I played it with my wife on the couch over many winters evenings, and then ten years later played it with my daughter. Good times. Reminded me of playing Sierra games as a kid.
I also love the soundtrack so much and have listened to it thousands of times, especially By The Wall, my favorite song. PS: Thanks for posting the composer’s solo name, Floex, because there were (are?) two people with exactly the same name working at Amanita Design, bizarrely!
You don’t get to decide whether a radiator is a radiator just because the coolant can internally shuffle heat to the A/C. I’m assuming that you drive a Tesla, in which case your car still has a big fat low temperature radiator. If you’re driving virtually any other EV on the market, it still has a big fat low temperature radiator, or even multiple.
I use it regularly to do rough sketches of objects on my iPad to model in CAD later on the computer. It doesn't feel right for artwork or notes or basically anything else.
My mirrorless camera shoots in RAW. When someone asks me if a certain photo was “edited”, I honestly don’t know what to answer. The files went through a RAW development suite that applied a bewildering amount of maths to transform them into a sRGB image. Some of the maths had sliders attached to it and I have moved some of the sliders, but their default positions were just what the software thought was appropriate. The camera isn’t even set to produce a JPEG + RAW combo, so there is literally no reference.
I just tell people it was “color corrected” and “color graded” by me if I do any development in a program like Affinity. I never let “AI” tools touch my photos though.
In that case you can't reasonably do digital photography without "fake cosmetic bullshit" and no current digital camera will output anything even remotely close to no fake cosmetic bullshit.
That sounds likely. I wonder what specific filters can't be turned off, though. I think you can usually turn off sharpening. Maybe noise removal is built-in somehow (I think somebody else said it's in the sensor).
I think you’ll find that there is no clear line between what you call fake bullshit and the rest of the process. The entire signal path is optimized at every step to reduce and suppress noise. There’s actual light noise, there’s readout noise, ADC noise, often dozens or hundreds of abnormal pixels. Certain autofocus technologies even sacrifice image-producing pixels, and simply interpolate over the “holes” in data.
Regarding sharpening and optical stuff, many modern camera lenses are built with the expectation that some of their optical properties will be easy to correct for in software, allowing the manufacturer to optimize for other properties.
For me personally charging and keeping e-bike batteries in the apartment is a source of stress. I do keep and charge my drone and FPV plane batteries at home, even DIY ones, but e-bike batteries are much bigger and harder to chuck out of the window in case something goes wrong. I actually got rid of my e-scooter because of that, I just didn’t trust it.
That is a very reasonable concern. My apartment has 8 sprinklers so I park my e-bike right beneath one. You can get a e-bike with a removable battery and store it in a fireproof box
I still haven’t seen any specifics on the type of drones spotted at those airports. Is the other side just sending random people with cheap FPV drones? Or are they flying Shaheds around airports? I could take my 6” FPV drone and go buzz the tower at a nearby international airport, if I wanted. It costs less than 500€ for the entire kit and with ELRS and high power analog VTx you can do it from kilometers away and run before they catch you. Obviously it’s illegal as fuck.
It's thought that it's Russian illegal agents doing this. A lot of them locals recruited online. Really cheap ops done by really cheap people, using cheap and deniable gear.
It makes sense. In the Netherlands, young people (<18) have been recruited for all kinds of stuff by organized crime; bank account money muling as part of laundering operations, laying bombs, getting drugs / other smuggled stuff out of shipping containers in ports, that kind of thing. They target these because for them, a few hundred € is a huge sum, and the legal system is very forgiving to underage people, assuming they even get caught.
I heard it’s a mix. Suggestible local people on Telegram are coaxed to launch civilian stuff at a time and place. This clouds the sensor data of the true launches.
I don’t know if we’ve seen Shahads since 10 September, but note that Shahads can be ship-launched as well.
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