that might be useful.

I agree with a lot of your commentary. A couple times so far a “good run back” has been the grind that let me buy some of the higher-cost items from shops. Sometimes it’s frustrating but usually once you get used to the path it goes quickly. There have been a few times where I didn’t realize there was a closer bench until after I already beat the fight lol.

Double damage would suck a lot less (and be a better mechanic) if you had 6 HP to start, or if you healed 4 at a time, or if bosses didn’t always do 2 damage.

Most of the bosses have 1-damage and 2-damage attacks. Also 6HP and increased healing are available relatively early (still a good way into the game but it’s a long game).

Skills and traps don’t do enough damage to feel especially useful either.

I have to strongly disagree with this. Especially when you start getting more traps/tools and upgrades for them, they get very strong and don’t require you to get dangerously close to the enemy like the basic attacks. Some of the bosses and many of the arenas I’ve gotten through mainly thanks to the consumable traps.

Common enemies are spongy, bosses take at least 33% too long across the board.

Like in most metroidvanias, you start off struggling against common enemies but as you get upgrades they become weaker relative to you. However I do agree that the trash mobs are a bit too tanky. Maybe somewhere between 50% and 25% less health would be ideal. I’m not sure I would adjust the bosses though.

There have been several boss fights so far where I die to the path to the boss more than the boss itself and it takes way longer to get to the boss than actually beating it.

That being said though, I do think there’s some merit to runbacks as an actual consequence for failure. I definitely strategize more cautiously because of it.

I wouldn’t want to browse the web without ssl in 2025

VR chat.

AR is more complicated.

GoG has been having issues too but not as bad as Steam ironically