Pseu

A place can have a barren atmosphere and aesthtic while also having content to find, even if that content is more sparse or minimal, suited to that lonely environment

That’s exactly what they’ve done.

A “barren” planet still has stuff. In the 5 minutes or so that I did random exploration I found a colonist hut that was razed by pirates with a hidden chest with like 3k credits, and a random vendor who was going a little nuts for being alone so long. Nothing incredible, but enough to make the place not feel dead on a random frozen moon.

This is what I do when I can’t unsubscribe in a minute. No reason to waste time on this, it is a solved problem.

From a (US) financial perspective, a phone charger takes about 5 watts of electricity. At $0.010/kWh that’s $0.0005/hr (or ¢0.05/hr) of charging. This is utterly negligible.

For reference, a worker at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr would be paid that much after 0.25 seconds of working. It’s not even worth paying an employee to tell you to not plug in, which would probably take at least 15 seconds.

Naturally, some businesses may want to discourage people from loitering, but more often than not, they probably want your business (library, grocery store, coffee shop &c) or understand that reality happens.

In an email to friends, I could see these coming off as rude. But at least in my region, they come off as professional and concise.

With 100+ GB games i could see the use of a physical installation medium to avoid downloading that much on a spotty network.

I wonder if any games have shipped on USB sticks, because there’s no way you’re fitting a whole game on a DVD, and saying “please insert disc 4” would not fly for a modern audience.

I got them from this Scott Manley video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdz9vcSFBqw

He explains that the energy contained in a vessel is equal to the difference in pressure on the vessel wall, times the volume of the container.

It’s not. When the sub collapsed, it did so with the energy of about 50kg of TNT.

This is why there will be no attempt to recover the bodies either. There just isn’t anything left.

One nice thing is that because Kbin/Lemmy is federated, they can build an accessible platform and not worry about the powers that be flipping them the bird. There are good accessibility tools in the form of 3rd party apps for Reddit, but those are getting shut down.

Bus rapid transit is a thing, as are bus lanes. It’s cool! No flying buses necessary.

When I lived in a city with good transit, biking and then taking the bus was more reliable than driving to work. Driving puts you at the whims of traffic and construction, some of which may or may not be forecastable.