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roxil

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    Comment #48031823

    My parents have the biggest walnut tree I've ever seen in their yard. It's a similar situation as you described with the lemon tree. During fall we would get dumped with walnuts, f…

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    Comment #45347387

    It's a different historical setting, but the Anno games work kind of like that. The resulting towns look more like something you'd expect as a European with markets, churches, tave…

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    Comment #41046887

    "I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding," It's been a meme for a while and I unironically agree.

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    Comment #41008246

    Phillips (the company) basically killed people with malfunctioning CPAP machines (which are meant to help against sleep apnea) and no one went to jail. So that's a practical exampl…

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    Comment #39756578

    *I meant "Steam Deck", autocorrect strikes again...

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    Comment #39756511

    I'm not sure about mars, but at least for the moon it might be using helium-3 isotopes abundant in moon rocks as a fuel source for fusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

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    Comment #39729980

    The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

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    Comment #39729936

    I find these days the Steak Deck has become a great device for tinkering. I've seen people do some nice unexpected stuff with it, for example making an opening in the back to conne…

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    Comment #39336684

    I'd like to plug my own favorite here: https://queup.net (former dubtrack.fm) let's you create your own playlists from YouTube and soundcloud, then you can make your own channel, p…

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    Comment #38389531

    I also have a Steam Deck and still prefer buying games from GOG, when possible. Heroic Launcher is a nice GUI that let's you easily install GOG+Epic store games, sets up the proton…

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    Comment #38039358

    As a recipient of such a letter, I can tell you that the amount you torrent isn't really the problem, it's about the specific content. It works like this: copyright lawyer company …

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    Comment #37686103

    Important stuff like chickens getting grilled, when you throw a Molotov cocktail on them. The new water looks good too.

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    Comment #37686076

    I backed up all the old files minutes before the update went through. Pretty sure it can be played on LAN wit some tinkering, so also online with hamachi/gameranger/zero tier/radmi…

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    Comment #37610373

    I highly doubt it. Stadia shutdown, while the Switch and Steam Deck are both a huge success. The latency in cloud gaming and reliability on having a stable network connection are s…

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    Comment #37544638

    Oatmeal + milk warmed in the microwave for a minute, then add fresh or dried fruit. That's the only cereal I will eat. Everything else is tastes like cardboard or candy for kids.

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    Comment #37315459

    True, but the main game is similarly plagued by some of the worst cheats I've ever encountered in an online game and I'm almost certain there are some serious security vulnerabilit…

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    Comment #37221288

    I will try this, thanks.

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    Comment #37209531

    If things are so frozen that you can't open System Monitor (task manager), try this: Hold down SysRq and Alt, let go of SysRq, keep holding down Alt, then press these buttons in or…

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    Comment #37204904

    What's the context here?

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    Comment #37134086

    I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry …

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    Comment #37108664

    Your friend creates the hotspot, you connect to it like any other WiFi network and then for the address, they enter the IP of your phone which is shown on the lws app or it can be …

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    Comment #37105597

    I see at least one very good reason why this shoud be possible: old phones. Reusing old phones as a webserver seems like a good idea to me, since they were built for power efficien…

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    Comment #22161120

    I tried submitting the link to Outline and it didn't work on Chrome or Edge from EU... the site might be having an issue of some kind or it's just this particular link. Recently I …

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    Comment #22075375

    You can probably download the videos with youtube-dl and reupload them to archive.org.