You need to start counting from 0…

That depends. If it is an obvious scam (which I have only encountered once in a lot of years) I agree, but otherwise I always try to solve it first. There’s a person on the other end.

Without knowing where you live the Gigaset GS6 comes to mind.

On AliExpress it can be a little bit more complicated as every seller is different and communication can take some time. But I have to agree that most sellers try to find a good solution. On the other hand the support quality on Amazon has declined dramatically. A few years ago it was almost a “no question asked” service when you contacted Amazon but this has changed. They try to pull every trick - beginning with how hard it is to actually contact a real person.

That’s great to hear. I would have thought it would take some seconds to register.

How is the delay?

I was referring to the original Star Trek, but you’re right my phrasing was wrong.

I am sorry but I have trouble understanding what you were trying to say.

In the early nineties a single transformation shot of Odo cost at least 10.000$ depending on the complexity maybe even more. But even more it took weeks to complete. Even then it was just not possible to do this for every episode. In the 60s such an effect would have been nearly impossible to create because technology wasn’t ready yet.

There were of course other effects and maybe the use of puppets would have been possible (think of Yoda in Star Wars or some decades later ALF on TV), but it would have limited the sets or required specialized construction. The living room set for ALF was raised up so the puppeteer playing ALF could go under the floor and play the puppet for closeups when the use of a costume was not possible.

Special effects like the ones you are thinking of were expensive - the absence or novelty of computer generated imagery made these time consuming and incredibly complicated.

The in-universe reason is explained in TNG’s The Chase.

The reason from a production point of view is obviously money. It is easier and cheaper to have humans with some hair and makeup instead of a totally alien creature. Today the price tag is manageable, but in the 60s and even in the 80s it was not a thing you would do for a regular cast member.

While they refer to the same book they are not the same editions of this book. Some are hardcover, some are paperback, some are later editions and only some of them are actual duplicates of the same book (just have a look at the different ISBNs).

Sharing the reviews between these different editions might seem logical for some cases, but a reader might also review the actual quality of a specific edition (poor print quality, cheap paper, etc.). Even the contents of books (mostly in scientific literature) may be vastly different between two editions. So sharing the reviews is a dangerous thing to do.

So in your case this is not due to a lack of federation but because these are actually different books and in a few cases duplicates of the same book (someone didn’t check if the book existed in the first place or was unhappy on how it was represented).

Well then I guess the Wolfenstein games aren’t historically accurate either…?

What a shock!

Smashing pottery items against each other is something you shouldn’t show your children anyway…if you like your kitchenware…

If you have Google Nest Minis to replace: There is a project on GitHub which plans to replace the main PCB in these devices (Gen 1 and Gen 2) and make them usable e.g. for Home Assistant.

https://github.com/iMike78/home-mini-v1-drop-in-pcb https://github.com/iMike78/nest-mini-drop-in-pcb

The Stanley Parable is a meta game - a game about playing and making games. And there you are having fun not playing a game…

If that’s the case you should look into your swappiness settings. You can set this to zero meaning the swap will only be used if you’re actually out of memory, but as others have noted that is maybe not a healthy decision…

Didn’t know that. I agree it is a terrible name, but maybe that’s why it is safe from any cease and desist orders…

Are you maybe looking for something like Revolt or Spacebar?

My daughter has it on her phone and I always get it wrong, because I don’t have it on my phone. But I also hate the need to double swipe down to open the full quick settings. I think it’s just something to get used to.

I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.

But Minecraft - even in the Beta days - worked as a complete game. They have been improving (depending on how you like the changes) on it since, but it wasn’t ever filled with literal work in progress signs like Hytale is…