Our commie blocks in East Europe tend to get colorful when their owners (either the city or the dwelers) decide to insulate the facade, which often happens across a whole district in a short time. Random image to ilustrate.

What makes this a “transistor” battery?

Exactly. Unless the CEO’s machine struggles with the app (or the top tier customer keeps nagging), optimizing anything gets pushed down the backlog. Sure, let’s create a followup ticket. And then cancel it in a year or two. If it runs, it runs. Good enough.

This works well for me. The hardest part comes from social interactions, not from hunger. Cooking for a family and not eating, that sucks.

They lose some of their sound, literally. This is very audible with the mandolin, it gets quite muted as the strings age. What a difference when you change them.

…the suspense is killing me! What is it?

I love the design and idea behind these things, I just wish I had a good excuse to use one.

Thanks! Just got it now, great SteamDeck content.

Feels like the Summerhouse video game, just less pleasant.

How is this kind of testing relevant anymore? Isn’t it creating an unrealistic situation, given the brave new world of AI everywhere?

I didn’t expect to learn about Enya in this discussion. Thank you, kind sir!

Not sure. I’m still surprised things are so calm, considering the widespread availability of guns in the population.

+1 for avoiding dynamically constructed identifiers when possible. Fulltext search across multiple files is available in most tools, let it be useful. It sucks having to search for a substring, hoping you guessed the way it gets constructed. Plus, it might not even occur to you that this is what you need to try.