KSA is supposed to be a spiritual successsor to KSP1. I’ve heard good things but it’s not out yet so hard to say if the reality will live up to it.

Reentry: very different. Very focused on the historical missions: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo. Very simulationist, going for realistic operations. Does a great job of showing just how complicated and manual everything was, how “disconnected” the procedures feel from direct flight, to me anyway. There’s no aspect of building ships at all. But there’s a good bit of potential there too, we’ll see where it goes. For now it’s an amazing peek into history.

That looks more like WW2 than WW1

Nice. I’m into the space games as well. Lots of hours in Space Engineers and Stellaris. (And Tabletop Simulator playing High Frontier 4.)

Been having (intimidating) fun with Re[-e]ntry and I’m looking forward to Kitten Space Agency.

Yep, the hardware planning all makes a big difference! If you’re looking for Linux-friendly RGB keyboard options I’ve been very happy with Keychron.

I think the only things I’ve “needed” windows for in the last couple years were firmware updates for an Xbox controller and (surprisingly) firmware upgrades for a Steam VR headset and/or base station.

Glad that you are enjoying ARC, I’ve heard only good things about it.

My work computer is a whole separate thing, and there I do find Windows pretty important, mainly for Active Directory management.

Definitely a case where “your mileage may vary” as games go. I can’t stand EA as a company, and the competitive online shooter scene just strikes me as so appallingly toxic every time. Obviously that doesn’t work for everyone and I very much get the appeal of that social aspect of gaming. So I guess I count myself lucky there that I’ve spent years cultivating the kind of environment where my games and friends are compatible with Linux — lol.

However, I’m struggling to even comprehend the concept of a keyboard either needing an “app” or not working on Linux. Maybe with some unusual key mapping desires, but QMK firmware seems to take care of that and it works fine on Linux.

If the actors were paid fairly for the subsequent uses and they agreed

That “if” is carrying a lot of weight.

I like to think I’m not. On the other hand if those are the only two options I guess I must be?

That other person though… seems to be wildly bent out of shape over a downvote on someone else’s comment. I show they deleted their other comment now but: definitely an asshole.

Anyway, since we’re this deep into the convo, might as well explain: the downvote was mostly about someone still dual-booting Windows at this point. That was not at all articulated by a simple swipe to downvote, but a lot quicker and easier (or not, in retrospect). Does that make me an asshole? Maybe; if so, I’ll take that hit to my little reputation and move on.

In the interest of continuing the conversation though, I’ll ask… what draws you to keep it around? My experience when I was dual booting was that before long I found myself not booting windows for a year or two. When I did [around the time of the transition from 7 to 10], it just caused extra hassle with things updating and breaking. And the last couple of games I had “needed” it for began working fine in Linux. So I reclaimed the space, and haven’t missed it as windows 11 enshittified further and Microsoft went all in on vibe coding slop.

I don’t think so, no.

I feel like people put a lot more stock in downvotes than is really necessary or intended. It’s nothing personal.

Also it feels very weird to get called out like that for something so trivial. Let alone directly insulted (by the parent reply, not by you.)

Mutton, lettuce, and tomato

There also aren’t little bars connecting atoms, and atoms don’t have faces. But here we are.

No way.

That feeling of sitting around for hours feeling like you might throw up? That is the worst.

Same reason as iOS.

$200 isn’t that much debt…

Yep, you’re right and I misread. But as you found, it looks like they should not have used these organs…

That is exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated. Going by your logic you would need to assume that the 44% unaffiliated are all republicans, which is very unlikely.

Certainly it seems to be close to the presidential election results over the last 20+ years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.

Edit: and indeed, if you add up the 2024 congressional results you get 58-39-3 percent.

Correct.

The proposed map would have targeted Indiana’s two Democratic U.S. representatives to hand all 9 seats to the GOP.  Around 45% of Indiana’s party-affiliated voters are Democrats.

So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.

Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.

That’s a sensible reason but these people appear to be just that stupid and petty.

He does love himself.

Oh yeah that’s just monstrous, but it’s not the microwave that’s the problem there.