Yeah…I found that blueprints were of limited use building structures because although you could put down foundations marginally faster than zooping (16 tiles rather than 10) 4x4 isn’t a very convenient size for this, and if you have a lot of blueprints all at once the way a large building does the game doesn’t handle it well.

With manifolds of machines it’s a problem, because say you have a manifold of assemblers. Well there’s a left-handed and a right-handed version of the input belt manifold. If you include an output belt, does it go the same or the opposite way of the input belts? Then if you need higher tier belts than you built it for, you either have to upgrade them once placed or go to a blueprint designer, make the change, notice 25 hours later that you missed one and that half your factory has been running at half speed the entire time because one Mk 2 belt didn’t get replaced in a blueprint…

Oh and exactly one manufacturer fits. I don’t think it’s usable at all with refineries or coal generators even though you use a lot of those machines.

I vastly prefer the SMART mod, and probably by the time I’ve finished this playthrough, done something else for a year or two and am ready for another run of Satisfactory it’ll be ready for 1.0.

I did a rocky desert start at a site I don’t normally use for anything, built a starter base, got my Project Tower partially built, I’ve got a good start on my steel mill and I’ve got some starter plastic and rubber in production at a temporary slap-it-down refinery.

I struggle to keep track of phases/tiers/milestones, I’m working on the second payload to the space elevator and I’ve just unlocked trains. I’ve got a LOT to build before I pull the Space Elevator handle a second time, the Desert Automated Manufacturing Node, the West Heavy Oil Residue Extractor, and a lot of railroad need to be put in place.

Ubuntu is dead on the desktop.

I’ll take a slight tangent to this topic and talk about FOSS software I’ve recently had to give up that I really really miss: Autokey. Autokey is a rough equivalent to AutoHotKey on Windows, it can do anything from on the fly text replacement (type teh and it will correct to the, or type *date and it fills in today’s date) right up to firing whole Python scripts. it doesn’t work on Wayland (apparently there are security features that prevent it from working the same way it does on X11?), and I’ve yet to find a replacement for it that does.

Well in Australia that line would be entirely red. In Australia, “cunt” is how you pronounce the comma.

r/childfree tended to use “crotchgoblin” a lot. I sure did when I was there.

As a profanity enthusiast this is relevant to my interests, you scumwit dirttard wanksucker.

The one that does what I need it to do on the device I’m running it on. I’ve currently got four different Linux distros on x86 PCs around my house at this moment.

Jackdaws

So this has bothered me since I was a teenager.

In Empire Strikes Back, Yoda talked like this: “Put the cart before the horse, I have.” And he mostly did it while he was pretending to be a dingus early on to test Luke’s patience. Some actual movie quotes: “I cannot teach him. The boy has not patience.” “No. Do, or do not. There is no try.” “Judge me by my size, do you?”

In the prequel trilogy, it’s like Lucas bought into the meme that Yoda talks funny, so all of a sudden Yoda talks like this “Before the horse, the cart, I have put.” “Around the survivors, a perimeter, create!”

Anyway.

This

I had a Logitech MX Ergo mouse that allegedly had horizontal scrolling. The wheel could tilt left and right which clicked like a button, and the screen would scroll very very slightly to the side. Worst trackball I’ve ever had.

Just before they stopped making PCs, I saw an IBM computer with a mouse that had one of their Thinkpad clits instead of a scroll wheel. So a proper XY input. I think a blackberry ball would work too.

pretty sure that’s why I exist.

You know what always weirds me out:

The knife is a technology. It was invented by a person. And that person was not the same species as us. The knife has been around longer than Homo Sapiens.

I’ve commented on this before, but it reminds me of the mortise and tenon joint. The oldest intact wooden structure on Earth is held together with mortise and tenon joints. The man who built it never wrote his name down, because writing hadn’t been invented yet. He never rode a horse, because animal husbandry hadn’t been invented yet. He used stone tools, because copper smelting hadn’t been invented yet. In the present day, Festool sells a tool to make mortises called the Domino which they still hold a patent on. We’re still actively developing this technology which has been with us slightly longer than civilization has.

There are some records which are “threaded” backwards, in that you start at the center and work out rather than start at the edge and work in. This is not standard, automatic turntables might not be able to handle this, but the reason they do this is because of the effect above. You can get greater dynamic range near the outside of the disc, and you probably want greater dynamic range near the end of the recording as the music reaches a climax. Consider Ravel’s Bolero, which is one long crescendo.

I don’t own a Steam Deck. I am a Linux gamer, and I appreciate that it exists.

Internally it’s basically a laptop using its AMD integrated graphics, yeah? No discrete GPU? Which makes it actually pretty impressive at what it does.

Basically Apple doesn’t want games on their platforms.

I guess he feels like he’s achieving something. Everyone’s got to have a hobby.

Reminds me of the “caravan” episode of Top Gear, where the guys did the British equivalent of trailer camping, and when they arrived at the camp site they asked some other folks there at the campsite what they do when they’re there and the woman replied “fill up the loo.”

Mine will yell at me if hers isn’t clean. Though my cat will yell at me if the house is full of air, so who can even tell?

I would draw the line at shareholders.

You may use my software free of charge if you are a student, hobbyist, hobbyist with income, side hustler, sole proprietorship, LLC, S-Corp, non-profit, partnership, or other owner-operator type business.

Corporations with investors or shareholders will pay recurring licensing fees. Your shareholders may not profit from my work unless I profit from it more than they do. If you can afford a three inch thick mahogany conference table you can afford to pay for your software.