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Crashing has not been an issue on my deck. I'm 3 days shy of my 2 year anniversary with my steam deck. I can recall it crashing maybe 3 or 4 times, each of those linked to some custom game launcher and all in the default mode rather than desktop. For a while it used to hang when woken from sleep, but that hasn't happened in 6 months so I assume was fixed in an update.

I'm using desktop for emulation and games from GOG and Epic.

Fecal Mist, the new fragrance for him, by Dior.

In the same cubicle is an angry, impatient toilet. It has a goatee.

'Watch Dogs' is what I do at the park. 'Watchdogs' are guardians or protectors. The name of this game has irritated me for a long time.

Interesting. I was brought up in the '80s and '90s thinking I belonged to the middle class. Tory-voting, Daily Express-reading, shares-owning parents, father a professional with his own business, living in a safe, blue seat.

It took me many years to realise that I am in fact working-class. The social mobility my parents thought we had has been quickly disassembled for mine and following generations, and despite having a 'good job' with a reliable employer, I live hand to mouth and can never dream of even saving money, never mind investing in shares.

From your post, I can now understand why my parents thought they were middle-class Tories, despite one of them growing up in a hugely deprived town with a very basic education and the other being an immigrant.

TL;DR Photo editing features on devices back to Pixel 6.

We’ve spotted evidence suggesting that Reimagine and Auto Frame, the two new Magic Editor features, could soon be available on Pixel 6, Pixel 7, and Pixel 8 series phones.

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TL;DR Indonesia has vast amounts of low-grade nickel and cobalt ore that were considered too difficult to process. 3 Australian firms tried, and failed, to make the process work. A Chinese firm stuck at it and succeeded.

Looks French.

It is the horseshoe crab of trees

Anything I've seen where they involve Karl just comes across as playground bullying, but done by balding, middle-aged men.

Gervais was insufferable right back to his days on The 11 O'Clock Show. I regard The Office as an anomaly.

Give each person in the theatre a set of headphones that will overlay a randomised track with different in-head personas talking for each person watching. A slightly different experience every time.

Not being in the USA, I rarely get to watch America Football, but that was beautiful.

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Given the right conditions, some plants can live indefinitely. Others die shortly after seeding.

Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.

Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.

The culture novels, such a good pick!

I played the game back when it originally came out. Like any media based on a book, it was slightly frustrating for a while that the graphics didn't match the visuals I had imagined whole reading the book. I still have the discs somewhere, might see if I can get it running somehow. I suspect I'll find the game mechanics to be clunky but today's standards.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a movie made yet.

Not punching Picard in the pilot episode?

I commend your efforts. Good work.

Still unused in the packaging, I hope

Other people who've read it and who I've talked with seem to be split over whether the first book is better than the sequels, or the other way around. I prefer the sequels, my wife prefers the original. Do you have a preference?

I had no idea this was being worked on, and the news has made my day

I love it, great job!

Game: Super Mario Galaxy
Book: The Rama series, Arthur C Clarke
TV: The West Wing
Movie: The 5th Element

If you're not using GNU/Hurd are you even trying?

A bucket of dehydrated water, which you have to reconstitute by adding water, in order to put out an invisible fire. No idea what kind of game you're making, could be a very odd addition to something like a racing sim.

I'm going to use this next time my wife complains about my noisy farts.

Is it a nice cabinet? I like a good walnut cabinet with at least 2 shelves.

As an aside, the 'ever trustworthy' Google AI suggests, 'completely ionizing a human body would require an energy output similar to a very small nuclear explosion'.

Disclaimer: I have nothing more than a secondary education level of physics and a keen interest in physics in general.

It's common scientific belief that all physical forces are backed up by a field, for example, magnetism by the electromagnetic field, gravity by a gravity field. It would follow that the strong and weak nuclear forces also have corresponding fields.

For a disruptor to work as seen in fiction, you'd probably be looking to disrupt the weak nuclear force, and would need a mechanism to locally change the properties of the corresponding weak nuclear field.

I don't know if there is such a mechanism available to us currently. Hopefully someone else has a definitive answer.

I'd like to see sensible jurisdictions at least heavily regulate, if not outright ban, demand-based and surge pricing.

As an ex-Catholic, I would like to say, fuck the Catholic church. For this bullshit and their many other crimes, moral failings and abuse.

Explains the wooden acting in Hudson Hawn

• Edit: I'm leaving the typo because it's funnier than the film

That's also my Springsteen take

I have it on Android, it feels more like a PC game ported to Android. I quite enjoyed it.

Simple fix, change legal name to Al.

Image of Brits still singing 'God save the queen' 2 years after her death