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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Would like to repaint my ship black and yellow but probably that's not a thing so maybe I'll have to change the suit to grey and red instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Surprised to find I can still warp to the bases I constructed during the expedition.

And now also do normal star-jumps between them and the nearest stars.

Surprising number of them are explored already. I'm used to being out in the sticks where every planet I find it just me the first to find it.

The expedition has made this part of the galaxy quite crowded by comparison and it's hard to find a planet nobody has landed on before even four or so jumps away in random directions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I did it! I got the fancy ship. It's not all that fancy really. Quite surprisingly constrained in cargo-space, even having spent 20 million credits extending it. Pulse-lasers are overheating too quick.

Gonna have to spend some time improving it's systems I suspect, but this is no longer urgent as it doesn't have to be done during the two-week expedition.

I flew around some beautiful planets and my home base taking photos but they've all come out shit because it fails at taking these things in VR mode. So here's a couple in the station from the flatscreen version.

#vr #noMansSky #games

Closer shot of the spaceman in yellow and black standing on his spaceship.
Failed VR screenshot. Looks like looking through binoculars or something but the nose of the binoculars blocks the focus of the picture! so it's just some hills and a bit of a space-ship.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I've not played in areas so crowded before really. Other people's save-markers all over the worlds. If there's a way to turn that off I'd turn it on and off a lot. Mostly off.

I keep losing my ship because I can't tell it apart from the forest of distant-world save-markers of random players, and for some reason the icons seem to not load properly all the time.

Can't believe I was supposed to write down the phone-numbers of all those portals? They're not even numbers. Bird-bird-moon-wigwam? Eh.

Should be taking more screen-shots. It's beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Man, this is taking so long. If I'd realized how much commitment this was when i started I wouldn't have started.

Those massive quadruped sentinel things you have to kill took so long. Couldn't even find any for ages then the battle was so hard I basically only managed by reincarnating as many times as I killed one of them. Picking up my old belongings from my old incarnation's grave.

Call it an 8/8 draw.

Ended up doing some more flat-screen stuff. The battles are so much harder when you can't look and point weapons in different directions.

If all you have is the mouse you can't shoot over your shoulder or anything. VR works way better for dodging and fighting and shooting in all different directions.

Still have to find another ruin and then do whatever mystery phase five is.

It's been fun but is also starting to feel like a chore. Hope it ends soon.

#noMansSky #vr #theCursed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Tonight's mission included just staring at the night sky for a minute.

Seems to be impossible in vr. The character never really looks up, just the vr view.

Had to play on flat screen to do it, and I've only played in vr. No idea what buttons do what. Nearly killed me just to look at the stars.

 

Spent most of the weekend playing #NoMansSky attempting to go through this new "expedition" and get that sweet looking space-ship.

Only got about half-way though. Spent far too long trying to build a mech-suit to go collecting storm-crystals, but it was all a waste and I ended up just flying the ship around looking for 'em and jumping out to weather the storm for the few seconds it takes to collect 'em.

Which means I still ain't done the worm-monster-murdering or the fishing-trip.

Think it has to be done by the end of next weekend if I'm to get that sweet sweet spaceship.

#games #vr #noMansSky

#PCGaming

 

This week the corporation of london tell me that I can probably have a garage on the estate by the end of the month.

Asked for one of them years ago.

Was thinking a micro-camper could go in it when it came up.

So I spent a bit of yesterday looking at all the tiny microcampers the like of which would fit in a standard domestic garage and also I wouldn't feel terrified trying to drive.

Seems like really this means the smallest of the vans, the cars designed to carry a family of seven.

All the already-converted ones have some flaw of course which makes them less than perfect. Wrong type of sink or bed in the wrong place or whatever.

Meanwhile, the camper-converted ones seem to be selling for around 8 grand more than the unconverted ones, while also companies are claiming they'll do the conversion for more like 4 grand.

So it seems like you could make small amounts of money by buying the cars, paying a company to convert them, and then selling them as campers.

Not interested in doing that, but does seem likely to be the best route to getting a camper of my own I really like. Design it myself. Buy the car and pay for a conversion to my design.

Now the only trouble is I don't know anything about cars. The Renault Kangaroo seems like it's about the right shape. Probably not the electric version given the range and charging time and the length of journey a camper typically does. But definitely not diesel either given the Ultra-low-emission requirements of the city I live in.

🤔

#cars #camper

 

So this app isn't in the android app-store, but you can side-load it, and yet Google have still been ordered to remove it.

They've been ordered to update the operating system to make it uninstall a particular app.

This seems pretty mad, right?

They've specified a file-hash and a apk filename so.

What if the app-makers just release a new app, only the name has a "2" at the end. Is google required to uninstall that too? I guess not.

What if it's a completely different name, and the code's gone through an optimizer?

What it it's a fork from another company which has some functions disabled?

How the hell can a court hope to keep up with this arms-race they have introduced?

Copyright maximalists are out there man, far out.

Can Google agree to this? Is it even possible? Does anyone ever actually update their smart-TV?

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-google-to-uninstall-pirate-iptv-app-sideloaded-on-android-devices-240923/

#android #copyright #piracy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is asking questions about the contents of the page the main use of the sidebar? Is that what it's for?

"Please scroll to the part which describes the opening hours" or something like that might be useful I guess?

Struggling to understand why I would want it build into a browser rather than just being a bookmarket or plugin.

 

Firefox has added an optional side-bar for an AI chat and you can specify which model to use.

Has anyone made it use Eliza yet?

😆

😐 : Summarize this page
🤖 : Have you come to me because you want to summarize the page?
😐 : Yes, please summarize the page
🤖 : What does it mean to you to summarize the page?

I haven't turned it on, and I am eyeing forks of the software that are against this sort of thing, but if I did turn it on that model would amuse me most.

#ai #firefox #aiModel #eliza