The consensus on Powerwash Simulator DLC from what I've seen so far is that it's not a lot of content for the price.

What do ya'll think?

I've recently been thinking a lot about the recyclability of plastic. I have several stacks of plastic drink cups from various fast food joints in my kitchen; as much as possible, I try to save up and bundle together similar types of plastic before I throw it in the recycling bin, to try to save some sorting effort. And in doing so, I noticed something.

The thing is, a lot of single-use plastics have very similar properties. PETE, HDPE, Polypropylene, solid polystyrene, they're all used to package similar or identical products. I think they're more or less interchangeable, and the choice of a given plastic for a given application has more to do with cost, availability and the preferences of the product engineer than any specific material properties of the plastic itself. There's obviously going to be some exceptions, but I think those are going to be few and far between, and a lot of them could be addressed by switching to other materials.

I think a great first step would be for regulators to encourage/force industries to standardize on one or two types of plastic at most, and eliminate plastics that aren't worth recycling, like polystyrene. That should reduce the manual labor required by a significant amount once the other plastics are eliminated from the waste stream, and make it feasible to recycle plastics locally instead of shipping them off to a third world country.

I think companies should be taxed or otherwise penalized for the plastic waste they foist on consumers, because often there's little choice involved unless you want to boycott a company entirely. If I wanted to eliminate plastic cups from my life, I'd pretty much have to stop getting fast food altogether (yes I know I should probably do that anyway, but that's beside the point). A tax on bulk purchases of plastic may end up being passed down to consumers, but the revenue could be put towards subsidizing production of more renewable materials.

I think food stamp programs could be a strong driver for change on this, as they could refuse to cover products that generate excessive waste. With enough warning, there should be enough time for companies to switch their products to be compliant with little disruption to the consumer.

Someone should force this guy to read about the principle of least astonishment.

Doesn't surprise me that a developer from Microsoft doesn't understand this. To this day, when I select "Update and Shut Down" in Windows, it only actually shuts the computer down about half the time.

Ubisoft has done a fantastic job of convincing me to never buy a Ubisoft game ever again.

Not sure that's how a company is supposed to work, but they sure seem to think so.

No mention in the article or on the Steam store page of whether it's meant to be compatible with the Steam Deck or not.

This game has been on my wishlist since I spotted it on Steam a while back, but I'm not likely to buy it unless I can play it on the Deck. I've got too many other games in my backlog already that don't run on it, but I need more casual games I can play on my Deck while watching TV.

A former coworker would constantly pitch Ansible whenever a discussion about an ops problem came up, in a kind of joking-but-not-joking way. It eventually got rather annoying to keep having to shoot it down.

I spent thirty minutes reading the website trying to figure out what the hell Ansible actually was and what you could do with it, and I still didn't have a straight answer.

As far as I can tell, it seemed like it was created as a tool to automatically SSH into servers and run commands, but through one of the most egregious examples of scope creep in software engineering history, it was eventually extended with modules that could do everything from provision cloud resources to, idfk, control smart home appliances or whatever. It's like the poster child of "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

By comparison, the value proposition for Terraform is immediately obvious. It certainly has its own drawbacks, but I could instantly understand exactly what it was and what I could do with it.

I hate dev tools that try to do everything at once, because most often they don't do a single thing very well at all.

The Steam store page says the game only takes about an hour, but it doesn't say anything about replayability.

I love Powerwash Simulator so much because it has enough levels to play all them through multiple times without getting too tired of them. It's a game I can play absentmindedly while watching a show.

It is starting to get old though, so I've been trying to find games that scratch the same itch.

PlateUp, it's surprisingly addicting. Very similar core loop to Unrailed but more much more open-ended.

Runs well on the Steam Deck but really chugs battery for what it is, even on low settings.

Plays better with a controller; the keyboard controls are kind of weird.

Wait, what year is it?

You can apply this same logic to basically all of chemistry:

H: explosive, the main ingredient in stars

O: literally the reason fire is a thing, causes rust and kills cells via free radicals

H2O: I'm so wet, UwU

This only happens when both network connection on the host are active.

I'm not a networking expert by any means but this seems like a pretty strong hint that it's a routing issue.

Check the routing tables on the host? I'd bet that the internet is only reachable on the LAN interface (again, not an expert but one of them has to take priority, right?). I'm guessing that disconnecting the LAN interface changes the routing to go through the WLAN interface instead.

You could possibly add a static route to work around this: https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#static-routes

Don't let this fool you into thinking AI is green. Finland is certainly not the only place they're going to be expanding datacenters.

My friends and I still use TS3. The audio quality and voice activation is better than Discord's, and the desktop app doesn't take ten fucking gigabytes of RAM to run.

I have a theory hypothesis notion that the concept of hallucination in artificial neural networks is not a failure mode that is unique to ANNs but is an inherent property of any neural network, artificial or biological.

Essentially, I posit that a neural network by itself is incapable of maintaining coherence without a rigid external framework, such as consistent feedback in training an ANN, or the laws of physics for biologicals.

This would explain why people start tripping balls in sensory deprivation chambers. And it provides a counterargument to any thought experiment or philosophy that involves a disembodied brain vividly hallucinating reality.

Yeah but that's just putting the problem of defining it onto governments.

If a court orders the exhumation of a murder victim, is that technically archeology?

Everything is just different Brassica cultivars.

I have two strong opinions that will lead me to never be interested in the ROG Ally X:

• Fuck Windows 11.
• Any handheld that looked at the glorious touchpads of the Steam Deck and decided "nah, no one wants those, just touchscreen and joysticks for us," will never have a place in my home.

Been enjoying Helldivers 2 on PC in spite of this PSN nonsense. Glad they backtracked on that.

It's their fault for cramming the process with tons of patronizing hoops to jump through in the first place.

"Oh no, people are using tools to get through the tedious and humiliating bullshit I put them through because I'm a power-tripping sociopath who loves making arbitrary decisions that affect their livelihoods"?

Gtfo of here.

What always blows my mind to think about is how the materials for our advanced technology were here the whole time. We could have had computers and nuclear energy and spacecraft 20,000 years ago if we'd just had the knowledge.