I choose to name it Digitalidoo

I generally recommend linux mint for beginners, mostly because it’s pretty great at working out of the box, and it pretty general purpose.

Also, it’s reasonably user friendly and easy to use.

“Aren’t you happy about the half-full roll of toilet paper secret Santa gave you? It was definitely very deliberate and though out…”

Well, I am doing pretty well for myself in a combination of IT, geophysics, and offshore/ship stuff… but when things aren’t going my way at work I still conclude that it’s t8me to get the necessary licenses to finally become a crane driver.

I’ve driven a lot of cranes (ships cranes, mostly), but I’m talking about those huge tower cranes - chilling alone at the top, and once in a while someone calls you on the radio, needing something lifted from A to B. Seems chill as fuck, and no searoll to worry about either.

Tea: No sugar, no milk, no water, and no tea. Cup optional. (I don’t drink tea)
Coffee: Regular black is fine. Sometimes I’ll order a cappuccino with two sugars, but it’s rare.

Yup, pretty much. I’ll lazypaste the response an instance admin made after I asked a similar question recently:

Probably the community follower bot which several instances subscribe to. It’s a way of automating new communities discovery. There are about 40 of them.

Agreed. I am in the process of creating a lemmy instance (mostly for testing), with the core tenets being free speech and freedom of information. I just need to find a way of rewording it so that people don’t think it means endorsement of assholery.

I think invite-only and “Don’t make me ban you!” as the only rule could work.

Ksp2 was severely botched by Take2… but if you’re into the genre you might want to check out Juno.

In addition you might want to keep an eye out for KSA which is currently in early stages of development. As there’s no official website yet, I try to keep on top of any dev updates and nuggets of information so I can update the lemmy community.

It’s all mysterious and important, I assume?

Yes. China’s great firewall mostly handles content filtering and deals with low hanging fruit. Getting around it is fairly simple, and the censorship is mostly focused on stuff that would otherwise be easily accessible by the broader population.

VPN is your obvious choice here. CCP blocks most public VPN providers, so you’d have to roll your own.

You can set up a VPN concentrator somewhere in the world, and you would be able to reach it. As far as I’ve noticed, they don’t block VPN as a whole, and default port should work fine - the reason for this is probably that VPN has many commercial uses that they don’t want to harm.

Source: I run a (work-related) VPN accessible from inside china.

I recommend looking at businesses that are closing moving or upgrading. I have a literal stack of old switches retired from work. 48 ports, gigabit, and free.

Well, cavemen also need tech support, just a different kind of tech.

Gork: “Stick go thud. I want go stab”
Pepsison: “Have you tried rebooting it?”
Gork: “?”
Pepsison: “Sorry, old habit” Sharpens his spear “try it now”
Gork: “Gork happy. Gork bring you mammoth”

And with Gork happy I’m sure he can help you find the right twigs twine and logs to make a primitive cart. Soon you and Gork can haul all the mammoth you’d ever need.

Engineering and chemistry. You know, sharpening knives/arrows and distilling seawater into salt for food preservation.

I was thinking of taking an enema meant for donkeys, but I guess whichever method is approved by RFK Jr “works”.

Contracting silicosis to own the libs. Then use some sort of donkey enema as a cure.

Freeze some water into suitably sized balls. I guess that technically fits the design spec.

Bought a brand new Lenovo Legion last fall. First thing I did was to nuke the harddrive and install linux Mint. Everything worked out of the box.

Fair enough. I don’t share in your pessimism, though - They are well aware that many KSP fans are jaded by Take2 murdering the potential for a sequel, so they’re focusing on creating something viable before marketing. And I’ve seen the other games they’ve made - They seem to know what they’re doing, and with HarvesteR onboard (who actively participated in the previous townhall, so it’s not just for bragging rights) they seem to have quite a decent team put together.

Well, this early in the process, trying to pick up what you can is really the only thing you can do. But I’m trying to condense as much confirmed info as I can in the “what we know so far” post.

As for steam, the distribution system is far from set in stone, other than them really wanting to avoid integrating the steam API in the game itself with the limitations this involves. It’s still possible it will be downloadable via steam, though. We’ll just have to wait and see.

It’s still very early in development, so there isn’t much info beyond the occasional show-and-tell. No need to waste time setting up a website when it only contains info that is likely to change.

From the looks of it, they don’t focus on PR yet because they want to have something to allow players to test before they actually start looking at contributions. “The proof is in the eating, not in the pudding”.

In the most recent townhall they did there was a question whether the townhall would become a recurring thing to which they basically said “when we have something to show, we’ll show it.”

Some nuggets can be seen from time to time on the discord, but the fact of the matter is that setting up the core foundation onto which game mechanics can be later doesn’t result much PR worthy content.

I recommend checking out the townhall I linked in one of the posts, as it gives a pretty good view of what they’re currently working on, the status of the engine (not really a game yet), as well as some insight into how they’re working as a dev team.